Provision of Effective and Sustainable, Health, Nutrition, Protection, Education, ESNFIs and WASH services for conflict and disaster affected population in Liben and Gumi Eldalo Woredas, Guji Zone, Oromia This project will provide effective services in WASH, ES/NFI, Health, Nutrition, Protection and Education reaching 43,961 people in need living in Liben woreda, Guji Zone with a standalone Nutrition component included for Gumi Eldalo Woreda, Guji Zone. This action objective will be achieved through an area based multi-sector integrated consortium approach with COOPI, Mercy Corps and Imagine1day. The consortium members agreed on the sectoral share based on areas of expertise. Mercy Corps will lead the nutrition (Liben/Gumi Eldalo), health and protection COOPI will lead WASH and ES/NFI and Imagine1day will lead the education component. COOPI is the lead applicant.

WASH and Shelter amp NFIs: Covering the 3 WASH cluster’s objectives, COOPI will target kebeles with no access to safe water, villages where the nearest safe water point is over 2 km from the HHs, areas with low average of safe water consumption per individual, HHs with poor hygiene and sanitation conditions. COOPI will rehabilitate, expand and install solar pumping system in one water scheme, repair an existing BH, conduct a mass hygiene campaign, construct latrines and distribute WASH kits. Hygiene promotion will be linked to enforce the health and nutrition sectors results. The living condition of 350 vulnerable IDP HHs will be improved by providing life-saving ES-NFIs items. Implementing COVID-19 SoPs, distributions will be carried out in an equitable manner safeguard IDP’s health, security, privacy and dignity.

Education: Following the recent Ministry of Education’s decision to reopen schools, urgent measures are required to ensure a safe reopening and education continuity. Imagine1day will provide necessary school supplies, including IPC and scholastic materials to reach 5,468 students in 18 schools in Liben woreda, Guji. Safe schools protocols in time of COVID-19 will be strengthened by sensitizing 36 teachers and 18 school principals in the targeted schools. COVID-19 transmission routes, health procedures and methodologies to provide psychosocial support will be widely shared. A targeted back-to-school campaign will be carried out to increase children enrolment. Ensuring the centrality of protection, Imagine1day will be reaching the most vulnerable, including conflict affected children, children from IDPs HHs, girls, adolescents and children with disabilities.

Health, Nutrition and Protection: Mercy Corps (MC) proposes to respond to lifesaving health, nutrition and protection needs of the communities in Liben woreda where the health, nutrition and protection situation is critical. Targeted populations include protracted IDPs, returnees and recently displaced IDPs. All IDPs in the targeted woreda are highly vulnerable to COVID-19 and other communicable diseases (cholera, measles, malaria) and acute malnutrition. Activities under nutrition include nutrition screening, outpatient therapeutic program (OTP), targeted supplementary feeding program (TSFP), treatment of complicated SAM cases, and in collaboration with stabilization centers established by MC, IYCF-E training, IYCF counseling and awareness creation. Activities under protection include protection risk assessment, protection awareness creation on protection risks, psychosocial and mainstreaming mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS), training on protection principles to local authorities and line bureaus and mapping available services and referral to the nearby service providers for specialized psychiatric service. Activities under health include medical consultation and treatments, ANC, PNC, family planning, immunization, referral service and awareness creation mainly focusing on COVID-19 prevention, community surveillance and logistic support, strengthening COVID-19 response efforts, and MHPSS services. The nutrition component will also be implemented in Gumi Eldalo, prioritized by the nutrition cluster, and will be funded from the nutrition cluster 1st envelope allocation.