Provision of Integrated WASH and Nutrition services by targeting of SAM children and their families in Twic East County of Jonglei state and provision of life-sustaining and life-saving livelihoods assistance through scaling up provision of emergency dry season vegetable and fishing kits to 6,667 vulnerable households in Aweil East County, Northern Bahr el Ghazal state, South Sudan The project seeks to provide integrated WASH and Nutrition services for people affected by the crisis in Twic East County by targeting Severely Acute Malnourished (SAM) children and their families in nutrition sites and in community while strengthening the capacity of nutrition workers and volunteers on the WASH’Nut core competencies. Acknowledging that poor WASH services are a key driver to poor health, and ultimately resulting in high malnutrition among children, the project will provide clean water and sanitation to 16025 people in the community and 1600 SAM children in 8 nutrition sites in four payams of Twic East. 

To re-establish and improve access to water, sanitation and hygiene infrastructure for 17625 vulnerable people inclusive of SAM children through drilling of 2 new boreholes, rehabilitate 11 boreholes and 11 latrines, increasing access to safe water and sanitation facilities engaging women and girls in focused groups and community dialogues to determine their WASH needs prior to implementation of WASH activities, empowering women and girls to participate in WASH committees and increasing knowledge of appropriate hygiene and sanitation practices delivered through community training and hygiene promotion activities on the other hand.

The intervention will target IDPs, host communities, returnees and under-served communities, in line with CERF life-saving criteria. Through the project Implementation, GBI will adhere to the 4 core humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, independence and equality. Furthermore, Green Belt Initiative is working towards the application of the Core Humanitarian Standards and will be guided by the WASH Sphere minimum standards.

This project also seeks a six-month period starting 1st September to provide Food Security and Livelihoods kits to critically vulnerable 6,667 Households in Aweil East County, Northern Bahr el Ghazal state. The overall objective is to provide life sustaining and lifesaving livelihoods support through provision of emergency dry season combined vegetable and fishing kits to increase food production and improve nutritional wellbeing by scaling up GBI existing intervention to vulnerable households targeting women and child-headed families in (IPC 3, 4) in Aweil East County, Northern Bahr el Ghazal state. 

The key stakeholders will be engaged in project orientation and consultative meetings for the purpose of identifying key Payams for project implementation with a clear selection criterion based on the levels of vulnerability and formation of the Household Beneficiary Selection committee. The beneficiary selection committee with support of the project officers and assistants will be tasked to identify and map the critically vulnerable Households to participate in the project, such as the female headed, child headed, Household with people living with disabilities, elderly, chronically ill people and malnourished children in the host community, IDPs and Returnees population.

This project targets overall 40,002 beneficiaries in 6,667 HHs in the four Payams (Baac 2000 HHs, Malualbai 1500 HHs, Mangartong I 1,500 amp II 1,667HHs ) of Aweil East County of Northern Bahr el Ghazal state. A total of 667 people representing 667 HHs will be given specific basic training in groups on utilization of inputs, that means 667 participants (vegetable producers and fishers folks), while the rest of beneficiaries will receive demonstrations at distribution centers on basic utilization of inputs.