Provision of life saving food assistance to acute food insecure and vulnerable families in Shahristan District of Daikondi province High acute food insecurity persists across Afghanistan, as a combination of a collapsing economy and drought is depriving nearly 20 million Afghans of food, classified in Crisis or Emergency (IPC Phases 3 or 4), between March and May 2022 (the lean season). Among these are about 6.6 million people 16% in Emergency (IPC Phase 4 which is including Daikondi province characterized by large food insecurity. Rapid reduction in international grant support, loss of access to offshore assets, disruption to financial linkages and impact of the Ukraine crisis have led to a major contraction of the economy, increasing poverty and macroeconomic instability as well as leading to high unemployment and high food and agricultural input prices, drought is also effected Afghanistan. Below-average cumulative precipitation during the wet season (2021 - 2022) accompanied with high agriculture input costs (seed amp fertilizers) resulted in a reduced level of winter wheat cultivation, which would likely result in a 7 to 13 percent reduction in the expected wheat harvest compared to the long-term average. according to the IPC report Daikondi province has 686593 population, 137,319 (20%) are in phase1, 171,648(25%) are in phase2, 240,308(35%) phase3, 137,319(20%) are in phase 4, at the estimated project duration between June and November.2022. In order to prevent for more crises we need to have humanitarian assistance intervention for  Sharistan District of Daikondi province, JCSSO has local presence and well experience  to implement this project with FSAC critira and standards. 
This project aims to address the immediate food needs and food insecurity challenges among most vulnerable families in the district of Shahristan through unconditional cash transfer modality. the proposed unconditional cash transfers will enable households to have improved access to food and improved food consumption. this will ensure sustained assistance to food insecure households through provision of predictable and reliable safety nets, lean seasonal support to stabilize vulnerable households. 
JCSSO proposes to reach 1173 household beneficiaries with unconditional and unrestricted cash transfer distributed via hawala-transfer for at least six months, for the period of hunger gap, averaging 60 USD  per beneficiaries for six month  60x6=360 USD as the full cash basket) The payment will reach each household beneficiaries on monthly basis, averaging $60 for each household (based on cluster standard), which will be equivalent to its value in Afghani currency. Targeting and selection of needy beneficiaries to receive assistance through this project will be carried out through community consultations. Beneficiaries will be selected using the FSAC standard vulnerability criteria. Priorities will be given to shock affected vulnerable groups such as women headed households, person with disability, households with poor asset holding and high dependency ratio, women with pregnancy and IDPs. IDPs in Shahristan mostly are from the drought and natural disasters coming from the other districts of Daikundi and Waras and Panjab districts of Bamyan. Around 290 individuals will be covered under this project and will receive cash assistance accordingly. The proposed activity will be implemented within a 8 months’ timeline, how ever cash distribution is for sex month .