Integrated Education, ES/NFI, Health, Nutrition, CCCM, and Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) interventions for crisis-affected people in Metekel Zone of Benshangul Gumuz Regions of Ethiopia. The overall humanitarian situation in Ethiopia has significantly deteriorated in 2022 leading to increased humanitarian needs across the country due to several concurrent crises, including ongoing conflict and violence, prolonged drought, and floods. The disputes have vented, worsened, or heightened in various parts of the country, with severe impacts on civilians and particularly on vulnerable and marginalized groups. Metekel zone Benishangul Gumuz region is one of the zones highly affected by intercommunal conflict for the past 3 years. The multi-agency assessment conducted in Metekel Zone identified that over 217,510 (112,236 male, 105,274 female) people were displaced due to inter-communal conflicts. The IDP Men and Women face numerous challenges including limited access to basic services (including food, health, water and sanitation facilities, shelter, and education), protection, and a loss of housing, land, and property. 
Most water supply systems in the woredas are damaged and thus people are suffering from a shortage of supplies that compelled IDPs, local community, and returnees to collect- and use water from unprotected sources like rivers and springs exacerbating SGBV risks in addition to contracting water-borne diseases. On the other hand, more than 29,479 houses were damaged/burnt during the conflict which forced the IDPs to stay in sub-standard shelters/tents shared by more than 5 HHs. The education system was also negatively affected where hundreds of schools were burnt down, furniture and school facilities were burnt/looted, and education facilities were damaged as a result of which many children have come out of school. To address these gaps as well as the needs of the affected people in the target woredas, PIE together with national implementing partner Action for the Needy in Ethiopia (ANE) intends to implement a multisectoral project encompassing Health, Nutrition, Education, WASH, CCCM, and ES/NFIs components. In this regard, Plan International will directly manage WASH, Education, and Health components and ANE will be responsible for the Emergency Shelter, CCCM, and Nutrition sectors in Wombera woreda.
The project intends to create access to safe water provision and basic hygiene and sanitation so as to address the critical needs of more than 9,629 (4045 male, 5584 female) IDPs, returnees, and host communities in the target Woreda. To address the current emergency needs of the affected people in Wonbera Woredas of BG Region, ANE will procure, transport, and distribute emergency shelter kits for 1190 most vulnerable HHs as the affected communities also lack household items to use for their day-to-day life. The Emergency Kits items will be according to the ES kit BoQ_V3 and include plastic sheets/tarpaulin, rope, and Cash for local materials. While ANE staff facilitating the distribution, there will be no physical contact between the beneficiaries and the staff, and the beneficiaries will be instructed to maintain a distance of at least two meters at all points during distributions. The most vulnerable, like people with disabilities, pregnant and lactating women, and elders will be prioritized and receive their entitlement first and help them to leave the distribution points early and ensure their safety and dignity. 
So as to improve the shelter conditions, the local partner ANE will implement the CCCM component of the project in Wombera Woreda through coordination activities among other site improvement and maintenance work, site-level coordination, and support for Camp Management. 
Given their long-time expertise, having extended time presence in project implementation areas, and running other similar projects in the four selected woredas, PIE is committed to adding value in addressing these gaps in a multi-sectoral intervention approach demonstrating efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of implementation in a cost-effective and timely manner.