Sustaining essential integrated WASH services in IDP camps in 12 Locations (Bama, Banki, Biu, Damboa, Dikwa, Gwoza, Jere, Konduga, Mafa, MMC, Monguno, and Ngala) affected by conflict and facing risk of negative impacts from faecal contamination and poor hygiene. WASH outcomes reinforce outcomes for nutrition, education, health, protection thus essential to scale up integrated approaches for management of WASH services focusing on sustaining available services while improving coverage towards SPHERE standards in all the IDP Camps. In the 2017 Nigeria HRP, the WASH sector seeks USD 49.7m, targeting 1,978,000 population and as of September 2017 is 32.3 per cent funded, according to the reported OPS tracked funds. This project targets unmet needs, like latrine emptying, not targeted in the first NHF allocation. The target population are affected by conflict and facing risk of negative impacts from faecal contamination and poor hygiene. 

The overall objective is to prevent faecal-oral contamination and transmission of diseases through scaling up access to hygiene promotion services and access to hand washing facilities and soap, sustaining access to and use of clean and gender segregated improved sanitation facilities for 125,000 IDPs living in formal and informal IDP camps in 12 locations (Bama, Banki, Biu, Damboa, Dikwa, Gwoza, Jere, Konduga, Mafa, MMC, Monguno, and Ngala).  Two outcomes are envisaged: 
(a) the target population are sensitized on improved hygiene behaviors and take actions to protect themselves against faecal-oral disease transmission including diarrheas, cholera, hepatitis E, polio, and typhoid 
(b) the target population including inpatient and personnel in health and CMAM centres have sustainable access to and use clean gender segregated latrines that are regularly desludged.  

To achieve the planned outcomes, the project will conduct social mobilization and provide IEC materials for behaviour change (funded from other sources) provide hand washing facilities support services for cleaning and disinfecting latrines and emptying latrine regularly provide or rehabilitate VIP latrine in health and CMAM centres and monitor the practice of improved hygiene and operation and maintenance of latrines.  

The project integrates Local NGOs capacity in managing and maintaining essential WASH services. Two local NGOs (CIDAR and NEWSAN) already collaborating with UNICEF are the implementing partners. NEWSAN, a coalition of local NGOs, currently engaged by UNICEF in managing the operations of essential WASH services in IDP camps and the monitoring of services provided through State Government agencies (BOSEPA, RUWASA) and the private sector, will continue services in Jere, MMC, Mafa, and Konduga LGAs. CIDAR, currently engaged in providing hygiene promotion, operation and maintenance of water services, and distribution of NFIs, will implement the project in the other LGAs. The project employs a systems-based approach to providing integrated WASH services to mitigate the risk of faecal-oral disease transmission in IDP camps and host communities through sustaining hygiene promotion and behaviour change communication based on risk assessment informed by social mobilization routine desludging of latrines and proper disposal of the sludge in managed disposal sites daily cleaning and disinfection of latrines to encourage proper use and maintenance of toilet facilities. It integrates services by meeting gaps to increased access to and use of improved sanitation in Health/CMAM facilities through construction and/or rehabilitation of latrines in health/CMAM centres. Other resources will co fund desludging of latrines and the development of managed sewerage disposal sites. The latrines that will be desludged in the various camps have been constructed using funds from various sources including CERF, OFDA and the first NHF allocation. 

The local NGOs will bridge the gap of reliable services lacking from the regular Government agencies, while increasing the participation of local NGOs in humanitarian work, building on their existing and tested experiences in Borno. Partners will document lessons learnt from social mobilization to implementation and evaluation.