Improvement of WASH services aiming to mitigate WASH-related gender based violence for IDPs, host communities, returnees in Bor South County, Jonglei State and mobile response in priority locations where WASH Emergencies might arise. Polish Humanitarian Action (PAH) will conduct life-saving WASH activities aimed at meeting the emergency critical needs of IDPs, host community and returnees. Our project is divided into two components. The first one, which is planned as 30% of the activities will be static, implemented in Bor South county, affected by conflict, natural disasters, high malnutrition rates, disease outbreaks and GBV threats. Second component, planned as 70% of the project, will be rapid responses to unforeseen acute vulnerabilities related to poor access to safe water, sanitation facilities, Nutrition, Protection or Health emergencies. PAH will implement two responses planned for Pibor and Duk, however, if the emergency would raise in other of prioritized counties, we are ready to change and implement the intervention where it will be most needed. This project aims at support the provision of access to safe and sufficient water to vulnerable and affected populations, increase knowledge of appropriate hygiene practices to prevent and mitigate WASH-related diseases and aiming to reduce gender base violence related issues in occurrences. Since women and girls are the primary, direct users of WASH services, the project will contribute to GBV mitigation among the targeted population. The project will implement life-saving integrated WASH and GBV activities, targeting 15,000 beneficiaries suffering from inadequate access to safe drinking water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene conditions. 
Interventions will include: 
(1) Safe water provision through borehole construction and rehabilitation, ensuring access to water for the affected communities, where safe access to water points mitigates risks for girls, women and children 
(2) Provision or rehabilitation of sanitation infrastructure (latrines, hand washing facilities and solid waste management) will be supported at institutional level and IDP sites. At the HH level the latrine construction with local materials will be encouraged with GBV prevention aspect taken in the consideration for latrine design 
(3) Hygiene promotion (hand washing campaigns in communities and institutions, safe water chain and jerry can cleaning campaigns) 
(4) Capacity-building of community institutions (pump mechanics, water user committees, community hygiene promoters, nutrition workers, school's hygiene clubs) 
(5) Distribution of WASH NFIs (soap, hygiene kits, menstrual hygiene kit, water containers, PUR or others) for the most vulnerable people in the community 
(6) Providing beneficiaries from HH with constructed latrines with solar lamps to mitigate GBV threats related to sanitation.
(7) Coordination of WASH activities on Jonglei state level and EPampR activities on national level on behalf of WASH Cluster
Static and EPampR interventions will include detailed multisector needs assessment to identify the needs, affected gender, age and diversity groups, the vulnerabilities of the targeted community and coping strategies of the affected population. The main priority is to provide emergency WASH necessary to reduce morbidity and mortality caused by WASH related diseases, contributing to malnutrition and limited access to water. The project design aims to integrate with other sectors for holistic response, including Shelter NFI with CBI modality, focusing on shelter, skills training, and resilience building. The project aims at centralizing protection to promote principled access to basic services to vulnerable groups at risk, accountability to affected people ensuring that services are delivered in a gender-sensitive manner and will consider the needs of different gender and age groups, people living with disabilities, etc. The project will be linked with PAH’s separate drilling funding. With the involvement of our MampE department, the indicators will track cooperation with communities through existing beneficiary feedback mechanism, to address GBV and protection threats in WASH.