Increase Access to Clean and Safe Water, Sanitation and Improve Hygiene to Vulnerable IDPs, Returnees and Host Communities in Ulang County The proposed WASH project will be implemented in Ulang county of Upper Nile State (from the formerly ten South Sudan States) targeting 10,000 direct beneficiaries and over 15,000 indirect beneficiaries in the county which have experienced insecurity from armed conflicts, cattle raiding, and annual flooding. The population has experienced high influx of IDPs, returnees presently the communities are very poor culminating into problems of unsafe water, poor hygiene and sanitation. UNKEA intends to provide WASH inputs to the IDPS, Returnees and the host communities including persons with Disabilities (PWDs) women headed households, gender based violence survivors, children and care takers admitted in nutrition sites. UNKEA will use its current network of 17 OTP sites in Ulang to support vulnerable persons admitted in these facities with requisite WASh supplies and information packages. A team of WASH promoters with technical guidance of WASH Officers amp WASH Manager will work alongside the GBV protection focal points and Nutrition centre focal points to ensure key WASH deliverables are provided during the intervention. The project will rehabilitate sanitation facilities including repair of boreholes. The borehole repair spares will be prepositioned in Ulang county and other specific locations in the early phase of project implementation. 

UNKEA will carry out the following activities 
1) Mobilization and sensitization of community through dialogues in all the project implementation sites in order to create awareness. Information sharing shall include what project activities to be implemented, time frame and importance of the project to the communities
2) Identification and registration of beneficiaries. the communities where this project will be implemented will be identified through consultation with the local authorities and other stake holders on the most vulnerable groups (IDPs, Women headed household, children headed household, person with disabilities, gender based violence survivors and chronically sickness) and care takers of the admitted SAM children will be prioritized in the selection.
at the end of the project UNKEA would have achieved the following,
3) Rehabilitation/repair of unfunctional water points including 8 boreholes in Ulang county
4) Provision of hygiene kits to 2000 vulnerable persons including children and care takers within the 17 OTP sites
5) Provision of WASH NFIs to 10,000 beneficiaries including water purifiers to increase access to clean and safe water 
6) 20 water management communities members trained on the management of WASH facilities
7) 10,000 emergency affected people reached thorough participatory hygiene promotion, GBV messaging, and health information
8) 6,312 women and girls enabled to practices safe, dignified menstrual hygiene management 
9) 25 hand washing facilities established in public amp communal places
10) 20 public latrines rehabilitated/repaired in markets, and other public places

All the project activities will be implemented in six locations (Doma, Duk, Buong, Kuich, Toalare and Rupleat) in two payams (Doma and Kurmuot) of Ulang county. 

The project aims to reach out to 10,000 direct beneficiaries that include women, children, IDPs, Returnees, and host communities. Deliberate targeting shall include women and girls in market and communal places, malnourished children and their caretakers, and poor vulnerable households with limited or no options for water storage, waste disposal, and hygiene facilities. Atleast 12 hygiene promoters shall be engaged to hold demonstrations and sensitizations to the masses in the county. WASH items shall consider both individual needs (e,g women menstrual hygiene) and public hygiene needs like hand washing around public facilities. The project shall adhere to SPHERE standards in ensuring appropriate spread of resources to the population in need.