This activity provides assistance in the form of cash-for-work and support to rehabilitate small-scale economically productive services in the community such as gravel roads, community drainage, water canals, agroforestry and protection walls. Six Facilitating Partners (FPs) work collaboratively with Community Representative Groups (CRGs) to select members from vulnerable households who can provide able-bodied adults to provide labor for rehabilitation works. Unskilled laborers are paid 450AFN, and skilled laborers 700 per day. Vulnerable households are provided with an average of 28 days of paid work. The wages provided are sufficient to buy approximately four to six weeks of food.
Cash for work is implemented in six regions covering 20 provinces, 27 districts and around 2,600 communities. Additional Financing will expand the coverage to three new underserved provinces (Kunduz, Zabul and Farah). The total coverage of activity is now 6 regions, 29 provinces, 94 districts and nearly 9,500 rural communities.
Cash for work is targeted to benefit 900,000 households through short term employment, creating over 27.7 million labor days. 8 million people will have improved access to basic services through 8,000 community subprojects. With additional financing the average number of working days per household will be 26 days providing sufficient wages to buy approximately six to eight weeks of food.
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