Sustainable key WASH Interventions in West, Central and North Jabel Marra IDPs and Returnees areas. (Envelope 1) The Community in the targeted localities of Jabal Mara areas of central Darfur state have been suffering from the effects of protracted conflict since 2003 especially the war which took place in 2016 claimed lives of many children and adults and displaced more than 195,000 people from their residential areas and left them deprived of their productive assets. WRS prepared this action to address the immediate and medium term needs of returnees, IDPs and hosting communities in Northern Jabal Mara (Rokero), Central Jabal Mara (Gollo) and West Jabal Mara (Nertiti) localities through designing and implementing community based response and recovery activities under WASH sector. This intervention targets a population of 40,815 (9387men, 10204 women, 9796 boys and 11428 girls) IDPs, Returnees and Host community. The beneficiaries are from localities of North Jabal Mara 11,001, Central Jabal Mara 14,325 and West Jabel Mara 15,489 IDPs. The direct beneficiaries are spread across 10 villages within the 3 localities as follows 5 villages in Central Jabel Marra (Kairo, Kormol, Tarbi, Korron, Killing), 4 in West Jabel Marra (South IPDs Camp, Kamkella, Nill IDPs Camp) and 2 villages in North Jabel Marra (Borgo and Arrow). The selected villages has been done and agreed upon at state and locality level to avoid duplication of resources. Except Nertiti, ten thousands of IDPs in North and Central Jabal Mara are living integrated with the rural hosting communities. The number of IDPs and returnees is not verified and registered in these two localities. To this end the registered and verified IDPs under this action are 35446 people out of the targeted 40,815. 
The proposed action will address the following gaps and needs of the targeted people: Clean water will be provided to the targeted beneficiaries by constructing new hand pumps, rehabilitating existing nonfunctional water infrastructure (hand pumps), upgrading high yield boreholes with solar system, establishment of hand pump spare parts supply chain centers, water quality surveillance, establishing and capacitating water management committees and technicians and devising community based approaches to sustain use of the water supply schemes. The action will also implement activities that contribute to improve the poor hygiene and sanitations through scaling-up Community Approaches to Total Sanitation (CATS) methodology. Under institution sanitation support, ventilated improved pit latrines will be constructed with stances for boys and girls separately, establish solid waste disposal management system and vector control in IDPs camp. Also Hygiene promotion will be conducted at HH level, in schools, health facilities and related public areas to reach more people with hygiene messages. In addition, Hygiene amp sanitation school clubs, committees, women and youth will be trained in proper hygiene and sanitation behaviors.
The intervention approaches are community based, cost effective, sustainable, focusing more of empowering communities than providing continuous humanitarian assistance. In the WASH sector, WRS will focus on solar driven pumps instead of generators due to cost effectiveness and sustainability. WRS will provide training and building capacity of WRMCs to develop water tariff systems which contribute to cost recovery and enable users to purchase spare parts for maintenance. The community managed spare part shops will ensure the plumbing materials are consistently available to conduct repairs when needed. Likewise, the hygiene and sanitation volunteers will continue sensitizing and mobilizing communities through the CATS approach to maintain open defecation free (ODF) areas in the villages.