Increasing access to emergency and sustained water, sanitation facilities, and hygiene promotion for displaced vulnerable women, girls, boys and men in IDP settlements and host communities in Dikwa LGA Borno State. According to the Humanitarian need overview 2022, the conflict stemming from the insurgency of non-state armed groups (NSAGs) in northeast Nigeria continues as intensely as ever. About 8.4 million people need humanitarian aid within the northeast states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe (BAY states).
This proposed intervention aims to improve living conditions and all necessary emergency WASH related actions for 26,481 individuals (direct beneficiaries) living in IDP Camps in Dikwa LGA, including People with Special Needs (PWSN) by ensuring safe and equitable access to a sufficient quantity of water for domestic needs (as per the sector's standards) through Optimisation/ Rehabilitation of 3 Solar Motorised and 4 Hand pump Boreholes, Operation and Maintenance of existing Water facilities (9 SMBH and 12 HPBH), including Water quality testing and FRC Monitoring. Also, the project further aim to strengthen living conditions that preclude threats to life, health and safety of Crisis-affected people to enjoy a safer and healthier environment for living with adequate access to essential services through Rehabilitation and Maintenance of 20 Blocks of sanitation facilities and construction of 2 new Blocks of improved Sanitation Facilities to enhanced access to dignified sanitation and distribution of environmental Cleaning/Sanitation kits for daily latrine Cleaning and Weekly Environmental Sanitation in the Programme target location (Dikwa). Furthermore, the programme will be accompanied by community-tailored gender-and age-sensitive hygiene messaging, aiming at hygienic behaviour and practices as per sector’s standards through Joint Campaigns, Focused group Discussions (FGDs), house-to-house hygiene promotion and adequate Hygiene Promotion Monitoring, targeting three (3) IDP Camps within Dikwa LGA of Borno State.
Other activities to be carried out will include Soap Making training exercises/Sessions and the distribution of Hygiene Kit to be sourced from the WASH Sector Common Pipeline. This will improve the capacity of beneficiary Households to adhere and practice what they learn from the Hygiene messages conducted in the location. Other items to be booked through the common pipeline include prepositioned Cholera response kits as a contingency plan for the preparedness of Cholera intervention during rainy seasons.
The project will also prime at supporting vulnerable Women and Girls with Dignity Kits to be secured through local making (beneficiaries participatory exercises) of MHM consumables in addition to LPF MHM Stock.
The project has also put into consideration the dislodging of filled-up Latrine and Shower Soak pits, this will be achieved through WASH Sector Arrangement for dislodging Faecal waste.
To ensure the sustainability of the WASH services, LPF will deploy her “For and With” approach where locals will be recruited trained, and enrolled through out every stage of the programme as a way to pursue sustainability and boast livelihood of the community which will invariably add up to the socio-economic well-being of the community and build resilience amongst members of the community.