Provision of heating assistance, blankets, and winter cloth packages to 1,170 conflict affected displaced, natural disasters affected and vulnerable host community families in Chapadara and Ghazi abad districts of Kunar province. The project contribute the specific objective of the ES-NFI cluster "“Ensure affected population ‎groups (IDPs, returnees, non-displaced conflict and natural disaster-affected and acutely vulnerable ‎people) of all ages directly affected by new emergencies have immediate and adequate access to ‎emergency shelter, shelter repair/upgrade, households items and seasonal assistance. The project ‎targets two remote districts of Kunar province, high altitude locations and prone to the impacts of winter ‎that drive the need ‎for provision of life ‎saving winter assistance for the majority of affected ‎‎persons and ‎people at risk as well as both of the targeted districts has also been identified in level-3 means that more ‎than three cluster has ranked them with high access constraints (level-3).‎
The project focus on immediate winterization needs of affected households lives in Chapadara district for 585 households ‎as well as Ghazi Abad district for 585 households of Kunar province for totally 1,170 ‎conflict-affected, displaced, natural disaster-affected ‎and vulnerable host community families along their immediate family member ‎‎(8190) individual ‎including boys, girls, men and women to respond their critical winterization need during the onset of the ‎‎winter, The assistance delivery mechanism will be cash for all three packages including blankets, heating and winter clothing packages.
APWDO updated information ‎from the local market and ‎initial market analysis shows that local and nearest accessible Market is ‎responding all the needs under the response ‎packages including blankets, heaters, fuel or firewood and ‎winter cloths that costs per household 331 USD in three installments 200 for heating to cover the three months of winter, 57 for blankets and 74 for winter, ‎each package in one-‎off frequency as per the cluster standards and guidelines. APWDO ‎will managed a distribution point accessible to all beneficiaries ‎in both targeted districts and will invite ‎the selected households to hand over the assistance. ‎The cash transfers will be ‎made through a contracted Hawala, the option currently largely use and familiar among the local ‎people ‎and NGOs for cash transfer due to lack of other options including digital or banking systems on ‎the district level. The assistance will be provided ‎through unconditional unrestricted cash in hand and ‎given the functionality of district market and other accessible locations, this ‎modality is deemed to be ‎most effective and efficient and provide recipients with greater agency in how they use their assistance ‎to ‎support their winterization needs. Beneficiary selection will be carried out in line with ES-NFI cluster ‎vulnerability criteria, APWDO will ‎ensure that the right people are identified and marginalized ‎households are not excluded from the assistance and those most in ‎need are found and supported. ‎Given the rapidly changing environment and to ensure that the cash modality continues to be ‎‎appropriate and does no harm, a monthly market monitoring will be conducted. This monitoring will be ‎undertaken prior to the ‎distribution to understand the availability and prices of key items in several local ‎markets in and around project locations. A post-‎distribution monitoring (PDM) survey will be conducted ‎to assess the effectiveness of the response and its impact on beneficiary ‎including health and ‎vulnerability over the winter. The survey will also be used to understand the main uses of the cash ‎assistance ‎for NFIs (e.g. cold supported items, shelter, health), which will be used to identify gaps and ‎inform future cash and in kind ‎winterization programming