In-kind Poultry Packages Assistance in Injil and Guzara Districts of Herat province The IPC Analysis Mar-Nov 2022 indicates that a combination of a collapsing economy and drought is depriving nearly 20 million Afghans of food, classified in Crisis or Emergency (IPC Phases 3 or 4), between March and May 2022 (the lean season).. Among these are about 6.6 million people in Emergency (IPC Phase 4) and 13 million in Crisis (IPC Phase 3). Food consumption declined significantly. The proportion of households falling into the “poor” category of the Food consumption score (FCS) nearly tripled from 2020 (14 per cent) to 2021 (close to 40 per cent) across all population groups. Comparing IPC analyses over the last five years indicates a deepening and widening food crisis.

The number of Afghans classified in Crisis (IPC Phase 3) or worse is increasing or persisting in some areas. The current March 2022 IPC analysis reveals that nearly half of Afghanistan’s population experiencing high levels of food insecurity. This is among the highest number of food-insecure people ever recorded in Afghanistan since the first IPC analysis in 2013, and makes it the world’s second-largest food crisis, in absolute terms. The complexity of the crisis in Afghanistan has reached a peak in the period covered by this analysis. The combined impact of a collapsing economy and multiple hazards have pushed the crisis to unprecedented levels, with people’s ability to access food constrained like never observed before. The IPC also indicates that 20 million people, representing half the country's population, are still experiencing high and critical levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phases 3 and above) between March and May 2022. Among these, about 6.6 million people are classified in Emergency (IPC Phase 4), characterized by large food gaps and/or employing emergency coping strategies to access food.

Herat province is classified under the IPC phase 3 in the IPC analysis for Jun to Nov 2022 it is among the provinces with the highest priority given the effect imposed by the drought while the urban area for the same province is classified under IPC Area Phase 4. In general, 30% of its populations (622,266) are classified in IPC Phase 3, and 15% (311,133) identified in IPC Phase 4 from June to Nov 2022.

According to the Afghanistan Humanitarian Response Plan 2022 the hunger crisis today is a combination of compounded shocks which have driven a year-on year decline in food security (from 27 per cent IPC3+ in September 2017, to 55 per cent of the population today) combined with an unprecedented nationwide economic crisis in 2021 which left the population without means of coping. Further shocks on the horizon, including another drought season, will drive the country to the edge: without a significant shift in the FSAC strategy in Afghanistan, and the resources to accompany it, food assistance will remain vastly insufficient to offset the crisis and emergency needs, resulting in humanitarian catastrophe, livelihoods depletion, and loss of life.

Under this project, AOAD will provide in-kind Poultry Packages assistance to 1040 HHs (7,282 individuals) in Injil and Guzara districts of Herat province classified in IPC Phase 3 and above - food insecure, PWDs, and those anticipated to be affected by drought, natural disaster, dry spell and other risks, as per the IPC analysis 2022. Based on the FSAC cluster latest response packages, every eligible HHs will receive in-kind Poultry Packages that will include the following items:
1.	Chickens (3 Roasters amp 27 Hens)
2.	Feed (150 KG)
3.	Drinker (x 3)
4.	Feeder (x 3)
5.	Chicken Coop Support for Materials (x 1)

Each package per households will cost 395USD as per the FSAC guidelines.