Provision of urgent MRE, EOD Spot clearance and Psycho-social assistance to conflict affected IDPs in the North Eastern and Southern areas of Afghanistan DRC/DDG will contribute to an improved protective environment and reduced safety threats for 124,479 conflict-affected persons in 5 provinces (Kunduz, Baghlan, Takhar, Badakhshan, Hilmand,) prioritized by the Afghanistan Protection Cluster through a comprehensive MRE/Survey/EOD response capacity and psychosocial interventions. Of the beneficiaries specified above, we anticipate that the populations needing assistance in the northern region will increase substantially within the project duration if current conflict trends continue, particularly IDPs originating from Kunduz. As such, DRC alone will provide Psychosocial Assistance and Child Friendly Spaces in Hilman to 1900 beneficiaries, while DDG covers only the Northern Regions (Kunduz, Baghlan, Takhar, Badakhshan,)
1)	Psychosocial assistance: Implemented through an experienced local partner organization, TABISH, individual and group psychosocial counseling through mobile clinics to 600 IDPs and conflict-affected men and women in Takhar, Baghlan and Hilmand provinces (exact locations will be agreed in coordination with other protection actors operating in these provinces). Additionally, psychosocial support and recreational activities will be provided to 1,900 boys and girls in 3 Child Friendly Spaces (one in each province).
2)	Community-based protection: DRC will conduct 3 baseline protection needs assessments in selected conflict-affected communities to identify priorities for further interventions, and 300 trained community volunteers will provide community based, gender and age tailored, awareness raising sessions on GBV, psychosocial wellbeing, protection principles and related services and referral mechanisms to 3,300 beneficiaries to create a protection conducive environment and to identify extra vulnerable individuals in need of specific assistance. Additionally, DDG MRE teams operating in the same locations will receive training in protection mainstreaming, referral and psychological first aid in order to increase the scale and scope of initial protection assistance.
3)	Mine Risk Education (MRE): Tailor-made mine/ERW risk education will be provided by DDG MRE teams to 59,981 individuals in 4 provinces of this project in order to reduce civilian casualties and promote safe behavioral change.   
4)	Explosive Ordinances Disposal (EOD): DDG will provide rapid emergency EOD response to new urban ground conflict areas, building upon and implementing through referral from  Afghanistan’s National Emergency EOD Hotline response capacity into new regions. DDG intends to ensure timely clearance of ERW and release of land through non-technical survey, technical survey and clearance of Suspected and Confirmed Hazardous Areas in urban and peri-urban locations in conflict-affected communities in order to make return possible.
Target locations for MRE/EOD interventions are selected on the advice of UNMACA/DMAC, and for psychosocial activities will be based on the population groups with the highest vulnerability that have been identified through the Emergency Response Mechanism, and protection cluster.
To ensure an integrated approach in this project, Protection and MRE teams will closely coordinate their work in the same geographic locations/communities, and will provide capacity building to the other sector teams in their respective spheres: Protection teams will be trained in MRE and will support information dissemination, and MRE teams will be trained in protection mainstreaming, referral and psychological first aid to facilitate better identification and response to protection concerns.