Provision of integrated water, sanitation and hygiene services and hygiene promotion related to COVID-19 prevention for IDPs and returnees, secondarily displaced IDPs, and recently returned populations in under-served informal settlements. According to Strategic and Operational Guidance for Humanitarian Response in Informal Sites, 1M IDPs are residing in out of camps and about 104,000 are identified to be living in 575 informal sites in Iraq. Similarly, according to WASH Cluster strategic operational framework, three years after the conclusion of large-scale military operations against ISIL, 1.3 million people remain internally displaced, with 4.7 million people having returned to their areas of origin. Measures imposed to curb the spread of COVID-19 further disrupted provision of and access to services which was already inadequate in displacement and return locations prior to the pandemic.

In order to address these needs, SI will lead Informal settlements and critical shelters WASH (ICW) consortium comprising of 7 NGOs of which 4 INGOs: SI, AN, COOPI, and FRC and 3 NNGOs: Harrikar, SEDO and SSORD to implement 7 months WASH response to reduce health risks including COVID-19 prevention through provision of well-coordinated, inclusive and integrated WASH services to the most vulnerable IDPs and returnees in critical shelters and under-served informal settlements to reach 103,139 people  in 19 of the 20 prioritized districts in Anbar, Baghdad, Duhok, Diyala, Kirkuk, Ninewa, and Salah Al Din Governorates.

ICW Consortium will maintain consortium management unit (CMU) throughout the project to provide comprehensive support, coordination and capacity building and to participate external coordination platforms on behalf of the consortium.

SI will rehabilitate 1 km of water network in Baaj, distribute 360 water tanks to households in Qahtaniyah sub-district, 1350 water kits for safe water collection and storage, rehabilitate 550 sanitation facilities, implement hygiene promotion and kits distribution to household in all its areas of intervention to reach 6,695 people in Tel Afar and Baaj districts.

AN will rehabilitate 2 Water Treatment Plants: in the North of Muqdadiya city center and Al-Riyadh Center - Al-Hawiga district, rehabilitate latrines and showers in Khanaqin district, implement solid waste collection service through cash for work groups, implement hygiene promotion and kits distribution to reach 17,430 people in Hawiga, Khanaqin and Muqdadiya districts. 

COOPI will rehabilitate three 3 WTPs and support with treatment consumables, install 50 PVC water tanks of 1,300 liters, install 6 latrines for PwSN and rehabilitate 30 toilets, implement hygiene promotion using PHAST approach and kits distribution to reach 17,126 People in Balad, Beygee, Fallujah and Hatra districts. 

FRC will extend water network to Al-Jazeera and Hayaly, provide safe water to 166 HH for 6 months (931 individuals) through water trucking, training on MHM and CHAST approaches to consortium and WASH cluster partners, distribute MHM kits to reach 15,258 people in Sinjar and Baa’j districts. 

Harikar will rehabilitate and extend water networks, provide 300 storage tanks with the standard size 250L per family, rehabilitate dysfunctional sanitation facilities, provide 50 garbage containers with 660L for an average of 8 households per container, promote hygiene using PHAST approach and distribute hygiene kits to reach 16,245 people in Zakho and Sumel districts. 

SEDO will rehabilitate two water networks, install 120 RO System at household level, provide 40 water tank capacity 1 m3, rehabilitate 30 latrines and 20 showers, distribute 60 containers of 200lt trash bins, conduct hygiene promotion using community volunteers and distribute hygiene kits to reach 12,286 people Kadhimia, Karkh, Mahmoudia, Rutba and Toozkhurmato districts.

SSORD will install 45 water tanks with a capacity of 1000 L and connect with water network, maintain 220 latrines and 180 showers, collect and dispose estimated 220 m3/month solid waste with contractor, implement hygiene promotion through door-to-door and distribute hygiene kits reaching 18,083 people in Fallujaj, Mahmoudia and Ramadi districts.