Improved access to domestic and drinking water for the most vulnerable communities in Area C of West Bank MA`AN’s proposed project aims to address the needs listed in the Humanitarian Needs Overview OPT 2022, specifically WASH needs for the most vulnerable Palestinians living in Area C who depend on herding and agricultural livelihoods. This project aims at securing access to drinking and domestic water for cooking, personal and domestic hygiene, targeting the villages of Al ‘Uddeisa and Khallet al Maya (mainly Hiwara and ad Deirat communities) in Hebron Governorate. The initiative responds to the urgent needs highlighted in 2022 HF 2nd standard allocation strategy paper and is fully in line with the WASH Cluster Objective 1, aiming to “Improving access to adequate WASH services for the most vulnerable communities in Area C”. The proposed intervention is aligned also to the Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6) that aims to ‘ensure available and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all’. Also, this intervention has been endorsed and coordinated with the municipality, heads of the community, Governorate of Hebron, the Palestinian Water Authority (PWA) and the WASH Cluster. The action targets two highly vulnerable communities in Area C included in the WASH Vulnerability mapping 2021, namely Al’Udeissa and Khallet al Maya (Hebron Governorate) with respectively vulnerability index on ‘access to water’ of 5,15 and 6,05.
The project comprises the rehabilitation/ installation of water networks and HHs connections to increase access, availability and quality of water at HH and community level of these 2 villages ensuring safeguarding and engagement of community members and will serve 137 HHs (703) beneficiaries in both villages with the following segregation 175 men, 173 women, 182 boys, 173 girls – including 9 PWDs.
Through:
 i) Creation of community-based project support committees and orienting them on CRM and reporting channels including PSEAH.
ii) Rehabilitation of main water transmission pipelines.
iii) Rehabilitation/installation community/cluster distribution water networks and
iv) installation of new HHs water connections.
The village of Al ‘Uddeisa, consists of zones within Area B and C, yet this project will be targeting non served households living in Area C of the community. In this targeted area, part of the existing water network is deteriorated and has high water leakage in some lines installed since 35 years. The project seeks to rehabilitate the water network including transmission pipelines, community lines, and HH connections. The project will secure access to water for 80 HHs (416 beneficiaries).
While in Khallet al Maya village, Hiwara and Ad Deirat communities currently have no water network at all, nor filing point inside the community. For drinking water, the most common source they use, are rainwater harvesting cisterns and water trucking which can take 2 to 5 days to be delivered to the community and poses protection risks as the filling points are located behind a by-pass road. The project seeks to install a water network in Khallet al Maya, passing through Ad Deirat and Hiwara communities and securing access to safe drinking water for 57 HHs (287 beneficiaries). 
This intervention is expected to meet one of the most urgent WASH needs of the targeted families and to alleviate their suffering, especially of most vulnerable people, improve access to water and enhance their protection and resilience. Additionally, improving the access to water in these communities will contribute to gender equality and increase the protection of the women and girls who are often tasks in these communities with fetching the water.