Reduce food insecurity and negative coping mechanisms for vulnerable persons of NWS who are in need of emergency food support The proposed project aligned with the allocation paper food security priorities "Provide the food insecure people with monthly food assistance through appropriate modalities” emphases on those in areas with high severity of needs where Cash for food transfers provide flexibility for BNFs to choose priorities among food needs and reduce food insecurity and negative coping mechanisms. 
Based on the NA findings, Dec 2022, the proposed action developed, that comprises main activities regarding emergency food assistance and improve food availability at the HH level. Bahar currently serves 25 communities in Afrin with a total of 2,181 HHs with food assistance and seeking to expand its existing intervention targeting additional 6 communities (back-up lists - A3) as it has a presence in the same area with similar project modality and an existed system for E-voucher(EV) redemption and referral mechanism. BAHAR believes this will increase cost efficiency and ensure smooth coordination and access to the targeted areas. Grants will be redeemed via a pre-contracted EV system and the existing wide range of contracted/vetted/trained suppliers following the procedures agreed in the SoPs. The EV will be $65 per HH/M regarding the emergency food assistance along with the FSL/CWG recommendations to cover 70% of Kcal needs for a 5-person HH size to be aligned with the food component in the SMEB 
Bahar plans to target 1,162 HH (6,332 ind, 1,713 B, 1,659 G, 1,333 M, 1,626 W, 295 PWDs, 759 chronic illness, and 403 PLWs) in need of emergency food support, including referrals with protection, health, and nutrition needs. 
Four emergency rounds of EV will be redeemed between Jan-Jul 2023, each round consists of 20 days for redemption and 10 days for validation and PDM. The geographical intervention area will be in Bablit, Marata(Afrin SD), Sheikh Khoraz(Bulbul ), Kusan, and Qalam Bandarak(Raju ) and Afrin center, where 36%-58% of the people are in an insecure food status, and13%-39% are experiencing hunger 
Over a period of four months, the EV will be loaded monthly with value specific to family size. This provides BNFs options to choose their food commodities from already approved items list. Although the EV system is value-based, it allows exchange for all categories of food commodities though BNFs have a min. and max. number of items allowed per commodity
The MEAL team will gather feedback from suppliers, monitor data from the EV software system, and provide advice and guidance on system improvement, beneficiary accessibility, and performance of suppliers, and conducts monthly PDM to collect feedback on the delivered services and processes. Price monitoring activities are conducted monthly during implementation with significant changes reported to management for decisions regarding continued support to the local vendors
All activities will reflect a gender-sensitive approach including related guidance on gender-sensitive CVA assistance.  BAHAR will use a post-cash distribution monitoring tool related to BAHAR gender integration strategy
AAP will be given high priority by transparent selection criteria, as well as CFM which will be in place and accessible to all people through different channels. Bahar will give vulnerable groups priority in selection, deliver to highly vulnerable HHs to mitigate the risk of harassment while travelling to collect the supplies, promote the representation of women and girls, and vulnerable groups on local committees confirming BNFs selection
BAHAR conducted a deep coordination with different partners working in the same area, although the data gained from the FSL cluster indicate these areas as high priority ranking, the proposed modality is a voucher for food, as it is considered one of the most effective modalities since the markets are available and with full functionality. Furthermore, BAHAR will be communicating with CBR-TWG to ensure proper coordination and be updated about cash transfer challenges.