Provision of Life-Saving Food Assistance to 1069 Vulnerable Households of IPC Phase 3 and 4 in Surobi District of Kabul. According IPC acute food insecurity analysis (March-November 2022), 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), latest data shows. Among these are about 6.6 million people in Emergency (IPC Phase 4) and 13 million in Crisis (IPC Phase 3). A significant amount of Humanitarian Food Assistance (HFA) was provided, easing the food crisis for the most affected households. However, Afghanistan’s food security situation remains highly concerning, exacerbated by economic decline and high food prices. With 38% of the population targeted for HFA, nearly 20 million people, representing half the country's population, are still experiencing high and critical levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phases 3 and above) between March and May 2022. Among these, about 6.6 million people are classified in Emergency (IPC Phase 4), characterized by large food gaps and/ or employing emergency coping strategies to access food

The project aims to deliver life-saving “cash for food” assistance to 1069 vulnerable households (7483 individuals) in Surobi district of Kabul province, where each target household will receive a monthly package of $60 for six months in two (2) distribution cycles through contracted money service provider. The population under IPC Phase 4 and IPC Phase 3 will benefit from the assistance, while 75% of the assistance will only go to target population under IPC Phase 4 in compliance with the FSAC strategy for this allocation. As an active member of OCTs and other coordination forums in central region provinces including Kabul province, WSTA will closely coordinate the assessment/beneficiary selection, distribution and other activities of the project with de-facto authorities, UN agencies, INGOs, NNGOs and other stakeholders to avoid duplication in response, and to address transparency and accountability within the overall process. The cluster recommended tools will be used for data collection, analysis and reporting while we will put additional tools to collect more segregated data as per Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD) approach. As we already have regular communication with the target communities in different locations of Surobi district through our community based protection-monitoring project, we will use the baseline data to identify the potential locations for this project. We will closely work with line departments of de-facto authorities, beneficiary representatives and other stakeholders to identify and select our distribution points, which shall be safe and accessible for men, women, children, elderly and persons with disability with enough facilitation in place. The COVID-19 protocols will be strictly applied throughout the implementation process to ensure safety of our staff, beneficiaries and stakeholders. Project visibility, reporting to cluster, AHF and government will be properly managed   as per the requirements of each party. We will use the services of AWAAZ Afghanistan and our internal hotline number to register the complaints, and will ensure that the target communities receive our complaint leaflets during the assessments and distribution. We will also help desk at community level and during the distribution, process to ensure the beneficiaries can register their complaints and raise their concerns. Our MampE and Project Control units will regularly monitor, evaluate and verify the project activities to improve the quality of our work, exercising a comprehensive lessons learned, and to address compliance. In the end phase, we will conduct a post distribution monitoring exercise to monitor and evaluate the impact of assistance on lives of our beneficiaries as per Age, Gender and Diversity and to ensure that the assistance are delivered in a transparent and accountable manner.