Provision of Life-Saving Shelter and NFI Support Assistance to conflict affected IDPs, Non-Displaced and Returned Households in Kabul, Logar, Ghazni and Paktia Provinces The proposed project will deliver life-saving shelter and NFI support assistance to most vulnerable conflict affected IDPs in displacement and returned situation (75%) and 25% non-displaced affected population in Kabul, Logar, Ghazni and Paktia provinces. In total, 750 affected households will receive cash for rental support in Kabul and Logar, 700 affected households will receive in-kind NFI packages in Kabul, Logar and Paktya, 200 affected HHs will receive 300 USD as cash for shelter repair/upgrade for minor damages and 100 affected HHs will receive 500   USD as cash for shelter repair/upgrade for severe damages in Ghazni and Paktya provinces. For the breakdown Kabul (Center 500 CFR + 200 NFI), Logar (Center 250 CFR+ 250 NFI and Moh Agha 50 NFI), Paktia (Gardez 200 NFI and Zurmat 50 Cash for Shelter Upgrade/300 USD + 50 Cash for Shelter Upgrade/500 USD) and Ghazni (Ghazni, Qarabagh, Maqur, Gelan and Khoja Omari equally 150 Cash for Shelter Upgrade/300 USD + 50 Cash for Shelter Upgrade/500 USD). 

The cash for rental support will be conditional and unrestricted while the cash for shelter repair and upgrade will be conditional and restricted. As thousands of families are on the move due to recent crisis in the country, the cash for rental support is considered unrestricted to ensure they have flexibility in their movements especially concerning their protection.  As an active member of OCTs and other coordination forums in target locations, WSTA will closely coordinate the assessment/beneficiary selection, distribution and other activities of the project with new government, 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. Women headed households, child headed households, elderly headed households, survivors of GBV and other protection incidents will be prioritized for the assistance if the needs were higher than the available resources. We will closely work with government line departments, beneficiary representatives and other stakeholders to identify and select our distribution points in target provinces, 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/affected population of concern can register their complaints and raise their concerns. With the support of OCT members and other winterization service providers at provincial level, we will form a distribution committee to avoid duplication and to further address transparency and accountability within the distribution process. The cash assistance will be delivered to the beneficiaries by contracted FSP in the presence of joint distribution committee members while the in-kind assistance will be distributed by our field team through selected distribution points. 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.