Integrated Health and WASH Project- Cholera Response in Hodeida Save the children (SC) is proposing to implement a three month emergency cholera response project that will significantly contribute to the containment and reduction of the spread of cholera and its related deaths in Hodeida Governorate through timely implementation of integrated Health and WASH interventions. Under Health, The project aims to increase the access to quality diarrheal treatment through both health facilities and community level activities. Furthermore, it aims to improve community knowledge and practices on diarrheal prevention measures and how to manage diarrheal cases at home. The project will focus on treatment of diarrheal diseases at community level through community health workers and referring the critical cases/ or cholera suspected cases to referral hospital that will be supported by provision of medical commodities. The project will support two hospitals (Biat Alfagiah and Aljerahi) to operate as referral points for severe cases of diarrhea, the support will be in term of filling the gap in medicines and supplies, operation cost for DTC, provision of surveillance tools, and help the MOH to send samples for suspected cases to central lab in Sana’a as well as monitoring and supervision of DTCs and community based activities .While the MOH is fixing the DTCs in these two hospitals by organizing Cholera treatment inside these hospitals, setting separate rooms, provision of staff and management of the DTCs. The project will increase the capacity of medical health workers at health facilities as well as community health worker on surveillance, case definition and clinical case management by conducting trainings on Cholera treatment and surveillance system. It will also increase skills of community health volunteers on health education messages and community mobilization. The project will provide the critical diarrheal/ suspected cholera cases with referral services from the community to nearest DTC (Diarrhea Treatment Centre). Under WASH, SC propose to provide chlorinated water trucking for 100 IDP households for 60 days, regular chlorination of water sources in the targeted catchment populations, rehabilitation of water points , rehabilitation of water, sanitation and hand washing facilities at health clinics, distribution of cleaning toolkits to the targeted health facilities, distribution of water storage buckets, water ceramic filters, water purification tablets, WASH Cluster standard basic hygiene kits, Cholera hygiene awareness sessions will be conducted in the public spaces such as in the targeted Community, safe water chain, use of hygienic latrines, avoid open defecation, hand washing with soap at critical stages, solid waste management, clean-up campaign, provision of  chlorine and soap in public spaces, jerry can cleaning campaigns at households and water points, door to door campaign for chlorination of household water storage tanks, personal hygiene issues like menstrual hygiene management. As specific focus on Cholera outbreak, the project will educate community leaders including Imams, teachers and other local elites on cholera prevention, symptoms, cases referral including information about health facilities and where Cholera treatment is available. Planned community awareness sessions will be conducted jointly with community health workers. Health and WASH will provide services through the same platforms targeting the same communities with an integrated approach.  WASH activities will mainly focus on the prevention of Cholera activities by addressing some of the underlying risk factors such as inadequate poor quality water supply, poor sanitation and hygiene practices while Health intervention will mainly focus on the surveillance of the Cholera outbreak with curative treatment activities in Hodeida.