Provision of In-Kind Poultry Support to 1150 Vulnerable Households of IPC 3, 4 in Azra District of Logar Province. After the collapse of republic government in the hands of Taliban on August 15, 2022, Afghanistan is experiencing a vast economic and humanitarian crisis. According to UN, around 95-97% of the population is living under the national poverty line, and in the last 1 year, Taliban has not been able to form a government, which could have met the criteria of recognition by the international community. Logar has been one of the most insecure provinces of the central region in last 2 decades and there are some hard to reach areas like Azra district, where the conditions are intense as it is a hard to reach district with harsh geographical conditions, and due to continues insecurity in the past, the government and humanitarian actors haven't been able to have much focus on it. 

It is in this context that, the proposed project is designed to promote food security among the vulnerable population who are under the IPC Phase 3 and 4, through provision of FSAC standard poultry package as a livelihood support assistance. Through this proposed project, WSTA will deliver the in-kind standard poultry package (equivalent to $395/HH) as a one-off assistance to 1150 target households (crisis and emergency- IPC Phase 3,4) in Azra district of Logar province. In line with the FSAC strategy, the purpose of the intervention is to reduce overtime the direct food support and ensure resilience building and protection asset depletion for the target population of concern. The standard package contain 30 chicken (3 roaster and 27 hens), 150 Kg feed, 3 drinker, 3 feeder, and chicken coop support for material. This will enable the local communities to improve their cash income and food consumption score, with a special focus on female-headed households. We will establish a field office in Azra district to closely working with the target communities and local stakeholders to quality implementation of the project. As an active member of the Regional Humanitarian Team (RHT) at regional level, and Operation Coordination Team (OCT) at provincial level, we will closely work with OCHA field unit, WFP, UNHCR, INGOs, NNGOs and other humanitarian actors to avoid any possible duplication in our response, as well as to address a complementary approach for sustainable outcome(s). We will use the HEAT form along with additional tools for beneficiary selection and post distribution monitoring to address quality work, transparency and accountability throughout the process. We will use the services of Awaaz Afghanistan (toll-free hotline), our own hotline number and on-site help desks to facilitate safe and confidential feedback mechanisms for beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries. Protection mainstreaming is part of the implementation process, and we will ensure that men, women, children of all ages, elderly, disabled and persons with other diversities can access our assistance in a safe, dignified and risk mitigated manner. We will have two dedicated internal monitoring missions to timely monitor and evaluate the project activities, and will provide our necessary support to AHF’s third party monitoring team. Our internal project control department will have regular financial verification of the project to ensure we meet all the AHF requirements in our financial management of the project. Under direct supervision of our director, our senior management team will contribute in staffing, procurement, logistics, admin, financial management, security arrangements and other support activities in line with our organizational policies and donor requirements. We will create the project in the ReportHub, and will regularly report the progress to the cluster, and we will report to de-facto government line departments, and other stakeholders as per their requirements. For post distribution monitoring, we will consider 25-30% of the target population as a sample size, and will report the findings to the cluster.