Emergency food security support to the most vulnerable households in the Gaza strip This project aims at ensuring food security of the most vulnerable households (HH) in Gaza. ACTED and the Arab Centre for Agricultural Development (ACAD) propose an intervention to respond to immediate critical needs in Gaza through the provision of Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance (MPCA), and food e-vouchers. Activities are based on outstanding needs and requests for assistance, and will be validated by a rapid verification of needs of prioritized HHs. In total, 749 highly vulnerable HHs, representing approximately 4,120individuals, will benefit from the intervention. ACTED and ACAD, will build on their joint technical expertise and strong acceptance within target communities due to long-standing field presence, to implement activities:
1. ACTED and ACAD will provide food e-vouchers to 450 HH (around 2,475 individuals). In total, 450 HHs will receive 4 e-vouchers of 340 ILS each over 4 months, as per Ministry of Social Development (MoSD) and Gaza Cash Working Group’s (CWG) recommendations to ensure that they can cover basic food needs. As per guidance developed by the Gaza CWG, the agreed transfer value for the e-voucher assistance is 60% of the food basket of the emergency Minimum Expenditure Basket (MEB), which equates to 340 ILS per voucher. 
2. ACTED will provide 3 installments of MPCA to 299 HH (around 1,645 individuals) over 3 months. As per guidance developed by the CWG, the agreed emergency transfer value for multi-purpose cash assistance is 645 ILS per instalment. MPCA will ensure targeted HH can meet their basic needs and will notably be provided to HH with specific needs (i.e. pregnant and lactating women, families with children, families including persons with disabilities), to give them flexibility in how to best meet their specific needs. 
The proposed intervention is fully aligned under the 2022 First Standard Allocation first objective “Support the most vulnerable people prioritizing those affected by escalations in Gaza” and more specifically the FSL priority objective 1.3 “Providing urgent to most vulnerable food insecure HHs affected by the recent incidents in Gaza”. This project will aim to support the implementation of the HRP 2022 strategic objectives 3: “the capacity of vulnerable Palestinians to cope with and overcome protracted crisis, including from environmental threats, is supported, while solutions to violations and other root causes of threats and shocks are pursued”. In addition, ACTED has been engaging with relevant actors to inform program design for this action, most notably through close cooperation with the Food Security Sector and the CWG in Gaza. Similarly, to ensure that relevant institutions have an understanding as to the project and to ensure their buy-in and support, MoSD has been consulted during the design of the project and to obtain a list of priority acutely vulnerable households requiring assistance. MoSD will be informed of all households who receive assistance as a result of the project. Other active stakeholders have also been consulted about their ongoing and planned interventions to ensure the avoidance of duplication and to foster complementarity with these actions. This includes  PUI, Mercy Corps and CRS.
Furthermore, ACTED will rely on its Community Emergency Response Networks (CERNs) existing capacity to implement activities throughout the project, reaching the beneficiaries, and supporting ACTED’s Complaint and Response Mechanism, including the sharing of key PSEA messages. These 2 CERNs were already established under former HF-funded projects, operate in the 3 governorates and are composed of 3 Community-Based Organizations (CBOs), 4 Community-Based Protection Committees (CBPCs), and 130 volunteers (176 individuals in total). ACTED will also rely on its community representatives in governorates which are not fully covered by the CERNs. 
This intervention is easy to scale further in order to reach more vulnerable HHs, based on the FSS’s priorities and available.