Provision of life-saving commodity through NFIs distribution to newly displaced children and their families The proposed project will be implemented inSouthern Ninewa and Salah-Al Din governorates in both icamp and off-camp settings. This is in accordance to the influx of internally displaced people (IDP) affected from ongoing and future Mosul offensive operations. The primary objective is to provide Core Relief Items (CRIs) and Non Food Items (NFI) to the most vulnerable IDP children and their families. The kits will meet the needs of 6 individuals, the national average per household (including consumables for one-month). NFI distributions will have child-protection streamlined as part of the program through dissemination of key messages  (leaflets on prevention of violence, separation and Psychisocial support), information on available services at all distribution sites, and have protection and wash streamlined through the inclusion of women and girls hygiene materials and general hygiene kits for each family. CRIs will include kitchen sets, kerosene stoves, sleeping kits, and hygiene kits. These items will compliment tent and dry food distributions being covered by shelter and food security partners. As part of the first-phase response each family will receive one kerosene canister, which is estimated to last one month and IEC materials on fire prevention/fire safety to mitigate against any risks the stoves carry. Save the Children (SC) will continue to coordinate with implementing partners to ensure CRI kits are standardized and to avoid duplication in beneficiary selection. Due to the upcoming winter months, it is imperative that blankets are distributed to each family. Depending on size of family an additional kit will be distributed to each family comprised of more than seven members. SC aims to adopt the learnings from previous interventions in order to ensure the rapid, effective, and gender sensitive distribution of these CRI kits. SC, having worked in Salah-Al Din  as the lead agency of the Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM) for about a year, has established relationships with key local stakeholders that will allow for the continued smooth access to hard-to-reach areas throughout the governorate. In terms of geographically flexibility to respond to the evolving needs on the ground, Save the Children has a high level of flexibility within Salah-Al Din  and will utilize institutional knowledge and familiarity with local stakeholders to follow the front line as closely as possible in order to address the immediate needs of immediately displaced persons in Qayara and Salah-Al Din . 

In order to ensure SC is distributing to those most in need SC proposes to augment its current Early Warning System (EWS) capacity in the Salah-Al Din  field office, where a large number of Mosul displacements are predicted to move will be assisted. The EWS in Salah-Al Din  will consist of one staff member who will be at the forefront of information gathering for SC in Salah-Al Din . He/she will travel frequently to the field distribution sites and new areas of intervention as the front line moves, and will build relationships with local stakeholders (beneficiaries, camp management, local authorities, and military personnel) in order to ensure SC has the most up-to-date ground knowledge. Through developing strong, familiar relationships with local authorities and stakeholders and having daily telephone calls, SC will be able to convert rapid information gathering into timely and effective responses in Salah-Al Din . This information will be raised as alerts and shared internally within the SC country office, the Rapid Protection Assessment (RPA) team and , ultimately, to the wider humanitarian community. This aspect of SC’s program aligns perfectly with OCHA's first-phase response strategy as it allows for humanitarian agencies to coordinate through an established SC information management system to ensure activation of an immediate and appriopriate response for each alert.