ERM Household Assessment Report

1. General Information:

Assessment Location: Logar province, Capital Pule Alam and Mohammad Agha districts multiple (Province/District/Village) villages. Type of crises: Conflict (Conflict/Nat. Disaster/Other) Kunar province (Shigal Wa Sheltan district), Wardak province (Sayed Abad and Jalrez districts), Logar province (Pule Alam and Mohammad Agha, Crisis Location: Khoshi, Khawar , Charkh and Baraki Barak districts), Ghazni province (Province/District/Village) (Dehyak district), Takhar province (Chahab district), Kapisa province (Mahmood-e- Ragi district), Kabul province (Sorubi district) and Paktya province (Chamkani district). Assessment Team: (Name of I/NGO in the PIN, IRC, WFP/CTG, WSTA and DoRR assessment team) Crises date: (date of displacement- June – October 2017 Estimated) Date of Notification: 07 November - 2017 Date of Assessment: 15 – 26 November 2017 (starting date/ending date) Affected Population: HHs: Families: Inds: (Total Caseload: IDP/CAT 56 56 366 A/CAT B/Other) Electronic Hardcopy Data collection method Yes

2. Assessment Finding and Recommendation in brief:

On 7th November, an OCT meeting with partners and government departments including PIN, IRC, WFP/CTG, ARCS ANDMA and DoRR was conducted to begin assessments of approximately 100 households in Mohammad Agha district and 125 households in Capital Pule Alam, in the meeting it was decided to first launch assessments for Mohammad Agha district as the families were in a much worse condition from having little to no food stocks, living in open areas and lack of WASH facilities than families located in Pule Alam.

Assessments were conducted between 15 – 26th November in Pule Alam and Mohammad Agha with 56 households identified eligible for humanitarian assistance. Households reported being displaced due to ongoing conflict from Kunar province (Shigal Wa Sheltan district), Wardak province (Sayed Abad and Jalrez districts), Logar province (Pule Alam and Mohammad Agha, Khoshi, Khawar , Charkh and Baraki Barak districts), Ghazni province (Dehyak district), Takhar province (Chahab district), Kapisa province (Mahmood-e- Ragi district), Kabul province (Sorubi district) and Paktya province (Chamkani district), the majority having been displaced from insecure districts of Logar (77%) and unable to return home.

Households reported having no food stocks or household items with the 4 households currently living in open areas under poor conditions with 5 households practicing open defecation. 52 out of 56 eligible HHs reported already having accumulated new debt after being displaced. Limited opportunities for

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sustainable employment within Logar present additional vulnerabilities and challenges for families to continue to look after their families after displacement. Additionally the majority of households reported their main source of income came through daily work, which could often be unstable.

Recommendations: Provide IDPs with appropriate emergency assistance in the form of SMEB package. Findings of the market assessment underline markets are functioning in the area.

3. Sectorial Issues:

A) Food Security, Nutrition and Livelihood: Households reported using a variety of negative coping mechanisms such as relying on less preferred or less expensive food (39%), adults consuming less food to feed their small children (43%), borrowing food from relatives (50%), limiting portion size at mealtimes (25%), reduce number of meal eaten in a day (29%) and 2 percent sending children’s to work.

Majority of the households (98%) reported being mostly dependent on unstable sources of income such as daily labor. The majority reported that heads of households are mainly unskilled workers or receive income through physical labour. In Pule Alam, some reported being able able to work 2 or 3 days at minimum wage with the current weather conditions impacting negatively on their ability to get work.

As many as 52 households among the 56 households (93%) reported having accumulated on average over 8000 AFA of new debt since the start of their displacement. 54 households reported an average loss of income amounting to 2527 AFA, 2 female-headed HH reported being without stable income and receiving support from relatives. The loss of income is close to an average monthly income of a household in Afghanistan and can have additional negative effects on the family, from the inability to cover basic needs to increased protection concerns to sustain the household.

Recommendation: Include cash for food as part of SMEB package for all 56 households.

B) NFI: Below is the breakdown of reported NFI needs from households:

Kitchen Heating Clothing Blanket Water Hygiene

materials container

55 55 50 50 17 56

Recommendation: Distribute cash or in kind NFIs to households.

C) Shelter:

 42 HHs reported living in rented houses, with an average rent of 3252 AFA per month.  9 HHs reported living with host community.  4 HHs reported in open area (free of charge)  1 HH house given by community (free of charge)

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Recommendation: Considering the primary source of income of all HHs is daily work, additional support for shelter should be included within the SMEB for all 56 households especially with rental prices being reported at such a high rate. In addition, and in view of the current cold weather, the 4 HHs currently living in open areas in poor conditions (makeshift tents) require emergency shelters.

WASH:

On average, the assessed households reported that the closest water source was 2 minutes away by foot. The majority of HHs accesses water through hand pumps 21HHs (89%). All the households have access to safe drinking water it is adequate for cooking, bathing and drinking needs. 5 respondents reported practicing open defecation, with 4 living in open areas and one household in rented accommodation without a latrine. When asked further, the household reported that the landlord had not built a latrine. 45 reported using family pit latrines. 43 households responded that women and children were the main water collectors and 13 households report just women were the main water collector.

Recommendation:

 Distribute hygiene kits and conduct hygiene promotion  Refer to SI to provide emergency latrines and bathing facilities for 5 households living in open areas. Whilst one household had recently rented accommodation, the respondent still lacked WASH facilities

D) Protection: Below is the breakdown of households who reported additional vulnerabilities

Female headed HH 6

Recommendation: No households met the selection criteria to trigger an IPA.

E) Health:

Health facilities are available in the capital, Pule Alam and Mohammad Agha districts including a hospitals and private clinics. The average distance to the nearest health facility is 9km, which is, still a significant distance should families report a need to seek medical assistance and support to access medical facilities should be provided.

F) Education:

According to the assessment data, 20 out of 56 HHs reported their children are currently attending school with no problem, 30 households reported have children of school age but, their children did not attend school in Pule Alam and Mohammad Agha districts due to lack of documentation and financial problem unable to attend school, and 6 households report that don’t have school age children’s as the reason.

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H) MARKET ASSESSMENT:

Change in price? ITEM Unit Price AFN /Unit (Yes/No/Increase since the displacement/Decreased) Wheat Flour, White Kg 26 No 0.33 increase since the Rice Kg 82 displacement. 0.33 increase since the Oil Litre 87 displacement. Diesel Litre 50 No h) Other:

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

 36% (20HHs) reported food as their first priority with 23 HHs (41%) reporting a preference for cash  Food was the second priority reported by households with close to half of the respondents preferring cash (43%)  27 HHs (48%) reported NFIs as a third priority.

Response:  IRC to provide 56 HHs with hygiene kits, along with hygiene promotion sessions.  IRC to provide 56 HHs with cash for NFIs (6000AFA)  PIN in collaboration with SI to provide 5 latrine kits and bathing facilities for the households with open defecation.  PIN to provide the following SMEB package for 56 HHs in one installment as per below to the amount of 24,000 AFA1  Challenges:

No challenges were experienced during assessment.

Report written by: Sibghatullah Himat/ERM Team leader, East Date of writing: 28/11/2017

1 In coordination with other actors, the amount of 6000 AFA to be distributed by IRC for NFIs is subtracted from the total SMEB package

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