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 food e-vouchers. Activities were designed to respond to outstanding needs and requests for assistance, which will be validated by a rapid verification of needs of prioritized HHs at the onset of the project. In total, 610 highly vulnerable HHs 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 the following activity: 1. ACTED and ACAD will provide food e-vouchers to 610 HH with each HH receiving in total 4 e-vouchers of 342 ILS each, over a period of 4 months, as per Ministry of Social Development (MoSD) and Gaza Cash Working Group’s (CWG) recommendations, in order to ensure beneficiaries can cover basic food needs. As per guidance developed by the Gaza CWG, the agreed transfer value for the e-voucher assistance is in fact 60% of the food basket of the emergency Minimum Expenditure Basket (eMEB), which equates to 342 ILS per voucher. ACTED will be in charge of distributing e-vouchers to 500 HHs while ACAD will be in charge of providing the e-vouchers for 110 HHs. 
The action is thus fully aligned with the 2022 2nd Standard Allocation 2nd objective “Enhance vulnerable households’ access to basic services” and specifically the FSS priority objective 2.1 “Households suffering from limited access to food and to income opportunities are able to meet their basic food needs”. 
It is also aligned with the HRP 2022 strategic objective 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”. 
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 Save the Children and Oxfam, who will also conduct e-vouchers distribution that will target respectively Gaza and Middle-Area governorates, and Gaza and North-Gaza governorates. Further coordination will be conducted during the implementation phase to avoid duplication of assistance. 
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 that 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 availability of funds.