Emergency WASH and ESNFI response for Conflict-Displaced Communities in Gedeo and West Guji Zones. The project will respond to the critical WASH, shelter and NFI needs among vulnerable groups and communities affected by the recent conflict and displacement in four Woredas of West Guji and Gedeo Zones: Abaya, Gelana, Dilla Town, and Yirga Chefe.

GOAL’s proposed set of activities will include integrated life-saving and life-enhancing interventions that consist of a distribution of emergency shelter and NFIs (including WASH NFIs) or one-off unconditional cash distributions to prioritized households, hygiene and sanitation promotion training activities and awareness raising, emergency latrine construction and provision of water tanks (to support water trucking provided by other actors) at IDP sites, and procurement and distribution of WASH NFIs. The response will be tailored to each Woreda context to ensure a holistic set of shelter/NFI/cash and WASH activities that will complement the nutrition and health response that GOAL will provide under a separate grant. The exact locations of activities may change depending on the direction by the EOC during project implementation. Protection elements will be mainstreamed throughout the response, including psycho-social assessments to identify IDPs with specific psycho-social and mental health needs, referrals to appropriate actors, or counselling as relevant. 

Ad-hoc support to improve the living conditions of the IDPs will also be provided, by supporting the Zonal and Woreda administrations with the transportation of NFIs (including water chemicals) or food to camps, construction of external kitchens at congested collective centers and so on, where required.

The ESNFI and cash response will be targeted to reach the most vulnerable households, while the WASH response will aim to reach the majority IDPs living in IDP camps or collective centers in the targeted Woredas.

ESNFI – Dilla Town and Yirga Chefe Woredas
GOAL has discussed with the ESNFI Cluster and expects to receive an allocation of ESNFI kits as a donation-in-kind to support our proposed response. As most ESNFI needs in Abaya are planned to be covered by the NDRMC, GOAL will likely only target Yirga Chefe and Dilla Town for the ESNFI Response. Ultimately this will depend on the needs and direction from the authorities and Emergency Operations Centre. GOAL expects to receive the kits as a donation-in-kind from IOM and will carry out the distributions with existing funding - not charged to this grant. In Dilla Town and Yirga Chefe the response will be in-kind only, in accordance with the recommendations from the Cluster, CWG and authorities.

ESNFI – Gelana Woreda
In Gelana Woreda GOAL will implement an ESNFI response using a cash transfer. Zonal and Woreda level government have recommended cash based or combination of cash and in-kind assistance. GOAL will target 1,600 households for a one-off cash transfer of 3,500 ETB, based on the recommendation from the Cash Working Group and Cluster. GOAL expects to reach all remaining IDP households in Gelana, who have not previously received support, with a cash intervention through this EHF grant 

WASH – Abaya, Dilla Town, Yirga-Chefe, Gelana.
The WASH response will target all four Woredas activities will be context-specific depending on the location and requirements within each camp. GOAL expects to work in 3 sites in Abaya, 5 in Dilla, 5 in Yirga Chefe and 6 in Gelana. All are outlined in Annex 1. We will coordinate with People in Need, and World Vision who are operational in Yirga Chefe, and Gelana respectively to ensure a complementary response and no overlap. Different IDP sites will be targeted by each organisation - described in Annex 1 attached.

The ESNFI kits from IOM are expected to include WASH NFIs (soap and jerry cans).

With this EHF funding, GOAL aims to target:
 1,600 HH with one-off cash distributions.
 An estimated 76,500 individuals through WASH activities - including hygiene promotion, sanitation, water tanks, and WASH NFIs