Intigrated Food Security and Livelihood, and Gender Based Violence response to returning drought IDPs and flood affected families in Herat, and Hilmand provinces In the proposed project, Oxfam, with its local implementing partner Afghan Planning Agency (APA), aims to assist 35730 people (6224 men, 12446 women, 7122 boys and 9938 girls) who are severely affected by flood and drought by providing Food Security, Livelihoods, Winterization, shelter upgrading/repair, and Protection (GBV). Oxfam/APA will adopt an integrated approach, leveraging multi-sector activities aligned with the priorities laid out in the AHF 2019 first allocation strategy with the eventual objective of recovery and resilience-building in the target communities. Provision of immediate multisector assistance will alleviate suffering of the beneficiaries in a gender sensitive manner, increase their resilience and encourage drought induced IDPs to voluntarily return to their places of origin. The multi-sectoral activities based on the needs on the ground will be implemented in Herat, and Hilmand provinces.
Main objectives of the project is to save lives, alleviate suffering and protect human dignity for the most vulnerable and food insecure flood-affected and drought induced IDP men, women, girls and boys in in 3 districts (Koshk e Robat Sangi, Koshk e Kohna, and Ghoryan) of Herat, and 2 districts (Nawa e Barakzai and Lashkargah) of Hilmand province.
Oxfam’s interventions will be guided by the needs analysis that was conducted in late June, 2019. Among other concerns, the needs analysis revealed: 1) widespread food insecurity with high to medium degree of negative coping strategies 2) over dependence of the displaced and flood affected households (HHs) on farming and livestock 3) inability to purchase agricultural inputs 4) sub-standard or damaged shelters 5) lack of information about and existence of protection services and consequently a high degree of need for protection (GBV) services. 
In view of the above needs and in alignment with the multi sectorial strategic objectives, the project proposes to: 1) provide unconditional cash transfer to the most vulnerable people, including very poor women and child-headed HHs, disabled and elderly-headed HHs, persons with disabilities, the elderly, pregnant and lactating women all of whom are highly food insecure  2) assist the vulnerable farmers, both women and men, with the cluster recommended standard agricultural package, in order for them to be able to cultivate the winter crops on their lands in their place of origin 3) assist most vulnerable among women with inputs and appropriate tools and training for the kitchen gardening to diversify the household food basket to improve food security, mitigate negative coping strategies, and augment household incomes 4) through a standalone gender focused intervention provide a comprehensive protection mechanism for the survivors—women, girls and boys, including mobile outreach and Women Friendly Health Spaces and complement it with contextualized community dialogue among diverse constituencies to address and mitigate the causes and consequences of GBV 5) assist in upgrading damaged shelters to be more resilient and provide standard package for winterization.
Oxfam will use IASC guidelines amp its own minimum standards for gender mainstreaming in emergencies for a more systematic gender responsiveness through all phases of the project implementation. Moreover Oxfam/APA will leverage on their experience and expertise in the field of Protection (GBV) to ensure safe program implementation.

The project proposes a robust monitoring system – Baseline study, PDM visits, gender, age and disability disaggregated data, community dialogues on continuous basis, gender sensitive feedback and complaint mechanism for the beneficiaries and end line evaluation.