PALM CORPS COVID-19 Project PALM CORPS together with the consortium members Vision for Humanity and People empowering people  will implement COVID-19 Project with the following activities:
Result 0.0 Startup and closeout activities

A0.1: Conduct stakeholder inception meeting
The Consortiumpartners will organize an inception meeting to introduce the project to stakeholders and secure their feedback to improve final implementation strategies. The district COVID-19 task force will participate at district level since meetings involving many people areprohibited. The same meetings will be cascaded to 2 sub counties of Odupi and Uriama with the respective Sub County COVID-19 task Force.

A0.2: Organize consortium Coordination meetings
The Consortium partners will conduct three monthly partnership coordination meetings. The meetings will be held to share progress and review plans for subsequent months. The meetings will be held in partner offices on rotational basis with clear compliance with social distancing requirements.

A0.3: Conduct joint monitoring field visits
Although all public and privately owned passenger vehicles are prohibited, PALM Corps received official taskforce movement stickers for two cars. This will enable the partners to conduct targeted field visits toselected households, VHTs, selected markets, kitchen gardens to monitor progress. The reports will be shared in the district task force coordination meetings.

A0.4: Attend COVID-19 Task force coordination meetings.
The consortium partners will attenddistrict and sub county covid-19 task force meetings to share progress and review project performance.

A0.5: Organize end of project meeting
The project will organize a project close-out meeting thatwill involve district and sub county covid-19 taskforce and some selected beneficiaries to disseminate results and share the lessons learnt as detailing the unexpected benefits and impacts.

Results 1: Community level surveillance on COVID-19 response strengthened.
The project hopes to establish an effective surveillance system to detect and manage suspected cases effectively without stigmatizing the suspects or creating conflict in the community. The specific activities are:
Activity 1.1: Train VHTs, LCs <(>&<)> RWCs  onCOVID 19 response.
VHTs, LCs andRWCs are front-liners in COVID 19 response. The project will collaborate with the task force to train the VHTs, LCs and RWCs on COVID-19 preparedness, risk mapping and response actions in line with MOH SOPs and Protocols. This willbe a maximum of three-hourtraining sessions with 10 participants per session. In total five sessions will be held in three days to equip them to detect and report suspected cases for further investigation, distribute hand-washing facilities to targeted households, markets andhealth centres.

Activity 1.2: Conduct COVID-19 risk mapping.
This will be a basic data collection process on risky behaviors, hotspots, new arrivals, community suspected cases, etc. The project will provide VHTs with case definition tools and referral forms to enable reporting to health facilities for immediate action. Suspected cases will be documented and handled according to COVID-19 response protocol.

Activity 1.3: Procure and provide assorted items to COVID-19 task force for surveillance.
The project will provide one-off support in form of fuel, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and assorted sanitary items to facilitate district and sub county COVID-19 task force.

Result 2: Enhanced communication and social mobilization capacity to respond tothe COVID-19 pandemic
The result will be achieved through community engagement, social and behavior change communication practices. The specific activities are as below:

Activity 2.1: Translate/Print and disseminate MOH approved IEC materials.
Visualcharts will be translated in Arabic (and local dialect of the refugees) to bring on board the refugee population that may not be able to understand English. Thesewill be distributed and disseminated by VHTs accordingly.


Activity 2.2: Installsign post with posters about COVID-19 control.
Theproject will erect 3 signboards at the 3 food markets in Rhino camp. The will bear messages and illustrations on COVID-19 in the commonly spoken local languages. The content will be derived from the approved MOHmaterials.
Activity 2.3: Conduct community perception tracking
The project will develop text, audio and video of community perception tracking tool (CPT) through which community rumors, beliefs, ideas, concerns etc. are collected, presented todistrictCOVID-19 task force for discussion and response plan. This will ensure the task force develop a context specific behavior change strategy.

Activity 2.4: Conduct radio talk shows and spot messages in language on COVID-19 pandemic.
The projectwill support(district task force) to undertake radio talk shows, spots messages in the languages about COVID-19, preventive measures including hand washing, hygiene and social distancing practices to promote behavior change among the targeted communities. Advocacy sessions will be aired on radios to engage communities against gender based violence (domestic violence) and Governments on facilitating access to Reproductive Health services and commodities for women and adolescents during the fight against COVID-19pandemic.

Activity 2.5: Procure and distribute communication tools and equipment
The project will procure and distribute communication tools like megaphones and mobile phones for VHT coordinators and in addition profile district and sub county task force mobile phone contact inventory and share with VHTs and community leadership for risk communication and community engagement/feedback.

Result 3: Strengthened WASH campaigns in food markets (Ofua 3, Yelulu and Siripi)
To achieve the result,the projectwillempower market management committee to establish, manage and enforce hand washing at the market. The specific activities are:

Activity 3.1. Procure and distribute WASH materials to targeted food markets in the refugee settlement.
Theproject willprocure and distribute WASH materials including liquid and bar soap and hand washing tanks with to sustain hand washing practice at food markets places, water points and food distribution points. The WASH materials will be managed by market managementcommittees(MMC).
Activity 3.2. Conduct market based WASH awareness campaigns on COVID-19 in three food markets.
The awareness campaigns will be a social and behavior change approaches. Based on the social risks in Rhino Camp refugee settlement, the project willcollaborate with Health Assistants and VHT coordinators to conduct WASH awareness on market days in at three markets of Siripi, Ofua 3, and Yelulu to promote hygiene and hand washing practices.

Result 4: Enhanced safety nets (Social protection)for selected vulnerable households.

Two strategies will be used to achieve this result; first the project will work with the three groups supported earlier under HRGF I to support kitchen gardening to improve access to micro-nutrient richvegetablesto build enhance immunity of the households. Nutrition education including cooking demonstration will be conducted to ensure nutritive value is maintained. Secondly, the most vulnerablewomen will be identified and supported with soap and salt.   The specific activities are:

Activity 4.1: Train in Kitchen/ Back Yard Gardening (BYG).
The vulnerable population (PSNs) in Rhino Camp refugee settlement, like elsewhere are predicting hard times with the looming food crisis as a result of COVID-19 crisis. The projectwillpromote backyard gardening in every household to grow quick growing and nutritious vegetables to complement diet. The extension support will be offered directly in mini groups of 3-5 farmers but also remotely to minimize congregating farmers in groups.

Activity 4.2: Procure and distribute agro-inputs
The project will provide one-off assorted inputs both food and commercial crops.  Vegetable seeds (nutrition pack) will be provided for targeted householdto complement diet forboth the rainy and dry season.

Activity 4.3: Conduct nutrition education
The project will provide basic nutrition education (balanced diet, food hygiene, preparation and preservation). PALM Corps has already developed a standard chart on nutrition education tailoredaccordingtofood needs for different social groups (children, pregnant and lactating mothers, the sick and elderly).

Activity 4.4: Provide hand washing soap and salt to selected vulnerable households using Cash Transfer Programming.
The project willidentify 140 women and girls, elderly, disabled people and provide vouchers to enable access to 2 bars soap and two sachets of salt for three month in accordance with the minimum expenditure basket (MEB) principle. The price of salt had increased by 300%at the onset of COVID-19.