Integrated WASH (Alsilw Hyfan), Education, and CP in Taiz, Hayfan  district: focusing on high priority gaps for people in acute needs in the hardest to reach areas Save the Children (SC) proposes to deliver a 12-month integrated project of a Life sustaining WASH , Child protection and Education interventions to the targeted communities in taiz.  The overarching objective of SC is reduce severe WASH related disease in hardest to reach areas, improve  protection children in conflict by ensuring that vulnerable children and community members in Hayfan and around schools are protected from grave violations of their rights, that children enjoy an improved learning environment via implementation of the safe school approach as well as school-based protection programming.

The overall purpose of the WASH is to reduce severe malnutrition amp WASH related disease in hard to reach areas targeting IDPs and vulnerable Host communities (HC) in acute WASH need in Alsilw ampHyfan districts in Taiz governorate. SC will, in coordination with the General Authority for Rural Water Supply projects (GARWSP) will conduct the rehabilitation of 6 water points. 6 Water Management Committees (WMCs) will be formed and trained in partnership with local authorities to enhance sustainability and empower local management. 120 HHs will be supported through sanitation facilities which will be partially implemented through cash for work targeting most vulnerable high SAM HHs and hygiene kits be provided.

The project will provide equitable access to quality basic education in safe and protective learning spaces to conflict affected IDP and HCs girls and boys in Hyfan district.  SC intervention in education will contribute to the education cluster objectives through  1) rehabilitation 5 schools, including their WASH facilities, and providing them with additional learning spaces 2) provision of teaching and learning material, educational supplies and furniture 3) involving teachers in activities at building their capacity (training, TLC, classroom observation, joint monitoring visits with education authorities) and 4) activating Father Mother Councils (FMC) and Student Councils to lead community engagement and awareness activities. SC  will support and rehabilitate 5 schools, reaching 2,840 boys and girls, and 40 men and women, providing school and teacher supplies. SC will improve the quality of the education in these schools through teacher trainings, and working with the Education authorities.
Hyfan has been selected based on the Education Cluster recognition of governorates with high severity, high level of access and high vulnerabilities, as well as in coordination with SC WASH and Child Protection sectors to holistically support children in Hyfan.   

To strengthen our community package of services, SC will also deliver protection activities to the targeted communities. Protection activities  will aim  to protect children in conflict by ensuring that vulnerable children in Hyfan in and around schools are protected from grave violations of their rights. 
SC will respond to girls and boys affected by the conflict through provision of  case management services, including support for 25 Unaccompanied and Separated Children (UASC). Through PSS activities SC will reach a further 1,500 girls and boys. 13,198 children will receive child protection awareness. 

For this project, gender, inclusion and ensure reaching people  with highest need will be ensured throughout the action. This will be done through consistent review of the criteria of selection, continuous awareness and gender sensitive and careful implementation.

Potential risks include access due to the security situation or delayed government authority approval. This will be mitigated through close coordination with the relevant authorities.Security deterioration, or the continuation and expansion of conflict and airstrikes in target areas, will be mitigated through security personnel who are on high alert following the trend of conflict, continuous coordination with other humanitarian actors, amp de-confliction to ensure safe project implementation