**Humanitarian Needs Overview 2016 **
The Pakistan Food Security Cluster has initiated the process of Humanitarian Response Plan for year 2016 and consulted with multiple stakeholders including FSC partners to highlight the unmet and urgent needs of returnees and displaced people of KP/FATA. FSC has been facing a multiple challenges in term of area’s accessibility, limited funding, and a few latest assessments. However, the situation in the areas of returns is very critical in term of livelihood opportunities, which forcing to the humanitarian community to help the people for resumption and initiate the activities to restore and rehabilitate the means of livelihood and productive infrastructure.
In recent year 2015, almost over 100,000 families were already returned to the areas of their origin and they need urgent humanitarian support in term of agriculture and livestock, including poultry support for restoring their very initial means of livelihoods which contribute to their household’s food security.
On the other hands, livelihood based infrastructure which almost has destroyed and need to revital- ize through cash based interventions which considered as a supplementary source of labor and income generation opportunities in the most severely agencies and districts of KP/ FATA. The humanitarian community under the FSC is in process to target the total of 1.2 million people in the areas of returns and 0.4 million in hosting areas in the year 2016.