NFIs, hygiene kits and food, sourced and distributed across Afghanistan.

Food, NFI & Hygiene Kits in Afghanistan.

Relief distribution is where procurement, warehousing and transport have to arrive at the same place on the same day. Zhikal runs all three, which is why a distribution can be planned against a real delivery date rather than an estimated one.

Items are bought against specification and inspected before dispatch, assembled into kits and labelled, held in secure storage until the distribution window, then moved to the distribution point with a supervised handover. Beneficiary lists are checked at the point of receipt and acknowledgements are captured individually. Where the client protocol or the community calls for it, women staff handle registration and verification, and sites are laid out with separate queuing and private verification space.

Specifications come first, and they are yours. Kit compositions and item standards are agreed in writing before sourcing, components are inspected against them, and kits are assembled to the agreed composition for each beneficiary category. There is no standard package: what goes into a food basket, an NFI kit or a hygiene kit is set by your programme, its donor and the cluster guidance it follows.

Food packages start from a commodity matrix: each commodity's grade, net weight, units per package and minimum remaining shelf life, with samples approved before award and every line counted, weighed and checked before packing. The food package checklist gives the matrix and the inspection record.

Non-food items and winter items follow the item standards in your specification, such as the ES/NFI cluster's standard kits where your programme uses them; the NFI and hygiene-kit guide covers specification and delivery evidence, and the winter pre-positioning guide covers planning around destinations that lose access in winter.

Hygiene-kit components are checked against the composition at receipt, and the kits again before dispatch, with expiry dates recorded for soap and other dated items; the inspection checklist is the form. For every path, the last-mile guide covers the handover itself.

The company has delivered multi-province food and non-food operations at scale, including a five-province food-package contract covering six commodity lines and more than 71,000 line-item units.