Ensuring preparedness for timely and effective response to humanitarian needs arising from conflict, natural disasters and other emergencies in Badakhshan, Takhar, and Baghlan provinces, north-eastern Afghanistan

The overall objective of the project is to improve preparedness for timely, appropriate and effective humanitarian assistance in emergency shelter and non-food items for families affected by conflict, natural disasters and other emergencies in Takhar, Baghlan and Badakhshan provinces.The project will seek to achieve this objective through the procurement and prepositioning of ES/NFI materials for use by crisis-affected IDPs, not only in the towns of Taloqan and Faizabad but also, in some of the most remote disaster- and conflict-prone districts in the three targeted provinces, namely Fring, Gozar-gahae-Noor and Khost in Baghlan, Rustaq and Chaab districs in Takhar, and Wakhan, Baharak, Shugnan, Iskashim, and Shah-e Buzurg in Badakhshan.