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Provision of emergency food assistance to IPC Phase 3 and 4 populations in Nuristan Province, in Mandol, Nurgaram, Parun, Wama and Waygal districts The previsions of the HRP 2022 and Food Security Cluster in the Winterization prioritization 2022 foresee a lack of wheat production and an earlier lean season for the winter 2022-2023. Adding to the economic and financial crisis, loss of livelihood opportunities and decrease of basic public services, the situation generated high level of needs. In 2022, the HRP estimates that 24,4 million people are in urgent need of humanitarian and protection assistance and 24 million of people are considered to be in need for the Food Security and Agriculture sector.

Climate conditions generated a serious food insecurity situation with a lack of water for irrigation, a diminishing land fertility and harvest level. Moreover, the food security crisis is increased by the fact that food prices rise and people are less and less able to pay for food. A majority of people are forced to use negative coping strategy such as the use of debt or the reduction of expenses for other basic needs. In REACH’s Whole of Afghanistan (WoA) mid-year 2022, 83% of the respondents in Nuristan reported having to borrow money for food and 54% reported decreasing expenditures on health, education or other basic needs.

Therefore, and in accordance with the cluster and allocation strategy priorities, ACTED is proposing to distribute food baskets to 11,089 individuals (1,584 households) of Nuristan during six months at the level of 75% of the basket.   Each household will receive the equivalent of 432USD in cash to be distributed in 3 or less installments depending on the context. This 8 months intervention will cover 6 months of beneficiaries food consumption gaps. ACTED will target IPC Phase 3 and 4 districts of Nuristan province: Mandol, Nurgaram, Parun, Wama and Waygal. 
In order to verify the cash modality, ACTED will do a market assessment testing if the market is able to absorb the amount of cash planned to be distributed. Considering the high level of poverty, the cash modality will be preferred to allow beneficiaries some flexibility to the beneficiaries. A market assessment would still be conducted to ensure that food is available on the local market.
Protecting Conflict Affected children in Badghis and Faryab Provinces The humanitarian situation in Afghanistan has deteriorated rapidly in the past nine months since the takeover of the Taliban. Out of 24.4 million people in need, 54%  are children who need multi-sectoral support. Children and women continue to bear a disproportionate share of the brunt of the consequences of violence, accounting for 46 percent of all civilian casualties recorded by June 2021. The rights of women and girls, including freedom of movement and access to employment and education, are at risk given the new rules and regulations by the de-facto government, and protection from violence, persecution, and reprisal remains a top priority. Humanitarian needs are expected to increase as new displacement patterns exacerbate existing vulnerabilities linked to the conflict, food insecurity, the effects of the drought, and the COVID-19 pandemic. In response to the urgent protection needs, World Vision Afghanistan (WVA) will focus on supporting individual children who face complex protection concerns and deliver comprehensive case management services, psychosocial support, and strengthen protection mechanisms through Community Based Child Protection Committees (CBCPC) in Qali Naw and Almar districts of Badghis and Faryab provinces. Through case management, support will be provided to at-risk boys and girls in a systematic and coordinated manner.

The activity will build on the existing practices of local protection partners with a view to improving the technical quality and scale of activities in the given locations. Furthermore, the proposed project will conduct regular child protection monitoring in the different age and gender groups in order to assess and identify emerging child protection (CP) risks and trends. For the provision of psychosocial support, child-friendly spaces will be established and equipped with recreational materials. The project staff will be trained to handle sensitive information in line with the confidentiality principle and the Global Protection Cluster’s guidelines. Information dissemination is another key component of the proposed project. Brochures and other IEC materials will be designed and produced in local, simple, and child-friendly languages and will be made available at the service points as well as distributed to the households during home visits. These will include information on service access, protection, psychosocial support services, and safeguarding.  WVA is well placed to implement this project, having several years of presence in the western region especially in Badgis and Faryab. The proposed action also builds on the results and lessons learned through the experience of implementing a similar AHF child protection project in the western region. Additionally, this project addresses the major gaps identified by both the regional and local UNICEF Child Protection focal points and triangulates them with protection analysis update reports. As the co-lead of the CP AoR in the Western Region, WVA will ensure close coordination with other protection actors in the provision of services.
Mobile Nutrition services to Under and Malnourished Children and PLW in Darzab, Qarqin, and Qush Tepa districts of Jowzjan Province This intervention is designed with an intention to reduce child and women morbidity and mortality related to under and malnutrition in Darzab, Qarqin, and Qush Tepa districts of Jowzjan province, one of the provinces classified in IPC phase 4 as per the IPC analysis 2022.

AWRO proposes to provide three mobile Nutrition teams (one in each of the target districts) to:
	Provide Out-Patient nutrition services to under and malnourished children under 5 years of age (SAM and MAM) and Pregnant and lactating Women (PLW)
	Provide necessary primary healthcare services for the target children and PLW to ensure effective treatment of under and malnourishment (diagnosis and primary treatment of children for common childhood diseases)
	Refer severe cases of malnutrition with complications to inpatient treatment care centers by the provision of Cash for Nutrition for the eligible Project Participants 
	Empower the community to detect and prevent under and malnutrition through Family MUAC approach
	Promotion of IYCF awareness and counseling
	Provision of PSS counseling and Stimulation Sessions Care practices

Specific target areas for the mobile teams will be defined in coordination with the BPHS implementers and the Provincial Public Health Directorate (PPHD) to avoid duplication of services and ensure that the uncovered areas will be targeted to benefit from the services provided.

Project Participant Targets:
SAM IPD: Darzab 130, Qarqin 30, Qush Tepa 120 (Total 280)
SAM OPD: Darzab 1100, Qarqin 250, Qush Tepa 1000 (Total 2350)
MAM: Darzab 3900, Qarqin 900, Qush Tepa 3800 (Total 8600)
PLW: Darzab 1100, Qarqin 350, Qush Tepa 1000 (Total 2450)
Family MUAC Orientation: Darzab 1400, Qarqin 600, Qush Tepa 1300 ((Total 3300)
Children Screened: Darzab 6000, Qarqin 1400, Qush Tepa 5800 (Total 13200)

In total, 16,980 individuals will be covered under this project (7,630 individuals in Darzab, 2,130 individuals in Qarqin, and 7,220 individuals in Qush Tepa districts of Jowzjan). This figure does not include the number of children who will be screened for malnutrition.

For the provision of Cash for Nutrition, we will contract with a MSP/FSP to transfer the Cash to the eligible Project Participants as introduced by the AWRO.
For the nutrition supplies and supplements, AWRO will coordinate agreements with UNICEF and WFP to receive the nutrition supplies for undernourished children and PLW.
Emergency Cash for Food support to address populations' basic food needs in Khadir  Sang-e-Takht districts, Daykundi province The proposed action’s objective is to improve the food security status of multiple-shocks-affected population and mitigate their risk to face malnutrition through cash for food assistance.

Afghanistan is currently facing an unprecedented food insecurity and malnutrition crisis. According to the last (October 2021) IPC report, more than 18 million Afghans is not having sufficient food for their needs and are in dire humanitarian situation. This situation is severely affecting their food security and livelihoods, forcing them to apply harmful coping mechanisms. In order to address urgent food needs, the project aims to support IPC level 4 (emergency) vulnerable people in the Khedir and Sang-e-Takht districts of Daykundi province. The project will provide the selected beneficiaries with 6 months of reduced (75%) food basket assistance in the form of cash of for food in 3 installments. In order to measure project impact, a PDM will be conducted after two months of every installment. As a result of this project, 10,453 beneficiaries will have access to basic food for a period of 6 months.

The assistance will be provided through cash for food. As per ACF’s experience, cash assistance has proven to be a particularly efficient assistance mechanism due to its rapid distribution, active markets, beneficiaries freedom of choice. It also helps add money circulation to the local economy. As per ACF’s regular market assessments, the markets in the target districts are functional and all food basket commodities can be purchased by the beneficiaries. The payment will be distributed by a financial service provider due to ACF’s no cash-touch policy. The FSP will distribute the specific amount of cash to already selected beneficiaries in the distribution site. The distribution process will be managed by ACF team including program, MEAL and representatives from the community.
Food security assistance to vulnerable households in Hirat ActionAid Afghanistan’s (AAA) response will focus on Strategic Objective 1 of the 2022 Afghanistan Humanitarian Response Plan “Timely, multi-sectoral, life-saving, equitable and safe assistance is provided to crisis-affected people of all genders and diversities to reduce mortality and morbidity”. The overall objective of this intervention is to ensure 1717 households (12,019 people – 2885 men, 2738 women, 3271 boys and 3125 girls) have enhanced food security support in Hirat Province, specifically in Injil and Guzara districts, as per the directive of the FSAC for the AHF 1st Standard Allocation 2022. The support will be provided as cash for food for 6 months, at 75% of the food basket (USD 60 per month) to the most vulnerable households, including female-headed households and ones comprising of people living with disabilities, the elderly and pregnant and lactating women (PLWs) in accordance with principles of inclusivity. Specifically ActionAid will reach:
 Injil: 950 households (6650 individuals – 1596 men, 1515 women, 1810 boys and 1729 girls)
 Guzara: 767 households (5369 individuals – 1289 men, 1223 women, 1441 boys and 1396 girls) 

Project participants will be selected in coordination with the community and with relevant stakeholders such as community elders, local authorities and other INGOs in the area, to ensure complementarity and avoid duplicating efforts, with special efforts placed in involving women and people living with disabilities. According to the latest OCHA Conflict Induced Disaplacement update (15th May 2022), Hirat is one of the Provinces with the highest number of internally displaced population - currently with more than 50,000 displaced people. Therefore, the project will aim to target 70% host community and 30% IDP.

  Cash, through a pre-selected Hawala, has been chosen as opposed to in-kind distributions based on AAA’s and FSAC’s market assessment. Cash distributions will be made on a monthly basis from a safe and accessible location for all. In total, each household will receive USD 360 in 6 months. The total project duration will be 8 months, with the first month being used for setting up the project and organizing necessary approval from the Government, selecting project participants and initiating the relationship with key stakeholders in the area, and with the last month being used for PDMs and for writing the final report. 

To ensure we are mainstreaming protection concerns, the project will aim to increase knowledge amongst the targeted vulnerable households on existing referral pathways and protection services for survivors of SGBV, unaccompanied children and people living with disabilities in the two districts of Hirat Province, by having women staff sharing this information with women project participants and having banners in place with hotline numbers. ActionAid will also involve project participants’ in preferred feedback-complaint mechanisms.
Cash for food assistance to IPC Phase 3 and 4 vulnerable people in qarqin district, Jawzjan province Afghanistan’s food security situation remains highly concerning exacerbated by economic decline and high food prices. For the projection analysis period (June to November 2022), corresponding to the harvest and post-harvest season, the total population facing high and critical levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 and above) is expected to only minimally decrease (2%) from 19.7 million in the current to 18.9 million (45% of the analysed population). Most of the twelve areas classified in IPC Phase 4 (Emergency) especially Jawzjan in the current period will remain in this phase. Additionally, emergency levels of food insecurity (IPC 4) were recorded in the province, especially in rural areas, during the post-harvest analysis of Mar 2022 – May 2022. Small-holder farmers have long seen their food stocks exhausted after the long winter, and are already faced with the necessity of adopting negative coping strategies.

There are food and NFI needs in the Qarqeen District, according to a recent assessment conducted in Jawzjan in May 2022. Majority Because agriculture makes up 30% of HHs' primary sources of income and because the income from agriculture decreased significantly and slightly compared to last year (by 53% and 38%, respectively), 86% of HHs does not have enough seeds for the following year, and 78% of HHs is very concerned about drought.

In accordance with the priorities of the Food Security Agriculture Cluster (FSAC), OHW will provide cash assistance to 957 HHs (6,700 people) in the Jawzjan qarqin district (each HH will receive a total of 432 USD for the equivalent local currency in AFN), as per cluster standards, to support and meet their household food needs for a period of six months. The cash assistance will be given out in 3 installments, each of which will be worth USD 144 (which double monthly ration) over the course of 6 months.

Cash assistance is intended to be unrestricted and unconditional. The choice was made in light of the findings of a needs analysis, which identified food as the top priority for the household. Additionally, target populations have identified cash as their preferred form of assistance, and markets have been determined to be open to and secure for both men and women. 

The present response priorities are in line with OHW past experience and capability, and represent a scale up or relief emergency food basket activities in the target area. OHWs’ recent interventions put an emphasis on livelihood improvements for the most vulnerable and affected households in the targeted locations, and work hardly to reach to the most vulnerable and affected households who are in the critical emergency situation and women empowerment fostering income generating activities. Thus, the action aims at enlarging OHWs’ reach by supporting vulnerable households in dire food insecurity with cash assistance.
Mobile Health and Nutrition Services in Sheberghan City of Jowzjan Province This project aims to contribute to reduction of child and women morbidity and mortality related to under and malnutrition in Sheberghan city of Jowzjan province.  The 2022 IPC Analysis identifies the province in IPC Phase 4 from Jun – Nov 2022 with 127, 572 individuals (20%) classified in IPC 4 and 159,466 individuals (25%) classified in IPC 3. The same analysis identifies the province’s urban areas in IPC phase 4 with 32,499 individuals (20%) in IPC 4 and 48,748 (30%) of its population in IPC 3.

Through this project, the AWRO proposes to provide Mobile health and Nutrition services in Sheberghan city of Jowzjan province to cover 14000 individuals. Under this project, AWRO proposes to provide two mobile Nutrition teams to:
 Provide Out-Patient nutrition services to under and malnourished children under 5 years of age (SAM and MAM) and Pregnant and lactating Women (PLW)
 Provide necessary primary healthcare services for the target children and PLW to ensure effective treatment of under and malnourishment (diagnosis and primary treatment of children for common childhood diseases)
 Refer severe cases of malnutrition with complications to inpatient treatment care centers by the provision of Cash for Nutrition for the eligible Project Participants 
 Empower the community to detect and prevent under and malnutrition through Family MUAC approach
 Promotion of IYCF awareness and counseling
 Provision of PSS counseling and Stimulation Sessions Care Practices


Specific target areas for the mobile teams will be defined in coordination with the BPHS implementers and the Provincial Public Health Directorate (PPHD) to avoid duplication of services and ensure that the uncovered areas will be targeted to benefit from the services provided.

Project Participant Targets:
SAM IPD: 50 children
SAM OPD: 240 children
MAM OPD: 800 children 
PLW: 400 women
Family MUAC Orientation: 5000 women
Children Screened: 5000 children
IMNCI: 2000 children
MIYCN: 100 women, 1500 children
PSS Counseling: 400 women

In total, 14,000 individuals will be covered under this project.

For the provision of Cash for Nutrition, we will contract with an MSP/FSP to transfer the Cash to the eligible Project Participants as introduced by the AWRO. MPSs are available in all parts of the Sheberghan city and accessible to all project participants, there are no barriers for any age group. The MSP system is preferred and endorsed by the communities as the bank systems are more time-taking and complicated. The MSP system is not prone to risks as they take its own transparency and security measures. The leak of data might put the project participants in risks of theft and violence data will be kept confidential and will be shared with no parties without prior approval of the AHF, OCHA, and the Cluster. AWRO will also agree with the MSP in terms of data protection and the agreement will include a term in this regard.


For the nutrition supplies and supplements, AWRO will coordinate agreements with the UNICEF and WFP to receive the nutrition supplies for undernourished children and PLW.
Life-saving food assistance (cash) in Bamiyan and Panjab districts, Bamiyan Province. The proposed intervention will target vulnerable households (blanket coverage of IPC 3 and 4 communities) in underserved communities in several valleys of Bamiyan and Panjab, highly food insecure districts of Bamiyan province, which has received a food security score of Phase 3 (crisis) 30% of the population are estimated to be food insecure, classified at IPC Phase 3 and 15% are classified as Phase 4 (crisis and emergency, respectively).

CRS will support 9,021 individuals (approximately 1,288 families assuming 7 family members per household as per FSAC guidance) in Bamiyan and Panjab districts of Bamiyan province with food assistance through cash distributions. As access to Bamiyan and Panjab communities will be quickly reducing due to rain and snow, two distributions will be held to meet the food assistance needs of families equivalent to 6 months of 75% ration per FSAC guidelines in the AHF 3rd Reserve Allocation Strategy Paper 2022, with the first in December 2022 to help families to prepare for winter, dependent on the project’s 15 November start date.

CRS will use an unconditional cash transfer modality to distribute as high a ratio of the project award amount as possible to target beneficiaries, as described below:

 Ration: Per 2022 FSAC Guidance, a full ration of cash assistance for a family of 7 consists of enough food to cover 2,100 kcal per person per day for 30 days, or a total cash value of $96 USD per 7-person family per month. However, per the AHF 2022 Allocation Strategy Paper, food support should be designed as a 75% ration or $72 per 7-person family for 6 months, totaling $432 USD. Two cash distributions of $216 per family of 7 – each distribution roughly the equivalent of selling two sheep, an amount that farmers in these communities are familiar with managing – will enable families to prepare and stock up for winter before their access to markets is cut.
 Money Service Providers (MSP): In the absence of banking facilities, CRS Afghanistan uses MSP to facilitate cash transfers from CRS HQ office to Afghanistan to supply cash as demanded by its programs in the country. To select an MSP, CRS announces a tender and asks potential MSPs to participate in a competitive process to provide cash transfer services within the geography of operation. CRS selects an MSP based on the MSP’s competitiveness, financial capacity, and presence in the area of operation. All MSPs are vetted via Bridger checks and via USAID’s vetting process.
 Distribution Day: Cash amounts (based on the number of individuals in the family) will be distributed to an assigned representative of each family. Cash payments are made in the community to avoid putting families at risk. Voucher cards are given to each family in advance so they can present these cards as their identification on distribution day.
 Monitoring: CRS will conduct exit interviews on distribution days and Post-distribution Monitoring (PDM) to verify the amount paid and gauge household satisfaction.