Water Quality Control testing treatment  and Capacity Building of WASH Cluster(NGO’s) Front line Partners Responding to Emergencies in stabilization centers ,Hard to Reach Areas and selected counties  in South Sudan The WASH cluster 2018 HRP projects some 5.6million south Sudanese people who will be in need of support to access WASH services in 2018. Humanitarian partners have made some substantial gain in providing essential WASH services to affected population, including drilling of boreholes, construction of latrines, hygiene promotion and point of used house hold water treatment. However, water quality control testing and monitoring still remain a major gap and the lack of capacity of front line partners to appropriately and adequately address issues related to water quality testing and monitoring has shown to affect quality implementation. According to the WASH cluster 2018 data, only 298,735 representing 12% have access to improved water as of January 2018. Moreover, borehole water in Juba and other parts of the country is hard water. On most occasions, the water remains salty and the population finds it difficult to drink, hence, people drink un- treated water directly from the Nile River, heavily polluted with human and animal excreta resulting in recurrent cholera outbreaks in populations living along the river Nile and other areas in the country. This highlights the magnitude of the situation and there is an urgent need to build front line partner capacity to understand water quality testing, monitoring and carry out basic testing for turbidity, free residual choline and PH testing. 

The implementation of activities will build on the platform and gain already made for example the capacity of the national public health reference laboratory in Juba has been enhanced to carry out water quality control testing and monitoring. This will provide support to partners with testing of water. 
The proposal will focus on building capacity of front line WASH/Health amp Nutrition cluster partners in water quality testing and monitoring and provision of basic water quality testing kits for partners supporting stabilization centers managing high SAM and GAM patients. 104 front line cluster partners in juba have been identified for training of trainers in water quality control, testing and monitoring and a cascaded training for front-line partners working in targeted counties will be carried out to enhanced partners’ capacity to improve water quality monitoring and testing. The training of front-line partners will be drawn from the counties with high SAM, GAM rates and cholera hot spots. Partner providing services in Leer, Juba, Malakal, Torit, Wau and Aweril will be provided with basic water quality testing kits to support monitoring and testing of water provided and use in stabilization centers.

At community level partners will use the water quality testing kit to improve technically the quality of water delivery at household level, the knowledge and skills gained by partners from the water quality control training   will contribute in improving household water treatment and point of water collection. The training will contribute to streamline quality use of PUR and aquatap, turbidity and free residual chlorine will be monitored to ensure the quality of water consumed for more than estimated 200,000 individuals will benefit from the community as indirect beneficiaries.