Provision of water, sanitation and hygiene response to the drought affected IDP and rural host populations to contribute towards famine prevention in Galkacyo South District. International Medical Corps (IMC) is a US-registered independent affiliate organization of International Medical Corps UK (IMC UK), with which IMC UK shares the same name and charitable objectives and mission. IMC UK and IMC work together to deliver assistance programs in an accountable and effective manner to pursue their commonly held charitable objectives. IMC UK will engage IMC to implement its programs in the field, with IMC UK oversight, according to the terms and conditions of the agreement that results from this proposal and the terms of the party’s administrative service agreement. Together with IMC Croatia, IMC provides administrative and operational support to IMC UK and the programs on the ground, including but not limited to financial management, banking and cash management, procurement management/international procurements, and logistics.

Proposed activities will include improved access to safe water through boreholes rehabilitation, water pipeline extension to drought affected IDP settlements, provision of water - through water trucking- to rural communities and installation of new sanitation facilities in settlements groups hosting new displaced population. IMC will ensure cultural-sensitivity, safety for users of all ages and gender and accessibility to persons with disability, including female-specific hygiene items (sanitary materials). The activities proposed will result in improved access to safe water, sanitation facilities, increased awareness and adoption of good hygiene and sanitation practices for displacement-affected population. In turn, risks of AWD/cholera, spread of COVID-19, acute malnutrition especially for children and pregnant and lactating women and GBV especially among women and girls as they access WASH facilities will be reduced. The project targets 14,500 direct beneficiaries (9,600 from host communities and 4,900 IDPs) and 198,000 indirect beneficiaries
This will ensure building up and continuation of gains made with recent SHF reserved allocation 4(2021) that ended in August 2022. As well, WASH intervention by IMC with BHA funding. Along with the WASH services, under this proposed grant, IMC is currently implementing integrated Health and Nutrition services in Galkacyo South district supporting 20 health facilities through BHA and ECHO funding. The facilities include 1 Hospital, 2 HCs, 10 PHUs and 7 Mobile Health amp Nutrition Teams. The proposed WASH project will be co-supported by an existing functional office in Galkacyo largely supported by BHA and ECHO funding. All referrals from the mobile outreach will be served by the fixed health centers, which will further be supported by IMC Galkacyo Health Centres and Galkacyo referral hospital and this will continually inform WASH response mechanisms to contribute to disease prevention and risk reduction. Moreover, given funding requested from SHF from a separate proposal under this reserved allocation, IMC also seeks to implement an integrated emergency response team (IERT) to provide integrated health and nutrition services through 3 Mobile Health amp Nutrition teams targeting IDP sites amp rural villages in Galkacyo district. To provide emergency response to, and treatment of disease outbreaks and nutritional supplements to acute malnutrition cases complemented with health, nutrition, and hygiene promotions. Thus, a significant part of the population receiving the WASH services in this proposed funding will also be benefiting from health and nutrition services by the mobile teams. This will complement the proposed WASH project in alleviating suffering and saving lives among the vulnerable populations and contribute to preventing the looming famine in Galkacyo.
Proposed sites are (1) Bitaale (2) Dagaari (3) Docol, (4) Jilabla-Hayre (5) Sedax-Hiiglo (6) Qarqoora (7) Dhuure (8) Bandiiradley and Horyaal IDPs (1) Mahadalle (2)Gargaar (3) Sirmaqabe (4) Danyar (5) Gaas (6) Baxsan (7) Hillaal Yaman refugee camp in Galkacyo South.