Provide life-saving. Equitable and sustainable WASH assistance for drought-affected vulnerable populations in Elbarde District, Bakool region. With the proposed action, Action Against Hunger proposes to ensure communities equitable access to water, sanitation and hygiene services with aim of improving communities' access to WASH services and overcoming drought-induced diseases, protection risks, and water price on the majority of the population at risk of famine. Through this action, Action Against Hunger envisions increasing equitable access to safe water, sanitation facilities and improved hygiene practices among 14,200 drought-affected IDPs (7,200 IDPs amp 7,000 host communities) and host communities at risk of famine in Elbarde District. To provide immediate lifesaving access to clean and safe water, the action will provide emergency water supply through a voucher to 1,200 HH(7,200 individuals) for a period of 60 days with each household entitlement of 45 litres/HHs/day. The action proposes to undertake rehabilitation of strategic water points to increase safe water access for targeted communities through rehabilitation of one (1) borehole in Elbarde drilled in 2022 and required borehole equipping and construction of water ancillary work for communities to access water, to reduce the water trekking distance pipeline extension from rehabilitated borehole will be undertaken to reduce the nearest water point distance is within the minimum WASH cluster distance(500m) and further construction of 2 water kiosk within the community centre. Moreover, to increase water access among 2,000 individuals the action proposes the rehabilitation of four(4) shallow well by constructing a well apron, and associated infrastructures and installation of a hand pump. The program will also improve access to sanitation facilities through the construction of 50 gender-segregated emergency latrines with handwashing stations in IDP settlements. targeting 1,500 individuals and the provision of sanitation tools will be undertaken upon completion of the sanitation facility. handwashing stations in the latrines will contribute to increased handwashing practice, especially during the five critical times of handwashing, To enhance good hygiene practices, Action Against Hunger will determine the hygiene knowledge and practice gaps by conducting a KAP survey, one(baseline survey) at project inception to inform approaches and endline survey to gauge impact, the project will engage 15 (6 male and 9 female) community hygiene volunteers (CHVs) to conduct hygiene promotion campaigns focusing on hand washing with soap, household water treatment(HHWT), messaging on AWD/Prevention to complement the water supply activity hygiene promotion session will precede the distribution of 1,200 hygiene kits targeting the water voucher beneficiary to redeem water from identified vendors. The proposed response takes into consideration the impact of the drought and AWD/Cholera outbreaks on vulnerable groups such as women, children and person with disabilities where 15% of the latrine construction will be disabled-friendly and gender-sensitive hygiene items will be provided to women and girls within the reproductive age as part of the hygiene items package. To embed sustainability in the programming of the water access and continued uptake of handwashing practices to promote hygiene practices, Action Against Hunger will conduct capacity building for the selected 15 CHVs and training 29 (12 male and 17 female) water management committees members on operation and maintenance of the established water points.