WASH Emergency Response in Vulnerable Communities of Panyijiar County. The proposed project seeks to contribute to the empowerment and resilience of women and girls through WASH interventions in flood affected communities of Panyijiar County. The project has been designed with 4 outcomes of which under Outcome 1, at least 11,000 people will benefit from increased access to safe water supplies through the rehabilitation of 18 boreholes, drilling of 4 new boreholes and training of 22 water management committees to ensure sustained functionality of the water sources..

Under Outcome 2, at least 18,301 beneficiaries are expected to practice improved hygiene behaviors through as a result of the planned house to house hygiene promotion and mass campaigns. The project will increase access to facilities that promote good hygiene practices through the installation of handwashing facilities on existing latrines at household level. There will be provision of 1,200 menstrual hygiene kits and 1200 WASH kits distributed. Community hygiene promotors will be trained on menstrual hygiene management and will in turn conduct training for 1,200 women and adolescent girls on menstrual hygiene. The dignity kits consist of a leaflet (pictograms and local language), 3 panties, soap and laundry soap, 1 packet of re-usable sanitary pads (lasts 1 year). The project will have two types of sanitary wear, pads for the girls and a choice of menstrual cups for the older women. The project will facilitate the holding of Global WASH events which are expected to be attended by over 6,000 people in Ganyliel.

Under Outcome 3, the project will provide for communities to acquire knowledge and skills to prepare and respond to shocks such as drought, floods and diseases. Community leaders and local authorities will be trained on emergency preparedness and response. 

Under Outcome 4, they will be 16 community hygiene promoters trained. Selection of the CHPs will include current Community Nutrition Volunteers (CNV) who work with WHH in the food security project in order to link WASH with Nutrition. The CNVs will receive training in hygiene promotion and will also be supported with capacity building to form a coordination structure/committee to make them more effective in ensuring that their services and knowledge remains useful even after the end of this project. Furthermore, they will be equipped with reporting tools to ensure accurate record keeping. The volunteers will be expected to conduct campaigns that include messaging on relevant use of the rehabilitated WASH infrastructure, while further also providing key information regarding good hygiene practices, the link between poor hygiene and malnutrition, how to protect pregnant and lactating women and as well as infants, from water borne disease. Other issues will include how to avoid fecal contamination, as well as how to safely store food and water, and how to use water purification tablets. The training will be conducted in complementarity with another WHH project funded by the German Federal Foreign Office (AA). 

The WHH team will coordinate with the local authorities and other NGOs undertaking health, education, nutrition and protection related interventions in Panyijiar such as IRC, Mercy Corps and Nonviolent Peaceforce to facilitate multi- sector integration of services for the good of the targeted community.