Emergency WASH Assistance to new arrivals in Dikwa and Monguno LGAs of Borno State According to the IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix assessment report of 24th September 2018, there are over 1,441,635 IDP’s in Borno State, while 744,769 are residing in camp like settings, and 710,209 IDP’s are currently residing in host communities in several LGAs of Borno State, as such there is a significant influx of 250 households of IDP’s to Dikwa and Mongono on a weekly basis, with most of the IDP’s coming from Gulumba Gana community. Furthermore, based on our ongoing analysis of the security situation, the number of new arrivals is increasing. These two locations are approximately situated approximately 96 km from northeast of Maiduguri town. Among high priority geographic areas, Dikwa, and Monguno are experiencing a significant influx of IDPs from different locations which have been immensely affected by on-going insurgency. Based our coordination with the WASH Cluster and other WASH actors, the WASH gap in Dikwa and Monguno LGAs is increasing and existing WASH facilities and services are already under immense pressure and proving inadequate to provide enough coverage. This project aims to provide life-saving relief interventions to conflict affected populations in Dikwa and Monguno LGA’s of Borno State in North East Nigeria, focusing on new arrivals. The intervention will assist conflict affected populations in the two LGAs to meet their basic human needs of access to clean drinking water, improved sanitation and hygiene facilities. 

Christian Aid is proposing to provide life-saving WASH services addressing sectoral gaps over a period of 9 months, through an integrated emergency WASH services provision for new arrivals with high concentration of IDP’s located in the two target LGAs. The following WASH products/services will be delivered through the following with the proposed number of beneficiaries through every suggested activity. Overall this project will reach 14,000 new arrivals, and IDP population in Dikwa and Monguno. This will dine through the following activities

1) 1) 1000 conflict affected people will have safe access to clean drinking water through construction of two hybrid powered borehole at new arrival camp, reticulated to 4 different fetching points.

2) 8400 people will have safe access to improved sanitation and bathing facilities through construction of 30 blocks of 4 and 2 stance of inclusive latrine and bathing showers 

3) 500 registered households will benefit from the distribution of initial hygiene kits (One round of distribution of replenishment kits will also take place over the duration of this project) 

4) Establish and train 1 WASH committee

5) Conduct 2 water quality tests for each of the boreholes drilled within the project duration with regular chlorination of each hybrid powered borehole as well as regular monitoring of free residual chlorine 

6) Hygiene awareness activities will be conducted for 1000 households of the project locations in the 2 LGAs 

7) 1000 people will have improved living conditions and benefit from solid Waste Management system in their dwelling areas through the provision of 100 garbage bins and a pit for final collection of solid waste.

The proposed set of intervention will directly reach to 14000 most vulnerable conflict affected individuals in two most affected hard to reach LGAs (Dikwa and Monguno) of Borno State, Nigeria