Integrated WASH, Nutrition and GBV for IDPs, Refugees, Returnees, and Host Communities in Abu Jabrah, Abu Karinka, Al Firdous, and Assalaya localities in East Darfur The proposed project will provide integrated response to WASH and Nutrition need of IDPs, Refugees, Returnees and Host Communities in Abu Jabrah, Abu Karinka, Al Firdous, and Assalaya localities in East Darfur. The project will enable 21,120 individuals get WASH services and 10,842 Pregnant and lactating women (PLW) get access to E-IYCF counseling services and 5, 272 people (including U5 amp PLW) screen for malnutrition by community outreach workers. 

In these localities, ALIGHT has ongoing WASH, ES/NFI, Health and Nutrition projects targeting refugees, returnees and host communities. Under this allocation, Alight is proposing an integrated WASH, ES/NFIs and GBV interventions. Through the integrated and complementary response mechanisms the impact of this project is optimize and holistically address the needs of community. ALIGHT MEAL will closely monitor the implementation and ensure accountability to the affected population and ensure quality benchmarks are achieved. Additionally, the established feedback and compliant mechanisms will help to get community concerns and address them timely.   

In WASH: the interventions aim to increase access to safe water and dignified sanitation services and increasing proper hygiene practices that reduce public health risk. From needs assessment conducted in March, 2021 Alight identified several water yards in the targeted localities need maintenance, expansion and rehabilitations.  It necessary to increase access to safe water, considering COVID-19 prevention. In addition, since considerable proportion of communities about 1/3 practice open defecation, Alight will conduct a feasibility assessment of CLTS approach mobilization of communities and apply CLTS approach to reduce open defecation and increase the construction of sanitation facilities. Alight will carry out detailed profiling of the villages in the target area to be able to select those that meet the CLTS triggering criteria. Promotion of hygiene practices using different information materials and channel of communication will help communities to take diseases preventive actions. ALIGHT uses timed hygiene and sanitation promotion messages that are in line with the seasonal variations, during rainy season Alight will focus on AWD and Malaria prevention. As the project is integrated with Nutrition program the project particularly focuses on raising the hygiene and sanitation awareness of mothers and children. In all targeted localities and villages ALIGHT will use already trained hygiene volunteers in conducting general awareness raising campaigns, disseminate information on safe hygiene practices and advising mothers and girls on safe child care practices. Volunteers will use house to house visits, ALIGHT provide them incentives and PPE to prevent COVID-19. Alight will implement this project through direct involvement of the target communities and relevant government offices.
Protection/ GBV interventions will be mainstreamed to promote equality in water and other resource use / access, and the reduction of risks of GBV that are associated with the ways in which women and girls access water resources, use sanitation and hygiene facilities, and the still inequitable household division of labor when accessing water resources that puts women and girls at disadvantageous positions to pursue education income generating activities, and other activities.  Water User Committees (WUCs) will also receive focused training on GBV risk, with specific reference to GBV risk in accessing WASH services that the WUCs are positioned to respond to via their decision-making processes and the method they use to manage WASH resources. All proposed infrastructure will be gender sensitive, ensuring that GBV risk mitigation is part of infrastructure design. Where possible, water points and dischargeable latrines developed in the project will be lit with solar lighting. All latrines will be gender-specific (marked entrances) and doors will be locked