Continued Life-saving Emergency response for reducing food consumption gaps and increasing immediate access to food in ten(10) villages of Lughaya district of Awdal Region The project is in compliance with the core elements of the integrated approach and is in line with First Standard Allocation in 2020 and its strategies and cluster objectives by focusing immediate life-saving assistance and addressing critical interventions focusing most severely needs of acute food insecurity humanitarian assistance and activities priority in the project target areas. The project activities are in line with the principles guiding 2020 allocations, endorsed by Advisory Board (19 Sep 2019) and in accordance of clarification of cluster-specific and integrated packages dated 5 March 2020. The project is in the response of the SHF First Standard Allocation in 2020 and targeting Lughaya district of Awdal region, where acute food insecurity persists (IPC 3) and respond by improving access to food of households identified to be in (IPC 3) to sustain the required Humanitarian Assistance in the area through provisions of unconditional and conditional transfers that meet the minimum Kcal requirement and contributing Food Security Cluster priorities/objectives of the SHF First Standard Allocation in 2020. 
		
The project is addressing 1050 Households inhabitant in ten (10) villages of Lughaya district, a total of 6,300 persons of 68% of the total affected person of 9,270 persons for the inhabitant in the target ten (10) villages surrounding Lughaya district, with which the project is addressing the severity needs of lifesaving assistance of a total of 1050 HHs of 6,300 persons, break downed Men 1,197 Women 1,638, Boys 1,575 and Girls 1,890.
The project is addressing Food insecurity in Lughaya district of Awdal region, in the Lughaya district and its surrounding villages by undertaking the following activities of the Food Security cluster response priorities and based on the priority activities of the First SHF Standard Allocation in 2020, and in accordance of the findings of the rapid assessment conducted for this project by TASCO on the above-mentioned dates, which both the latest Food Security Outlook of Feb to Sept 2020 and TASCO’s findings from the area matching and agreed on the need for continued lifesaving assistance through provisions of:
 Un-conditional (Cash transfers) for multipurpose cash transfer through mobile money
 Conditional (Cash transfers) for Cash for Work for Locust prevention work
The identification of the target beneficiaries was applied relevant assessment criteria for poorer households facing food insecurity and shortage of food consumption gabs: such as Female-headed households Pregnant and lactating women Children between the ages of six months and five years the project will respond the identified acute food insecurity as follows:=
(i) Provision of unconditional (Cash Transfer) for 770 HHs of 4,620persons’ inhabitant in Seven villages namely Hulka 95HHs, Fuguxo100HHs, Kalowle110HHs, Hadeyta 115HHs, Teeb 105HHs,Beeyo cadaad 100HHs and Lughaye 145HHs. for four months.
(ii) Provision of conditional (Cash Transfer) for 280 HHs and 1,680 persons inhabitant in three villages of Qudhanjalay bari, 80 HHs Qudhanjalay galbed 100 HHs and Qucundhaanle 100 HHs, will benefit three months from CFW for locust prevention Food Security Objective 1 (IPC 3) relates to SO1 amp SO2.
Provision of unconditional transfers of food assistance for a cash value of $71.00 per HHs X 585 HHs X 4 Months, and is focusing lifesaving services of reversing food consumption gaps for the period up to Gu rains of mid-2020. The project target household beneficiaries are categorized agro-pastoralist 280 HHs of 1,680 persons and agro-pastoralist 770 HHs of 4,620 persons. The proposed project is targeting 1050 HHs of most vulnerable and severely affected currently facing acute food insecurity in 10 villages of Lughay district and its surrounding areas.