IOM will assist highly vulnerable households in locations of displacement and in areas of origin with:

• Provision of Multi-purpose Cash Assistance (MPCA), in line with the principles of the Cash Working Group, to vulnerable households, which can be used to cover basic needs and to reduce negative coping mechanisms.

IOM will maintain its capacities for rapid intervention through:

• Provision of Emergency Cash, especially for those having multiple needs and to cope with unforeseen shocks. IOM will provide cash support for the most vulnerable households and potentially those newly displaced due to an emergency event.

IOM will support the provision of comprehensive health care services to Afghan nationals in Pakistan, migrants in Pakistan, and flood-affected populations through: 

• Operating mobile clinics for the provision of emergency health services following disasters;
• Rehabilitating damaged health facilities; and
• Contribute to referral systems for individuals requiring specialized care, including those facing protection issues or in need of MHPSS assistance.

IOM seeks to address the needs and uphold the rights of migrants, survivors of trafficking, displaced persons, and populations affected by conflict and natural hazards, in both camps, informal sites, and out-of-camp locations by:

• Providing specialized case management services at the individual and household levels, which include Gender Based Violence (GBV) case management services, but is not limited to that;
• Undertaking protection risk assessments in some areas of displacement to prepare for protection monitoring and community discussions; 
• Identification of protection risks and trends through protection monitoring, coordination with other actors, and community consultation, to strengthen evidence-based programming;
• Raising awareness on trafficking in persons among at-risk communities and frontline service providers, such as humanitarian actors and health workers;
• Advance the Legal Identity agenda of Afghanistan by supporting access to civil documentation for Pakistanis and Afghan nationals such as birth certification, IF card (CNIC), ACC card, marriage certificate, and house and land ownership certificates.

In addition, IOM will work closely with frontline workers and partners to reduce protection risks by:

• Ensuring a robust approach to preventing and responding to sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA), including appropriate risk mitigation, prevention, and response measures and ensuring that all staff and partners are trained on how to respond to a disclosure of a SEA incident and how to safely respond to survivors to appropriate services and how to report through IOM’s We Are All In Platform (or other channels, if not IOM) in a confidential manner; 
• Train staff on how to respond to disclosures of GBV incidents in a safe and ethical manner;
• Cooperating with border authorities to reduce risks to safety during cross-border crises through preparation, training on rights and vulnerabilities, and technical scale-up;
• Ensuring that protection is mainstreamed in all of IOM’s interventions through training of staff on protection principles, adapting interventions’ design to better include the needs of vulnerable groups (including people living with disabilities), providing the tools to better address cases and aligning with data protection principles; and
• Addressing protection risks, including risks of GBV through awareness-raising and access to information in support of safe and dignified access to services across IOM programming.

IOM’s WASH interventions will support those affected by natural hazards, who are in displacement or who have returned, as well as local communities. IOM will focus on:

• Selection and distribution of hygiene kits in coordination with the WASH sector and selection of WASH kits adequate to the operational context;
• Hygiene promotion with key messages such as dangers of contaminated water sources for human consumption, use of water treatment products at the household level, boiling of untreated water for drinking, the importance of hand washing at critical times, prevention of vector-borne diseases, and proper use and maintenance of toilet facilities;
• Rehabilitation of small and medium WASH infrastructure such as water pumps, water pipes, boreholes; and
• Construction or rehabilitation of latrines, possibly through cash-for-work modalities.

IOM’s Shelter/NFI interventions will support those affected by disasters, who are in displacement or have returned, and local communities. For shelter assistance, IOM will focus on:

• Selection and distribution of emergency shelter kits (ropes, tarpaulins, tents, etc.);
• Selection and distribution of shelter repair kits; and
• Provision of cash for shelter assistance.

IOM will ensure that target populations are supported in accessing safe, dignified long-term housing solutions to address their shelter needs in a manner that supports community inclusion and promotes social cohesion. For NFI assistance, IOM will focus on:

• Provision of Basic NFI kits to cover essential NFI needs through in-kind assistance and
• Winterization through distributions of specific NFI winterization items.

In addition, IOM will maintain the lead of the S/NFI working group and work with local and national partners on an adequate coverage of provinces and districts for emergency preparedness and response support in terms of shelter and NFI needs. It will also coordinate working groups and develop or adapt guidelines on technical issues, such as technical standards for S-NFI kits composition and shelter rehabilitation, and guidelines for the prevention of outbreak diseases in collective living spaces such as cholera and COVID-19.

IOM will enhance civic engagement, promote social cohesion and extend support for displaced households and communities. IOM provides tailored support for the remote and marginalized communities along the Afghan border, including support where poverty, illiteracy and unemployment are key drivers of instability and community tensions, as well as broader support for mediation and dispute resolution mechanisms.

To achieve these objectives, IOM will:

• Extensively engage with provincial and district government officials, religious leaders, youth, women and academia. A major component focuses on strengthening capabilities through workshops on Social Cohesion, Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution;
• Enhance collaboration, engagement, and capacitating of existing civil society forums which include the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Committee and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Commission on the Status of Women;
• Provide capacity building to both print and broadcast media, particularly community radio, to strengthen their role in increasing understanding and awareness amongst communities on key topics related to civic engagement, such as – inter alia – gender mainstreaming, government return and rehabilitation plans, and governance reforms;
• Provide small-scale livelihoods, social enterprise opportunities and market-driven skills development targeting at-risk groups, supplemented by the provision of materials and equipment for small business development through in-kind or cash-based mechanisms;
• Support youth empowerment and development forums under which youth are provided tailored training to build their capacity, skills, and knowledge to act as proactive agents of change that can contribute to strengthening cohesion within their respective communities;
• Based on IOM’s Community Engagement & Policing (CEP) programming, build trust and cooperation, and foster communication and interaction between communities and State authorities, primarily law enforcement actors, in order to promote a collaborative approach towards increasing security and order based on the stated needs of the community; and
• Using quick impact project (QIP) methodology, basic infrastructure such as electricity, schools, and health facilities can be rehabilitated and services can be re-established in communities and access can be enhanced for all affected communities.

IOM will address challenges related to housing, land and property (HLP) issues, including lost or destroyed official papers, houses being occupied by another household or general need for legal assistance, with the aim to remove barriers to return for flood-affected persons who have lost their house or had their house damaged. IOM will:

• Provide assistance to beneficiaries alongside housing-related interventions. Support includes both representation and information counselling and can be provided either through existing joint community-resource centres or through legal mobile clinics;  
• Provide assistance to obtain civil documentation, with a focus on IDPs for which official papers were lost or destroyed during the floods;
• Build the capacity of civil society organizations and government partners, including through the provision of policy guidance, expert advice; and technical assistance for HLP rights, including, but not limited to, restitution.

IOM will keep supporting government authorities and CSOs to build their capacities for disaster preparedness and response in line with humanitarian principles, focusing these strategies on IOM’s Shelter and WASH interventions as a priority. IOM will implement the following through a community-based disaster risk management approach (CBDRR):

• Conduct assessments such as hazard vulnerability and risk assessments;
• Extend assessments to border management operations, establishing strengths and gaps relating to operational capacity, protection, health, and considerations for vulnerable groups to be addressed or mitigated through Humanitarian Border Management Interventions;
• Capacity-building of stakeholders and establishment of Community Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) to mobilize first responders where aid can be delayed in case of disaster;
• Improved access to basic services, in particular, continued rehabilitation of water treatment facilities to sustain clean water provision in hazard-prone areas;
• Continue developing contingency planning, with all stakeholders involved and in synergy with its other programmes, to be prepared to support affected households through multi-sectoral assistance, including emergency cash and NFI, social cohesion and access to services and referral for targeted assistance while mainstreaming protection;
• Maintain operational capacities and procedures to rapidly intervene in case of displacements due to sudden disasters such as floods and earthquakes;
• Support government preparedness capacities, including through interventions seeking to improve temporary evacuation capacities (physical infrastructure, equipment, and ‘soft’ components), anticipatory action, etc; and
• Continue capacity-building of government counterparts and local actors, ensuring they lead on DRR, CCA, and emergency preparedness strategies with UN/INGOs support building on lessons learnt from past disaster responses in the country where IOM intervened.

As part of the triple recovery approach, rehabilitation of local infrastructure and services are critical. As such, IOM will:

• Implement Quick Impact Projects (QIP) such as the rehabilitation of water stations, water pipes, water networks, and boreholes where possible, using materials linked to renewable energy and/or green technologies to ensure climate adaptation, especially the installation of solar systems;
• Conduct vulnerability and capacity assessments of water and sanitation systems and practices to assess the ability to meet essential needs in the event of a disaster and enhance access to climate-resilient WASH infrastructure and services such as adapting technologies to account for climate risks, exploring innovative, climate-smart technologies such as solar water pumps, exploring wastewater reuse/recycling, nutrient recovery, and energy production; and
• Generally focus on infrastructure that provides access to clean and safe water as well as on setting up early warning systems and different trainings on topics such as Mass Evacuations in Natural Disasters (MEND) and Migrants in Countries in Crisis Initiatives (MICIC).

IOM remains one of the main providers of reliable data on displacement in Pakistan. IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) tools and processes allow IOM and partners to track locations of temporarily displaced persons and those who have returned to their areas of origin, and assess their situation and needs in areas of displacement among others, providing the necessary information for emergency response, recovery and crisis prevention programming. IOM will continue to:

• Collect data through IOM’s enumerators and/or key informants at border crossing points and in communities respectively; 
• Compile data on migration movements between Pakistan and neighbouring countries;
• Produce and disseminate products through the online platform and through sharing with partners, such as flow monitoring dashboards, maps, graphics on shelter damages by floods, most affected districts, climate-induced displacements, etc.; and
• Conduct baseline assessments and community needs assessments of migrants and temporarily displaced persons in affected areas.