Provision of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Support to Out of Camp Affected Populations This proposal represents projects from the seven partners who make up the WaSH Out of Camp Consortium (WOCC) led by Solidarités International and representing Arche noVa, Cooperazione Internazionale (COOPI), French Red Cross (FRC), Oxfam, Relief International (RI) and Terre des Hommes (Tdh). 

These seven partners are proposing projects which provide essential WaSH services, critical upgrades and repairs and where possible, longer term durable solutions for the provision of services. 

Arche Nova - AN will implement works in Khanaqin district, Diyala Governorate, on rehabilitation of decentralized water supply systems in small villages and towns, increase hygiene and health awareness, provide assistance in repair of WASH facilities in social institutions (schools and health facilities), solid waste management and provide water for villages and small towns. 

COOPI - This project focuses on improving the WASH conditions of vulnerable returnees and host communities in Centre East Shirqat, Salah ad Din Governorate. The project will focus on the rehabilitation of the existing WASH infrastructures in two villages: Water Treatment Plants, Chlorination systems and water network, in order to guarantee access to continued, improved, safe and drinkable water supply to host communities and returnees. Awareness campaigns and distributions of vouchers for hygiene related NFIs will be provided. 

French Red Cross (FRC) and IRCS (Iraqi Red Crescent Society) will work in Sinjar City, and propose to rehabilitate damaged boreholes in Sinjar Centre. The intervention will maintain the solid waste collection service, implement hygiene promotion campaigns and rehabilitate school WaSH infrastructures, complemented by a participative hygiene training for school aged children using the CHAST (Children Hygiene and Sanitation Training) approach adapted to Iraqi context.

Oxfam - The project aims to target returnees in Baaji (Baja) Governorate, in specific Baaji Town and surrounding villages (Az Auman, Tall Ghazal, Tall Khalil, Tawilah, Abd Al Aziz, As Silityiah). Oxfam’s proposal aims to provide reliable water supply from 4 of the 13 existing boreholes sited in Kharab Bazar to Baaji Town (and villages along the water transmission mains).  Hygiene promotion is also a shared activity between two consortium partners: TdH will lead the HP activities in schools and Oxfam will target only most vulnerable groups. 

Relief International - RI’s project in Western Anbar proposes to support the operation and maintenance of water and sanitation facilities, through the rehabilitation of WASH infrastructure in schools, and repair Water Network Systems, Water Compact Unit (WCU) and Reverse-Osmosis Systems (ROS). Hygiene promotion and public health promotion activities with contextualized Information. This will focus on behavioural changes and conditions, and knowledge, attitude and practices of the communities, particularly those related to water borne diseases and cholera outbreaks.

TDH - Tdh aims to target returnees in Tel Afar district (Ninewa governorate), and will carry out rehabilitation works on the public water network inside Alayaditya city and install pipe extensions to 4 more villages. Repair works will be undertaken on Local A pumping station in Tal Afar, 3 schools and a healthcare centre in Sinjar and the public water network inside Sinjar city. 

SI - SI proposes an intervention in the Muhalabiya area of Mosul district, to improve the water quality at the household level and support water quality improvement with the training of community hygiene promoters to promote safe water handling and disease prevention, including cholera prevention. SI will also ensure the provision of water through water trucking in the southern areas of Muhalabiya sub-district for households in acute need who do not have water network connection, and explore options for a sustainable solution for this district, to be proposed in the first allocation of 2019.