Project Title: Safeguarding food and nutrition security using anticipatory actions through cash transfer and emergency livestock protection inputs assistance to vulnerable food insecure households impacted by the COVID-19 crisis and anticipated impacts of La Niña induced drought in IPC-4 areas of Afghanistan
Project Location: Faryab province and Badghis province
Project Duration: November 25, 2021 till April 25, 2022
Project Objective: The key objective of this project is to safeguarding food, nutrition and livelihoods security of most vulnerable households adversely impacted by COVID-19 and La Niña in four IPC Phase-4 provinces of Afghanistan
Project Outputs:
Output 1: Livelihoods and food security of 2000 vulnerable marginal herding, landless, women-headed, and persons with disability households protected through provision of emergency livestock protection package assistance and distribution of unconditional cash transfer for covering food and basic non-food needs.
Output 2: Livelihoods and food security of 1832 vulnerable marginal herding, landless, women-headed, and persons with disability households protected through provision of emergency livestock protection package assistance..
Output 3: 900 vulnerable landless / women-headed households received nutrition sensitive vegetable cultivation home-gardening package and technical trainings.
Output 4: Awareness of all the beneficiaries mentioned above on key protection messages and on COVID-19 to adopt at livelihood practices, during market participation and in general appropriate preventive practices for minimizing transmission.
Project Assistance: Each beneficiary receives the following assistance:
Livestock inputs:
- 200 kg of concentrate animal feed
- 50 USD cash assistance
- 8 types of vegetable seeds
- Technical training about Agri- farming techniques and Covid-19
Project Donor: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation (UN-FAO)