Anticipatory Action To Flood Crisis Objective: The action seeks to address the immediate WASH needs of target beneficiaries by improving access to safe drinking water supply, sanitation, and hygiene promotion in IDP camps and host communities in very high WASH vulnerabilities in Bardera, District in Gedo region.

Activities:

Distribution of lifesaving water filter- 500 households (3,000 people) will be provided with LifeStraw water filter to use daily water filtration at household level.  The families are the most flood affected households in the IDPs and host communities’ sites where the availability of clean and safe drinking water is limited.

Hygiene promotion: SADO will identify hygiene promoters in Bardera districts in the targeted villages who will be trained on hygiene promotion activities and skills. 60% of these will be women and 40% men. Women will constitute a higher percentage of the hygiene promoters as they are the primary caregivers at domestic level and will therefore be able to reach other women and children. Thesehygiene promoters will be selected by the communities through the established Village Relief Committees as well as in consultation with SADO field teams. The aim of hygiene promotion is to promote behavioral change and good hygiene practices within the IDP camps. Their task will be the dissemination of IEC materials, water treatment at household level (aqua tabs)/safe water storage through cleaning of water containers, solid waste management (safe disposal of waste), conducting door to door hygiene campaigns and having key informant interviews with the beneficiaries and promoting hand washing with soap at critical moment (before eating, before cooking, after visiting the toilet, after changingbabies nappies and before breastfeeding). Hygiene promoters will also promote the importance of using aqua-tabs and emphasize to beneficiary households the risks related to water-borne diseases. The aquatabs provided should be sufficient for three months use, assuming that households use it at the rate of 45 litersof water treated per day (7.5 liters per household member with an average of 6 members per household).  SADO will recommend for the use of 1 aqua tab (167 mg) for 20 liters for households whose primary source ofwater is turbid while for households obtaining water from non-turbid sources 67mg aqua tabs will be distributed.

Distribution of 900 hygiene kits –

900 hygiene kits will be distributed to the IDP camps. SADO will procure and distribute 900 hygiene kits to vulnerable households.  with each household receiving: 2x clean and disinfected jerry cans (20L); 3 x pieces of soap; 3mth supply of aquatabs and sanitary items, including sanitary pads. The hygiene kits will be distributed by hygiene promoters. Hygiene promoters willraise awareness on hygiene habits and will teach beneficiaries on the use of these items.
The content of the kits has been elaborated in line with the WASH cluster guidance. The target is all those already receiving hygiene promotion and accessing the water distribution in order to ensure complementarity of all activities. The criteria for selecting the beneficiaries of the hygiene kits will include large households, female or child-headed households, households with malnourished children, households with no income, households with no basic WASH items, households with sick members.

Distribution of 900 mosquito nets (Insecticide-Treated Free Standing Mosquito Nets (Large Net 160x180x150cm) of High-density polyethylene conical shape of minimum of 56 complete holes / inch 2) . Nine hundred flood affected households in two camps and two host community sites will receive insecticide free standing mosquito nets to prevent and the malaria and other disease-causing insecticides.

Community engagement in Prevention and Management of Cholera and AWD: SADO will hold three public events to mobilize the Bardera community to prevent the spread of AWD and Cholera. Health practitioners, schoolteachers, women, and youth associations will be part of this forum. SADO hygiene promoters will disseminate and share out Cholera and AWD prevention and treatment messages during the events.

Mass Disinfection of Environmental Areas with High Risk of Mosquito Breeding and Sources of Fecal Contamination: SADO will organize three big community events in mobilizing the community for environmental disinfection in the areas with high risk of mosquito breeding and source of fecal Contamination. Community members will be encouraged to fill up open pits that hold water and disinfect areas where latrines have flooded. Health practitioners, schoolteachers, women, and youth associations will be part in these forums. SADO hygiene promoter’s team will disseminate and share techniques and items that can be used to disinfect and cover open pits during the events.