TYPE OF MEETING: Regional FSAC Meeting DATE & LOCATION 29 August 2016/WFP- Office CHAIR PERSON: Ajmal MOMMAND/OIC of WFP Jalalabad NOTE TAKER: Shapoor AMINI, Program Associate WFP Jalalabad DAIL Nangarhar, WFP, FAO, UNHCR, MADERA, FAO/FSAC, NPO/RRAA, ATTENDEES: NCRO, SOFAR, APA, UN-OCHA, WHH/GAA, DRC, NHLP, CARD-F

MEETING AGENDA

Item Subject Agency Presenting 1. Introduction/actions items & adoption of previous meeting All Partners minutes 2. Updates on IPC National Workshop held from 23-28 July 2016 WFP 3. Updates on IDPs UN-OCHA 4. Update on SFSA FSAC Head 5. Update on Documented Returnees UNHCR 6. FSAC partners update All Partners 7. AOB All Partners

MEETING Action points RESPONSIBLE MIN ACTION ITEM TIMELINE PARTY

Up-coming HEAT will be further discussed during the up-coming Proposal Proposal 1 Writing Training, in case the planned HEAT trainings is late in the FAO Writing region. Training

Up to the up- Any Partner ready to re-conduct SFSA survey in Laghman. Fund 2 Any party coming FSAC are available with FSAC the candidate need to submit a proposal. Meeting

Share information with FSAC regarding the documented/un- By up-coming 3 documented returnees who brings their livestock from Pakistan, UNHCR/IOM meeting while returning to country

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NEXT MEETING DATE LOCATION Because of current influx of returnees to the country it is decided to have FAO monthly meeting; the coming meeting will be on Tentatively 20th Sept 2016

MEETING MINUTES MINUTE NO: AGENDA: FACILITATOR: Introduction/actions items & adoption of 1 All Partners previous meeting minutes DISCUSSION POINTS: Mr. Ajmal MOMMAND (OIC of UN-WFP/Jalalabad) welcomed all the participants and special thanks passed to Mr. Majid, Head of FSAC and his colleagues, who came from Kabul to attend the meeting. Before the start, some verses of Holy Quran was recited by one of the members, while later on participants introduced themselves and the previous meeting minutes endorsed.

Concerns raised regarding HEAT form, indicating that the form is currently used in the assessments, while it very time consuming and also the teams feels un-ease while taking number of files to field, due to current security situation.

Mr. Majid briefed on HEAT as well as replied to questions. He added, the only problem currently facing is lack of ground data, which should be evidence based. For this purpose, the use of HEAT form is very essential, as they cannot obtain funds without data and evidence. He admitted the problem, but meanwhile suggested to joint teams that the leading agency should fill the HEAT form for HH level surveys. Action Point

MINUTE NO: AGENDA: FACILITATOR: Updates on IPC National Workshop held from 23-28 July 2 WFP 2016 DISCUSSION POINTS: On behalf of WFP (Shapoor Amini) shared updates on IPC National Workshop result, which was held recently from 23-28 July 2016 in Kabul. At first he briefed the participants on IPC its functions as well as the five phases.

Later on, the IPC Information Support System (ISS) database was briefly explained to participants. Each step of the database was explained and information provided on the way it was used for the IPC classification during the workshop.

In addition, he stated that from ER representatives of WFP, DAIL, FAO and SCA attended the workshop, where they analysed the three provinces of ER as Nangarhar, Nooristan and Kuner, whereas, Laghman could not be classified, due to the un-realistic SFSA data. As per the final result of the workshop Nangarhar, Kuner and Nooristan provinces are classified in phase 3 for the current analysis, while for projection Nangarhar and Nooristan remained in phase 3, and Kuner classified in phase 2. However long discussions took place on Nangarhar, during the workshop. Some of the IPC member agencies were opposed to putting in phase 3 for projection, but due to the changing situation in the province and considering the very critical contributing factors of the ongoing influx of Documented and Un-documented returnees, they province was finally justified for phase 3 in projection analysis.

Action Point

MINUTE NO: AGENDA: FACILITATOR: 3 Updates on IDPs UN-OCHA DISCUSSION POINTS: On behalf UNOCHA ER Dr. Ismael Amn provided a presentation on IDPs situation in the eastern region. As per OCHA, the regular notifications continued on the IDPs, however when doing the joints assessments by the relevant

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stakeholders, high percentage of the notified IDPs were not considered to be not genuine IDPs and thus mostly rejected by the joint assessment team. He indicated, these notification has caused the humanitarian agencies to spend their resources and time on the assessments, while government line department is yet failed in controlling it.

The presentation included, main reasons for the displacement in the region, which included:

 Presence of Different armed groups (TB, ISK)  Conflict between TB and ISK .  Conflict between TB and Government.  Conflict between Government and ISK.  Government cleaning operation.  AGEs intimidation to those who are government employee (ANA, ANP and ALP).

He also highlighted major and recent conflicts in the region as per the following:

• 24 June 16 Conflict – Est.1000 fam displaced • 02-04 July 16 Hesarak Conflict – 7 fam notified as displaced • 17 July 16 Conflict – Est. 850 fam notified as displaced • 30 July 16 Kot, Achin, Dehbala and Nazyan ANSF cleaning military operations so far no displacement reported • 14 August 2016 conflict in Alishang and Alingar districts of -Est.795 fam displaced • 14 August 2016 Waygal Nuristan conflict- Est.15 families displaces

Later information provided on the challenges faced in the region, while dealing with the IDPs, which included the following inputs:

 Frequent visits of rejected IDPs (Protracted/Backlog)  No timely action of line department (DoRR)  Reporting not in line with DTS.  Increased frequency of conflicts (New)  Access to IDPs settled in inaccessible areas • Nangarhar: (Nazyan, Achin, Batikot, Chaparhar, • Mohmandara, Khugyani, , Shinwar, Hesarak) with 3,635 HHs pending (mostly protracted caseloads and inaccessible) • Kunar: (Barkunar, Ghaziabad, Nari, Shegal, with 87 HHs • pending • Whole of Nuristan 249 HHs pending • Delay in Response – causing secondary displacement and repeating petitions

Finally the monthly comparison explained regarding the conflict induced IDPs in the region, which showed a considerable increase in the flow of IDPs, particularly in the first quarter of the year 2016 in comparison to the same months in 2015. Action Point

MINUTE NO: AGENDA: FACILITATOR: 4 Update on SFSA FAO/FSAC DISCUSSION POINTS: FAO/FSAC (Mr. Majid) informed the FSAC partners regarding the SFSA Survey. He added; this year the survey was more successful than the years before. This time among the total targeted 399 district, FSAC was luckily able to cover 326 districts, which was a great achievement. He said, this due to great contribution of government line department DAIL at field level, despite the NGOs. The HHs survey were all selected by the teams within the communities, using the sampling methods.

As per the report findings, currently 6% of the country population are in extreme food insecurity situation. While 34% are found to be in borderline, 52% is good food security situation and 18% is completely food secure. He raised his concern if care not paid to the borderline population, so there is a certain risk that this percentage will go to the extreme food insecure.

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He also assured the compatibility of SFSA findings with the Afghanistan Livelihood Condition Survey (ALCS) as well as the International Bank report, published recently. He added the findings are almost touching the same percentage for the different cut of the food security indicators.

In addition SFSA shows the most vulnerable families are found to be the female headed families, which consist around 60% of the total population of these vulnerable families, whom are in very bad condition. Also around 40% of the disable headed families are found to be in a very poor food security situation.

Regarding livestock, it was indicated that around 70% of the rural population owns livestock, who are selling their livestock not on a normal basis. This shows the depletion of livelihood for such HHs, which is very critical for the food insecurity of these part of population. As per SFSA, there has been 17% decrease in the number of Cattles number, 18% decrease in sheep’s and 22% decrease poultry. This shows the un-normal selling of the livestock of the families, which result in the food insecurity.

Question raised by WFP regarding the compatibility of ALCS and SFSA survey. It was asked that SFSA shows Nuristan in a very critical situation, even touching the emergency phase 4 as per IPC, while ALCS shows only 3.4% of the total population as food insecure. Also it was asked that Laghman was dropped from IPC this year due to the in-accurate SFSA data. Is there any alternative solution for Laghman, so to have proper data and then may classify it through IPC.

Mr. Majid replied that, the difference between ALCS and SFSA is that the government conduct ALCS during the post-harvest situation, while SFSA is conducted before harvest. That’s why the results shows different findings, while if we consider the same situation of both survey it concludes almost the same figures. In addition, the sampling for ALCS is compromised by government, while SFSA sampling is not compromised, while conducted.

As far as Laghman province is considered, he indicated they have some funds available with them in FSAC, which could be utilized for the re-assessment of the province. He invited any capable NGO, who would like to give a proposal for this purpose to the conduct a new SFSA survey for the mentioned province.

Action Point Any Partner ready to re-conduct SFSA survey in Laghman. Fund are available with FSAC the candidate need to submit a brief proposal or concept note. MINUTE NO: AGENDA: FACILITATOR: 5 Update on Documented Returnees UNHCR DISCUSSION POINTS:

UNHCR provided short presentation regarding the on-going influx of documented returnees. As their information the flow of documented has considerably increased from the year 2014 up to date year 2016. Comparing the two year findings from (2015 & 2016), a very serious increase is noted in particular in the months of July and August 2016.

In addition it was indicated that the flow has increased from 5 to around 500 families on daily basis.

He added, currently UNHCR is providing around 400$ to each individual of the returning families, along with other basic health facilities, and vaccination in their encashment.

Mr. Majid asked UNHCR if they could provide information regarding those returning families, who brings their livelihood along with them.

Action Point Share information with FSAC regarding the documented/un-documented returnees who brings their livestock from Pakistan, while returning to country MINUTE NO: AGENDA: FACILITATOR: 6 FSAC partners update All Partners DISCUSSION POINTS:

WFP jalal Abad Sub office update:

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WFP has started one Gabion Protection wall with 250 labors in Bihsud district Qalacha village. The Gabion will be provided by RRD of Nangarhar province while WFP will support 250 labors with E-Voucher value cost 3600AFN per labor for three months. The project will be implemented by FGA.

MINUTE NO: AGENDA FACILITATOR: 7 AOB All Partners DISCUSSION POINTS:

List of participants

S. No Name Title Organization Email address Phone

1 Abdul Majid FSAC Coordinator FAO/FSAC/WFP

2 Ulfatullah Malangyar National Food Security FAO/FSAC Officer

3 Javed Khan IM Officer FSAO/FSAC

4 Mashal Rokhan Admin SOFAR [email protected] 0777598559

5 Shapoor Amini Senior. PH WFP [email protected] 0706005179

6 Khushal Asifi OIC FAO [email protected] 0798410572

7 Dr. Ismael Amn HAO OCHA

8 Ataulhaq Bashari Plan & Policy Manager DAIL-Nangarhar [email protected] 0700606853

9 Mohammad Tamim WFP-PAT Coordinator MADERA

10 Anwar Khan Zurmaty Regional Manager APA [email protected] 0797530536

11 Mullah Jan Deputy AM DRC

12 Ajmal Mommand OIC WFP Jalalabad WFP [email protected]

13 S. Askar Sadat P. Manager NCRO [email protected] 0789228253

14 Dost Ahmad Program Associate UNHCR

15 Niamatyar Provincial Manager CARD-F [email protected] 0700610077

16 Anber Gul National Livestock Expert FAO [email protected] 0793505823

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17 Abdul Maroof Livestock officer FAO [email protected] 0773369780

18 Tawabullah Safi Admin/Finance NCRO [email protected] 0774004737

19 Abdul Rahman Operation Manager WHH [email protected] 0799656516 Barakzai

20 Rahmat Gul Serat Regional Coordinator NHLP [email protected] 07728848810

21 Niamatyar Provincial Manager CARD-F [email protected] 0700610077

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