Envelop 1: First Reserve Allocation Multi Sector Emergency Shelter  Non Food Items and WASH Interventions to Flood Crisis affected Populations of Mayendit county of Unity State and Old Fangak Payam of Jonglei State Through Envelope 1, ADA aims to deliver a multi-sector response in Shelter and Non-Food Items (SNFI) in Mayendit county of Unity state and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Interventions in old Fangak County of Jonglei State. The project will reach 38,000 men, women, boys and girls with S/NFI and WASH life-saving interventions in Mayendit and Old Fangak respectively. ADA is requesting 378,730.83 USD with 46% of the amount for S/NFI response in Mayendit and 54% of the amount to WASH intervention in Old Fangak. 

The priority needs under the emergency shelter and non-food items includes plastic sheets, mosquito nets, blankets and water, sanitation and hygiene services like buckets, PUR Sackets and hygiene item like soap (ICCG/OCHA report, May-August 2021).  Under the first reserve allocation, in Mayendit county, ADA will target 19,000 floods IDPs and 1,000 vulnerable host communities through the SNFI interventions. The project areas will include Thaker Payam North Mayendit 5,000 individuals (Wangkoakni, kuok, Pantot, Bomas) Rupkuac Payam, North Mayendit 10, 000 individuals (Jaguar, Koat and Rubnor Bomas) and Daplual Payam, North 5,000 individuals (Khak, NhiarNhiar, Dhorthiangni Bomas). The flood affected Payams are mainly in Mayendit South including Madol 1, Madol 2, Pabong, Bhor Payam and Malkuer Payams all in Mayendit South and the affected populations is said to have moved to Mayendit North. 

The WASH intervention will target 18,000 beneficiaries flood affected IDPs in old Fangak (Chotbora, Nyatuat, Wanglel and Wangchot). The priority WASH needs of displaced people who have settled in highlands or concentrated in schools include clean and safe water, as the sources of water available have been submerged and rendered inaccessible and unfit for human consumption, means for safe excreta disposal with no sanitation facilities available where the IDPs have settled and there is wide practice of open defecation and there for WASH NFIs for water collection and storage and maintaining hygiene is required.

The SNFI and WASH interventions will be mainstream with child protection and Housing, Land and Property (HLP) interventions. The SNFI project will target elderly persons 5% (1000 individuals) living in crowded communal shelters to de-congest them through the distribution of plastic sheets, blankets, buckets for water storage, PUR Sackets for treating water, and mosquito nets to reduce the spread of Covid-19. In adherence to SNFI and WASH strategies, ADA will implement a single SNFI and WASH responses while mainstreaming AAP (Accountability to Affected Populations), HLP strategies, and safety audits. The project will build capacity of community project committees’ members as part of the project implementation and monitoring structures at the community levels and awareness-raising services in Mayendit and old Fangak Counties, targeting flood IDPs (38,000 individuals). Also, an awareness raising on unexploded ordinance (UXOS) and landmines, will be highlighted through sessions. ADA will establish inter-sectoral referral pathway to strengthen SNFI and WASH efforts with other partners.
ADA has physical presence in both Mayendit and old Fangak and can access all the project areas. ADA has staffs on ground which will enable the projects implementation to immediately kick off.