Emergency Integrated WASH, NFI/Shelter and Food Security Response in Hajjah and Sana’a governorates, Yemen ZOA proposes an emergency integrated Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Food Security and Agriculture (FSAC) and Non-food items (NFI) intervention in Hajjah and Sana’a Governorates inYemen. The overall goal is to mitigate health and nutrition risks for vulnerable conflict affected IDPs and host population. This will be done through ensuring adequate access to Water, NFI and highly nutritional food.

ZOA anticipates that the project will target a total minimum of 2,566 households (HHs), which means 15,396 persons, in Hajjah and Sana’a Governorates. 

In Hajjah, the activities will be implemented directly by ZOA in close collaboration with our local partner Enmaa Corporation. In Sana’a, the activities will be implemented through ZOA’s local partner National Foundation for Development and Humanitarian Response (NFDHR), with close monitoring by ZOA. 

ZOA was approached by government authorities  (MoPIC) to provide humanitarian assistance in these governorates. The districts are selected based on their nutrition priorities as identified by the Clusters. For Hajjah, ZOA selected Mabyan, and Ash Shaghadirah districts and for Sana’a Khwlan and Attyal districts. All districts have high rates of Severely Acute Malnutrition (SAM) and Moderately Acute Malnutrition (MAM) cases, and face needs and gaps in humanitarian assistance. The choice of districts was directedby theFSAC Cluster and supported by the WASH and Shelter /NFI Clusters. ZOA is open to switch to other locations if this deems necessary. Our core beneficiaries will be households with Pregnant and Lactating Women (PLW)  under-five child(ren) (U5) with SAM/MAM, and/or parents of a malnourished under-five child admitted in a Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) program. 

The cross-cutting and multi-dimensional nature of under-nutrition/malnutrition entails the need for promotion of a holistic and integrated approach that addresses the treatment and underlying causes concurrently. This intervention aims to tackle these issues in three priority sectors with the following intended outputs and activities. 

WASH Output 1.1: Improved access to clean water for 2066 HHs so as to reduce excess morbidity and mortality (12,396 individuals)
- Provision of safe drinking water through water trucking
- Constructing rooftop water catchment systems at HH level
- Construction/rehabilitation of water storage tanks

- provision of HH water filters- Rehabilitation of waterschemes 
- Capacitating village committees to organize improved access to safe water
- Capacity building of local implementing partner

WASH Output 1.2: Improved awareness regarding the importance of clean water and personal and environmental hygiene for 2066 HHs (12,396 individuals)
- Hygiene promotion (related to nutrition)
- Distribution of hygiene kits
- Training and supervision of community volunteers in hygiene promotion
- Provision of  instructions to allow beneficiaries to construct their own latrine.

NFI Output 1.1: Improved winter preparedness for 1000HHs
- Distribution of NFI/Winterization Kits
- Capacity building local implementing partner

FSAC Output 1.2: Improved access to highly nutritionally rich food for  HHs
- Training and seeds amp tools for farming households with U5 or PLW in CMAM program
- Provision of supplementary food for PLW, an under-five child with MAM, and/or parents of a malnourished under-five child admitted in a CMAM program
- Capacity building local implementing partner

By integrating these outputs ZOA is able to serve the following beneficiaries numbers:
 
Watertrucking+Waterschemes+Food+NFI:500 HHs
Watertrucking+Rooftops+NFI:500 HHs 
Watertrucking+Waterschemes:167 HHs
Watertrucking+Food + seed amp tools:500 HHs
Watertrucking: 399 HHs 
Seeds amp tools: 500 HHs

Total HHs to be reached: 2566 (15,396 individuals)