Logistic Transportation & Warehouse Services (LTS)
Women for Afghan Women’s LTS project partners with The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to provide logistical and technical support for the distribution of humanitarian aid to internally displaced persons (IDPs), refugee returnees, and survivors of natural disasters across Afghanistan. The project works to reduce the vulnerabilities, enhance protections, and reinforce capacities of vulnerable populations and their host communities to cope with the ongoing crises in the country.
Women for Afghan Women’s (WAW’s) Logistic Transportation and Warehouse Services (LTS) provides logistical and technical support to UNHCR operations in Afghanistan, including warehouse management, fleet management, and fuel management of UNHCR projects implemented by other partners.
The LTS project partnership with UNHCR aims to pursue common community-based protection goals to benefit refugees, displaced, and returnee populations and affected host communities in all provinces of Afghanistan, and includes:
- Creating an environment for the sustainable reintegration of vulnerable populations by strengthening essential services and facilities in Priority Areas of Return and Reintegration (PARRs), while working towards fostering social cohesion between these vulnerable/displaced/refugee populations and their host communities.
- Reducing vulnerabilities, enhancing protections, and reinforcing the resilience of vulnerable populations and their host communities to cope with the ongoing crisis in Afghanistan by providing logistical support for the transportation needs of humanitarian and other organizations distributing aid.
- Facilitating the safe and on-time transportation of CRI (Core Relief Items) and NFI (Non-Food Items) and maintaining inventory and stock items in good condition in Kabul, Herat, Balkh and Kandahar provinces.
WAW’s LTS Project provides:
- Logistical support for the management, maintenance, and safe keeping of humanitarian aid in warehouses in the Kabul, Herat, Kandahar, and Balkh provinces;
- Facilitates the safe transportation of humanitarian aid throughout the Afghanistan from the four provinces hosting warehouses;
- Management and maintenance of humanitarian aid transportation fleets (in Kabul);
- Coordination and liaison activities for humanitarian aid transportation fleets;
- Fuel management services for UNHCR operations, including maintaining records of fuel received and issued to UNHCR offices; and,
- Information Communications Technology (ICT) management for incoming aid shipments and other logistical management in close coordination with UNHCR offices operating in every Afghan region.
In Kabul and Balkh, the LTS project also provides fleet management and workshop services, where professional mechanics conduct maintenance and repair of UNHCR vehicles and generators.
Since August 2021:
The LTS project’s main coordination office is in Kabul with four field offices located in the Kabul, Herat, Balkh, and Kandahar provinces from which aid was distributed to areas throughout Afghanistan that have been devastated and negatively impacted by floods, earthquakes, and other natural disasters or humanitarian crises.
The project’s quality assurance and support services are provided by 85 professional and technical personnel, of which two are female staff. This staff work in close collaboration between UNHCR and the Afghan Ministry of Refugees and Repatriates (MoRR) and its departments across all the Afghan provinces, and has thus far:
- Transported 6,499 metric tons of CRI (Core Relief Items) & NFI (Non-Food Items) across Afghanistan, including:
- Refugee housing units and tents, plastic tarps, solar panels;
- Blankets, kitchen utensils, buckets, solar lamps, cooking gas, cleaning items;
- Sanitary napkins, soap, and other personal hygiene products.
Direct Beneficiaries
- Internally displaced persons (IDPs)
- Refugee returnees
- Survivors of natural disasters (floods, earthquakes, etc.)
Indirect Beneficiaries
- Host communities in Priority Areas of Return & Reintegration
- UNHCR’s partners and other local and humanitarian aid distribution partners and organizations in Afghanistan
WAW’s LTS provides critical support to humanitarian aid distribution efforts that ensure vulnerable populations, and communities that host vulnerable populations, are able to survive and better cope in the aftermath of the many crises and natural disasters that are impacting Afghanistan.