Enhanced Food Security of Food insecure vulnerable families in sayed Abad district of Wardak Province The project will provide emergency response to the multiple shock affected, severe and acute food insecure, and vulnerable populations under IPC Phase 3 and above , in Sayedabad district of Wardak province to improve their household food security and increase their resilience to upcoming/unexpected shocks through covering  75% cost of the food need of 1560 households (10922 individuals). The food calculation is by FSAC partners based on 2100k cal/ day food intake of each person in a family of 7 members. Considering the average market price, the full amount of food cost is $80 while the project will cover 75% ($60) of full cost and program participants would cover the remaining 25% of food cost. The full amount $360 would be provided in three rounds every two months. Through the proposed project Children in Crisis will provide cash assistance to a total of 10922 individuals (1560 households) in Sayedabad district of Wardak Provinces. 
Children in Crisis has an active contract with Amana card which and is so far satisfied with their capacity and professionalism. Therefore, CIC would extend the contract with Amana Card for this project as well to distribute cash to the selected eligible beneficiaries. Amana Card has strong control mechanisms in place which extremely minimizes the risk of misuse of resources and ensures timely and effective response.  Market price monitoring will be done before and after each distribution to verify the feasibility and appropriateness of the cash amount. At least two member of each beneficiary household would be oriented on PSEA, Child Right, CIC complaint feedback mechanism and key drought messages.

Children in Crisis’ interventions will be guided by the Integrated Food-Security Phase Classification (IPC) and the recent needs assessment conducted by CIC in Sayedabad district, to provide standard assistance to address the need of affected population in a dignified and transparent manner. As per IPC (2022), Wardak province classified at Emergency phase (IPC4) for the period March to May 2022. During the period June to November 2022, the food security situation is forecasted to better off as the provinces is projected to fall under Crisis Phase (IPC phase 4). Out of the total population of 877,687 people in Wardak over 438,844 people are classified at IPC Phase 4. 
Children in Crisis will integrate gender and protection across project cycle by inclusion of women, and girls in each phase of the project cycle. This will be achieved through regular negotiation and engagement with the IEA, religious leaders and the community representatives. The protection will be mainstreamed through analyzing all the potential risk toward program participants and applying appropriate risk mitigation measures. This includes assessment of all the beneficiaries considering do no harm and safe programming principles and approaches, identification and selection of safe and easily accessible distribution points, establishment of complaint and response mechanism and post distribution monitoring. Children in Crisis is committed to beneficiary data protection as per the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The contract with financial service provider will include clauses on beneficiary data protection. In addition, Children in Crisis will share only password protected list of beneficiaries with only one focal point of the financial service provider.