Provision of heating assistance, blankets and winter clothing packages to 1,591 conflict affected displaced, natural disasters affected and vulnerable host community households ltpgtltbrgt
ltspan style="color: black"gtltfont face="Arial, sans-serif"gtThrough the AHF 1st Standard Allocation of 2023,
Acted will provide lifesaving winterization assistance to 1,591 vulnerable
households (as standard household contains on average 7 members, this project
will have 11,137 project participants) facing critical climatic conditions
during the Afghan winter in Badakhshan province. Due to the extremely low
temperatures during winter and the high levels of displacement and poverty
across Afghanistan, many households and communities are either living in
inadequate or makeshift shelters for the conditions or lack financial resources
to provide sufficient heating, therefore exposing them to increased health
risks such as respiratory infections, pneumonia, and hypothermia, which can be
fatal. Women, who often take on the responsibilities as carers, children, the elderly and persons with disabilities are the most
at risk related to these vulnerabilities, thus Acted will ensure that they are
targeted within this project. Acted is uniquely positioned to provide
seasonal winterization support to recent shock-affected households as a
priority. Badakhshan is susceptible to extreme cold temperatures, high
snowfall, having high numbers of people exposed to snow, and having high gaps
of people that remain in need of winterization assistance. As there are many
remote areas in Badakhshan that are cut off during the winter, it puts households
into vulnerable conditions. Acted will aim to support recently shock affected
households, protracted displaced households, vulnerable host communities and
others with high levels of need with a cluster standard winterization package
for heating assistance, and a complementary assistance that will aim to cover the cost blankets and winter clothes etc. to all 1,591 households. From the 11,137 project participants targeted, Acted will aim to target at least 15% of people with disabilities (1,670 persons with disabilities) as well as 10% of women headed households (159 HHs). To protect the most vulnerable households that
are at risk during winter in Shuhada, Tagab, Kofab, Faizabad, Teshkan,
Zebak, Warduj districts, Acted will provide standard winterization heating
packages, consisting of one installment of $ 200 USD cash assistance (provided to
ltbrgt11,137 project participants in AFN) to cover heating materials for 3 months
and one installment of $ 131 USD cash distribution which covers winter clothes ($74 USD) and blankets ($57 USD)lt/fontgtltspan style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif"gt lt/spangtltfont face="Arial, sans-serif"gtto all 1,591 households in AFN as well. Acted will sensitize
project participants on the fact that the assistance aims to cover
winterization needs. Acted will tailor the number of targeted households per
area based on the initial assessment but will aim to divide the targeted households per districts equally (around 227 HHs per district). Assistance will be provided through
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