Provision of Adequate Water for Domestic Use, Sanitation Facilities, Solid Waste Management and Hygiene Promotion for Internally Displaced Persons in Maiduguri Metropolitan Council (MMC) LGA. According to the 90-Day Emergency Response Plan (ERP) the Northeast Nigeria conflict now in its tenth year has resulted in further widespread displacement, with close to 72,000 new arrivals between November 2018 and January 2019.  Women and children constitute 87% of newly Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). The increased rate of new arrivals, heightened tensions, and a projected surge in new arrivals based on noted patterns during the dry season, has created a situation that threatens the rapid deterioration of the condition of IDPs, in particular, epidemics that are most likely to occur as a result of people living in the open air with minimal sanitation facilities and services, and in severely over-congested camp settings. 

This project aims to support the most urgent and critical WASH needs of 12,000 new arrivals (as per standard of 6 persons per HH) in Shuwari IDPs Camp (Bolori 1) of Maiduguri MC LGA. Due to overcrowding and consequent overstretching in available spaces, there are widespread cases of open defecation in camps. An initial rapid assessment by UNICEF and a follow up verification assessment by FREE in the Shuwari IDPs Camp both in April 2019, found a generally severe situation that requires being addressed by providing urgent intervention in Hygiene promotion, Water supply, Excreta management, Vector control, and Solid waste management. The project intends to alleviate the WASH emergency needs detected in the camp through providing water and sanitation facilities, while initialising water, hygiene and sanitation practices and services that will reduce the spread of water-borne and other WASH-related diseases among IDPs. 

Specifically, the project seeks to target 12,000 new arrivals (as per standard of 6 persons per HH) in Shuwari IDPs Camp (Bolori 1) by delivering Water trucking Drilling of boreholes in Shuwari IDPs camp Construction of 26 new latrines and showers to meet the needs of the new arrivals Operation and maintenance of WASH facilities Provision of proper solid waste (refuse) collection, transportation and disposal mechanism (solid waste management) Intensive hygiene promotion/awareness activities to address immediate health risks and induce attitude change, as well as distribution of key WASH NFIs, hygiene items and dignity menstrual hygiene kits for women and girls of reproductive age who constitute more than 40% of the population.

The sustainability of the project lies in engagement of beneficiaries and community members through the selection and training of Hygiene Promoters and community volunteers the carrying out of routine home visits to disseminate hygiene and sanitation messages for enhanced hygiene and sanitation practices, the distribution of WASH NFIs and menstrual hygiene kits/messages targeting most vulnerable women and girls, as well as the adoption of appropriate exit strategies particularly with relation to water supply, where water trucking shall give way to boreholes and hand pumps for use by both IDPs and the host community.