Provision of heating assistance, blankets, and winter clothing packages to 1,170 conflict-‎affected, displaced, natural disaster-affected and vulnerable host community families.‎ Recent waves of crises, the collapse of the Republic’s government, freezing of finances, currency inflation, soaring food and fuel ‎prices, disintegration of essential government services, and a rapid decline in labor opportunities have plunged Afghanistan into a ‎profound economic crisis and winter temperatures, especially in high ‎altitude locations such as remote districts including Nawure ‎district situated in central high lands drive the need for provision of life ‎saving winter assistance for the majority of affected ‎persons ‎and people at risk including conflict-affected, displaced, natural disaster-affected and vulnerable host community families. Whose ‎shelters do not protect against the cold ‎and who do not have the financial capability to ‎purchase fuel and heaters to supplement ‎their heating ‎requirements. The lack of warm clothing, insulation, ‎heating heightens the risk of respiratory infections, ‎hypothermia ‎and preventable mortality. ‎
The project focus on immediate winterization needs of affected households lives in Nawur district of Ghazni province for 1,170 ‎conflict-affected, displaced, natural disaster-affected and vulnerable host community families along their immediate family member ‎‎(8190) individual including boys, girls, men and women to respond their critical winterization assistance prior to the onset of the ‎winter, The assistance delivery mechanism will be both cash and in kind AREP updated information from the local market and ‎rough market analysis shows that local and nearest accessible Market is responding most of the needs under the response ‎packages including heaters, fuel or firewood and winter cloths that costs per household 274 USD in two installments 200 and 74, ‎each package in one-off frequency as per the cluster standards and guidelines and AREP will provide the assistance in cash while ‎blankets however available in the local markets but not in the desired capacity will be provided in kind to meet the need of all in ‎time, AREP will carry out the procurement process as per AREP procurement manual and cluster standards to be distributed to the selected households. AREP will managed a distribution point accessible to all beneficiaries ‎in Nawur district and will invite the selected households to hand over the blanket assistance at one time prior to the onset of winter. ‎The cash transfers will be made through a contracted Hawala, the option currently largely use and familiar among the local people ‎and NGOs for cash transfer due to lack of other options including digital or banking systems. The assistance will be provided ‎through unconditional unrestricted cash in hand and given the functionality of district market and other accessible locations, this ‎modality is deemed to be most effective and efficient and provide recipients with greater agency in how they use their assistance to ‎support their winterization needs. Beneficiary selection will be carried out in line with ES-NFI cluster vulnerability criteria, AREP will ‎ensure that the right people are identified and marginalized households are not excluded from the assistance and those most in ‎need are found and supported. Given the rapidly changing environment and to ensure that the cash modality continues to be ‎appropriate and does no harm, a monthly market monitoring will be conducted. This monitoring will be undertaken prior to the ‎distribution to understand the availability and prices of key items in several local markets in and around project locations. A post-‎distribution monitoring (PDM) survey will be conducted to assess the effectiveness of the response and its impact on beneficiary ‎including health and vulnerability over the winter. The survey will also be used to understand the main uses of the cash assistance ‎for NFIs (e.g. cold supported items, shelter, health), which will be used to identify gaps and inform future cash and in kind ‎winterization programming.‎