Addressing the water, sanitation, and hygiene needs of extremely vulnerable displaced persons in Anbar Governorate communities in Iraq. Through this six month initiative, ACTED in collaboration with UIMS, will provide emergency humanitarian assistance to people fleeing conflict in Anbar Governorate through a sequenced and comprehensive package of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services, which will:
1) increase access to safe and sufficient drinking water 
2) provide appropriate and adequate emergency latrines and showers and 
3) provide emergency hygiene promotion.

In order to ensure that the most vulnerable are reached, ACTED in partnership UIMS will target newly displaced, and accessible women, girls, boys, and men located in any formal or informal IDP settlements. This project will extend the immediate support provided through UNICEF’s rapid response mechanism (RRM), and will fill the gaps in service provision when government and other humanitarian support through current actors support is insufficient with a full packaged response covering all WASH needs. ACTED will target 42,106 direct beneficiaries, most in Falluja and Ramadi districts but being flexibile on location dependent on needs, including 20,486 women, and 17,464 boys and 18,070 girls, ensuring they receive safe, sufficient drinking water, access to safe excreta disposal through the use of mobile units. While these activities will target newly displaced individuals, a focus will be placed on ensuring the most vulnerable, including unaccompanied women and children, female-headed households, the elderly, persons with disabilities, and households with children under the age of 2 receive prioritised assistance, and that activities are implemented to ensure that safety, access, and timely response are provided to all. 

The mobile units are part of a larger ACTED multi-sectoral approach which will respond to the WASH, shelter and non-food Items (NFIs) and support livelihood needs through three interconnected IHPF projects.  This is in line with the IHPF allocation strategy and the WASH cluster priorities to scale up first line response and address critical WASH needs in Anbar governorate.  This multi-sectoral approach aims to respond to the current crises in Anbar by flexibly identifying and responding to the most urgent needs. This approach ensures an efficient and effective emergency response, where multiple needs can be identified through rapid multi-sector site assessments and rapidly responded to. Newly displaced families will therefore receive both WASH services, and shelter and NFI support at the same time upon identification of displacement. This modality will also allow for constant and regular monitoring of internally displaced persons (IDP) movements and activities implemented by UIMS. ACTED’s approach is also intended to be coordinated with existing response mechanisms including the RRM which will provide emergency WASH items for the first three days leading into ACTED’s subsequent responses for 3-15 and 15-30 days.  ACTED will also integrate with its partner UIMS’ interventions planned for the Anbar region including the distribution of hygiene kits and hygiene promotion to ensure a full package response for affected populations in as far as possible.