Provision of life-saving winterization assistance to IDPs and non-displaced affected population in Salang and Surkh-e-Parsa districts of Parwan Province, and Ajristan district of Ghazni Province According to OCHA, millions of people are in need of humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan, and the country is experiencing a serious economic crisis of its kind in the last four decades. The conditions are getting worse each day due to unstable political situation, natural disasters and many other inter-linked barriers. In the last 2 decades, the system, which was built with the support of international community, is no more there, which is a potential risk for a country like Afghanistan. Winter is approaching which may trigger further risks such as health problems, deaths, etc. to millions of people especially those affected by conflicts and natural disasters.
It is in this context that WSTA has designed this project to deliver life-saving winter support assistance to most vulnerable IDPs and non-displaced affected population as per prioritization of the shelter cluster in Salang and Surkh-e-Parsa districts of Parwan province, and Ajristan district of Ghazni province. We will provide cluster standard “cash for heating support/$200 per family”, “in-kind winter clothing package/equivalent to $74”  to 1170 IDPs and non-displaced affected population and “in-kind blanket package/equivalent to $57 to 970 of the target families  as one time assistance in project target locations. We are equally allocating the assistance on district level, which means we will deliver all the assistance to 390 vulnerable families in each target district, by considering 50% IDPs (including IDP returnees) and 50% non-displaced affected (including host communities) population. All the components will be delivered to the same beneficiary families to ensure it is a complete winter support package, and all family members including men, women, children, elderly and persons with disabilities, etc. can benefit from it.  We will deliver the cash assistance through contracted Hawala Money Service Provider (MSP) to pay direct cash to our beneficiaries in the presence of a distribution committee. 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, IOM, 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 cluster recommended 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 as well. 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.