CO-Emergency WASH Response in Daykundi Project Summary : The proposed project will provide WASH response with elements of immediate and durable solutions in Kjiran and Kiti of Daykundi; <(>&<)> Dawlatyar, Ferozkoh, Lal wa Sarjangal <(>&<)> Tolak of Ghor. These 6 districts are among the 30 districts identified by the WASH Cluster that have the most need for this support. The project is mainly providing facilities for WASH practice among the most vulnerable, disaster affected and suffering communities from high cases of water and vector borne diseases. Gender, protection and safe programming is mainstreamed in this project design, implementation, monitoring <(>&<)> evaluation phases across all activities.

The project will directly support 18,200 individuals (2,184 men, 2,002 women, 7,462 boys and 6,554 girls)from 2,600 households, in the targeted 6 districts by providing access to safe water for drinking <(>&<)> domestic use, sanitary latrine to those who need the most and finally by motivating them to change their behavior regarding hygiene at personal, family <(>&<)> communitylevel. The proposed project will enable the population to reduce health risks from water <(>&<)> vector borne diseases, reduce the treatment cost and loss of earning/employment due to illnesses, decrease time spent fetching water <(>&<)> most critically it will reduce challenges to the health <(>&<)> dignity of women and girls# due to lack of sanitation facilities.

The project will be implemented in close collaboration with other stakeholders including the WASH cluster, MRRD, local government, community leaders, other NGOs and most importantly women <(>&<)> men in the target communities.

Besides hygiene awareness, women and men in the target communities will be provided with awareness raising on their human rights, especially in context of gender based violence, the ways of reducing GBV and ways of asking for support in case of any protection concerns (referral). In coordination with WASH and Health clusters, Oxfam will integrate community, school, household level messages in its Hygiene promotion sessions for increased awareness about COVID19 and preventative measures to prevent the communities from spread of the virus.

Oxfam <(>&<)> OHW will integrate conflict sensitivity into the action, by conducting context and conflict analysis of the target areas. This is especially important as the location of water sources and selection of households for sanitary latrines can create potential new conflict or exacerbating existing tensions. Field based project teams will monitor community responses, changes to the context during the project period and adapt activities to ensure conflict sensitivity where necessary. This will be done via tried and tested transparency, communication <(>&<)> accountability mechanisms. Oxfam will also disseminate and share COVID19 message with beneficiary for raising awareness in all the target location. The standard messages developed by WHO <(>&<)> MoPH will be used in local languages
The project will be directly implemented by Oxfam in Daykundi and through implementing partner Organization of Human Welfare (OHW) in Ghor. Oxfam#s one staff will be stationed in OHW#s office in Ghor and Project Manager and Monitoring Officer from Daykundi as well as Programme, MEAL, Finance, Logistics <(>&<)> Security department staff will visit them regularly and on need. All the components of the project in Ghor province will be implemented by OHW with oversight from Oxfam staff to ensure capacity building of local partner. OHW is a strategic partner of Oxfam <(>&<)> received number of trainings in the field of WASH and other sectors by Oxfam technical staff in country and through Global Humanitarian Team in the past. OHW has years of presence in Ghor and gained good community acceptance. Through this partnershipOxfam will improve localization of aid, building the capacity of localpartner, <(>&<)> early financing (pre-financing, in case of delay in grant transfer) of the project. In this Oxfam and partner will reach more number of beneficiaries in hard to access areas,