Emergency Cash for Food Assistance to IPC 3 and 4 populations of Parwan Province This proposed project aims to provide life-saving assistance to address the immediate food needs of 1,437 households (10,59 participants) and will be implemented in the Charikar district of Parwan Province. The participants (beneficiaries) will be prioritized based on the level of need determined by a rapid needs assessment that will be conducted by the Norwegian Afghanistan Committee (NAC) this will be conducted in the first month of the project immediately after initial coordination and selection of communities completed. Most of the population in the target area is classified as IPC Phase 3 and 4 (Crises and Emergency), with 196,127 people in Phase 3 (Crisis) and 147,095 people in Phase 4 (Emergency) (IPC, 2022).   Based on the available resources and WFP/FSAC selection criteria, the Norwegian Afghanistan Committee (NAC) will target 1,437 of the most food-insecure participants in Charikar district of Parwan Province. This proposed project will be implemented to improve the food security of those classified as IPC phase 4 to move to phase 3 and avoid moving those participants that are in phase three to phase 4, through the distribution of cash for food commodities, based on the cluster’s food basket. 

The chosen modality to deliver this assistance will be cash-for-food for the most food-insecure HHs, which will enable target participants to access essential food items for six months. This project aligns with NAC’s current programs to add emergency food assistance to our “food and work program” for food security to ensure that families and their children have access to food of sufficient quality and quantity to meet their daily basic needs. NAC will ensure a gender-sensitive selection process, an accessible accountability mechanism and gender-balanced field team to ensure easy access by both genders.

All project participants will be eligible to receive six months of cash assistance in three rounds of distribution (bi-monthly) through the selected financial service providers (FSPs)/ local hawala dealers. The value of each of the three cash transfers will be USD 120 every two months (the total amount for a six months cash for food is $360) and will cover 75% of the monthly food basket for a household of seven (based on FSAC standards). 


NAC will ensure coordination and cooperation with other stakeholders in the proposed project target areas to avoid any duplication or overlap.

This proposed project will be implemented using cash-for-food based on the standard food basket of the FSAC cluster. NAC did a rapid market assessment before developing the concept note and proposal and found that the markets with the capacity to supply the necessary food commodities are available as Charikar market is the provincial largest market, with daily connections of food supplies from Kabul and northern food supply markets. NAC assessment focused more on the availability/ capacity of the local market, in addition to the WFP and REACH/JMMI assessments findings.

NAC will form a committee to select the financial service provider(s) to deliver the cash to the target project participants.