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Livelihoods protection support to vulnerable IPC phase 3 and 4 people in Laghman province Afghanistan remains one of the most vulnerable countries in the world. Forty years of war, recurrent natural disasters, chronic poverty, drought and the COVID-19 pandemic have left more than 23 million people in need of humanitarian assistance. While all population groups across the country have been impacted, the consequences for women and girls have been most immediately felt. Humanitarian needs in Afghanistan were already some of the largest in the world. Now the situation is rapidly worsening by every measure. 22.8 million IPC phase 3 and 4 people in Afghanistan require humanitarian assistance.

As per FSAC/FAO climate data, most of the country received below-average precipitation. Several provinces in the north, northeast, west, south, and east experienced precipitation deficits during the wet season this year. Wheat cultivation and production, especially in rain-fed areas, is directly dependent upon adequate and timely precipitation. Looking at the precipitation level and remote sensing data collected, it is estimated that the pasture condition will be below average and livestock owners will face significant challenges in feeding their livestock. 

To support the most vulnerable livestock owners, AABRAR is aiming to support 1,350 HHs (9,450 individuals) through provision of livestock packages (animal feed, de-wormer) and vegetable packages (home gardening). The IPC phase 3 and 4 food insecure livestock owners will be targeted and assisted in Alishang district of Laghman province. AABRAR will closely work with the communities while implementing this project. CDCs and Shuras elders will be involved in the implementation phase of this project with the aim to identify and select the most vulnerable affected households. FSAC standard livestock and home gardening packages will be used for assisting the targeted beneficiaries. 

AABRAR will select safe and secure distribution point in coordination with the targeted participants and other respective authorities in order to ensure that the day, time and locations for the distribution are accessible and easy to reach for all targeted participants including persons with disabilities. AABRAR will also ensure distribution of packages through non-discriminatory manner in the targeted locations. Our Community Mobilizer and other field staff will provide information sessions to the targeted HHs before distribution which will improve the knowledge and skills of beneficiaries regarding the appropriate utilization of the packages (items).
Access to recreation and learning spaces for crisis affected boys and girls in vulnerable and under served communities in Kabul. PIN proposes a 11-month project aimed to expand its existing Kabul Education in Emergency (EIE) offer in PD6 and PD16 of Kabul city by establishing 80 Temporary Learning Spaces (TLS) across 40 sites (2 TLS per site), potentially branching into PD5 and PD12 in coordination with WCC and DOE. All 80 TLS will be set up with EIEWG standard classroom kits, recreation kits, teacher kits, hand-washing stations, heating solutions, and textbook and learning kits for children, as well as warm winter clothing. Moreover, once the sites have been selected PIN will conduct light rehabilitation works to ensure a safe and structurally sound educational space. The TLS will provide 2,800 crisis affected children (1,400 girls, 1,400 boys) with access to recreation, Psychosocial Support (PSS) and Community-Based Education (CBE) strategy aligned educational support, including numeracy and literacy support. Children reached will be those affected by crisis as well as those from vulnerable families that have fallen out of the education system due to the recent reduction in educational services in the city. 80 Learning Facilitators (40 women and 40 men) will be recruited from within the supported communities and trained to MOE and EIE Cluster standards. Each TLS will be established within tents or community assigned buildings, and where possible and appropriate, attached to Hub Schools to support eventual transition for students to formal educational institutions. 40 School Management Shuras will be established, one per site, and their members will be trained on the importance of right to education. Community Mobilisers along with Shuras will also be trained and supported to conduct community outreach in order to build acceptance and support among the target communities. TLS will also be used as the nucleus for identifying families in need of nutrition screening, assistance and supporting their referrals for treatment as part of PIN’s global struggle to decrease the prevalence of chronic and acute under-nutrition through multisectoral programming. By adopting the approach of expanding PINs existing EIE offer, efficiencies and quality standards will be maintained across the offer, creating a solid platform from which educational support can be developed in response to the emerging challenges and in support of the objectives of the 2022 HRP.
Community-based Child Protection for the most vulnerable populations in Nangarhar Since Dec. 2015, Tdh had been implementing several projects with AHF funding in the Eastern region of Afghanistan (Nangarhar, Kunar and Laghman provinces). The needs of the population remain high and since the approaches of former projects proved to be highly effective, Tdh proposes to embark on another project for vulnerable IDPs, returnees, and conflict affected population of Nangarhar province. The project intends to strengthen the resilience of these groups by reducing vulnerabilities through access to information on CP, by addressing specific needs through community delivered life-saving psycho-social services, the establishment of a case management system (protection) and by strengthening protection mechanisms through Community Based Child Protection Committees (CBCPC, consisting of influential people in the community such as teachers) and volunteers. These activities will be delivered in order to improve the coping mechanism of children and to detect most vulnerable children in need of further assistance. The separated and unaccompanied children will be provided with prevention and response through interim care in Jalalabad. The activities will be implemented by expert Tdh social worker and social animator in the districts mentioned below. 
The data collected during the planned activities will be shared with the clusters and OCHA regularly and, when relevant, will be shared with other partners for further support for the intervention area. The sustainability and relevancy of the proposed project will be reinforced by integrating lessons learned and impact analysis based on the assessment report. Child wellbeing centres will be run for children who are at risk of violence which will be a safe place for the children to go an engage in mental health boosting activities such as games and art and learning about their rights. These activities will be delivered to improve the coping mechanism of children and to detect most vulnerable children in need of further assistance. Any cases of separated and unaccompanied children will be provided with prevention and response through interim care in Jalalabad. Moreover, the project also has a cash for protection element where cash assistance will be used to address the protection needs of individuals or households.
This 10-month will be implemented in Nangarhar as follows: 
- Total 24 villages in four districts of (Khogyani, Achin, Shinwar and Pachiragam)
Secure land for populations displaced by natural hazards Increasingly, natural disasters cause population displacement in Afghanistan. Recent examples include the 2018 drought in Herat and this year’s floods in Parwan. Climate change is expected to exacerbate the frequency and severity of natural hazards to increase IDP caseload.  In this context, systems for allocating safe land and transitional shelter for climate displaced groups until it is safe to return to their Place of Origin are absent. In the recent Parwan floods, over a thousand displaced families are without durable shelter as authorities have struggled to provide suitable safe land for their settlement. In response, the Government of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (GoIRA) have requested UN-Habitat to support climate displaced populations access climate safe land to increase their climate resilience. The action will support GoIRA to provide 8,500 IDPs access to secure, legally documented land for their permanent safe settlement at a site not vulnerable to natural disasters and that is located in reasonable prximaty to livelhoods and other social and economic services.  To this end, the action will undertake the following activities: 

- Identify land for safe and secure settlement of IDPs displaced by natural disasters: Hazard mapping and site suitability assessment for the safe, secure and sustainable settlement of climate displaced IDPs
- Securing land rights associated with the settlement site: topographic survey, clearance of property rights associated with  the site entering details into State Land Bank physical demarcation of plot parcels for allocation to IDP families provision of tenure security documents to IDP families  
- Develop and gazette settlement master plan for sustainable settlement of IDPs  
- Coordination with government and humanitarian agencies to extend shelter, infrastructure and service investments in the site.  

Preliminary identification of the vacant land for settlement in partnership with the government has occurred and a document detailing the specifications of this land has been attached in the supplementary documents section. The project timeline of 6 months allows for the completion of all project activities because the ground work for implementation has been completed - staff are in place for the development of materplans, Terms of Reference have been drawn up for required contracted activities, and government cooperation in the implementation of the activities has been secured. The project will provide secure land for the flood displaced. It is envisaged that coordination with other clusters will then provide additional support to households to invest in durable shelter on the site. To this end, the HLP taskforce is currently drafting an advocacy brief with the ES/NFI cluster to mobilize funds for shelter investments in securely held land distributed by the government in Parwan and other locations.
Emergency Individual Protection Assistance (IPA) assistance to the most vulnerable people in Farah, Zabul and Kandahar DRC will implement this project in three provinces, Farah in the Western Region, and Zabul and Kandahar in the Southern Region. DRC will assist 1,000 individuals by providing Individual Protection Assistance (IPA) to the most vulnerable individuals to address immediate protection concerns at the individual or family level as per needs identified during protection monitoring and/or rapid protection assessments (RPAs). IPA assistance will be provided in the form of cash to prevent, reduce, or mitigate exposure to a specific protection risk, or limit the effects of violations on victims, where there is a serious and immediate protection risk that can be prevented, reduced, or mitigated through direct assistance. There must be a specific, intentional, and articulated protection outcome for the individual or household in question that is directly linked to the provision of assistance. IPA is an emergency protection activity, and as such is fundamentally time-sensitive. In close cooperation with Emergency staff, DRC Protection Officers will employ IPA as a responsive measure to address a serious and immediate protection risk (so long as the case meets the IPA criteria). DRC will identify most vulnerable individuals through protection monitoring in Farah as funded through AHF’s 2nd Reserve Allocation and through RPAs which DRC will carry out in areas of new displacements. Across the three Provinces (Farah, Zabul and Kandahar), DRC will also receive referrals from its emergency teams, who are carrying out Household Emergency Assessment Tool (HEAT) assessments and providing emergency shelter assistance and multipurpose cash assistance (MPCA) response in Zabul, Kandahar and MPCA in Farah. Protection teams will move with the DRC Emergency staff, and where individuals are facing a specific protection threat in accordance with the IPA criteria, the Protection staff will conduct an individual risk assessment of the concerned individual to determine eligibility and develop the IPA package.

The project will also complement the ongoing procedures on protection from sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA). Finally, the project will provide the communities and people affected by crisis in these two regions access to safe and responsive mechanisms to lodge SEA complaints and seek appropriate support.
Livestock and home gardening support in four districts of Wakhan, Ishkashim, Zibak and Warduj of Badakhshan province The project will support 25,550 shock affected individuals in 3,650 households , including of IDPs, IDP returnees and host communities in Badakhshan. These households are affected by recent conflict, drought, economic crises and the approaching winter. The recent figures and assessments of clusters and of ME show that the identifies HHs are affected by high vulnerability and required urgent humanitarian assistance particularly under food security and livelihood. Under this call ME will provide in-kind livelihood assistance including livestock support and home gardening to 25,550 individuals . As per plan the project will start on  20 December 2021 and with in the first one and half month all the targeted population will receive livestock support as it is highly required during the winter period and in the following one and a half month they will received home gardening package so they could start growing vegetables as soon as the spring season approaches.  

The assumption behind the intervention is that the livestock support will allow HHs to navigate through the next three months providing food for their livestock and ensure that they will be out of the emergency phase followed by home gardening in the early spring season ensuring their food consumption rate during the three months of winter season. Households in Badakhshan process and store harvested hays and straws to feed their animals during the winter season and use the cultivated cereal and beans and dried vegetables, which they were not able to store this year. Therefore Mission East consider providing feed for their animals plus de-wormer as well as take this opportunity to introduce home gardening as alternative to the stored food which will increase the food consumption score as well as improve resilience of the local population to face recurrent food crisis during the winter season. The project will be run through professional staff who will provide technical guide on their animals’ health as well as growing vegetables during various seasons. This will boost their food consumption score sustainability particularly targeting children, elders, women and  girls with low immune system.

The further sustainability of the intervention through a post emergency set up will be ensured through the nexus approach with the development programming that Mission East is carrying out in the same districts of the intervention.  

This project will be directly implemented by Mission East through professional Mission East Staff, after the detailed assessment through which vulnerable HH will be identified.
Assessment of the nutrition situation throughout Afghanistan through National Smart Survey AAH in collaboration with the Nutrition Cluster, UNICEF, and the Public Nutrition Directorate (PND), proposes to conduct a National SMART Survey (NSS) to guide strategic decision-making on nutrition programs investment at both national and sub-national levels. The findings of this survey will be used to update the nutrition situation analysis and inform specific effects of the recent crisis, with more accurate and reliable planning figures to ensure quality programming through results-based monitoring approaches. Protective measures toward COVID 19 (such as protective measures for staff and beneficiaries) will be mainstreamed in all components of the proposed project.
Health emergency response for prevention and response to the on-going Acute Watery Diarrhea (AWD)/suspected Cholera outbreak in five high-risk provinces of Afghanistan. With the AHF grant, UNICEF will work on prevention of cases of Acute Watery Diarrhea (AWD) through addressing transmission of the disease, but also on response to the ongoing outbreak to reduce morbidity and mortality from AWD in Afghanistan, with focus on 6 provinces including Kabul, Kandahar, Kapisa, Zabul, Nangahar and Laghman. UNICEF will support community-based response through 26 multi-disciplinary Integrated Emergency Response Teams (IERTs) through rapid trainings and provision of essential commodities to detect, trace, and treat cases, provide referral support, as well as conduct risk communication and community engagement (RCCE). The IERT supported prevention and response activities will reach 454,571 people (M 134,660 F 129,951 B 96,830 G 93,130). The RCCE support would include house-to-house visits and mass awareness campaigns to disseminate preventive messages, while also receiving community feedback and will reach 2,272,855 people (M 673,300 F 649,755 B 484,150 G 465,650). Through these interventions, UNICEF will address approximately 43,488 AWD/Cholera cases (including approx. 34,790 mild cases) among the population living in the high-risk areas of the 6 target provinces. UNICEF will also support the establishment of Oral Rehydration Points (ORPs) at community level and Cholera Treatment Centers/Units (CTCs/CTUs) at facility level. UNICEF will implement proposed activities through implementing partners and contractual agencies. While they will execute activities, UNICEF will oversight the performance. UNICEF use existing staffs (Health, WASH, Nutrition technical extenders, zonal offices and staff at national level) as a project management team to closely monitor implementing partners and activities. To address roots causes of AWD such as food insecurity, increased malnutrition, and shortage of WASH services, this project is to complement with other UNICEF supporting initiatives such as BPHS, mobile health and nutrition teams and WASH and Nutrition projects in the same target areas to complement each and make synergy as a comprehensive integrated approach.
Provision of mobile health services including reproductive child health and outbreak response in Samangan and Balkh provinces To successfully achieve the intended objectives and target indicators of this project, SAF will offer mobile health services to the natural disaster affected IDPs and hard to reach communities in 2 provinces (Samangan and Balkh) with main focus on children and women, through 5 staffed and equipped MHTs. In this way, in Samangan province will be covered through 3 MHTs (1) Royee Doab/ Dara Soof Bala/Paian, Firooz nakhshi districts. In close coordination with provincial public health Directorate and exited stakeholder. 2 MHTs will be providing services in Balkh province (dawlad abad and khulum Districts) SAF will review the primary assessment report at the provincial level and the mobile team will be assigned to cover emergency primary health services at the district level in the first phase of the project. Meanwhile, the activities will be coordinated with Emergency preparedness and response committees at the mentioned districts. In the specified provinces With the given prioritize SAF will consider Routine surveillance, including response to COVID-19, Nutrition under 5 and pregnant and lactated women, AWD, measles and other diseases. Emergency health services through mobile clinics. Provision of mental health, GBV (health) and psychosocial support. The project management team (project officer, project assistant and finance officer based in the provincial office and one project focal point based in Kabul) will have the capability to efficiently and transparently manage the project with the help of management team of SAF at the central and provincial levels. Required IEC and health promotion materials will be distributed among the targeted population (IDPs and marginalized communities) by the project staff at the service delivery points. Simultaneously, functional referral mechanisms among the CHWs-CHS-MHT and nearest health facilities will be established. SAF will also formulate close coordination with authorities of the provincial hospital in the province by signing MOUs with them. As part of this assignment SAF will consider the minimum gender marker code (2) within the proposed projects. SAF will ensure that gender equality and gender awareness activities are mainstreamed within the scope of project. Accordingly, the women, men, boys and girls of all ages will benefit equally from the proposed interventions. A total of 35131 individuals in the host communities and IDPs will directly benefit from health cluster of the project. However, the entire population of 2 provinces will benefit from the Health services provision.
Strengthening life-saving primary health care services provision in Nangarhar and Kunar provinces The intervention is framed around the health cluster priorities, considering mainstreaming COVID-19 preventive measures, the need to provide life-saving health services, in light of the current disruption of the health system previously supported by the BPHS system, as also underlined by the recent OCHA flash appeal for Afghanistan. The proposed response aligns with HRP’s strategic objective 1 (provision of life-saving services). PUI proposes a 6 months action in 2 provinces (Nangarhar and Kunar), targeting districts with higher needs being considered hard-to-reach or white areas (no or very limited services available), with less presence of other actors and/or with higher incidence of IDPs/returnees. 
The objective of the project is to strengthen life-saving health services (including trauma care), taking into account the current disruption of health services as a whole, as well as considering that trauma has never been part of the essential services provided under the BPHS program, creating significant health needs. 
The project will focus on improving coverage, access and quality of basic health services, allowing three CHCs to continue running their activities, beside supporting trauma care in hotspot identified HFs.. Specifically, by: (i) ensuring the functioning of the referral system in the 3 targeted CHCs, by staffing and providing supplies to the existing ambulances (ii) deploying surge health workers teams, which will be made available to district hospitals with a high incidence of trauma cases (iii) enabling the provision of life-saving primary health care services, including MCH, in 3 supported CHCs. 
With the aim to mainstream COVID-19 prevention, all staff will be trained on main prevention measures and equipped with the necessary PPE.