| Afghanistan 2012 |
| Appealing Agency | Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) |
| Project Title | Emergency Shelter for returnees and IDPs in Herat |
| Project Code | AFG-12/S-NF/45550 |
| Sector/Cluster | EMERGENCY SHELTER |
| Refugee Project | No |
| Objectives | To address the immediate protection concerns of returning refugees, IDPs, and natural-disaster affected populations through the provision of shelter in Herat province |
| Beneficiaries | Total: 3,000 beneficiaries including men, women, and children Female: 1,500 Children (under 18): 300 |
| Implementing Partners | N/A |
| Project Duration | Jan 2012 - Dec 2012 |
| Current Funds Requested | $1,064,526 |
| Location | Herat |
| Priority / Category | A. HIGH |
| Gender Marker Code | 1 - The project is designed to contribute in some limited way to gender equality |
| Subset of Appeal | |
| Contact Details | Simon Worrall, simon.worrall@afg.nrc.no, +93700293427 |
| Enhanced Geographical Fields | |
| Cash Based Intervention | | Is any part of this project cash transfer programming (including vouchers)? | No | | Conditionality: | | | Restrictions: | | | Estimated percentage of project requirements to be used for cash/vouchers: | 0 |
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Needs
Over the last thirty years, Afghanistan has had the largest refugee repatriation in the world. More than five million Afghan refugees have returned home since 2002 comprising more than one fifth of the country’s population, with large numbers of refugees returning to urban centres around Kabul (central), Nangarhar (East), Herat (West) and Kunduz (North). UNHCR estimates that there are currently 165,000 refugee returnees in need of assistance in the country and that in the period 2009 2013 the total number of refugee returnees returning to Afghanistan will be 815,457. At the same time, Iran is steadily deporting undocumented workers, mainly seasonal migrants working in agriculture, back through two major border points in western Afghanistan: Islam Qala in Herat Province and Zaranj in Nimroz Province.
Concentrations of IDPs are still scattered across much of southern Afghanistan, Herat in the west, and in parts of the north. The main areas of concentration of IDPs in Herat are in Herat city, Guzara and Injli districts. Recent profiling by the National IDP Task force and UNHCR identified over 58,590 newly displaced and 15,456 protracted internally displaced people living in the Western region. They are largely composed of women and men who have fled persecution or who are displaced by drought and the collapse of coping strategies. Further, in 2011 UNHCR estimated that there are approximately 322,636 voluntary and involuntary returnees in the Western region of Afghanistan.
Upon return to Afghanistan, the returnees face a wide range of challenges, regardless of their areas of return. In order to ensure sustainable reintegration they need to ensure basic living conditions and subsistence and link to a range of basic services; they need to re establish family and social networks and re connect with their communities. While in displacement, the number of members per family increased easily ten times, and returning back to the places of origin is often not an option due to the limited accommodation and land capacity.
Through this project, NRC aims to assist 3000 individuals (500 families), consisting of vulnerable returnees from Iran, recent IDPs as well as vulnerable individuals from the local community in Injil, Karuk and Kushk districts with timely and effective distribution of shelter in Ghoryan, Kushk in Herat and Obe districts.
Activities
• Through participatory approaches, identify communities and vulnerable female and male beneficiaries that meet the criteria for shelter interventions.
• Coordination of beneficiary selection with Department of Returnees and Repatriation and other stakeholders in the region at the community and provincial government levels; as per past interventions, NRC will ensure that it coordinates with women’s shuras as well to ensure participation and involvement of women in the decision making processes
• Ensure inclusion of beneficiaries who settled in the land owned by the government are assisted in the transitional shelter.
• Mobilisation of beneficiaries to ensure that the self help approach is successful.
Procurement of shelter materials following international, transparent guidelines.
• Provision of technical guidance to beneficiaries during the construction period. In the case of female headed households where no adult male is present, NRC will engage the assistance of male relatives in the construction of the shelter units
• Provide hygiene promotion training to shelter beneficiaries, training for women will be conducted separately by NRC’s female staff to ensure their participation.
• Distribution of hygiene kits to beneficiaries; beneficiaries will be consulted about the content to of the hygiene kits before the kits are procured and delivered
Outputs
• At least 500 families have benefited from temporary or permanent shelter, constructed in accordance with guidelines and norms valid in Afghanistan and in accordance with the Sphere Shelter Standards 100 temporary shelters (one-room) and 400 permanent two room shelters.
• Protection of people’s lives and property through timely and effective provision of emergency shelter
• Improved hygiene awareness and practices are observed in the families that benefit from the shelter component.
• Reduced health risks for vulnerable communities through provision of physical shelter and improved hygiene awareness
RPM Activities and Indicators
| Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) |
| Original BUDGET items | $ |
| Project materials, goods, services | 730,000 |
| Personnel costs | 180,000 |
| Premises, communication | 64,344 |
| Travel, transportation etc | 20,540 |
| Administrative costs (7%) | 69,642 |
| 0 |
| 0 |
|
| Total | 1,064,526 |
| Norwegian Refugee Council(NRC) |
| Current BUDGET items | $ |
| Project materials, goods, services | 730,000 |
| Personnel costs | 180,000 |
| Premises, communication | 64,344 |
| Travel, transportation etc | 20,540 |
| Administrative costs (7%) | 69,642 |
| 0 |
| 0 |
|
| Total | 1,064,526 |
ACTIVITY DETAILS
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