Shelter Repair and Reconstruction Support to vulnerable Earthquake affected families in Khost The proposed project will be implemented in 3 districts of Khost province viz. Tani, Spera and Shamal to provide shelter reconstruction and repair support to 528 families with an estimated 108 families supported for for construction of vernacular shelter and 420 families supported under repair of vernacular shelter. For new construction we are proposing 27 families in Tani, 43 families in Spera and 38 families in Shamal. Similarly for repair of the vernacular house we will support 105 families in Tani, 168 families in Spera and 147 families in Shamal. 

To ensure transparency in selection of the project participants, ActionAid will work with a project selection committee at the village level that could include the Mullah imam, the CDC leader - where they are functional - and one of the community representatives. Given the current context we expect that one of the representatives from the DfA will be present as we select the households for this support. However, we will consistently apply the selection criteria to finalize the list. 

We will ensure that we don’t leave behind the poorest conflict and earthquake affected families, families with a pregnant and lactating woman, elderly headed households, child headed households, families with or headed by a person with disabilities. ActionAid will secure the list of the pregnant and lactating women from the Nutrition cluster. Subject to them meeting one of the other selection criteria they will be included in the project participant list. People meeting multiple vulnerabilities will be prioritized. 

Complying with the CVA appropriateness guidance note, ActionAid will use unconditional restricted Cash Assistance method. Cash will be distributed in centrally located safe locations so that the project participants from a cluster of villages are able to access the distribution point. The amount for families identified for new shelter construction is US$2610 and for repair it will be US$655 per family which is the recommended cluster standard. 

Since the cash will be delivered through the Sarafa without any cash handling by ActionAid Staff and the Sarafa will be paid the cash on a reimbursement basis, we are confident that the cash delivery will be safe and possibility of fraud minimized. ActionAid will also conduct a PDM after the cash is delivered to the families thus 4 rounds of PDM is being planned. 

During the project participant selection, in each village ActionAid staff will create awareness on the objectives of the programme so that the cash distributed is spent for the intended purpose. The Staff will also speak about 

ActionAid's safeguarding mechanism and complaint and response mechanism. The same process will be repeated during cash delivery so that any omission at the selection stage can be addressed and the policies go through reiteration. To meet the shortage of skilled labour for the vernacular houses, ActionAid will organize a Training for a 20 Masons so that at least one Trained mason is available per village to step down the training
ActionAid would make the shelter construction as much owner driven as possible, and contracts would be signed with each owner that will document conditions of and time of installment payment.

The first installment being unconditional and the subsequent instalments conditional as per the following details:
New Shelter Construction: 
1st Installment: 35% Advance
2nd Installment 35% on completion of plinth
3rd Installment: 20% on completion of Wall up to roof level 
4th Instalment: 10% completion of roofing and finishing
For Shelter Repair: 
1st Installment: 40% Advance 
2nd installment: 40% completion of repairs up to Wall
final Installment: 20% completion of roof/finishing
The instalments are ActionAid proposal but needs adaptation based on the consultation with the Community leaders and weather conditions.