Emergency Response, Support for Refugees and IDPs

Most Afghans now live below the poverty line, with over 17 million people (40 percent) experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity. This includes nearly 3.4 million people (around 8 percent) experiencing emergency levels of food insecurity. There are around 6.6 million internally displaced people living in precarious situations across the country.

Refugees, vulnerable migrants, and internally displaced persons (IDPs) often face protection challenges and they lack access to shelter, food, WASH, and other basic services. PTCRO seeks to protect and assist vulnerable women, girls, boys, and men who are affected by displacement.

PTCRO Focuses on:

• Providing the affected Health and Human Services (HHS) with a reduced Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance (MPCA) package locally.
• Emergency response: We provide access to humanitarian assistance for IDPs, extremely vulnerable host communities, and returnees by focusing on winterization, emergency shelter response, non-food items, vulnerability assessments, capacity building, and multi-purpose cash.
• Education: PTCRO specializes in education in emergencies for displacement-affected children, adolescents, and youth. We improve the capacity of education staff to deliver strategic response areas including non-formal education (community-based education), support to formal education (FE), and youth education and training for out-of-school children in conflict and displacement-affected, rural, and hard-to-reach areas where government schools do not exist or are far from communities.
• Shelter and settlements: The shelter response in Afghanistan is based on three principal pillars:
  • First-line response shelter. This involves immediate interventions to provide temporary shelter interventions during crises or emergencies.
  • Non-first-line response shelter. This includes transitional and permanent shelter solutions implemented during the recovery and reconstruction phase.
  • Infrastructure. This pillar encompasses the enhancement of temporary and transitional infrastructure, as well as the development of temporary and permanent educational facilities.