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Titre : Emergency drought response to provide access to safe water and improve sanitation and hygiene facilities for IDPs and host communities in Baidoa and Diinsor – Somalia

Pays /Région : Somalie

Code projet : SOM-17/3485/SA1/WASH/INGO/4555

Durée : 24/03/2017 // 24/09/2017

Présentation
With the proposed Action, INTERSOS intends to guarantee access to safe and clean water and sanitation facilities as well as to promote good hygiene practices in an effort to improve the health status of 24,357 internally displaced persons, and host community members in Baidoa and Diinsor. Limited access to safe adequate water and sanitation facilities, coupled with poor hygiene knowledge and practices, is putting these communities at risk for water-borne diseases such as AWD and cholera. According to the last UN-OCHA Inter-Agency assessment carried out in December 2016 in Baidoa with the participation of INTERSOS, poor livestock conditions as well as deaths caused by lack of water, pasture and infestation of diseases has been reported. Limited access to education facilities have been reported ; school aged children are not able to attend school as some of them have migrated to far areas. Key activities envisaged by this Action include water trucking, repairing of existing water sources, including piping and storage tanks, construction of deluding latrines in health facilities, hygiene and sanitation promotion and distribution of basic hygiene kits (including appropriate material for menstrual management) to people in need to respond AWD/cholera. The proposed response also takes into consideration the impact of the drought and AWD/cholera outbreaks on vulnerable groups such as women, children and persons with disabilities. Moreover, the Action envisages specific activities to prevent risk of gender based violence thus to contribute to greater balance equality.

Bénéficiaires
The project aims at improving access to and availability of WASH services to the neediest IDPs, returnees and host community members. The project is expected to reach 38.688 direct beneficiaries (17,800 IDP, 6,388 individual from the host community and 2000 returnees. The project is mainly focusing on IDPs and vulnerable host community members. A very special focus is given to children in schools. This is seen as an essential ‘do no harm’ approach and more sensitive to the possibilities of conflict as a result of the assistance being perceived as unequal. In collaboration with the relevant stakeholders, the project shall develop beneficiary selection criteria and follow a fair and transparent process to avoid inclusion and exclusion errors

Porteur du projet : INTERSOS

Financement : Nations Unies

Contribution : 330,806.48 $

United Nations Development Group