Emergency WASH Support to Internally Displaced People (IDPs) and Host Communities in Western Bar el Ghazal Oxfam will provide IDPs fleeing from Wau town with basic WASH services, that will include increasing access to safe water, facilitation of proper sanitation, public health promotion activities and WASH NFIs, with a specialized provision hygiene kits that include menstrual hygiene products, particularly re-usable sanitary pads.. Due to low literacy levels of women, and most men, hygiene messaging and mass information sharing will be undertaken using cartoons/pictorial messaging and mother tongue translations in all intervention areas to promote lifesaving behavior change. Oxfam is prioritizing IDPs taking refuge in PoC 2 and Cathedral sites as the ones with highest needs and where the risk of AWD outbreak is the highest. In these selected sites and those to follow, Oxfam will ensure a  protection risk analysis and mitigating measures have been put in place, Through the provision of life saving WASH activities, Oxfam will contribute to mitigate the risk of cholera outbreak but also ensure capacity to respond if an outbreak was to occur. According to a report released on 23rd July by the MoH and WHO South Sudan is now facing a cholera outbreak. The outbreak is mainly impacting Juba where the displacement context and PoC set up are increasing the population vulnerability. Wau is at similar risk and is therefore requiring to mobilize efforts to mitigate potential cholera outbreak.   As a next priority, this support will be extended to other areas of need outside town when the security situation and access improves and allow. Protection interventions will be mainstreamed through the programme with WASH interventions designed including training of gender inclusive WASH committees with a 60:30:10 ratio of women, youth and men. All will be trained in construction, maintenance, repair and management of the WASH facilities. Men , boys and youth will be involved in order to mitigate conflict around WASH facilities to actively to reduce SGBV and to mitigate conflicts at Wash facilities ensuring ratios are respected and in coordination with other protection actors. All WASH facilities will be designed taking into account disposal of used menstrual hygiene products, accessible to children and the physically disabled, sex disaggregated, and clearly marked. They will be locale from the inside and well lit especially at night. Lighting will be done in such a way as to reduce gathering of youth and men at WASH facility sites.  Staff of Oxfam working on the project, WASH committee members and the general community will be trained on and informed about available referral pathways for confidential handling of SGBV cases, in coordination with the GBV subcluster and other actors.
. The context in Wau has shown to be unstable and requires Oxfam to maintain flexibility to be able to support the most vulnerable population. For now at the priority is to ensure assistance to 40,000 people in Wau town (approximately 20,000 at PoC 2, 10,000 at Cathedral and 10,000 in other sites) but 40,000 people are still displaced outside Wau town and in needs of humanitarian assistance. As the situation in Wau is fluid and might changes rapidly, the project will remain flexible to reach the most vulnerable populations.