Project Title: Anticipatory livelihood protection to minimise drought impacts and safeguard food security.
Project Location: Gosfanid, Sayyad and Sozma Qala district
Project Duration: May 15, 2021 till October 14, 2021
Project Objective:
The key objective of this project is to provide emergency livestock protection assistance and cash-based assistance for safeguarding food and nutrition security and ensure emergency agriculture livelihoods protection to mitigate the impacts of drought.
Project Outputs
- Output 1: Livelihoods and food security of vulnerable marginal herding, landless, women-headed, and persons with disability HHs protected through provision of emergency livestock protection package assistance.
- Output 2: Livelihoods and food security of vulnerable marginal landless, women-headed, and persons with disability HHs protected through provision of emergency cash-based assistance.
- Output 3: Awareness of all the beneficiaries mentioned above on key protection messages and on COVID-19 and important livestock diseases safety measures to adopt at livelihood practices, during market participation and in general appropriate preventive practices for minimizing transmission.
Project Beneficiaries:
- 2250 Vulnerable marginal herding HHs (750 HHs in Gosfandi, 750 HHs in Sayyad and 750 HHs in Sozma Qala district) livestock protection package
- 90 HHs (30 in Gosfanid, 30 in Sayyad and 30 in Sozma Qala district) for Unconditional Cash Transfer assistance (UST)
- 820 HHs (270 in Gosfanid, 280 in Sayyad and 270 in Sozma Qala district) for Cash for Work assitance
Project Assistance: Each beneficiary receives the following assistance:
- 200kg Animal feed (concentrate)
- 100 USD cash for work assistance: Each beneficiary receive 100 USD when they work for 20 days in the community. They developed irrigation infrastructures
- 100 USD Unconditional Cash transfer to women-headed/elderly headed and the household head with disabilities
- Deworming of livestock
- Technical training about livestock management, animal diseases and Covid-19
Project Donor: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation (UN-FAO)