Component 1: Livelihoods Support and Climate Resilient Productive Assets in Rural Areas

In Parent Project (PP), the rural component covered 6 regions, 29 provinces, 94 districts, 9,500+ communities, reaching 900,000 households, creating 27.7 million labor days and benefiting 8 million people through 8,000+ community subprojects. 

Under the Additional Financing (AF 1), a total of six regions, 20 provinces and 27 districts with around 2,685 communities will receive assistance. This will bring the total coverage of this component to 29 provinces, 94 districts and 8,651 rural communities. It is estimated that 900,000 HHs will receive jobs by creating over 27.7 million labor days, and 8 million people in these areas will receive services. 

The Additional Financing (AF2) will cover around 2,153 rural communities in 38 districts in 23 provinces, including five new provinces (Badghis, Balkh, Daikundi, Ghor and Jawzjan).

  1. Provides Cash-for-work to rehabilitate community assets as selected by the target communities e.g. community roads, canals, drainage, agroforestry and protection walls

  2. 5 NGOs are engaged as Facilitating Partners to work Community Groups to identify vulnerable households who are then employed as skilled or unskilled workers in the subprojects

    • Laborers paid: 450 AFN/day (unskilled), 700 AFN/day (skilled)

    • Average 26–28 days of work, covering approximately 6–8 weeks of food needs

  3. Each FP is assigned specific geographic "Lots"—clusters of provinces—allowing for more localized planning, coordination, and accountability across the rural team structure.