Early Action to Improve WASH Conditions in Rubkona County in Unity - Reserve Allocation R3 ltpgtltspan style="font-size: 8pt"gtThe project aims to improve
WASH infrastructure through early action interventions in Rubkona and Bentiu to
mitigate the impact of flooding and to reduce the risk of WASH related
morbidity and mortality among women, men, boys and girls. The project intend to
reach 57,407 people (14,418 men, 15,433 women, 13,309 boys and14,247girls)
beneficiaries with safe and equitable access to water and sanitation services.
The project aligns with WASH cluster objective to respond to emergency needs in
target areas facing high level of WASH severity. In line with the SSHF 3rd
Reserve Allocation Strategy for 2023, the project will directly contributes to
allocation priorities related to early action interventions in Rubkona/Bentiu.
This will be achieved by strengthening the existing water and sanitation
facilities and hygiene promotion activities in target areas to ensure that the
system are in place to mitigate the impact of serve flooding on most vulnerable
population. The project will also contributes to Concern’s WASH improvement
plan which is developed recently to improve WASH conditions in Bentiu.lt/spangtltbrgtlt/pgtltp style="text-align:justify" class="MsoNormal"gtltspan style="font-size:8.0ptmso-bidi-font-size:10.0ptfont-family:" lang="EN-US"gtConcern currently manages
the Surface Water Treatment System (SWAT) in site E, D2, and Hybrid Solar Water
Borehole in Bentiu IDP camp, Bentiu Water Treatment Plant and SWAT in Rubkona.
The existing water systems and boreholes will be strengthened through
repair/installation of water tanks, bladders, tap stands and routine operations
 maintenance to improve the capacity and meet additional demand due to
flooding. Targeted borehole/hand pumps in Bentiu and Rubkona will be
rehabilitated to improve access to safe water and the HP platform will be
strengthen/raised to withstand flooding. The sanitation facilities in existing
IDPs sites will be repaired and new stances will be constructed to improve
access to sanitation and ensure privacy, safety and dignity of vulnerable
households. Given the challenges related to sanitation in Bentiu IDP camp,
Concern also propose 2 blocks of durable latrines with new latrine design
piloted by Concern in Sector-5 which address the challenges related to frequent
repair and desludging needs, throwing of plastic bottles and vandalizing of materials.
The latrine will be flood resilient reinforced with concrete base of 100 mm and
the lining structure will be raised to a height of 0.8 m high. The hygiene
promotion activities will be strengthen through engaging the block leaders and
routine monitoring of the hygiene promotors with defined targets assigned on
daily basis. lt/spangtlt/pgtltpgtltbrgtlt/pgtltpgt

lt/pgtltp class="MsoNormal"gtltspan style="font-size:8.0ptmso-bidi-font-size:
10.0ptfont-family:" lang="EN-US"gtConcern will mainstreams community engagement and cross cutting
issues such as gender, disability protection, accountability and GBV throughout
the project cycle. The construction/repair of water and sanitation facilities
will consider the specific needs of most vulnerable groups including
construction/repair of latrines for Person with Disabilities (PWDs) and sex
segregated latrines. The site selection for water and sanitation facilities
will be in consultation with the community and protection partner to ensure
equitable and safe access for all vulnerable groups. The Gender and Protection
staff will conduct safety audit, protection/gender related trainings for the
community leaders, youth and Concern staff to ensure a safe and inclusive
response. Concern is among the lead WASH agencies in Bentiu and will leverage
from its operational experiences, existence staff and established linkages with
the authorities, target community and other humanitarian partners. The target
households will receive coordinated and integrated services to maximize the
overall outcomes of this project. Concern will participate in cluster meetings
both at state and national level, active participation and information sharing
with other partners to create synergies and provide complementary assistance to
affected households. Accountability to affected population will be central to
all interventions including a functional Complaint and Feedback Response
Mechanism (CFRM).lt/spangtltspan lang="EN-US"gtlt/spangtlt/pgtltpgt





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