Transitional Shelter Construction and Shelter repair/upgrade in Samangan The overall objective of this intervention is to ensure 1,566 households (10,968 individuals) in Samangan Province are supported with Transitional Shelter Construction and Shelter repair/upgrade. ActionAid will target three settlements in two districts within Samangan Province Char Chesma and Jopalal settlements in Ruy-e-Duab district and Qainar ha settlement in Khuram Wa Sarbagh district. 
 In Char Chesma 33 households will be supported with transitional shelter 99 with major shelter repairs and 364 with minor shelter repairs
 In Jopalal 30 households will be supported with transitional shelter 89 with major shelter repairs and 325 with minor shelter repairs
 And finally in Qainar ha 42 households will be supported with transitional shelter 125 with major shelter repairs and 459 with minor shelter repairs.

While the list of project participants has already been identified through RAM, ActionAid will have further consultations in the community to ensure that the beneficiaries selected meet the criteria and there is community buy in. ActionAid will support households displaced due to natural (drought, flood) and humanmade disasters (conflict). Whilst finalising the project participants list, ActionAid will ensure the most vulnerable groups, including child-headed, elderly-headed and female-headed households, as well as households with chronically ill people, pregnant or lactating women, people living with disabilities or groups affected by multiple vulnerabilities are included.

Based on the CVA appropriateness guidance note, ActionAid will use Conditional Cash Assistance. Cash will be distributed in safe locations and in stages, based on milestones achieved for each of the three shelter activities. The amount for each activity will comply with Shelter cluster minimum standards equivalent to USD 1,472 for transitional shelter USD 550 for major shelter repairs and USD 330 for minor shelter repairs. Additionally, efforts will be made to ensure constructions meets the local cultural standards and preferences. 

Before and throughout project implementation, ActionAid will provide basic building and repair guidance to project participants, which given the recurring environmental disasters in the area (mostly driven by drought and flooding), will also include considerations around DRR mainstreaming in construction and risk mitigation measures.

Involving project participants in the construction process is our preferred method, as it allows for greater decision-making and ownership. However, when families are not able to repair/construct the homes themselves, the cash distributed will be enough to cover workers wages, this way the project will not only benefit the direct project participants, but also the wider community through generating employment opportunities. Efforts will be made to ensure that community members (both project participants as well as others in the communities) come together and support each other to complete the construction. This way they are able to complete the work in the most cost-effective way while at the same time generating employment in the village. 

As in all ActionAid programmes, the project will mainstream protection by increasing knowledge amongst the targeted vulnerable households on existing referral pathways and protection services for survivors of SGBV, unaccompanied children and people living with disabilities, by having women staff sharing this information with women project participants and having banners in place with hotline numbers.