Emergency WASH Project in 3 Taizz districts; Mawiyah , Dimnat Khadir, and At Ta’iziyah This is an Emergency WASH Intervention targeting the ‘at Famine Risk’ community in Dimnat Khadir district and covering the gaps and needs for IDPs in At Ta'iziyah district and in cholera response at Mawiyah district. It is based on thorough communication with the related cluster and local authorities followed by a RNA.  

In general, the project will serve 432,293 beneficiaries (i.e. 90,782 Men, 112,396 Boys, 112,396 Women, and 116,719 Girls) in all districts’ catchment areas. Its approach will provide the targeted communities with following WASH services and supplies:   
1.	Improve Access to clean drinking water in the three targeted district by:
a.	Provide spare parts and maintenance for 6 water supply systems in At Ta'iziyah. This maintenance plan cover 6 water systems in At Ta'iziyah, this 6 water systems will provide targeted population with clean water where IDPs are located and considered by Local authorities as high priority areas with urgent needs. The rehabilitation work will include Water network minimum maintenance services, Water pump minimum maintenance services and replacing the pump in one case only.
b.	Water Quality surveillance to check that drinking water quality is within standards, especially in cholera hot spot areas. Water technicians will conduct 1 visits per month for 11 months for the main 80 water supply resources and system in the 3 districts. Only 70% from the load case is considered. Wherever possible the community will be involved in the sampling process.
c.	Provide access to safe water through water trucking for IDPs (1,400) in At Ta'iziyah district and  communities affected by  Cholera breakout (1,791) in Mawiyah  district for six months.
d.	Provide communal water tanks / taps (i.e. 25 communal 2000L Tanks for cholera hotspot areas, affected communities near dry wells or depend on seasonal rainwater and IDPs hosting areas that have no available tanks in the 3 targeted districts. Only 2% from the load case is considered.
e.	Provide household water containers for safe water transport / storage at household level (i.e.  SAM HH in Dimnat Khadir and for HH in areas with high AWD incidence in Mawiyah). 


2.	Provision, rehabilitation and maintenance of sanitation and sewage systems for IDPs, vulnerable groups and other affected populations:
a.	Provide support for solid waste collection and disposal in urban areas (i.e 2rounds a week for 32 sub-district in the 3 targeted districts for 10 months)
b.	For At Ta'iziyah, SOUL will rehabilitate / construct emergency latrines for IDPs in hosting sites (i.e. 66 latrine for 200 IDPs families).
d.	For Dimnat Khadir and Mawiyah, SOUL through community mobilization approaches in areas with high AWD or SAM prevalence will support latrine rehab/ desludging to achieve and sustain acceptable levels of sanitation coverage. 627 HH will be targeted in the 2 mentioned districts
3.	Since 2012, SOUL is implementing Community-Based Nutrition Interventions in Taizz governorate. As part of the program, 370 Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) and 62 Health supervisors in the three districts were trained on Modual-1, Growth Monitoring Promotion, and on WASH/Cholera messages. Within this intervention, these 370 female CHVs and 62 male health supervisor will play a major role by educating the communities and demonstrating the strong relation between WASH (water, personal, and environmental hygiene) to poor general health amp malnutrition the project will be accompanied by intensive educational activities. The CHVs will conduct demonstration sessions for appropriate and hygienic use of water containers and water storage tanks. Also, they will disseminate IEC ( Information, Education and Communication materials already developed in line with the key hygiene messages and based on AWD risks will be disseminated to beneficiaries) for 11 month.
Please see annex 2 -SOUL – Updated Beneficiaries for SADD of beneficiaries for each activity in each district.