WASH Core Pipeline Supply Hub humanitarian response to hard-to-reach areas and complex urban environments. The project aims to address critical lifesaving WASH assistance needs for up to 2,780,868 people including people in hard to reach areas and those living in vulnerable conditions in urban environments and hard to reach areas who are particularly at risk of Acute Water Diarrhoea (AWD)/Cholera and outbreaks of other communicable diseases, natural disasters or conflict. This project aims to distribute 6,700,000 USD of supplies for use by WASH cluster partners including UNICEF partners under the Core Pipeline Supply Hub if UNICEF Country Office agrees to the modality to distribute supplies to non-UNICEF partners, which is currently under review. Under this action, AHF will support 15% of the 2022 HRP WASH cluster target budget for critical supplies. UNICEF will undertake the delivery of supplies to UNICEF warehouses in Kabul, Kandahar, Herat, Balkh and Nangarhar provinces, although the supplies themselves may be distributed and used in any Province and District where needs are identified by WASH Cluster Partners in both urban and Hard to Reach areas. The Core Pipeline Supply Hub is a collaboration between UNICEF as the Cluster Lead Agency and the WASH Cluster and the WASH Cluster partners, with UNICEF undertaking the supply planning, procurement of supplies (raising sales orders and purchase orders), quality assurance of supplies, distributing supplies to UNICEF warehouses, undertaking warehouse management of supplies, reviewing the validity of partner requests for supplies (along with the WASH cluster), authorizing distributions, developing the administrative partnership requirements with partners for distributing the supplies to affected populations with accountability (e.g. verifying they have the means and resources to distribute supplies, undertake inclusive community engagement and identify the most vulnerable and provide hygiene promotion activities), administering and monitoring the distribution of supplies and following up with partners for reporting, organizing UNICEF and third party monitoring and reporting to internal and external audiences and the AHF - as such it is a collaborative and coordinated effort to address the needs identified in the HNO/HRP.

This proposal is based on the Allocation Strategy Paper for AHF 1st Standard Allocation (1SA) 2021 for Afghanistan Activity 19: WASH core pipeline procurement and stockpile (hygiene kits, soaps, handwashing devices, latrine/bath sets, chlorine powder, household water treatments, water testing, dosing pumps, water network spare parts, etc.). It is in accordance with: the national WASH cluster strategy targets, priorities for the Afghanistan 2018-2021 revised HRP Flash Appeal: Afghanistan: Immediate Humanitarian Response Gaps (September - December 2021) WASH cluster targets and response gap Humanitarian Action for Children (HAC 2022) drought contingency plan COVID-19 pandemic preventive and mitigation measures as outlined in the 2020/21 response framework of the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) WHO and the latest update on the AWD/disease outbreak scenario and HRP for 2022 which targets 3,942,068 people with critical WASH supplies with a budget of 43,857,176 USD. Under UNICEF's HAC, the project targets 30% of the 9,210,951 people to be reached with critical supplies target. 

While the project is only 6 months in duration the Core Pipeline Supply Hub is demand driven, that is, WASH Cluster partners must request, collect and distribute supplies based on identified needs of affected populations. As such the supplies procured and warehoused under this project may continue to be warehoused and distributed after the 6-month implementation period.