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Emergency Shelter Upgrade and Winterisation Assistance to Drought-Displaced Communities in Herat and Badghis Provinces The Afghanistan Humanitarian Fund (AHF) Third Reserve Allocation was launched, inter alia, to address shelter needs of displaced populations, particularly in regards to winterisation, which remains a major concern. Drought- displaced Afghans in Herat and Badghis collective sites are currently hosted in makeshifts (mud block houses) which constructed poorly with weak and poor materials in roofing with high possibility of collapsing during winter season, hence the need to provide winterisation assistance as the temperatures have already begun to drop in Herat and Badghis as of October. The Third Reserve Allocation was therefore released to directly respond to this as one of the high priority needs among drought-displaced IDPs, as they have limited capacity to cope with the onset of winter and will require basic assistance, including interim shelter solutions in order to survive.

The proposed project will target drought- displaced communities in Injil District (Herat Province) and Qala-e-Naw District (Badghis Province) for winterisation support through a standard package of heating/ fuel that meet Cluster specifications, and shelter upgrades through provision of sealing off kits to ensure safer and dignified living conditions for drought-displaced households. The project, implemented directly by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), continuing recent and long-standing interventions in these areas, is aligned with the AHF Reserved Allocation strategy priorities, and has been coordinated through relevant fora, notably the Afghanistan Emergency Shelter and NFI (ES/NFI) Cluster. 

NRC proposes to provide shelter upgrades through distribution of Sealing off Kits (SOK) to 2,000 families in Herat Province and winterisation support to a total of 3,000 households in Herat and Badghis Provinces. The winterization assistance will be provided through in-kind support to 1,000 drought-displaced households (5,202 individuals) in Badghis Province, whilst a cash support of USD $200 (~15,600 AFN - distribution time market exchange rate to be used) will be provided for 2,000 drought-displaced households (10,241 individuals) as markets remain functional in target locations in Herat Province. NRC will distribute the cash assistance in two installments and distributions will be held in NRC community centers in the collective sites through Hawala agents. NRC will ensure that the distribution will follow both NRC’s SoP and the Cash and Voucher Working Group’s (CVWG) recommendations on cash delivery mechanisms. 

This will fill anticipated gaps in ES/ NFI support to the affected population and complement activities undertaken through other funding mechanisms.
Supporting vulnerable conflict and disaster affected and agriculture dependent families in Badakhshan, Kunduz, Sar-E Pul, Samangan, and Faryab provinces to reengage in agricultural livelihoods. ACTED's proposed action will effectively support core humanitarian activities by enhancing the food security and livelihoods of vulnerable agricultural dependent people affected by the conflict and natural disasters in Afghanistan. This will be conducted through the provision of certified wheat seeds and quality fertilizers combined with trainings on the use of these agricultural inputs in order to ensure the resumption of wheat cultivation on the winter and spring planting seasons. ACTED will target the most vulnerable households based on key vulnerability criteria and their reliance on agriculture for food and income.

The proposed action will target the districts of Shahri Buzurg, Tashkan, Wardooj, Yaftal-e-Sufla, Yawan in Badakhshan province Ali Abad, Hazrati Imam Sahib, Khan Abad districts in Kunduz province Andkhoy, Khani Charbagh, Pashtun kot, Qaram Qul, Qurghan, Shirin, Tagab districts in Faryab province Gosfandi, Sancharak, Sayyad, Sozma Qala districts in Sar-e Pul province and Feroznakhchir, Hazrat-e-Sultan, Khuram Wa Sarbagh districts in Samangan province. A total of 195,950 individuals will benefit from the project (27,993 beneficiary households) across the five targeted provinces.

ACTED will distribute agricultural inputs including certified wheat seed, fertilizer Urea and fertilizer DAP to each farmer in order to rebuild households’ production capacity and curb food insecurity and negative coping mechanisms. The distribution of agricultural inputs will be followed by trainings on the use of inputs for better production. With the increased production of wheat, through this project vulnerable households will gradually shift away from depending on food aid and/or engaging in negative coping mechanisms, and toward meeting immediate food needs with their own production.
WASH Winterization Response to the Returnees and vulnerable IDP and Host families in Herat. WV Afghanistan (WVA) is planning to conduct critical, life-saving hygiene interventions in the IDP sites in Herat Province and the returnees from Iran at the zero point under this submission. The project goal is to improve the health and dignity of returnees and people affected displaced by drought and conflict over the winter period. WVA will implement WASH activities including provision of life-saving cluster-standard hygiene kits for returnees who are returning from Iran at the zero point and provision of cluster standards hygiene kits and hygiene education for conflict- and drought-displaced IDPs and host communities in IDP settlements in Herat Province in order to improve the health and dignity of people displaced by drought and conflict over the winter period. Hygiene assistance will be provided to all people who are returning from Iran and the IDP families who are living in the targeted IDP sites including winter induced IDPs, vulnerable host communities, people such as people with disabilities, female-headed households, and the elderly. By providing life-saving hygiene assistance to the returnees and IDPs, this project aligns with 2019-2021 HRP strategic objective 1: “Save lives in areas of highest need.” In particular, the provision of hygiene supplies and education in order to improve the health and dignity of IDPs living in the target locations aligns with the HRP WASH cluster objective: "To contribute to improving the health and dignity of people affected by emergencies, through the effective and timely implementation of emergency preparedness and response activities in water, sanitation and hygiene, with a priority of reaching the most vulnerable families first." The activities come under WASH Outcome 1.5: “Affected people have access to the water and sanitation services and facilities they need”, and HRP output 1.5, in particular: "Necessary hygiene assistance is provided to affected communities and people in a timely manner."
Protection Response and Coordination Mechanism for Displacement in Badghis and Kunduz Provinces NRC will establish community centres offering intersectoral services provided by multiple actors, in three pilot locations. The community centres will be supported by multisectoral inter-agency mobile teams to reach more remote locations. The intervention will seek to address chronic protection problems in the three areas through applying a protection case management approach to address needs holistically thereby reducing overall community vulnerability. Since key services will be co-located in one space, services will be much more accessible to affected people. Importantly, the approach will place a significant emphasis on community and wider stakeholder engagement in order to plan responses that are suitable for the specific area of intervention and in order for partners to be fully accountable to affected people. The response is characterised by three key pillars: Communication, Community Engagement and Coordination. NRC will be responsible to develop and oversee implementation of the minimum required activities highlight within each pillar below. All activities will be implemented through an age, gender and diversity lens, ensuring that all groups in a community, be it host, IDP, women, children, men, elderly, and disabled are able to safely access, and in a dignified manner, the community centre.

A key component of the community centres will be protection services, including protection monitoring, using the Afghanistan Protection Clusters monitoring framework, protection advocacy, including the use of monitoring reports and snapshots for evidence-based advocacy purposes, targeted protection assistance (which could encompass individual protection assistance, community protection assistance), protection case management and capacity building of communities, local authorities and stakeholders on protection and humanitarian principles.

The approach relies on the close collaboration, joint planning and information and data sharing by all actors engaged in the response. Therefore, in order to achieve the above, NRC will be required to work closely with all actors present in their area of intervention, and activities will be planned together, with common tools, SOPs and processes.
 
NRC will work with and collaborate closely with an inter-agency Steering Committee (comprised of Cluster leads, OCHA, key development actors and donors) established to oversee the pilot initiative. The Steering Committee will be responsible to instruct partners active in the pilot areas to operate through the common intersectoral systems.  The Steering Committee will also continually monitor and assess implementation and recommend course adjustments as needed.
Lifesaving health services, mass casualty response and referral system for trauma affected population in EMERGENCY War Surgical Centre in Kabul and First Aid Posts in Ghazni, Maydan-Wardak, Patkia, Kapisa, Parwan, Logar and Laghman provinces Within this project proposal, EMERGENCY aims at responding to the needs of the Afghan population affected by the ongoing conflict and the conditions of increased insecurity and instability of the whole country. 
In order to achieve this specific objective, capable of leading to a reduction of the war wounded mortality rate, EMERGENCY will focus on two main areas of intervention:
1- Provision of free of charge lifesaving healthcare service 24/7 to war wounded, including referral services to Emergency War Surgical Centre in Kabul or to other hospitals from 12 prioritized locations scattered in 8 Provinces affected by the conflict, such as: Ghazni, Maydan-Wardak, Patkia, Kapisa, Parwan, Logar, Laghman and Kabul
2- Provision of high standard, free of charge surgical treatment, patients’ follow up and Out Patients trauma service within Emergency War Surgical Centre in Kabul.

The estimate number of beneficiaries is 25,000. This number has been calculated form EMERGENCY statistics of  2017 and 2018, taking in consideration the average of patients treated within EMERGENCY War Surgical Centre in Kabul and its network of 12 FATPs in 2017 and 2018 during six months.
The estimate number of direct beneficiaries  that will be reached by the proposed intervention are the following: 
- 18324 OPD patients treated in EMERGENCY's 12 FATPs
- 964  patients referred to other health facilities
- 3984 OPD patients treated in EMR War Surgical Centre in Kabul
- 1728 patients admitted within EMR War Surgical Centre in Kabul (including patients referred from FATPs)
Increasing safe and dignified living conditions through provision of cash for winterization support to internally displaced persons (IDPs) affected by drought in Herat province. DRC, through this project, aims to deliver emergency winterization assistance and shelter assistance through multipurpose cash assistance to support drought-affected internally displaced people who live in open spaces and makeshift shelters that do not provide dignity, privacy and protection from the elements.

29,000 displaced families were verified in drought IDP settlements in November-December during a verification exercise led by DRC and NRC.  
From 18 to 26 November-2019 DRC verified 13,242 families in four settlements (Clinic, Shaydayee, Shahrak-e- Sabz and Regration). 9,930 families of them are residing in Shaydayee and clinic areas - the areas where DRC provided emergency shelter and winterization response to 8,778 families under AHF 3rd and 5th reserve allocations and other grants.

Following responses under AHF 3rd and 5th reserve allocations, winterization needs of 8,629 families and emergency shelter needs of 7281 families still remained unmet in Herat.

Through this project DRC plans to provide cash for winterization (AFN 7,500 per family) to 6,000 displaced families living in 5 IDP settlements at Injil in Herat province. (Clinic Area, Shaidayee, Regration, Shahrak Sabz (New Site), and Kahdistan) who have not received winterization assistance under previous 3rd and 5th AHF allocations. In addition, among them, a top up cash assistance will be provided to 4,738 families who have not received emergency shelter assistance under previous AHF allocations.

A team of community volunteers that has already been identified and trained will be mobilized to provide support during the distributions. 
To ensure service provision in a dignified manner, DRC has an accountability framework as part of its action plan to comply with common humanitarian standards (CHS) that will be used as a benchmark to guide its quality implementation along with ES/NFI cluster guidelines. Shelter is a key protection priority. This project will have a direct impact on the protective environment in informal IDP settlements. DRC will mainstream protection throughout project implementation to minimize secondary protection risks.

The project duration is 4 months, active from 16 February 2019 to 15 June 2019.
Provision of access to inclusive and protective learning for emergency affected children in Balkh province in Afghanistan. The project aims to reach 3500 children (2000 girls) in four districts of Balkh province in Afghanistan, within the HRP 2019 targeted 7443 children (girls- 3597, boys- 3847), who are affected by the disaster, conflicts, displacement. There are 17208 children (70% are girls) are out of school in these districts. The project focuses on ensuring access to quality and inclusive education to the target groups through establishment of Community Based Education (CBE) classes in the targeted host communities, returnees, internally displaced people (IDP). The project will also build the capacity of 100 teachers (at least 60% female) (formal schools and CBE classes) on education in teaching methodology and child protection (i.e. psycho-social support, safeguarding etc.). Additionally, the training will also involve capacity building of educational personal on EiE information management system including preparedness and response planning and strengthened capacity to fulfill their responsibility. 

The project will also establish, and support 100 CBE classes facilitated by 100 teachers with priority to hire and train more female teachers (at least 60% female teacher). Through this project IRW and partners will target around 200 villages where IDPs and returnee’s including host community are settled and will establish a school Shura per center to improve students and teacher’s attendance, security, child protection, inclusiveness, functionality and quality education. Each School Shura will have 5-7 member (50% female) and they will be oriented about their role and responsibility.

Standards of quality education will be met through following Ministry of Education (MoE)’s curriculum text books and equipping the planned number of teachers with methodology skills, teacher kits to effectively facilitate the teaching and learning process, and provision of spaces to at least meet the minimum standards identified through Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergency (INEE) and MoE standardized teacher training manual (TTM).

The project will facilitate access to quality inclusive education in a safe environment for the targeted out of school children for one year who will be encouraged, enrolled and registered to Afghanistan education system. The project will also enable them to pursue their education beyond the project duration by issuing them the roll number. Based on the project exit strategy they will be mainstreamed the existing formal education system to ensure these children continue their education beyond the project either in their place of origin or in their existing residence areas.

In order to meet the need of entire out of school children in the targeted areas, IRW and partners will also address needs of disabled children through providing special education materials and create enable environment within the classes. 

This project will be implemented by IRW, and sub implementing partners- RET-Germany, ORCD, AGHCO. The partnership will be managed by the Project Steering Committee based on the agreement.
Shelter upgrading and winterization cash based assistance for IDPs and Host community in 12 Hard to reach districts of Laghman, Nangrahar and Kunar provinces The proposed project will provide assistance to IDPs and affected host community (returned IDPs in their place of origin) in Nangrahar, Laghman and kunar province under: 
HRP Strategic Objective: 2019 SO1: Save lives in areas of highest need, SO3: People struck by sudden onset crises get the help they need, on time and Cluster Objectives: 1.6: IDP, returnee, refugee and non-displaced conflict-affected women, men and children of all ages are protected from the elements through safe emergency shelter interventions which reduce the likelihood of disease and death.
Since January 2019 to August, 25238 families (56,937 individuals) displaced in eastern region (Nangrahar, Laghman and Kunar). 

During the assessment, it was found that the IDPs in Mehterlam and returned conflict affected people in Chapadara, Sherzad and Khogyani had lost their assets, crops and livestock and are in need of Shelter upgrade, winterization, food assistance and livelihood support 
Under this project: 


526 most vulnerable families 3682 people (767 women, 762 men, 1086 girls and 1067 boys) will be provided with immediate shelter assistance prior to winter via shelter repair support and further supported with heating/ fuel materials (winterization) during the winter period as following:

A:- Returned IDPs in their place of origin in Nangrahar and Kunar province
1.	In Khogyani district of Nangrahar province 82 returned IDPs families 574 individuals (119Men, 119 women, 167 boys and 169 girls).
2.	In Sherzad district of Nangrahar province 80 returned IDPs families 560 individuals (116 Men, 117 women, 162 boys and 165 girls) 
3.	In Kot district of Nangrahar province 10 returned IDPs families 70 individuals (14  Men, 15 women, 20 boys and 21 girls
4.	In Dara-e-Pech district of Kunar province 15 returned IDPs families 105 individuals (22 Men, 22 women, 30 boys and 31 girls
5.	In Chapadara district of Kunar province 90 returned IDPs families 507 individuals (130 Men, 131 women, 183 boys and 186 girls
6.	In Chaparhar district of Nangrahar province 10 returned IDPs families 70 individuals (14  Men, 15 women, 20 boys and 21 girls

B:- Recent IDPs in Nangrahar, Kunar and Laghman province.
1.	In Mehterlam district of Laghman province, 99 IDPs families 693 individuals (144 Men, 144 women, 201 boys and 204 girls) 
2.	In Rodat district of Nangrahar province, 50 IDPs families 350 individuals (72 Men, 73 women, 102 boys and 103 girls) 
3.	In Chawkay district of Kunar province 40 IDPs families 280 individuals (58 Men, 58 women, 81 boys and 83 girls)
4.	In Sarkani district of Kunar province 20 IDPs families 140 individuals (29 Men, 29 women, 41boys and 41 girls)
5.	In Narang district of Kunar province 15 IDPs families 105 individuals (22 Men, 22 women, 30 boys and 31 girls)
6.	In Watapur district of Kunar province 15 IDPs families 105 individuals (22 Men, 22 women, 30 boys and 31 girls)
Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Integrated food security phase classification (IPC) is used as one of the major tools to describe the key drivers of food insecurity, phase classification of different provinces according to the food security situation or status, number of food insecure people in need and some key recommendations to address the food insecurity faced by vulnerable men, women and children.   

IPC in Afghanistan was established by FAO and funded by ECHO from 2011 till 2014, followed by support of EU through EU-MAIL in Transition Project from 2014 that will end in December 2019. IPC is very well established in Afghanistan as one of the major analysis used widely by the humanitarian community. IPC 2019 provided basis for HNO 2020 in terms of number of people in need, priority areas and key drivers of the needs. The current IPC analysis covers current and projected food security situation till March 2020.  There is a stronger need to provide updated analysis throughout 2020 to understand the food security situation to guide mid-year review 2020 and to form the basis for HNO and HRP 2021.  

IPC secretariat in MAIL, requested FAO and WFP to support IPC administrative and financial requirements to meet the demands of  the government and humanitarian community in Afghanistan. This support will enable the secretariat in performing the core functions of IPC and to produce IPC analysis on a timely basis to enable donor community and humanitarian actors in making timely decisions by providing actionable knowledge.

Through this AHF grant, IPC secretariat will perform multiple activities like, conduction of two national level IPC analysis workshops to come with provincial level food security phase classification, joint field missions to verify the analysis report, capacity building initiatives for government and humanitarian partners and contribution to national level food security and livelihoods assessments.