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Anticipatory livelihood protection to minimize drought impacts and safeguard food security in Afghanistan

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Countries Afghanistan
Start date 14/04/2021
End date 08/02/2022
Status Completed
Recipient / Target Areas Afghanistan
Budget 4 798 459 USD
Project Code OSRO/AFG/108/CHA
Objective / Goal 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.
Beneficiaries 245 000
Activities

The project targets vulnerable marginal herding, landless, women-headed, and persons with disability households who are anticipated to be adversely impacted by the current drought conditions, in addition to other recent shocks including COVID-19 and worsening food crisis in Afghanistan. This was achieved by undertaking the following activities:

  • provision of emergency livestock protection assistance package;
  • provision of cash assistance through unconditional cash transfers;
  • repair / rehabilitation of local irrigation structures, livestock watering sources, flood protection walls, and soil-water conservation structures through cash-for-work activities to accelerate resilience building gains at community level, which would further contribute to saving livelihoods and averting the drought turning into a famine;
  • awareness building on key protection messages;
  • sensitization on COVID-19 safety measures to adopt during (a) farm level activities, (b) market participation and (c) routine day-to-day life to minimize the transmission of COVID-19 and other important livestock diseases such foot and mouth disease.