Emergency livelihoods support to drought affected rural communities in Belet_Xaawo district, Gedo region The project aims to improve immediate access to food while restoring livelihood assets related to food and income sources that have been impacted by drought causing water shortages through unconditional and conditional cash transfers to rehabilitate water infrastructures and provision of emergency fodder and emergency livestock water in pastoral villages in Belet-Hawa district, Gedo region. 
The project will target 690 vulnerable drought affected pastoral households among women, men, boys, girls, including female headed households who are classified under IPC 3 amp 4. The negative effects of the current shocks have severely and directly affected rural pastoral communities whose sources of food, income and water are diminishing and increasingly at risk leading to household food insecurity, increase in debt levels among poor households and a severe reduction in access to safe water for both domestic and livestock use. Additionally, the affected households rely on food purchase from local markets, have weak purchasing power due to limited income and lack access to credit services due to cumulative debts. 
COOPI prioritizes respect for the rights, dignity and safety of the people affected by crisis and is committed to taking account of, giving account to, and being held to account by the populations benefiting from the intervention. During implementation process, target communities, especially women, girls and the disabled will be included in community representative committees and decision making processes In selection of beneficiaries, registrations, verifications and monitoring exercises so as ensure that the most marginalized and vulnerable are represented and have influence. The project will be guided by the principles of DO NO HARM, ensuring safety and dignity of target population is upheld and at the same time providing for accountability, participation and empowerment. In order to improve household immediate access to food, unconditional and conditional cash transfer will be provided to 690 affected household including girls, pregnant and lactating women, boys and men to enable them immediately access food, water, healthcare, and other basic services.
To restore livelihood assets of households, 490 beneficiaries will engage in cash for work activities rehabilitation of water catchments, 200 households among the unconditional cash beneficiaries will also be provided with Emergency fodder provision and emergency livestock water. This activity aims at restoring livestock assets of the communities and envisages reducing workload and stress on women and girls who are responsible for search of water and pasture for livestock feeding. In addition, gender based violence and exploitation malpractices associated with in search of livestock feeds and water for long distances will be mitigated through the proposed activity. 
In summary the following activities will be carried out:
1. Provide conditional cash transfer to 490 households in Belet-Hawa district to increase household purchasing power and rehabilitate water catchments.
2. Provision of unconditional cash transfer to 200 vulnerable pastoral households in Belet-Hawa district.
2. Emergency fodder provision for 200 vulnerable drought affected pastoral HHs. .
3. Provision of emergency livestock water to 200 drought affected households in Belet-Hawa district.