Improve Access to Food  Livelihoods Security to the most Vulnerable Populations in Waajid District of Bakool Region. ARD under the title: To improve access to food to the most vulnerable urban poor and IDPs in Wajid district of Bakool Region will undertake activities such as: Selection of drought affected households of vulnerable community including the IDPs and households having malnourished children (SAMampMAM) and families that have lost livestock and register families/HHs with the support of the local authority giving priority to Female Headed Households for unconditional cash transfer to 550 HHs, Livestock feed to 300 HHs and cash plus to 300 HHs). A total of 5,100 people will benefit from the program at the district level. Social Mobilization and community sensitization will be undertaken  Selection of a local trustful traders/vendors through bid from Wajid district and MoUs signed and service providers paid Distribution of identification of vouchers having the details of the products to be provided, The total beneficiary targeted will be 850 Households which will translate to 5,100 individuals from the vulnerable communities in Wajid District of Bakool region (1500 men, 3000 women, 300 boys and 300 girls), Strengthen the monitoring and evaluation activities through supervising the activities in order to optimize the project implementation. The overall goal of this emergency project is to provide lifesaving assistance to 5,100 most affected/vulnerable individuals in vulnerable IDPs and the households having malnourished children in Wajid district of Bakool region of Somalia through provision of unconditional cash transfers, Provision of cash plus, (Fodder in order to improve food access and prevent death due to starvation.

ARD together with the local authority, the head of the disabled people, and the community leaders will be used the following criteria in the identification of the beneficiaries: (Food insecure HH. The disabled, The elderly, The chronically/terminally ill, Family members in feeding programs or whose children are malnourished, Families who lost their livestock during the drought, Households with no family support, Families with no external support, The marginalized, The elderly, Female-headed households, Child headed households. 

The Unconditional Cash Transfer (UCT) is intended to improve access to food for 550 HHs for 3 rounds/months of assistance targeting the vulnerable IDPs and households with a malnourished under-five child (SAM and MAM) based on admission records. Provision of cash + emergency livelihood inputs to 300 HHs for 3 rounds/months of assistance to enable drought-affected households to get back into production to secure a harvest/sustain animal health to improve household access to food. 
Every HH will receive UCT of 90 USD for a period of 3 months Distribution of animal feeds, 20kgs of grass/farm produce per HH for vulnerable communities of 300 HHs for a period of 3 months

The IDP sites for the UCT include: (5 IDP sites of Al_Amiin-100 HHs, Baraka-200 HHs, Camp_Jadiid- 150 HHs, Celboon-50 and Elduur- 50) in Wajid town and 5 villages for the Cash plus (Hidig-50, Koonfurgalbeed-50, Horseed-50, Waberi-50 and Galbeed-100HHs)