Enhancing vulnerable farmers access to essential lifesaving basic services through cash support and assistance for agriculture workers through CfW modality in southern area of Gaza Strip ltpgtltspan style="color: black font-family: Arial, sans-serif"gtThis project aims
to provide assistance to vulnerable farmers  workers in the Western part
of Khan Younis  Rafah governates. The project is part of the NDC
Humanitarian Response Plan 2023 project with code number HPSE23-FSC-193780-1.
The project activities are designed in line with the First Standard allocation
2023. The Project will contribute to the HRP2023 third strategic objective
(SO3). Furthermore, the project will contribute to the FSS objective #1 for the
Rehabilitation activities  FSS objective#2 for the CfW activities. The
project was informed by assessments conducted between June and October
2022 by NDC  its partner AL Nakheel, the 2023 MSNA, and the recommendations from the Ministry of Labor,
Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security Sector and Cash Working Group in
Gaza. Specifically, NDC  its partner will implement the project to protect
livelihoods  strengthen food security through the following means:1)Rehabilitation of 160 donums open land (2 donums/farmer) for 80 small-scale
farmers ltbrgt
(72Male, 8Female)

 whose age is between 18-70 years, through lt/spangtlta name="_Hlk129173715" style="color: black font-family: Arial, sans-serif"gtconditional
cash assistancelt/agtltspan style="color: black font-family: Arial, sans-serif"gt. 2)Rehabilitation of 80 greenhouses for small-scale
farmers lta name="_Hlk129173837"gt(72Male, 8Female)

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whose age is between 18-70 years, through conditional cash assistance.
So that these farmers are able to continue their farming activities. The cash
will be used to buy agricultural inputs such as seeds, seedlings,
fertilizers, plastic films,..etc. The project will assist each selected farmer
with a NIS 3000 ($882). NDC will pay the conditional restricted cash in three
installments. The first payment will be NIS1200 ($352) while the second lt/spangtltspan dir="RTL" style="color: black font-family: Arial, sans-serif"gt lt/spangtltspan style="color: black font-family: Arial, sans-serif"gtthird payments will be NIS900 ($265) each. The first payment will be used for leveling and preparing the land
for planting. The second will be used for buying and planting the seed
and/or seedlings, fertilizer, and pesticides while the third will be used to
cover parts of the running expenses such as irrigation costs. The cash
assistance will be distributed based on the progress of work, with the
condition of starting the rehabilitation process of the productive assets of
his open land or greenhouse prior to the next payment. 3) Providing temporarily
CfW employment lt/spangtlta name="_Hlk129173837" style="color: black font-family: Arial, sans-serif"gtopportunities for 144 (124Male , 20Female)

 unemployed agricultural workers  engineers (128 workers  16
engineers).lt/agtltspan style="color: black font-family: Arial, sans-serif"gt Each beneficiary worker will work for 60 working days over a
period of 3 months, with no more than 20 work days per month. NDC will allocate
a daily wage NIS 60 for the agriculture worker and NIS 75 for the agriculture
engineers as discussed with FSS team. The temporarily CfW employment
opportunities will provide a decent income for workers and engineers for 3
months that will assist them to respond to lifesaving and life-sustaining
needs. The workers will assist agriculture landholders who are not beneficiaries from this proposed project's cash assistance activity in taking care of their
lands. This includes irrigation, trimming trees, collection crops, working in
greenhouses, etc. It is expected that 200lta name="_Hlk129173837"gtlt/agt

landholders and land owners lta name="_Hlk129173837"gt(180Male , 20Female)lt/agt

will
benefit from the CfW services. NDC and its partner will conduct 16 awareness
workshops in Protection and Gender principles, PSEA, 
GBV topics for all project target groups to educate the beneficiaries
about protection guidelines  concepts, and how to deal with any abuse or
harm that they might face. The estimated number of direct beneficiaries is 304, while the total number of their families as indirect
beneficiaries is 1702. The project will be implemented by NDC with a
partnership with Al Nakheel Association who has extensive agricultural experience which makes it to be the
most capable one to assist NDC in implementing the project. All the project
activities will be coordinated with the, MoL, MoA, FSS, and CWG. NDC
and its partner will implement the project activities taking into consideration
work safety measures, no-harm policy, Gender principles, and PSEA
zero-tolerance policy. lt/spangtltbrgtlt/pgt





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