Provision of Winterization support for the protection of most vulnerable and affected children and families in two districts Ghazi Abad and Chapadara of Kunar Province The collapse of the former government has created a deep political and economic crisis that compounded existing structural challenges and exposed widespread protection risks and vulnerability, especially among rural and remote communities, displaced populations living in informal settlements, and recent returnees, deportees from the neighboring countries. More protection risks to women and girls, associated with highly restrictive rights environment and diminishing ability to access services and onset winter in 2022. With the broader economic decline delivering a devastating below to each family. It is anticipated that negative coping delivering a devastating blow to each family especially in Ghazi Abad and Chapa Dara Districts anticipated that negative coping measures such child labor, forced marriage, child abuse and risky irregular migration (Trafficking) are prominent risks. The previous data indicates that some 42 percent of household are prominent coping straggles, including an increase in debt, sale productive assists, marrying off girls, sale or exchange of children and organized trafficking.
As according to the Whole of Afghanistan Assessment (WoAA) sectoral findings there is 78% of HH are in debts and 43% of HH don’t have adequate warm clothes, blanket and 53% of HH reported that children lack warm clothing for winter.  Based on CP AOR analysis, 8 provinces are most negatively impacted by winter low temperatures and 28 districts including district Ghazi Abad and Chapa Dara are being covered by this proposal to be funded by AH.

In order to respond to the need of families and children in Ghazi Abad and Chapa Dara district. DAO intends to implement the following activities.
DAO intends to implement the following activities in our target provinces.
1.	Prevention and response messaging including child friendly messaging on the child protection risks and concerns.
Prevention messages on child abuse, exploitation, all forms of neglect, early child marriage, child trafficking, and GBV will be passed through awareness sessions to the community by our protection officers to safeguard the best interest of children and increase child protection in our target districts.
Dao will enroll a total of 3000 boys and girls in both Chapa Dara and Ghaziabad districts from Kunar province.

      2. Provision of life-saving case management services directly and or through referrals.
DAO will hire professional social and case workers to identify critical cases of child abuse, exploitation, neglect and GBV, make registration for all the phases of case management and do case management as a lifesaving effort through case management and referral pathways. This will ensure the safety and protection of children. DAO will also distribute CP kits to children as per our work plan both in Ghaziabad and Chapa Dara, a total of 800 male and females' children will be provided with case management in both Ghazi Abad and Chapa Dara districts that will also include IDPs and returnees as well.
       3. Strengthening cross-sectoral referral pathway mechanism for more integrated child protection service delivery.
In view of the activity 3, DAO will work in Ghaziabad and Chapa Dara through cross sectoral referral system ensuring that critical cases of child abuse, exploitation, neglect are referred to Community Development Councils/Local Shura, a total of 200 male and female children will be referred to other organizations for protection and wellbeing of the children during the grant period.
In addition to the above, DAO will closely coordinate activities of the project with the Ministry of Economy/Provincial Directorate of Economy, Ministry of Labor Social Affairs /Provincial directorate of labor and social Affairs, our valuable donors and the relevant stakeholders in Kunar. Activities and expenditure reports will be submitted to both donors and Ministry of Economy.