Lifesaving Emergency and Sustainable WASH Response to El Nino affected Communities in Beletweyne district of Hiran Region. ltpgtltspan style="font-size: 10.5pt" lang="EN-GB"gtIn Q4 of 2023, Somalia is projected to experience heavy rains and
floods due to El Niño, according to the World Meteorological Organisation. Tlt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 10.5pt" lang="EN-GB"gthere could be increased risks of
flooding along the main two rivers, leading to loss of
lives, property, population displacement, and destruction of infrastructure including lt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 9pt font-family: Verdana, sans-serif background: white" lang="EN-GB"gtWASH facilities and productive assets. The ongoing conflict lt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 9pt font-family: Verdana, sans-serif background: white" lang="EN-US"gtalso lt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 9pt font-family: Verdana, sans-serif background: white" lang="EN-GB"gtcontinues to reduce
the resilience of communities, trigger displacement and impede civilians’
access to basic services and humanitarians’ access to those in need. Exclusion
and discrimination of socially marginalized groups are contributing to high
levels of acute humanitarian need and lack of protection among some of the most
vulnerable. IDPs remain the most vulnerable population group in Somalia. The
protracted nature of displacement caused by floods, conflict, and drought
continues to affect the physical and mental wellbeing of 1.6 million IDPs who
require humanitarian assistance. lt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 10.5pt" lang="EN-GB"gtThe country’s riverine
communities are particularly at risk of flooding and could face a potential
loss of property and livestock, destruction of WASH facilities, damage to
crops, with around 1.5 million hectares of land at high risk of being inundated
by flood waters along both the Juba and Shabelle rivers.lt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 9pt font-family: Verdana, sans-serif background: white" lang="EN-GB"gt In this project, AADSOM will implement early lifesaving WASH response
to communities projected to be most affected by El Nino induced riverine
flooding in Beletweyne district by carrying out the following:lt/spangtltbrgtlt/pgtltp style="" class=""gtltspan lang="EN-GB"gtlt/spangtlt/pgtltp style="mso-margin-top-alt:automso-margin-bottom-alt:
automso-add-space:autotext-align:justifytext-indent:-18.0ptmso-list:l0 level1 lfo1" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"gt1.    - At the inception of the project, AADSOM will organize community
mobilization meetings to the local authorities and different sectors of the community including women, people with disabilities, and minorities to give a
good picture about the project deliverables.lt/pgtltp style="" class=""gtltspan style="font-size: 9pt font-family: Verdana, sans-serif color: black background: white"gt- Provision of temporary safe water supply lt/spangtltspan lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt font-family: Verdana, sans-serif color: black background: white"gtthrough voucher lt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 9pt font-family: Verdana, sans-serif color: black background: white"gtto 3,400 households, composing around lt/spangtltspan lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt font-family: Verdana, sans-serif color: black background: white"gt20,400 lt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 9pt font-family: Verdana, sans-serif color: black background: white"gtmost vulnerablelt/spangtltspan lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt font-family: Verdana, sans-serif color: black background: white"gt communities displaced by floods.lt/spangtltbrgtlt/pgtltp style="" class=""gtltspan style="font-size: 9pt font-family: Verdana, sans-serif color: black background: white"gt- Rehabilitation of strategic 18lt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 9pt font-family: Verdana, sans-serif color: black background: white"gt floodlt/spangtltspan lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt font-family: Verdana, sans-serif color: black background: white"gt-affectedlt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 9pt font-family: Verdana, sans-serif color: black background: white"gt shallow wells (16 with hand pumps and 2 with solar powered pump) with equal access lt/spangtltspan lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt font-family: Verdana, sans-serif color: black background: white"gttolt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 9pt font-family: Verdana, sans-serif color: black background: white"gt men, women,
children including people with disabilities and marginalized communities.lt/spangtlt/pgtltp style="" class=""gtltspan style="font-size: 9pt font-family: Verdana, sans-serif color: black background: white" lang="EN-US"gt- Conducting lt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 14px"gtpost
flooding shock chlorination of the rehabilitated shallow wells and routine
water quality monitoringlt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 14px" lang="EN-US"gt.lt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 9pt font-family: Verdana, sans-serif color: black background: white"gtlt/spangtlt/pgtltp style="" class=""gtltspan style="font-size: 9pt font-family: Verdana, sans-serif color: black background: white"gt- Construction of 192lt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 9pt font-family: Verdana, sans-serif color: black background: white"gt gender-sensitive flood-proof latrineslt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 9pt font-family: Verdana, sans-serif color: black background: white"gt ltspan lang="EN-US"gtwith handwashing facilities (172 normal latrines  20 disabilities latrines) targeting vulnerable
displaced people with no access to basic sanitation facilities. The emergency
sanitation facilities will be constructed in IDP camps and ﬂoodlt/spangtlt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 9pt font-family: Verdana, sans-serif color: black background: white" lang="EN-US"gt lt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 9pt font-family: Verdana, sans-serif color: black background: white" lang="EN-US"gtevacuated
sites lt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 9pt font-family: Verdana, sans-serif color: black background: white"gtto reduce the open defecation practices.lt/spangtlt/pgtltp style="" class=""gtltspan lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt font-family: Verdana, sans-serif color: black background: white"gt- Provision 60 sets of sanitation
tools to the communities at risk or alt/spangtltspan lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt font-family:"gtﬀlt/spangtltspan lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt font-family: Verdana, sans-serif color: black background: white"gtected by El Nino ﬂooding to support clearing
waterways and cleanup campaigns for maintaining hygiene of the alt/spangtltspan lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt font-family:"gtﬀlt/spangtltspan lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt font-family: Verdana, sans-serif color: black background: white"gtected communities' environment.lt/spangtltspan style="font-size:9.0ptfont-family:"gtlt/spangtlt/pgtltp style="" class=""gtltspan lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt font-family: Verdana, sans-serif color: black background: white"gt- Conducting capacity
building training tolt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 9pt font-family: Verdana, sans-serif color: black background: white"gt 10 Community Hygiene Promoters on better
practices of hygiene.lt/spangtltspan style="font-size:9.0ptfont-family:"gtlt/spangtlt/pgtltp style="text-align:justify" class="Default"gtltspan style="background-color: white"gt- lt/spangtltspan style="background-color: white color: black font-family: Verdana, sans-serif"gtMitigation AWD/Cholera outbreak through house to house visit to disseminate
hygiene and sanitation messages, hygiene promotion in WASH institution and
training of 20 religious leaders and other community owned resource persons,
hygiene and sanitation promotion social events, radio talk shows, television,
and radio sports. lt/spangtltspan lang="EN-US" style="color: black font-family: Verdana, sans-serif"gtltspan style="background:white"gtlt/spangtlt/spangtlt/pgtltp style="" class=""gtltspan lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt font-family: Verdana, sans-serif color: black background: white"gt- Procurement and distribution
of 1,000 hygiene promotion kits to prevent spread of waterborne disease
outbreaks associated with forecasted El Nino event during the 2023 Deyr season.
The hygiene items will enable the alt/spangtltspan lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt font-family:"gtﬀlt/spangtltspan lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt font-family: Verdana, sans-serif color: black background: white"gtected families in adopting adequate hygiene practices.lt/spangtltspan style="font-size:9.0ptfont-family:"gtlt/spangtlt/pgtltp style="" class=""gtltspan style="font-size:9.0ptfont-family:"gtlt/spangtlt/pgtltp style="" class=""gtltbrgtlt/pgtltpgtlt/pgtltp class="sceditor-nlf"gtltbrgtlt/pgt