Access to life-saving WASH services for vulnerable, women, men, girls, boys and affected by floods in Mahaday district of the Middle Shabelle region. The project will contribute to 3 core strategic objectives for the Somalia HRP 2019. SHF Reserve Allocation and Life-saving response in current and potential hot spots addressing the immediate impact of floods and. Urgent life-saving assistance for communities affected by the floods Address the secondary impacts of flood in the affected areas while also ensuring integration of protection elements and sustainable solutions in all flood response activities. This project will address the dire WASH humanitarian needs for flood-affected communities in Mahaday town of Jowhar district of the Middle Shabelle region through access to safe water, emergency hygiene, and sanitation. The project will address WASH gaps and reduce risks of incidents of AWD/cholera outbreaks, morbidity and mortality among emergency flood-affected communities and vulnerable populations. The project will target 15205 (6234 women, 3802 men, 3101 girls, 2068 boys) including disadvantaged families and elderly persons, Disabilities, children, and women in emergencies to be provided adequate safe water, sanitation facilities, and hygiene promotion services. WASH services of good hygiene and sanitation practices will be promoted in the affected communities by providing adequate WASH facilities such as construction of 435 emergency latrines with handwashing facilities, with lockable doors and with handwashing facilities only in areas where latrine rehabilitation is not possible or where there is a complete gap of sanitation facilities especially in IDP/host communities, provision of WASH packages to vulnerable affected communities, provision of emergency  safe drinking water through CVA (target 700 families with duration of 2 months) and constructing 10 shallow wells with hand pump and rehabilitation of 6 unfunctional shallow wells in Mahaday by focusing on those severely affected by floods. The shallow wells are rehabilitated and upgraded to have protection, including repair, disinfection and protection against further flooding with hand pumps installed. SCC will train and recruit 20 (8male, 12 female) Community Hygiene Promoters in Mahaday. The training will be 5-days to promote change the behavior of the beneficiaries through PHAST amp CHAST training components, in close collaboration with the local authorities, community leaders and the ministry of water and energy and ministry of health and social services of Hirshabelle state of Somalia. This project will establish and train 32 (16 Male, 16 Female) water committees that will be selected 2 persons from each water source. A total of 3000 (1350 male, 1650 female) will be distributed to hygiene kits (soap, water treatment tablets, and 20L jerrycans.) A total of 87 flood-damaged latrines will be rehabilitated through CFW modality through selected skilled persons among the flood-affected communities.  a total of 700 families will receive safe drinking water to flood-affected communities through Cash Voucher Assistance (CVA) while water points will be rehabilitated to recover the damaged essential WASH infrastructures and as well as improve the livelihoods of flood-affected communities through CFW modality. The CFW will be used to strengthen WASH market-based programming and this fully in line with Somalia WASH cluster strategy to promote the integration of MBP for all WASH activities. This project will also target 201 women and adolescents girls who affected recent floods providing soap, petticoat, pants, and sanitary pads.