Integrated life-saving assistance to drought, conflict affected and evicted IDPs in Benadir, and Afgoye corridor through provision of NFIs, Emergency Shelter Kits, WASH, Protection Services and CCCM activities. This proposal seeks to complement ongoing and completed AVORD interventions in Benadir and Afgoye corridor. It targets some 3,000 newly arrived and forcefully evicted IDP households (18,000 IDP persons) who live in makeshift buuls without adequate access to NFIs and Shelter. Following need-based and transparent selection of beneficiaries, AVORD will distribute NFIs and Emergency Shelter kits while undertaking site planning activities to ensure effective mitigation of hazards and reduce alarming congestion levels in target settlements. 

In response to demonstrated WASH gaps in target areas and in close coordination with the regional WASH cluster, AVORD will construct 100 semi-permanent dislodgeable latrine blocks (200 pit latrines) in sites hosting newly arrived and evicted IDPs to enhance hygiene and sanitation levels. Consultations will be made with community leaders, especially women and girls, prior to the construction of latrines to enhance female privacy and protection levels. The design of latrines will also consider access needs for children and persons with disabilities. Separate latrine blocks will be constructed for men amp women with entrance on opposite sides and clearly marked signs in the Somali language. Each latrine block will be equipped with a hand-washing station. Besides, the project team will deliver an integrated hygiene promotion campaign involving door-to-door sensitization, installation of posters and distribution of hygiene promotion leaflets. The campaign will focus, among other themes, proper hand-washing with soap and menstrual hygiene and will be conducted following distribution of NFI kits containing basic hygiene items such as female sanitary towels and soap.

AVORD will closely coordinate with other partners operating Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) crisis centers in project target locations to facilitate principled referrals within the framework of existing systems hence supporting survivors of GBV and enhancing protection levels among the IDPs. The project team will continuously identify and follow-up with SGBV survivors for psycho-social, medical, and legal support while conducting sensitization on key protection issues. Religious leaders and representatives from camp management committees, community leaders, local authorities, women group and other key stakeholders will be trained on context-specific issues related to protection such as peer to peer counselling, SGBV prevention, child protection, referral pathways and other . 

Camp Coordination and management will be enhanced in target settlements through training and infrastructure development. Post-training meetings among key stakeholders will touch on camp wide issues such as health, conflict mitigation, peaceful coexistence and service availability. It will also ensure equitable access to services, improve the quality of life of the IDPs during displacement while advocating for solutions and preparing them for life after displacement. Multi-purposes social spaces will be constructed in populated settlements with the aim of establishing structures for improved coordination and service delivery at site level. Service mapping exercises will be undertaken to map access and service delivery in newly established IDP sites in target areas.

In the delivery of the proposed package, AVORD will seek Integration with the protection, WASH, CCCM, Shelter and other clusters to ensure complementarity, value for money and efficiency of the response.