Emergency WASH response for 25,000 conflict affected and internally displaced persons in Ezo centre, Yangiri, Mosso, Bariguna, Bambaraze, Bariabunda and Nzara centre of Ezo and Nzara Counties. This emergency WASH intervention will provide access to safe water sanitation and hygiene services to promote good hygiene practices with dignity comfort and safety to women and girls especially. The intervention is aimed at promoting safe practices that will reduce preventable water borne and communicable diseases. This will be ensured through rehabilitation of available one broken borehole in Napere IDP camp in Ezo, conversion of hand dug shallow wells to hand pumps ,water quality monitoring and treatment for all water points, distribution of filter cloths and aqua tabs for household water treatment, construction of emergency latrines in the IDP settlement sites, installation of hand washing facilities near latrines to promote hand washing, conducting of massive hygiene promotion activities, distribution of WASH NFIs (jerricans, filter cloths, and soap), training of women on menstrual hygiene management and distribution of menstrual hygiene kits). All these activities will be implemented in Ezo centre, Yangiri, Mosso, Baribunda, Bariabunda, Bambaraze payams of Ezo County and in Nzara Central payam of Nzara County.

The intervention aims to reach 25,000 vulnerable and conflict affected IDPs from Tambura with a sharp focus on the most vulnerable groups (women, girls, the disabled, and children). In Ezo County 22,652 people will be targeted while in Nzara 2,348 persons will be reached. The below expected outcomes will make it possible to weigh the attainment of the set objectives:

1. The target population is able to access and use clean safe water for drinking, hand washing and bathing to maintain personal and environmental hygiene as a means to combat common WASH related diseases in the IDP settlement areas.
2. Improved hygiene and sanitation behaviors among the IDP communities leading to improved health. The sanitation activities are aimed to educate the population to promote safe practices and reduce the risk of disease transmission from the environment.
3. The target population are aware of key health risks brought about by poor sanitation and hygiene practices and are mobilized to adopt measures to prevent the deterioration in hygienic conditions and to use and maintain the facilities provided.
4. Enhanced community participation in the implementation by involvement in including hands-on training on maintenance and operation of the water points.
5. Adequate, appropriate, and acceptable, gender specific and friendly emergency toilet facilities, sufficiently close to dwellings, to allow free, safe, and protected access in the most congested IDP cetres (Napere, Nambia and Rigina Mundi) while latrine digging kits are provided to other IDPs sites in Ezo centre, Yangiri, Mosso, Bariguna, Bambaraze, Bariabunda and in Nzara centre to construct their own household latrines.

All the target population of 25,000 IDPs in Yangiri, Ezo Centre, Mosso, Bariguna, Bambaraze, Bariabunda and Nzara centre will be reached directly with all the WASH services described in the logical framework.