Provision of cash for food assistance to IPC Phase 3 and 4 vulnerable households in Maymana city and five target districts of Faryab province. ltpgtltbrgt


lt/pgtltp style="" class=""gtAfghanistan is one of the world's worst humanitarian crises,
28.3 million people (two thirds of Afghanistan’s population) requiring urgent
humanitarian assistance to survive as the country enters its third consecutive
year of drought-like conditions and the second year of crippling economic
decline, recurrent natural disasters and High levels of unemployment. The bans
on women working for national and international non-governmental organizations,
issued will have devastating and long- lasting consequences for all people in
need, but especially women and girls – who already face the most challenges in
accessing humanitarian assistance. (Revised Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP)
released March 2023). Afghanistan Food Security Monitoring System (AFSMS 2023
data shows that 55% people have poor, 37% borderline and 8% have acceptable
food consumption score in Faryab province. It also shows 71% of households used
crisis and emergency coping strategies and 10% used crisis based coping
strategy. Additionally, 55% of surveyed households had to borrow money to buy
food furthermore, 55% of surveyed households cited food being among their top
three priority needs in Faryab province.lt/pgtltp style="" class=""gtltbrgt
ltspan style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif color: black"gtSOUND in collaboration with community members
will form a representative community-based committee and will support the
selection process of beneficiaries. These committees will also function as a
mechanism through which the coordination of project activities on community level
will be facilitated. Once the primary list of beneficiaries is prepared by the
committee SOUND will undertake a verification of the proposed list against the
established criteria through a door-to-door verification process. The verified
list will be registered as target beneficiaries. The types of beneficiaries include host communities (82%), IDPs (17 %) and returnees (2 %) as per the AFSMS table already provided by AHF.lt/spangtltbrgtlt/pgtltpgt

lt/pgtltp class="MsoNormal"gtThe project intends to provide unconditional restricted cash
for food to cover food needs for a period of 4 months. FSAC guidelines
recommend $75 * 50/100 for IPC 3 per month for a HH of 7 hence the project aims
to deliver 1- months assistance per tranche for a total of 2 tranches. The cash will be delivered by (Hawala/Bank/Money service provider) through direct cash.lt/pgtltp style="font-size: 11px"gtltbrgtlt/pgtltp style="font-size: 11px" class="MsoNormal"gtThe proposed project seeks to help vulnerable communities in underserved areas of Faryab province by meeting their immediate food security needs and prevent further deterioration of their situation. SOUND will provide two rounds ofnbspnbspcash for food assistance (each HH will receive 75$ per round, 150 $nbspas total of two rounds) in Faryab covering 2232nbspHHs (15624nbsppeople) innbspnbspMaymana city and five targeted districts (nbspltspan style="font-size: 8pt"gtnbspAlmar, Pashtunkot, Dawlatabad, Qaramqul and Khancharbaghlt/spangtnbsp) during 4 months of the project to support them in improving their food consumption and complement their depleted food stocks.lt/pgtltp class="" style=""gtltbrgtlt/pgtltp class="MsoNormal"gtEach household will receive 2 round of cash assistance and
each package will have a value of $75 (as recommended by FSAC Cluster), i.e. in
total each household will receive ltspan style="mso-spacerun:yes"gtnbsplt/spangttwo
times cash assistance (USD 150) over the period of 4 months. lt/pgtltpgt

ltspan style="font-family:"gtInformation about the timelines of cash distribution will
be conveyed to the targeted beneficiaries with the multiple approaches such as community mobilization sessions, coordination meetings and IEC material dissemination.nbsplt/spangtltbrgtlt/pgt