Quality Emergency School Feeding and Cholera Infection risks reduction Programme to reduce risks of cognitive underdevelopment and malnutrition amongst hunger stricken and crisis affected school going children in Wau and Raja Counties and Life saving time-critical, Integrated Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Emergency Support Targeting Most Vulnerable and Displaced Communities in Wau, Raja and Jur River Counties of former Western Bahr el Ghazal State. Peace Corps proposes an integrated emergency school feeding and cholera prevention program and timely provision of equitable access to safe and sufficient WASH through rehabilitation of dysfunctional water points, rehabilitation of sanitation facilities and intensive hygiene promotion services and campaigns among vulnerable populations at risk of protection in former Greater Bahr el Ghazal state, South Sudan. This project target 5,898 beneficiaries of which 5655 will be school going children aged 3-18 years (2545Boys, 3110 Girls), and 243adults (142Men, 101Women) who will include teachers, cooks, and Youth Food Monitors and while under WASH it will be targeting 36,000 beneficiaries comprised of 11,500 girls, 11,500 boys, 6,500 men and 6,500 women – includes people with special needs and youth amongst host, returnee and IDP communities. The integrated Education and WASH project will run for a period of eight months targeting10 schools, 6 in Wau and 4 in Raja and six months period through rehabilitation of 40 dysfunctional water points and rehabilitation of 30 sanitation facilities and provision of MHM kits to women and adolescent girls in the Wau, Jur river and Raja counties respectively. The objective of this response is to contribute towards the reduction of cognitive underdevelopment and reduction of short-term hunger and malnutrition, improve attendance and enrollment, reduction of geographical and gender disparities and reducing the risks of cholera outbreak and transmission, promote sanitation and hygiene through community centered approach. These will be achieved through provision of food to school going children and rehabilitation of safe and child-friendly WASH in schools and other facilities both hardware and software components. The project will also mainstream gender, GBV, conflict sensitivity and protection with hopes of contributing towards protection of women girls and children from risks, GBV and other protection challenges that have a potential of disrupting their education, enhance their psychosocial development, improve hygiene and sanitation and alleviate strains on their academic performance. The project will be linked to complement each other with particular focus on provision of MHM kits among women and girls. PCO will create synergies with Health, Nutrition, FSL and Protection among others. The centrality of gender-sensitive and protection in all programming, which includes actions on prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse, mitigating GBV against women and girls will be a key pillar of all planned actions

Wau municipality which is a government controlled area, PCO is the only partner implementing food for education (FFE) programme supported by WFP reaching 27 schools since 2018. However, in greater Baggari which includes Bagarri, Bazia, Ngiza, Baselia and Ngodakala which is an IO controlled area, there is no WFP supported school and so this project will focus in this area. 
In Raja County, PCO has been supporting schools with scholastic materials. Currently, there are 19 functional schools with 5 schools being supported with WFPs FFE through HARD and AFOD respectively however, PCO proposes to support 4 schools in Diem Zubeir and Boro Payams which are not reached with WFPs FFE support but are supported by HARD and AFOD with teacher’s incentives. 
PCO will mainstream Cross cutting issues such as environmental conservation, gender equality and women empowerment, acknowledging the different roles of girls, women, men and boys and how they are differently affected by conflict mainstream protection, Accountability to Affected Populations through our robust community dialogues, beneficiary empowerment, communication mechanisms, active participation, rightful and unalienable entailment. In addition, the centrality of gender-sensitive and protection in all programming, which includes actions on prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse, mitigating GBV against women and girls.