Emergency flood response with WASH interventions targeting flood affected population in Pibor County, South Sudan This project will provide recovery WASH related flood response to 15,000 flood affected population (2,500 Households) in Pibor town and Verthet Payams in Pibor County. This is after the floods reported due to heavy rains. The project will provide access to adequate and safe water, appropriate sanitation, solid waste management and raise awareness related to good hygiene practices and behavior through dissemination of hygiene messages to the flood affected communities. This project will contribute to a measurable improvement in the status of WASH in the concentrated locations and at the households thereby reducing WASH-related morbidities through the efficient and effective implementation of emergency WASH and related early recovery activities. The emergency WASH assistance will involve distribution of point-of-use/household-level water treatment chemicals and storage containers to targeted households that have no access to safe water sources. Water quality monitoring and testing shall be done by trained Community Hygiene Promoters (CHPs) while focusing on free residual chlorine in water at the point-of-use. In addition, the project will promote good hygiene practices through distribution of hygiene and dignity/Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) kits, hygiene awareness raising and dissemination of messages through the print and electronic media, house-to-house visits and campaigns by the community structures such as CHPs, Community Health Volunteers (CHVs), community leaders and WASH and protection committees. Key hygiene messages will include safe water chain through household water treatment and safe storage, hand washing with soap, proper use of latrines, drainage of stagnant water and management of solid wastes including safe disposal of animal carcasses in consultation with the health partners.

The early recovery phase shall involve rehabilitation of the existing WASH facilities in the target locations. This shall include choke chlorination, repair and rehabilitation of boreholes/hand pumps, elevation of the water sources through flood-proofing that include building of embankments and raising the platform and well mouths of boreholes, rehabilitation and construction of communal latrines while considering Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) principles and building the capacities within communities and local authority in the management of WASH facilities. The activities shall be carried out after conduction a gender and protection risk mitigation analysis/audit through consultation with women and girls in siting safe locations and designing appropriate gender sensitive facilities.
 
The project will be implemented by Oxfam directly but in close coordination with the WASH cluster, other partners on ground and the local authority so as to ensure complimentary and avoid duplication of interventions. Water quality interventions will aim to contribute to improvement of the public health among vulnerable population during emergencies. This can result in a one-third or greater reduction in diarrhoea disease morbidity. Existing community structures, including CHPs, CHVs and community leaders (under supervision by Oxfam) will undertake hygiene awareness raising sessions through door-to-door visits, community dialogues and mass campaigns, besides the provision of soap and hygiene/MHM kits. Hygiene messages that focus on hand washing using soap under clean running water at the five critical times, safe water chain (collection, transportation, treatment, storage) and safe disposal of human excreta shall be disseminated. Linking WASH NFIs distribution activities with hygiene awareness raising and information activities will be considered to ensure that the target beneficiaries are sensitized on good hygiene behaviours and practices. Mass solid waste management and clean-up campaigns shall be done through community mobilisation efforts. Safe disposal of animal carcasses in close consultation with the health partner will be done.