Livestock Package Support to Vulnerable Livestock Owners in Aqcha, Khanaqa districts and Shiberghan Center of Jawzjan Province ltpgtltspan style="color: black font-family: Arial, sans-serif font-size: 8pt text-align: justify"gtAccording to the
revised Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP 2023) 28.3 million people needs to be
urgently reached with life-saving humanitarian support due to the consequences
of recurrent natural disasters, subsequent sudden pause in international
assistance and resulting economic obstacles and high levels of unemployment.
The bans on women working for national and international non-governmental
organizations, lt/spangtltspan style="color: black font-family: Arial, sans-serif font-size: 8pt text-align: justify"gtissued 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.lt/spangtltbrgtlt/pgtltpgt

lt/pgtltp class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"gtltbrgtlt/pgtltpgtltspan style="font-size: 8pt text-align: justify font-family: Arial, sans-serif color: black"gtAcute food insecurity
is so high among IPC Phase 3 and 4 food insecure people in Jawzjan province.
According to 2023 Agriculture and Food Security Monitoring System (AFSMS), 77%
of people have poor food consumption score. Around 52% of households are
resorting to food based coping strategies.lt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 14px text-align: justify"gt lt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 8pt text-align: justify font-family: Arial, sans-serif color: black"gtIt also shows that 47%
of households used emergency coping strategies and 15% used crisis based coping
strategy. Moreover, 72% of livestock owners faced problems with raising animals
in the past 6 months mainly due to lack of pasture and fodder.lt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 14px text-align: justify"gt lt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 8pt text-align: justify font-family: Arial, sans-serif color: black"gtIn addition, a deterioration of the livestock productivity
equivalent to 67% was recorded compared to 2021 in Jawzjan provincelt/spangtltbrgtlt/pgtltpgt

lt/pgtltp class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"gtltbrgtltspan style="font-size: 8pt font-family: Arial, sans-serif color: black"gtThe latest IPC
Analysis estimated 15.3 million people, or 35 percent of the population, are in
crisis or emergency levels of food insecurity (IPC 3+) between May to October
2023.lt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 14px"gt lt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 8pt font-family: Arial, sans-serif color: black"gtAs per the IPC analysis, Jawzjan province is classified in IPC Phase
3 for the projection period (May-Oct 2023).lt/spangtltbrgtlt/pgtltpgt

lt/pgtltp class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"gtltbrgtltspan style="color: black font-family: Arial, sans-serif font-size: 8pt"gtFindings of FAO’s
recent assessment done in 2022 as part of the Data in Emergencies initiative
confirm the continued adverse impacts of drought on farmers and livestock
keepers among which viz. substantial proportion of livestock keepers reported
facing a range of difficulties for managing their livestock herds and
production. Emergency livestock assistance is essentially a key instrument to
ensure sustained income and availability of nutritious foods for vulnerable
rural communities in remote areas where no alternative livelihoods options are
available.lt/spangtltbrgtlt/pgtltpgt

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SWRO under this project provides livestock package to vulnerable livestock
owner in Aqcha, Khanaqa  Shiberghan districts of Jawzjan Province, with a
special focus on women-headed households and support to vulnerable people
facing acute food insecurity due to cumulative impacts of various drivers of
food insecurity such as the long-term impact of drought, more recent La Niña
impact, high levels of unemployment, floods and other shocks. SWRO will support
24,684 individuals (3,526 households) in Aqcha, Khanaqa  Shiberghan
districts of Jawzjan Province with livestock packagelt/spangt ltspan style="font-size:8.0ptmso-bidi-font-size:10.0ptfont-family:"gtcomplemented by technical training. SWRO will support these
vulnerable food insecure households with one-time livestock package delivery.
As per the FSAC recommendation, every targeted household will receive 100kg
animal feed, 200kg straw and 2litres de-wormer. Each household will receive a
package worth of $95 in-kind assistance. The assistance will build the
livelihoods of targeted vulnerable households and improve their resilience
against shocks.lt/spangtlt/pgtltpgt

lt/pgtltp class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"gtltbrgtlt/pgtltp class="sceditor-nlf"gtltspan style="color: black font-family: Arial, sans-serif"gtProject participants will be selected based on the FSAC selection
criteria through a house-to-house survey in the presence of a committee
comprised of representatives from three to four government institutions and
community representatives to ensure transparency. Post-Distribution Monitoring
will also be conducted upon distribution to assess the accuracy, transparency,
and overall performance of the project.lt/spangtltbrgtlt/pgt