Provision of Integrated life saving interventions in Health, Nutrition and WASH targeting internal Displaced People (IDPs) ,refugees and host community in Gerieda and Dimsu Locality, South Darfur The 12-month project will respond to health, nutrition and WASH needs for internally displaced persons, Refugees and host community in Gerieda and Dimsu locality, South Darfur. ARC will target 143068 as direct beneficiaries 58187 men, 60560 women, 11918 boys and 12403 girls. This has been calculated, estimating 80% proportion of the IDPs, refugees and host communities will access health, nutrition and wash services respectively. Women of childbearing age (25% of total population) and children lt5 years (17% of total population) will be targeted for reproductive and child health services. ARC will provide integrated health, nutrition, WASH services that both saves lives and promotes durable solutions and self-reliance among its target populations. Health services will continue with provision of basic primary health care package for 6 health facilities Forica, Old Camp, Babanusa and Ditto PHCCs in Gerieda locality and Dimsu and Eltomat in Dimsu locality. Among the services included are management of communicable and non-communicable diseases maternal and child health reproductive health clinical management of rape and gender-based violence immunizations and preventive health promotion. Additionally, ARC will operate one Basic Emergency Obstetrics and Neonatal Care (BEmONC) site in Babanusa PHCC, Gerieda locality and support referrals for complicated cases. In an effort to future prevent disease and public health outbreaks, ARC will expand its immunization (EPI) programming, strengthening it as key component of the services. This will include fixed and outreach EPI services as well as supporting the State Ministry of Health (SMoH) in EPI campaigns to raise awareness and increase immunizations coverage. ARC will also provide integrated nutrition services in six health facilities mentioned above through a comprehensive CMAM package including supporting 6TSFPs, 6OTPs (4 in Gereida locality and 2 in Dimso locality) and 1 SC in Gereida rural hospital. The overall goal of nutrition is to contribute to reduction in nutrition related mortality and morbidity among girls and boys aged lt5 years and pregnant and lactating women. These integrated services will allow ARC to provide a holistic approach to address health and nutrition issues. Under WASH interventions, the project will focus on provision of safe potable water for domestic use, sanitation and hygiene promotion for 55,137 beneficiaries settled in Dimsu, Gereida and their surrounding villages. Major activities planned include upgrade WASH infrastructure to enable karkada and Marmosa areas settled by returnees, refugees and the host community to have safe access to WASH facilities, introduce innovative roofed water catchment in Karkada to serve 4,157 people that is fitted with slow sand filters purification system powered by solar pumping, transform a deep borehole generator powered into a solar power-driven system to increase yield and the construction of its generator room, fencing water tank and protection of the borehole rehabilitation of water systems, Rehabilitation/upgrading of existing water distribution network in PHCCs, Construction/rehabilitation of institutional latrines at schools and PHCCs, construction of household latrines, waste management and disposal, including conducting clean-up campaigns in karkada and Marmosa ,dissemination of hygiene promotion messages, strengthening the water committees with aim to sustain water management in targeted locations. Community participation and Community led total sanitation (CLTS) approaches will be used to maximize the impact of the project.
To ensure that all activities are implemented per government and ministry guidelines and protocols, ARC will continue to work closely with line ministries: MoH and WES. Under this grant ARC will sub-grant the national partner (JMCO) and Assist, to implement the community activities strengthening community participation, ownership and promoting sustainability.