Provision of Heating Assistance, Rental Support and Winter Clothing to 1170 Natural Disaster Affected Families in Ziruk and Barmal districts of Paktika Province. Year 2022 has been a challenging year so far the people of Afghanistan in the southeast region especially in Paktika province where thousands of families affected due to a major earthquake disaster and flash floods. In the last two decades, Paktika has been one of the marginalized provinces of the country due to its geo-political location and active presence of anti-government armed groups. Therefore, the coping capacity of the population was very low to cope with such kind of major disasters like the earthquake of June 2022. The de-facto government has nothing to offer therefore, the humanitarian community is collaboratively working to deliver emergency relief, recovery and durable solutions. 
It is in this context that, WSTA as one of the key humanitarian actors in the region is trying to contribute as much as possible. The proposed project aims to deliver winter support assistance to 1170 natural disaster affected families in Ziruk and Barmal districts of Paktika Province through provision of “cash for heating support/$200 per family”. We will also deliver the “in-kind standard clothing package/ equivalent to $74” and “cash for rental support/$165 for 3 months” to 568 affected households that are living under tents or self-made emergency shelters. We will initially target the natural disaster affected population living under tents and allocated 30% to Ziruk district and 70% to Barmal district. 
We will deliver the cash assistance through contracted Hawala Money Service Provider (MSP) to pay direct cash to our beneficiaries in the presence of a distribution committee. As an active member of the Regional Humanitarian Team (RHT) at regional level, and Operation Coordination Team (OCT) at provincial level, we will closely work with OCHA field unit, WFP, UNHCR, IOM, INGOs, NNGOs and other humanitarian actors to avoid any possible duplication in our response, as well as to address a complementary approach for sustainable outcome(s). We will use the cluster recommended along with additional tools for beneficiary selection and post distribution monitoring to address quality work, transparency and accountability throughout the process. We will use the services of Awaaz Afghanistan (toll-free hotline), our own hotline number and on-site help desks to facilitate safe and confidential feedback mechanisms for beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries. Protection mainstreaming is part of the implementation process, and we will ensure that men, women, children of all ages, elderly, disabled and persons with other diversities can access our assistance in a safe, dignified and risk mitigated manner. We will have two dedicated internal monitoring missions to timely monitor and evaluate the project activities, and will provide our necessary support to AHF’s third party monitoring team as well. Our internal project control department will have regular financial verification of the project to ensure we meet all the AHF requirements in our financial management of the project. Under direct supervision of our director, our senior management team will contribute in staffing, procurement, logistics, admin, financial management, security arrangements and other support activities in line with our organizational policies and donor requirements. We will create the project in the ReportHub, and will regularly report the progress to the cluster, and we will report to de-facto government line departments, and other stakeholders as per their requirements. For post distribution monitoring, we will consider 25-30% of the target population as a sample size, and will report the findings to the cluster.