ERM Household Assessment Report ERM8-Ext+/2020-DA-KBL22 1. Key Facts Type of shock Active Conflicts (Between ANSF and AOGs) Crisis date August to October, 2020 Province: Badghis, Baghlan, Kunduz, Kapisa, Laghman, Logar, Nangarhar, Paktya, Parwan, Samangan, Sar-e-Pul & Wardak Crisis location District: Many Districts (for detail locations, please see HEAT Database) Village: Many Villages (for detail locations, please see HEAT Database) Reported households 962 Assessed households 962 Identified eligible households 49 HHs/ 49 Families/ 280 Individuals Alert date/s 30/09/2020 Province: Kabul Assessment Location District: Bagrami, Kabul & Paghman Village: Many Villages (for detail locations, please see HEAT Database) Assessment date/s (1-25) October, 2020 (Including WASH Survey) Referred by DoRR & OCHA Assessment team/s DACAAR, DRC, WSTA & DoRR 2. Context On (30-Sep-20) an OCT meeting was called by OCHA and Kabul DoRR, participants of the meeting were OCHA, DACAAR, DRC, WSTA, IOM, WFP and DoRR. During the meeting DoRR presented a list of 962 families including some collective lists to the meeting members for review, the meeting members reviewed the lists and referred all those 962 families to joint teams for further needs assessment; also it was decided in the meeting that collective lists will be assessed on percentage base. Joint assessment teams consisting of DACAAR, DRC, WSTA & DoRR started assessment of those families on (01-Oct-20), the teams visited all families, had interviews with them to find the real IDPs and assess their needs. Finally, the joint teams found 49 eligible households from those 962 reported families who had come from different insecure provinces of Afghanistan due to ongoing conflicts between the AOGs and ANSF and are now settled in different areas and districts of Kabul province including Bagrami, Kabul city and Paghman districts. The rest of the families were rejected by the joint teams because they did not meet the eligibility criteria and they were old IDPs, fake IDPs, local residents etc... Number of households assessed 962 Number of households eligible under ERM assistance 49 HHs or 49 Families 3. Needs and recommendations IDENTIFIED NEEDS In the places of origins most of the IDPs families were busy with agriculture, livestock and daily wage activities and earned their living from those sources, but in the current locations most of the IDPs HHs rely on daily wage activities to find food for their families. As per HEAT database and interviews with the heads of households, 48 households rely on daily unskilled laboring which is not always available in current economic conditions and 1 household owns a small business. As per HEAT database; food consumption score of 44 households is poor, of 2 HHs is borderline and for 3 HHs it's acceptable. Food In order to survive in this situation (lack of food items and livelihood), the IDPs families have adopted different negative coping strategies like relying on less preferred and less expensive food, borrowing food from their neighbors or local community, and reduced number of meals eaten in a day. All families reported that all of their household members have been affected by the above mentioned coping strategies. Currently most of the households suffer from lack and shortage of food items and need urgent food assistance in kind or in cash. NFIs As per HEAT database and direct observation, most of the IDPs families have either left or lost their essential NFIs and household items in their places of origins, they have managed to bring only some of their essencial NFIs with them which is not enough for them in the current locations. As per direct observations all of the 49 IDPs households are in need of NFIs support. Financial status Most of the IDPs HHs are currently living in bad financial conditions because most of them rely on daily wage activities which is not regularly available in current economic conditions. Most of the HHs have contracted new debts in current locations and have huge debts on their shoulders; mostly they have contracted those new debts for buying food items and healthcare services. All the IDPs families need financial support in form of MPCA. Shelter As per HEAT database and direct observation 9 households are currently living in concrete/brick houses, 39 households are living in makeshift shelters or traditional mud houses and 1 household is living in open space; 31 households are hosted, 12 HHs are living in rental places and 6 HHs are squatting. Shelter concerns are: eviction, landlord problems and lack of authority on the shelters. As winter season is coming, those families who are living in open areas or makeshift shelters need shelter support. WASH Most of the families are in need of WASH support, identified WASH needs are listed below: Hygiene sessions Hygiene kits EBL construction Protection HEAT database indicates the following additional vulnerabilities among the IDPs households: 1) Elderly headed households = 1 2) Female headed households = 7 3) P.L.W = 23 4) Blind = 4 5) Deaf = 2 6) Physical disabilities = 8 7) Mentally ill = 3 8) Mute = 2 9) Chronically ill = 31 None of the families are sending their children to schools due to lack of documentation and disabilities. COVID-19 As per HEAT database 43 households have awareness about COVID-19 which they have received from community leaders, religious leaders, media and NGOs and 6 households didn't receive any awareness about COVID-19. 34 HHs have access to hand washing facilities but 15 HHs don't have access to any hand washing facility. Mobile network and internet services are working in all assessed areas. PLANNED RESPONSE WASH WASH needs will be covered by DACAAR MPCA MPCA and Winterization assistance will be provided by DRC Protection DRC protection team may follow additional vulnerabilities among the IDPs WASH Water: As per HEAT database and WASH Survey all 49 families (49 HHs) have access to clean drinking, cooking and bathing water and average distance from water source to their households is less than 500 meters. 9 families (9 HHs) use dug wells, 28 families (28 HHs) use hand pumps and 12 families (12 HHs) use pipe water, and the sources have good privacy and proper drainage. Mostly females collect water from those sources. Based on field visits and physical WASH survey, DACAAR found that none of the IDPs families have proper hygienic water containers with lid to fetch and store water, mostly they have left or lost their water containers during the shock and the existing ones are old, dirty and without lid to keep the water clean for consumption. Water sources Number of families Dug Well 9 families (9 HHs) Hand Pump 28 families (28 HHs) Pipe Water 12 families (12 HHs) WQA Test Result in field level: Location / Village Type of Water Points #/ Total Focal Coli form pH Turbidity EC-u/cm Date Bagrami/200 Family Hand Pump 1 0 7.6 1.3 860 24/10/2020 Kabul/PD17 Dug Well 3 0 7.7 1.5 768 24/10/2020 Kabul/Qalae Muslim Dug Well 1 0 7.72 2.1 856 24/10/2020 Paghman/Khwaja Jam Pipe Water 1 0 7.7 0.6 740 24/10/2020 Results show that water from all sources is acceptable and within the standard of ANSA and clean for daily human consumption. Sanitation: As per HEAT database and WASH Survey, 22 families (22 HHs) have access to latrine and bath facilities but 27 families (27 HHs) don't have access to any sanitation facilities and are practicing open defecation. 20 families (20 HHs) use family latrines and 2 families (2 HHs) use family VIP latrines. To prevent any open defecation issue that may harm the general population, DACAAR ERM Field Team proposes the construction of emergency bath and latrines (EBLs) that will consider beneficiaries’ geographical location and their willingness to share EBL. Below table shows distribution of EBLs among the needy families: Condition #of families Propose Construction of EBLs Families living separately from each other 08 08 2 families living in 1 household 10 05 3 families living in 1 household 09 03 Total 27 16 Set EBLs Hygiene: Joint needs assessment team finds poor standard of living due to lack of sufficient knowledge on health and hygiene. It can be seen from: (1) lack of concern on personal health either to themselves as well as to their families, (2) littering in the surroundings, and (3) the absence of good waste management within the households. Considering this, DACAAR targets the distribution of HE Kits and HE sessions as an integrated intervention to increase health awareness among the population and teach them how to stay healthy and avoid diseases. Recommendations: To address the above mentioned issues and also following criteria under ERM Project, DACAAR proposes the following points to be considered as WASH assistance for this caseload: 1. Implementation of hygiene education sessions to all 49 IDP families in order to raise people’s awareness and to ensure knowledge increase on self-practice on good sanitation and hygiene. The hygiene session will be an integrated WASH approach that supports the distribution of hygiene kits as well as the proper usage of existing WASH facilities (water sources and latrine facilities); also DACAAR's hygiene promoters will provide awareness about corona virus and teach prevention ways to the families. 2. Distribution of 49 sets of hygiene kits to 49 IDP families in order to enable the people to self-practice good hygiene and sanitation in their daily life. 3. Construction of 16 sets of EBLs for 27 IDP families who practice open defecation. 4. Distribution of 8 No plastic defecation chairs to 8 families whose members have difficulties in using squat latrines, as protection mainstreaming in WASH response.