2015 STRATEGIC RESPONSE PLAN

1. AFGHANISTAN CHAP 2015 PROCESS – DELIVERABLES – TIMELINE 2015STRATEGIC RESPONSE PLAN INTER CLUSTER COORDINATION TEAM MEETING AUGUST 2014

2. AGENDA: • Setting parameters of response • Planning Template • Developing Humanitarian Needs Overview • Needs and Vulnerability Ranking • Defining People in Need / Target Caseloads • Cluster SRPs • Timeframe

3. Parameters of Response: • Learning from 2014 CHAP &MYR process • Response parameters guide the development of a reasoned and coherent CHAP; • Response parameters articulated by country strategic priorities should inform cluster planning; • Ensure a common consensus of a needs, rather than individual cluster specific, based approach to determining country level strategic priorities and corresponding outcomes; • Approach seeks to achieve strategic, coordinated evidence-based response to the most pressing humanitarian needs; • Foster cross-cluster cooperation and multi-sectoral integrated response strategies that maximize impact through convergence of effort and resources; • Enable an articulation of consolidated achievements and progress delivered by the humanitarian community, the cumulative impact (whole being greater than the sum of its parts).

6. Parameters of Response: • Informed by perception of humanitarian need & understanding of operational context; • Requirement to prioritize needs; • - Diminishing Global Humanitarian Funding • - Guide donor decision making • - Articulate distinctions between humanitarian & development planning frameworks

11. Developing the Humanitarian Needs Overview: • Unchanging context • Available data • Lessons from 2014 process – improving transparency • Used to populate baseline for strategic priority impact indicators

12. Needs Analysis: DRAFT INDICATOR LIST:

13. Vulnerability Mapping DRAFT INDICATOR LIST:

14. Provincial Needs & Vulnerability Ranking EXAMPLE SCORING BANDS SHOWN FOR DISCUSSION PURPOSES ONLY

15. Defining People in Need andTarget Caseloads • Needs & vulnerability analysis will provide Provincial ranking identifying areas of priority for humanitarian response; • People in need derived on the basis of the proportion of people identified with very high need and very high vulnerability; • Clusters to determine target caseloads based on identified needs, vulnerability and capacity of members to respond.

16. Development of Cluster SRPs • Cluster plan to identify objectives/activities and demonstrate linkage to country strategic objectives; • Justification of how target caseloads identified - how needs weighted, vulnerable groups prioritized, capacity of members assessed etc. • Explain how the cluster response plan responds to the various needs of different groups and provide indications of sex and age disaggregation in the targeted population; • Each cluster should explain how they will mainstream protection in their response plan and how they will address other cross-cutting issues; • Identify information gaps and indicate assessments planned during the next programme cycle; • Explain how the planned activities and cluster approach complements national response and recovery strategies, and longer term development frameworks that exist.

17. Cluster SRPs & the Strategic Planning Template: Takes into account requirement for multi-sectoral integrated approach to addressing priority needs; DRAFT UNDER DEVELOPMENT WITH CLUSTERS

18. Cluster SRPs & the Strategic Planning Template: • OCHA to provide templates and guidance: • Cluster objectives and their activities should strictly relate to the strategic objectives; • Each cluster objective should have no more then three indicators associated with it, with one being an outcome level indicator; • The activities should contain, or be accompanied by, measureable output indicators (targets). Cluster activities and targets are output-based: what you will actually deliver, produce or install; • Costing cluster activities.