Integrated Multi-sector Consortium project with focus on enhancing resilience of vulnerable people impacted by protracted crisis in South Darfur State through interventions in  Health, Nutrition , protection and WASH. World Vision in collaboration with International Aid Services (IAS) is proposing an integrated lifesaving intervention project to meet the immediate needs of the vulnerable communities in Ed El Fursan, El Salam, Katayla*, Sunta, Buram*, Nyala*, and Um Dafug localities of South Darfur. The main goal of the project is to provide humanitarian assistance to improve Health, nutrition, protection, and WASH status among target IDPs, returnees, refugees and vulnerable host communities. This will be achieved through enhancing access to basic services including health and nutrition, and WASH with integration of protection activities in all operational areas. The project will target 256,557 Vulnerable individuals, of which 11239 (4%) are IDPs, 189501 (74%) vulnerable host community, 23422 (9% ) returnees and 32395 (13%) refugees. Of this targeted 256,557 people, 56588 men,100389 women, 49438 boys and 50142 girls.

The key project interventions will aim at 1) Increasing access to Primary Health Care services, particularly maternal, child health, and malnutrition among U5, 2) Empowering communities to actively participate in activities that contribute to increased household and community resilience thereby enabling them to respond to future shocks in their respective areas, 3) Increasing access Protection activities and 4)Increasing access to WASH services to reduce water related diseases. The project will contribute to a reduction of morbidity and mortality caused by poor access to health and nutrition services among the targeted groups, inadequate access to basic water, hygiene and sanitation services as well as building the resilience of target communities through improved access to protection activities. The goal of the 12-month consortium is to contribute to the three HRP Objectives for 2020: SO1: Provide timely multi-sectoral life-saving assistance to crisis affected people to reduce mortality and morbidity, SO2: Contribute to building resilience to recurrent shocks and improving vulnerable people’s access to basic services and SO3: Enhance the prevention and mitigation of protection risks and respond to protection needs through quality and principled humanitarian action, by providing vulnerable displaced people, refugees, returnees and vulnerable host communities with livelihoods support and basic services to reduce their food insecurity and malnutrition status and allow them to build their self-resilience. 
The targeted localities are ranked under HNO severity scoring of 4 and 5 in South Darfur state and will be supported through the provision of integrated life-saving Health and Nutrition services to households with highest needs in food insecure and with highly malnourished populations, as well as WASH and Protection intervention. 

The consortium members proposed WASH activities that will help in strengthening existing livelihoods options among the target population. The WASH focus is expected to make the targeted households food secure while reducing water-borne diseases and hazards resulting from deficient environmental health, unsafe disposal of feces, unsafe water sources, poor sanitation, and hygiene practices. The consortium partner (IAS) has presence in South Darfur implementing projects funded by various donors including SHF, ECHO, DFID, WFP and UNICEF just like WV. The proposed activities are aligned to the needs and priorities of targeted communities as identified by the government and UN-led sector strategies and priorities. Rehabilitation of existing basic services and infrastructure will be prioritized over new construction in order to reduce costs and increase coverage. Existing coping mechanisms will be enhanced and strengthened so as not to disturb community livelihoods systems but allow diversification within the target communities and will harness organizational, technical and operational capacities among the consortium member.