ERM Household Assessment Report

Kunduz Province- Sar i Dawra, Rustaq Abad, Bandar Imam Sahib, Bandar Assessment Location: Kabul, Bandar Khan Abad, Zakhil, Say Darak, Char Taq, Naw Abad Andarabi Ha, Chil Dukhtaran, Type of crises: Conflict Kunduz Province, Dashti Archi, Qala i Zall, Ali Abad, Kunduz around Crisis Location: districts, and Kunar province Ghazi Abad district Assessment Team: ACTED, DACAAR, ADA, CTG/WFP, HI, and Local DoRR

Crisis date: 09 November 2018

Date of Notification: 11 November 2018

Date of Assessment: From 15 November to 03 December 2018 HHs: Families: Individuals: Affected Population: 115 115 782 Electronic Hardcopy Data collection method X

1. Findings And Recommendations In Brief

On 09 Nov 2018, Taliban groups launched operations in Kunduz province, AOGs attacked in Dashti Archi, and Qala e Zall, as well in Char Dara, Ali Abad and in Kunduz center around villages. As a consequence, a large number of families have been displaced from their places of origin to Kunduz city. These families are currently living primarily with relatives and in rental houses with many unmet humanitarian needs.

Surprisingly, families from Kunar province, Ghazi Abad district also reached Kunduz centre as a result of conflict between ISIS and ANSF – a quite unusual displacement pattern.

An OCT meeting was organized on 13 November 2018 with NGO, Government and UN partners in ACTED office Kunduz province. Five Joint Assessment Teams (JATs) were formed, with staff from ACTED, WFP, DACAAR, ADA, HI and the local DoRR in order to assess Internally Displaced People (IDPs) families. Most Households in this caseload are primarily from Dashti Archi and Qala I Zall district, 63 households are belong to Dashti Archi district, 31 households are belong to Qala I Zall district, 6 households belong to Ali Abad district, 5 households belong to Char dara district, one household belong to Imam Sahib district, 3 households belong to Kunduz around districts and 6 households belong to Ghazi Abad district of Kunar province.

The assessment was conducted from 15 November to 03 December 2018. During this time, JATs assessed 792 families and found 115 households to be potentially eligible for ERM assistance. The average household size is 6.8 members, 10% of the households reporting less than five members, 32% of households reporting having five to six members, 55% of the households reporting seven to nine members and 3% of the households reporting having ten members.

The majority of households (43% or 49) reported being unskilled laborers followed by 32% or 37 households reported farming as their primary source of income, and 20% or 23 households were jobless and lacking sources of income. Six households (5%) reported daily skilled labour as their primary source of income.

The average pre-shock income level for this caseload was New debt since the shock

6,222 AFN per month while the 60% 49% average post- shock income is 40% 32% only 548 AFN per month. 56 19% 20% households reported having 0% contracted additional debts of 0% No debt Less than 2000 Between 2000 More than 8000 more than 8,000 AFN. For 22 and 8000 households these debts were between 2,000 and 8,000 AFN and 37 households reported having debts lower than 2,000 AFN, as the graph shows below. All households have access to markets to buy their basic needs.

Recommendations:

 WFP to provide two-month food ration in-kind to all 115 households  DACAAR will provide wash kits and conduct wash activities to all 115 households  SCI committed to provide NFI for entire caseload

ACTED will provide multi-purpose cash assistance to 115 households in total. 57 households with acute levels of need will receive a full package of assistance (total value of 12,000 AFN) and 58 households will receive a half package of assistance (total value of 6,000 AFN).

Full Package breakdown (Category A):  3,000 AFN for shelter  4,000 AFN for health  4,000 AFN for fuel  1,000 AFN for transport

Half Package breakdown (Category B):

 2,000 AFN for Shelter  2,000 AFN for Health  2,000 AFN for Fuel

2. SECTORIAL ISSUES:

A) FOOD SECURITY, NUTRITION AND LIVELIHOOD

Food was the first priority for 89% of the households in this caseload. 43% of the households reported having no food stocks, 40% of the households reported having food stocks for less than a week, 15% of households reported having food for 1 to 3 weeks and 1% of the household are reporting having food for over three months. All individual profiles - women 100% men 100% and children 100% - are shown in the HEAT as being adopting negative strategies to cope with lack of food such as buying less expensive food, restricting portions in mealtime.

100% of the households have full access to markets, which are, on average, 1.4 kilometers away or 11 minutes on foot. Most households 88% reported relying on poor or no coping strategies to manage the lack of food while 5% reported high coping strategies and 6% reported medium coping strategies. 87% male-headed households reported being restricting their level of consumption for small children to eat.

Recommendation: WFP to provide two-month food ration in-kind to all 115 households

B) NFIs

NFI needs were reported as the third priority for 70% of households, All IDPs households at the time of assessment expressed that they need NFIs and could not carry all their NFIs during the displacement they do not have enough NFIs to cover their daily needs, their economic status is relatively low, and some of them are jobless and the weather is going cold day by day. IDPs communicated a strong need of NFIs to assessment teams as their living conditions in their new host communities were generally very poor (see breakdown of NFI needs below)

Kitchen Heating Hygiene items Water Warm cloth Blankets Materials Container 100% 100% 82% 57% 100% 81%

Recommendation: SCI committed to provide NFI for entire caseload

C) SHELTER

Shelter is the second priority for 90% of households in this caseload. 97% are living in houses and only 3 of them have found with makeshift shelters. From those who live in a house, nearly half of them 39 families reported being hosted by friends or relatives while more than half (76 households) reported that they are living in rental houses and paying some amount of monthly rent for their accommodation. For families who are paying rent, 66 families were paying between 800 and 1,800 AFN per month and another 10 families between 2,000 and 2,500 AFN per month.

Recommendation: ACTED to provide 3,000 AFA for households with severe needs and 2,000 AFN for households with less severe needs.

D) WASH

In this caseload 3% of the households are reporting that they do not have access to water for cooking, drinking and bathing. 60% of households reported relying on a hand pump, while 38% are relying on dug wells, 2% of the households are relying on pipe water. 98% indicated that they have access to a stable water source. On average it takes households 2.3 minutes to reach the nearest water source. Most households 68% have access to a family pit latrine, while 30% have access to a community latrine, 3% of the household report relying on open defecation due to a lack of access to appropriate WASH facilities.

Recommendation: DACAAR to provide WASH kits. ACTED to pass assessment report and database to DACAAR for further analysis of WASH needs.

E) PROTECTION

All the families were displaced due to the high threat caused by fighting between government and AOG. Many of the families appeared to be in visible distress. ACTED female protection officer informed all women during the assessment about the availability of Psycho Social Support (PSS) services provided by HI in its health facilities. Generally, teams expressed that due to clashing and displacement, some of these families are facing acute stress and are not in a good mental health condition. Beside this, ACTED female protection officer reported one female headed household to be in need of source of income. Therefore ACTED is going to refer her to ORD (UNHCRPSN network) to make her a small business to have a source of income.

Recommendation: ACTED protection officer will strictly follow up the referred case with other partners.

F) HEALTH

Generally, no serious health issues were reported for this caseload. Kunduz city has functioning health clinics run by government and non-governmental agencies. HI has provided information about PSS in field level. However, these clinics do not have the capacity to meet all the requirement of the sickness for IDP family and therefore it will be better to provide them with MPCA.

Recommendation: ACTED to provide 4,000 AFN to households with severe needs and 2,000 AFN for households with less severe needs.

G) MARKET ASSESSMENT

Three market vendors were surveyed in three separate markets in Kunduz city. All three vendors observed were busy and well-functioning. All three also sell food and non-food items. All three vendors reported transporting their commodities to market from Kabul. No security challenges related to the transport of goods to market were reported nor were any market shortages reported. All households’ surveyed have access to markets in Kunduz city to meet their basic needs for this reason, cash distribution is preferable. There are number of functioning money transfer agents in the Kunduz city and the surrounding districts that are accessible to IDPs including banks and Hawalas.

ITEM Unit Price AFN /Unit Change in price?

Flour Kg 27.33 No Change Rice Kg 98.33 No Change Oil Liter 84.67 No Change Diesel Liter 58.00 No Change

3. Urgent Priority needs of affected people (as per affected point of view

The following needs are reported by priority order:

1st priority: Food (89%) 2nd priority: Shelter (90%) 3rd priority: NFI (70%)

Recommendations:

Full Package breakdown (Category A):  3,000 AFN for shelter  4,000 AFN for health  4,000 AFN for fuel  1,000 AFN for transport

Half Package breakdown (Category B):

 2,000 AFN for Shelter  2,000 AFN for Health  2,000 AFN for Fuel

Total amount requested for distribution; 57-HH X 12,000= 684,000, AFN 58-HH X 6,000= 348,000, AFN Grand total; 1, 032, 000, AFN

Challenges:

Joint Assessment Teams did not encounter any serious challenges during the assessment. However, the size of the caseload and the Petition system framework made teams having to spend long time with assessments to be able to differentiate short-term displaced entitled to ERM assistance from other types of populations.

4. Annexes

See attached annexes:

B068_ERM8_ACTED_HEAT ASSESSMENT_KUNDUZ (115-Households) B068_ERM8 _ACTED_ MPC MARKET ASSESSMENT_KUNDUZ (115-Households) Report by: Haroon Sayedkhil Date of writing: 04 December 2018