Lifesaving Emergency WASH Response in Moyale, Hudet and Mubarak woredas of Somali Regional State In line with the WASH cluster sector and strategic objectives and based on the 2020 1st  Round Ethiopia Humanitarian Fund Standard Allocation that supports critical humanitarian response priorities presented in the Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) for the first half of 2020, Save the Children propose to continue its effort in addressing the severe humanitarian situation of Somali region hotspot woredas through key and lifesaving interventions targeting locations where malnutrition has been exacerbated as a result of the current drought related to water and food insecurity at Dawa zone of Moyale, Hudet, Mubarak and woredas. The woredas detail priority and scoring are listed below.
Moyale: Final priority Scor-105, Priority 1, there is Cholera with cholera score 5, High SAM caseload (2931 SAM cases). Hudet Final priority Scor-105, Priority 1, there is Cholera risk with cholera score 3, High SAM caseload (2210 SAM cases). Mubarak: Final score 70, Priority 1, High SAM caseload (1969)

The proposed woredas are in line with the WASH cluster prioritization criteria of lifesaving and addressing co-location and integrated response with nutrition and protection projects by the same call, as well as ongoing nutrition grants to address the acute malnutrition of target communities.   The target beneficiaries of this action are 33,550 individuals including (17111 male and 16439 female) in the three woredas.


The proposed project aims to provide lifesaving emergency WASH through 60 days Water trucking services to 8 health facilities, installation of water storage tanker to the 8 water trucked health facilities, construction of 5 new hand-dug wells and rehabilitation of another 8 hand-dug wells, construction of 25 gender segregated emergency semi-permanent latrines with hand washing facilities at IDP sites, installation of 8 handwashing stations at Isolation centers/ health facilities/ quarantine centers, water trucking for 60 days to 8 handwashing station at health facilities/ isolation centers, hygiene promotion to the target project location through house to house visit and local structure including COVID-19 related messaging using RCCE approach. 

In addition, the project targets to reduce the risk of violence against women, children and vulnerable, groups while accessing water and sanitation facilities by providing gender segregated facilities and establishing within 500 meters’ distance of the settlements. SC will put in place measures to ensure protection during access to WASH services so as to reduce the protection risk further.

During implementation Save the Children will also consider the prevention of transmission of COVID 19 virus by putting preventive measures of maximum effort in all its activities. For that purpose, for all its projects it has developed Program Adaptation Framework/ Guideline on how to implement and operationalize the activities in the contexts of COVID-19 response at the filed implementation level considering response situations without exposing the staff, partners and the target community to virus transmission in line with government guidelines and working with local government structure.