Provision of Transitional Shelter and Winter Support Assistance to 282 earthquake affected households in Barmal District of Paktika Province. The proposed project aims to deliver transitional shelter and winter support assistance to 282 earthquake affected households in Barmal district of Paktika province, who have lost their shelters, means of livelihood or family members due to recent earthquake shocks. The cash for transitional shelter and repair will enable the affected households to re-build their shelters and possibly expand it in the future to recover from the disaster, while the cash for heating support and in-kind winter clothing package will help them survive the harsh winter season. The conditional and restricted cash for vernacular new room construction, which is $2620 per average family of 7, cash for vernacular room repair/$1310 per average family, unconditional cash for heating support, which is $200 per HH and covers 3 months, and the in-kind winter clothing package, which is equivalent to $74 per household, will be delivered to the same beneficiary households in order to contribute to the overall earthquake response in the southeast region. It is initially planned that, 68 affected household will receive cash for new room construction /2 rooms and 214 will receive the cash for room repair/2 rooms as recommended by the cluster. WSTA will also deliver 228 m repair of compound walls and 200 m of compound wall screening.
WSTA as an active partner of UNHCR and WFP, has been part of the joint earthquake emergency response team in Khost and Paktika provinces therefore, we already have improved coordination platform for the implementation of project, and we will continue our coordination with de-facto authorities, OCHA, UNHCR, IOM, ERM partners, INGOs, NNGOs and other stakeholders. For our data collection, we will use the cluster recommended tools along with some additional tools to address quality, transparent and accountable beneficiary selection and verification to avoid any duplication in our response as other actors are also delivering similar assistance, and to ensure the most vulnerable households are selected for the assistance. Women headed households, child headed households, elderly headed households, survivors of GBV and other protection incidents will be prioritized for the assistance if the needs were higher than the available resources. Our shelter technical assistant/engineer will conduct a technical study in the inception phase, to draw our DRR strategy and approach. Because it is very important to understand what have been the main factors that many shelters were destroyed, and how we can use new methods and local materials to build improved and risk mitigated shelters for our persons of concern. We will closely work with de-facto authorities, beneficiary representatives and other stakeholders to identify and select our distribution points in target location, which shall be safe and accessible for men, women, children, elderly and persons with disability with enough facilitation in place. The COVID-19 protocols will be strictly applied throughout the implementation process to ensure safety of our staff, beneficiaries and stakeholders. Project visibility, reporting to cluster, AHF and government will be properly managed   as per the requirements of each party. We will use the services of AWAAZ Afghanistan and our internal hotline number to register the complaints, and will ensure that the target communities receive our complaint leaflets during the assessments and distribution. We will also help desk at community level and during the distribution, to ensure the beneficiaries/affected population of concern can register their complaints and raise their concerns. Contracted Money Service Provider in the presence of joint distribution committee members will deliver the direct cash assistance to the beneficiaries. Our MampE and compliance units will collaboratively work to regularly monitor and evaluate the project activities, and to address compliance with our project proposal, grant agreement, AHF guidelines and organizational policie