Project delivery WASH & Food Assistance Oxfam and Kukumbi intend to support vulnerable communities to prepare for, respond to and build resilience to Tropical Storm Freddyand other aftereffects such as waterborne diseases with this donation through the provision of WASH NFI to vulnerable community members, rehabilitation/ protecting water points such as wells and springs, promoting community training in hygiene and preparedness, training community health workers in hygiene, gender, protection and providing WASH kits and food assistance to 500families and dignity kits to 250 women and girls of reproductive age, including tools to collect and store water for affected communities to promote personal and household hygiene. The other action that will be considered is the installation of hand washstations in accommodation centers and in places where there are more people; all of which will help to prevent the spread of cholera outbreaks and other WASH-related illnesses. Oxfam and Kukumbi will assess the functionality and quality of water sources incommunities affected by the floods to determine the level of repair and disinfection measures, respectively. This will be done at water facilities in target communities. A gender and protection analysis will be carried out to support the design of response strategies that effectively address the needs of girls, boys, women and men affected by the crisis; ensure that our programming integrates, mitigates and responds to gender-based violence. This will be done through gender and protection awareness campaigns and support for protection frameworks to keep up with the changes. Activities related to communication for greater visibility of project impacts will be considered.

Kukumbi duly established in Zambézia Province and especially in the Quelimane District will be directly responsible for the implementation of the present project, in particular, Kukumbi will lead the activities of community mobilization, identification, selection, registration and validation of lists of beneficiaries and is responsiblefor the implementation of the WASH and Food Assistance components. Oxfam will support the implementation of the gender, protection and MEAL actions. Kukumbi will implement the project's activities in the District of Quelimane and will reach 100% of thetarget population with WASH, Protection, Food Assistance and Livelihood interventions.

The response will reach 30,000 (6,000 households) of the affected population in Quelimane District with hygiene messages using massmedia and through awareness campaigns. According to INAE, 1 family size is equal to 5 people. The WASH hygiene kit will be distributed to 500 families. A family has an average of 5 people. Total WASH reach = 2,500 people. Food assistance will cover the same WASH beneficiaries. 250 womenandgirls of sexual and reproductive age will receive dignity kits.

The vulnerable groups include pregnant and women breastfeeding,  widows, Older People, child-headed families, adolescent girls-headed families, young women-headed families and people withdisabilities as well as people whose houses, crops and  livestock were destroyed by the flood. Beneficiaries will be confirmed and validated by community members during beneficiary list verification and validation sessions.

"For Oxfam and Kukumbi the success for this project will be reduction of morbidity and mortality amongst vulnerable populations of Quelimane District area due to effective preparedness, resilience and timely response. Success will also be characterized by reducing the after effectsof aTropical Storm Freedy such as mitigate against the spread of cholera. Success will also be regarded as increasing access to  clean water, hygiene practice as household, through WASH NFI support, water points rehabilitation/protection, training and hygienepromotion".

"The project will use the sphere minimum standards to reach more people and derive maximum impact. The selection criteria will include focusing on vulnerability i.e. women, orphans, disability, the elderly, child headed households, numberofpeople in the household etc. This will follow a standard and/or acceptable selection criteria which will involve the local leadership, partners, and funders. Beneficiary database – All the beneficiaries will be captured into a database (surveyCTO) whichwill be update weekly. The database will be informed by the already existing instruments i.e. master beneficiary lists, distribution lists etc. Community monitoring – In line with the Core Humanitarian Commitment 3, the project will identify community volunteers that will trained to monitor and report on progress. The project staff will superintend the volunteers accordingly. In addition, hygiene promoters will serve as focalpoint persons for the affected persons to provide feedback on the interventions. Joint Partner Monitoring – The project will conduct joint monitoring with key partners and stakeholders such as other Civil Society Organizations operating in the affected areas to monitor implementation of interventions. Planning and reporting –A detailedwork and implementation plan will be developed prior to the implementation of activities. This will be tracked on a weekly basis to measure progress and delivery on the interventions. Further, weekly review meeting will be conducted to providefeedbackonthe implementation process. Weekly and monthly reports will be compiled and shared accordingly. Post Distribution Monitoring: PDM will be carried out by the MEAL team to determine the success of the project, areas for improvement and any challenges incurred. Learning – At every stage of the response, whether a planned intervention or otherwise, lessons will be learned to improve the outcome of the response as well as to aid future similar responses".

Communities will be consulted during rapid assessment, they will also participate in beneficiary selection while Village health workers will play a major role in community engagement. Local leaders  will also strongly participate in community engagement including mobilization. The participation of communities in planning, implementation and monitoring of the project will be deliberately adopted in order to strengthen accountability to the project participants. The project will use purposive and intentional targeting, registration and verification of beneficiary information. The process will be all encompassing and largely dependent on rigorous selection and targeting process as follows: 1) community engagement with the target population and subsequent registration, 2) beneficiary verification with the localand traditional leadership and, 3) validation of beneficiaries with the available CSOs and/or partners to avoid duplication of efforts. The vulnerable population will include women headed households or single parents, elderly, people with disability, households with pregnant and lactating women (PLWs), and malnourished children.

Oxfam and Kukumbi will communicate directly with Communities through community engagement sessions during project sensitisation meeting, during beneficiary registration, during door to door campaign and during post distribution monitoring. Various communication channels such as suggestion box will also be used.

Oxfam and Kukumbi will use volunteer feedback during community engagement sessions to address community concerns. A complaints log sheet will be created to ensure that all queries are fully addressed. Oxfam and Kukumbi will make use of inter-agency hot line foranonymous comments and suggestion boxes will be placed in different strategic locations. Stickers willbe placed at strategic pointsfor communities to consult and call in case of doubt. Ideally, community-based complaint and feedback mechanisms will be established, and these will be assessed during the prior needs assessment and agreed with the communityduringproject disclosure and dissemination sessions.

Accountability mechanisms should be secure, accessible and effective. Mechanisms under consideration could include help desks, suggestion boxes, joint monitoring visits, community meetingsas suggested by the community. Complaint and suggestion boxesand/or other mechanisms will be placed/established in places considered accessible and safe by the community members, for example: public institutions, such as clinics, while other structures,such as communityleaders and workers from the different institutions ofinterest to the community, can also be used for feedback and complaints, as long as they are agreed by the community members.

"Communities will be engaged to establish the most appropriate feedback mechanism given the context. Under the ongoing efforts in the target  location, communities have preferred the use of hot-line and suggestions boxes in secure locations to allow for confidentiality and anonymity when lodging complaints. Oxfam andKukumbiwill disseminate the hot-line number in the community and this will allow them to call and give their feedbacks anonymity and on weekly basis Oxfam will ask for complaints related to their work in the targeted communities during the intera-agecy hot-linemeeting. Share contacts with communities in the form of email addresses, phone numbers where complaint can be registered in confidence and feedback shared with communities.  Help desks will be put in place and communicated extensively to allow communities to get real time support to their complaints during programing and during distributions".