EMERGENCY INTEGRATED CHOLERA RESPONSE IN DHAMAR GOVERNORATES YWU through the Emergency integrated cholera response project in Dhamar  aims to respond to the ongoing cholera outbreak in Dhamar governorate with special focus on (Dhamar city , Utmah and Jaharan districts) for four months starting 27/05/2017 . The project will have flexibility to expand to reach more districts if the need occur and the situation improved in the targeted districts during the project time. The project is going to provide integrated package outreach program of Health and Wash activities for the most affected people in the 3 targeted districts which have a high number of confirmed cases , high attack rate , and which has gaps in wash and health response to meet the needs. cases reported and high  number of death in the last two weeks.
The project is responding to  the Cholera outbreak that has recently escalated and aggravated the WASH and Health needs . The Project activities are in line with YHRP (second reserve allocation) and Health and Wash Clusters main objectives to support the AWD and cholera outbreak response under the strategic objectives of the Health and Wash clusters. It will achieve that through enhancing the required response capacity, intensive health education on hygiene promotion including campaigns ensuring the rapid identification reporting, investigation, and prompt containment of any outbreak, In addition the project aims to ensure the proper management of cases to reduce morbidity and mortality. The integrated project includes chlorination of drinking water at pipelines and privates trucks level  as well as distribution of acquatabs  to HHs and hygiene promotion at local community level..

The project governorates target will be (98400) 13972 men, 14976 women, 34247 boys and 35205 girls in the 3  targeted districts ( Dhamar City, Utmah and Jahran  in Dhamar governorate) At the (sub)district level YWU will determine the target at the beginning of the project in accordance e with the strategy and WASH SOPs according to the following criteria:
(Sub) district has confirmed cholera case (since October 2016) 
(Sub) district has high attack rate and / or case fatality rate and cases are still increasing in the last two weeks 
(Sub) district has gaps in the WASH response / urgent WASH needs as per analysis of the WASH cluster (national and / or sub national levels should give the go ahead to target the specific sub district)
The project aims to reduce occurrence and to minimize case fatality of cholera and AWD through effective prevention and timely response, through two components of health and Wash activities:
Health component activities:
Based on the latest gap analysis by health cluster , YWU will establish 5 DTCs  , 5 DTU and 20 ORCs a and support  them by filling essential medical supplies and distribution of IEC materials to fill the gap in Dhamar governorate (Dhamar City , Utmah and Jahran).  YWU will recruit the health workers for 4 months. YWU will provide the DTCs, DTUs and water trucking and fuel for operations. 

Wash component activities:
Wash part will focus on Preventing AWD/Cholera outbreaks through the provision of safe water supply  by chlorination of water sources (piped network, private water trucks, distribution of acquatabs at HH level) organize Hygiene promotion, community mobilization, promotion of good sanitation practice, regular HH visits, jerry can and  cleaning campaigns, cholera awareness messag, FRC testing and consumable Hygiene kits distribution.