Afghanistan's mountainous regions are prone to natural hazards [6], causing significant damage to life and property annually. The paper discusses an approach for planning and designing people-centric culturally appropriate houses, aligned to the community's values, considering climatic conditions, and minimizing exposure to natural hazards. To achieve these objectives, the process encompasses extensive data collection from beneficiaries, through conducting focus group discussions (FGDs), stakeholder consultations, and field surveys to identify community needs. This resulted in understanding housing requirements, essential amenities, spatial dimensions, exposure to natural hazards, and climatic threats. The program assessed housing needs, prioritized vulnerable groups, and evaluated cost-effective, affordable, and safe housing in the targeted area. The process developed a three-stage prototyping, which included identifying key features, developing base designs, collecting community feedback, refining designs, and improving design in consultation with the field professionals. This led to the finalization of the designs and the commencement of the piloting stage. During the pilot stage, construction guidelines were prepared, mason training was conducted and site-specific hazard assessments [7] for housing site determination were carried out. Once safe locations were determined a land survey was carried out and housing units were planned considering safety and climatic comfort. The team further extended community consultation to finalize the housing layout. The housing unit was further assessed for its structural safety and finalized costing. The household beneficiaries were further facilitated for fund mobilization with the technical support of the project team. The key emphasis was given to the ownership of the beneficiaries and ensuring high-quantity construction.