Improving access to income opportunities and basic food needs for most vulnerable food-insecure households of women and men agricultural daily-wage workers in eastern Khan Younis through creating temporary job opportunities This action aims at mitigating food insecurity levels among women and men agricultural daily-wage laborers in eastern Khan Younis through creating temporary job opportunities and improving economic access to food and other basic needs.
The planned action is built on recent needs assessments conducted in June and November 2022 by PARC and PUI through surveys and FGDs with 90 daily-wage laborers (including 34 women) from the five Gaza governorates as well as the main findings of MSNA2022. It was designed based on extensive consultations with the Food Security Sector (FSS), relevant technical Ministries, key community leaders, and local partner community-based organizations (CBOs). The project is in line with the HF2022’s 2nd standard allocation priority objective (2.1). Specifically it comes in line with activity 2.1.1 as per the 2nd Standard Allocation Strategy for HRP 2022. In addition, it responds to the Food Security Sector’s second objective. Moreover, the proposed action broadly contributes to the achievement of HRP 2022’s 3rd strategic objective. It is worth mentioning that PUI has closely coordinated the planned Action with the FSS Sector, Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), MoSD, Ministry of Labor (MoL), ACTED, AAH, Oxfam, Save the Children,  Mercy Corps, CRS, PARC, NDC,  Future Home Association, Al Nakheel association, and other key stakeholders in the area of intervention. 
PUI and its national partner (PARC) will use UVAT and a complementary robust vulnerability scoring system to identify and select the most vulnerable food insecure households based on the lists of daily-wage laborers obtained from PARC’s database, Ministry of Social Development (MoSD), as well as through open-registration process. 
PUI and PARC will target 200 HHs (100 women, 100 men, in total 1,120 individuals) from eastern Khan Younis governorate through creating temporary job opportunities. Each beneficiary of Cash For Work (CFW) will benefit from a 50-days temporary job opportunity to support vegetable and fruit farmers (with a focus on ARA farmers) in their daily agricultural activities. In addition, it is estimated that at least 500 vegetable farmers will benefit from the manpower support provided through the CFW. At least 1,000 dunums will be covered through the activities. The payment will be disbursed to CFW beneficiaries into 2 monthly installments using “cash over counter” through the Egyptian Arab Land Bank (EALB), who has an easily accessible branch in Khan Younis.
PUI will be in charge of coordination with relevant ministries, supervising the implementation of activities, and MEAL process, with support from its partner Future Home Association. PARC will be in charge of obtaining approvals from local authorities for data collection, filling of registration forms with applicants, supporting PUI MEAL team beneficiaries selection, facilitating the orientation meetings, distributing the cash assistance, and for the daily follow up of activities.  
PUI will promote community ownership, accountability, and participation throughout the project through baseline assessments, orientation sessions, PDMs, and its Feedback and Response Mechanism (FRM), while also mobilizing key local partner CBOs to ensure that the identified vulnerable HHs are engaged in all implementation stages.
In the beneficiary selection process, PUI will give priority to HHs affected by the last 11-day escalations, HHs affected by IHL/IHRL violations and notably those working in the ARA, HHs with PwD or chronic illness, HHs with pregnant or lactating women, female-headed HHs (divorced, widowed, separated) large HHs HHs with high dependency ratio (children and elderly) and HHs living in substandard housing units.
The project will target agricultural daily-wage laborers (main target) and farmers in five vulnerable locations in Eastern Khan Younis governorate, namely Abbassan Al Kabira, Abbassan Al Jadida, Khuza’a, Al Fukhari, and Bani Suhaila.