Backyard poultry production has always been a significant contributor to family nutrition in Afghanistan and engaging women in business. The Community-Based Eco-Disaster Risk Reduction (CBED) project poultry training aimed to introduce production systems for small-scale, family-managed poultry, specifically targeting women and helping them improve poultry production. To achieve this, Save the Children organised sensitisation meetings in target communities to engage community members and community-based disaster management committees (CBDMCs) and seek their assistance in selecting female participants for the poultry programme. 

Save the Children, operating in Faryab and Jawzjan, explained the project and participant selection criteria to committee members to be considered when providing a pre-list of households from the community. After receiving the community list, Save the Children began participant selection, surveyed over 500 households, and identified 200 households as eligible for the poultry support activity.

The women selected to provide these services are interested in poultry farming but have little experience with chicken coops and the possibility of making them. However, the other criteria for this selection were poor widows and disabled children.

Through this initiative, 200 female beneficiaries received backyard poultry inputs, including fifteen chickens, chicken feeds, water feeders, masks, two types of vaccines, and other items.