Immediate response to drought affected population and IDPs through GBV and Child protection services in Kandahar, Herat and Badghis Provinces The intervention proposed by APA intends to provide an integrated approach to address the specific needs identified by the assessment conducted by APA in July 2018 at Herat, Badghis and Kandahar Provinces. APA has designed this integrated project envisages wide-ranging multi-sectorial services in the sphere of GBV and Child Protection of the drought affected population including a percentage of IDPs through the following activities:
A. Protection/GBV:
a) Establishment of 2 (WFHSs) 1 in Koshk district of Herat and 1 in Muqor district of Badghis provinces that will be managed by female PSS Counselor / midwife as part of the GBV SC reactive approach.
b) Provide a comprehensive and blanket psycho social support, counseling and community awareness to the drought affected host community and IDPs’ women and girls through WFHSs by trained PSS counselor.
c) Distribution of DKs to the reproductive age women as the community entry point, to build trust on women participation and seek GBV support. 
d) APA will appoint 3 mobile teams 1 team for Herat, 1 team for Badghis and 1 team for Kandahar provinces for both GBV and CPiE mobile services,  the mobile teams will be providing mobile psycho-social support/counseling and community awareness to women and girls who do not have access to WFHSs, this service will also be extended to men and boys. Each team will be comprised of trained female midwife / PSS counselor and male community mobilizer. The mobile teams will mobilize the community through community-wide meetings with elders/CDCs in CDCs and Masjids as part of GBV SC proactive approach.
e) Community mobilizer will coordinate with community members, PSS counselor will provide blanket PSS services and will identify cases with specialized care/services/counseling, reproductive health information/services, rights awareness to women.
f) APA will continue to work with community to capacitate them in gender and age tailored, awareness raising on GBV, PSS wellbeing, protection principles and referral mechanisms
g) Establish a mechanism for referring GBV survivors to other stakeholders for provision of advanced medical care, legal and justice in coordination with DoWAs, AIHRC and UNFPA.
B. Child Protection:
The Child Protection Activities will be carried out through the mobile teams established for both GBV and CPiE services which is  composed of PSS Counseler, Child Protection Officer and community mobilizer, 1 team per province) with coordination of the drought affected communities and other stakeholders and will mobilize the target group to be enrolled to the protective services of the children and will establish Child Rights Councils (Comprising of Parents and General Community Members) for ensuring children/community involvement in protection services.
The tasks undertaking together by Child Protection mobile teams are carrying out awareness on protection, Health amp Hygiene, Fatal Diseases and CSA. Also they will conduct PSS counseling sessions for individuals and groups of the vulnerable girls and boys and referral activities within the targeted districts) to the girls and boys and will maintain a well comprehensive community based approach as community involvement for management and referrals of the critical cases of survivors to other stakeholders for advanced protection services.
Community based awareness raising will be carried out on child protection issues through community dialogues. This will include leaflets, fliers, conducting group sessions with community heads and religious peoples in separate groups for women and men.