Live-saving emergency in-kind food assistance For IPC 3 or above food insecure vulnerable people in districts Chapa Dara and Ghazi Abad of Kunar Province. Over the last four decades of conflict and large-scale migration have leaded Afghanistan in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. Nearly half of the country is already in need of humanitarian assistance (HNO, 2022). The prolonged conflict, drought, political upheaval, and COVID-19 caused Afghanistan’s poverty rate to soar to 97% by mid-2022 (UNDP, 2021). Approximately 664,200 people have been displaced from January 2021 to September 2021 because of escalated conflict and livelihood factors. According to the most recent IPC data, high acute food insecurity prevails across Afghanistan, as a combination of a crumbling economy and drought deprives roughly 20 million Afghans of food, classified as Crisis or Emergency (IPC Phases 3 or 4), between March and May 2022 (the lean season). 6.6 million people are in Emergency (IPC Phase 4) and 13 million are in Crisis (IPC Phase 3). Large food gaps and/or the use of emergency coping techniques to get food to characterize the 6.6 million persons classified as Emergency (IPC Phase 4). Catastrophe conditions (IPC Phase 5) were recognized for the first time in Afghanistan since the implementation of IPC. The drought conditions driven by La Niña, the current political crisis, conflict, and the harsh winter further compound the food security situation of a population which was already on the brink of a hunger crisis. 
To reach to most vulnerable HHs, AABRAR has devised a lifesaving project that will be executed in districts Chapa Dara and Ghazi Abad of Kunar Province, the targeted districts for food packages are due to the vulnerability of the most vulnerable IPC phase 3 above communities. Furthermore, the recent shocks of conflicts, COVID-19, economic crises, recurrent natural disasters, and government transition have resulted in weakness in the purchasing power and economy of the residents of Kunar. In this critical situation, AABRAR will save the lives of 1,300 HHs (9,100 individuals) by providing in-kind food assistance in the targeted areas. AABRAR assessment team will select the HHs in the targeted district based on the vulnerability through the proper selection mechanism of FSAC priorities. In line with FSAC Cluster priorities, in-kind food packages to 1,300 HHs (9,100 individuals) in Chapa Dara and Ghazi Abad districts of Kunar Province will be provided. Each household will receive 3 rounds of in-kind food assistance and each package will have a value of $144 as per the standard criteria of FSAC, so each targeted HHs shall receive in-kind food packages with a total value of $432 for six months. The in-kind food packages for each targeted household for two months will be (1. Wheat flour (100 KG), 2. Vegetable Oil (8 Liter), 3. Pulses (9 KG) and 4. Salt (1 KG).
The in-kind food assistance will be provided to those HHs who sustain their lives by daily income and are now massively affected by recent conflicts, drought, recurrent natural disasters, COVID-19, and the upcoming harsh winter. Moreover, the target beneficiaries from vulnerable host communities for the proposed project will be based on the criteria as female HHs, PLWs, PwDs, HHs with large family sizes (having more than 7 persons or a large number of female members), elderly aged HHs, and chronically ill HHs. Besides this, the finalized list of beneficiaries will be shared with relevant stakeholders in order to endorse selected HHs and resolve any disputes. This will help AABRAR to enable support and raise awareness about the selection process and will enlighten members of the community that how to complain and report any potential issue. The process of reporting, sharing, and monitoring will continue and the conclusion of the project will come when 1,300 HHs received in-kind food assistance.