Provision of timely, equitable access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene and mitigation of WASH-related gender based violence for IDPs, host communities, returnees through multi-sector response in Bor South County, Jonglei State. Polish Humanitarian Action (PAH) will conduct life-saving WASH activities aimed at meeting the emergency critical needs of IDPs, host community and returnees in Bor South county, Jonglei State affected by conflict, natural disasters, high malnutrition rates, disease outbreaks and GBV threats. This project aims at providing timely, equitable access to safe and sufficient water to vulnerable and affected populations, increase knowledge of appropriate hygiene practices to prevent and mitigate WASH-related diseases and aiming to reduce gender base violence related issues in occurrences. Since women and girls are the primary, direct users of WASH services, the project will contribute to GBV mitigation among the targeted population. The project will implement life-saving integrated WASH and GBV activities in Bor South county, targeting 10,000 beneficiaries suffering from inadequate access to safe drinking water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene conditions. PAH intends to target beneficiaries in the following six payams of Jalle, Baidit, Makuach, Kolnyang, Anyidi and Malek with a project designed to improve access to safe WASH services at community level in locations affected by inter clan conflicts and cattle/child raids,
Interventions will include safe water provision through water point construction and rehabilitation (hand pumps, water yards, depending on the needs), especially at nutrition centers ensuring access to water for the affected communities, where safe access to water points mitigates risks for girls, women and children. Provision or rehabilitation of sanitation infrastructure (latrines, hand washing facilities and solid waste management) will be supported at community, IDP sites and on HH level, construction with local materials will be encouraged with GBV prevention aspect taken in the consideration for latrine design. Hygiene promotion (hand washing campaigns in communities and institutions, safe water chain and jerrycan cleaning campaigns), capacity-building of community institutions (pump mechanics, water user committees, community hygiene promoters, nutrition workers, school's hygiene clubs), and distribution of WASH NFIs (soap, hygiene kits, menstrual hygiene kit, water containers, PUR or others). WASH hygiene kits will be specifically provided to the most vulnerable women, girls, boys and men in the community.
The intervention will include detailed multisector needs assessment to identify the needs, affected gender, age and diversity groups, the vulnerabilities of the targeted community and coping strategies employed by the affected population. The main priority is to provide emergency WASH necessary to reduce morbidity and mortality caused by WASH related diseases, contributing to malnutrition and limited access to water. The project design aims to integrate with other sectors for holistic response, including Shelter NFI with CBI modality, focusing on shelter, skills training, and resilience building. Existing CBI program will support the cash component within the project.
The project aims at centralizing protection to promote principled access to basic services to vulnerable groups at risk, accountability to affected people ensuring that services are delivered in a gender-sensitive manner and will consider the needs of different gender and age groups, the elderly, people living with disabilities. PAH will focus on strengthening the application of cash – based programing, implement capacity building of the community to reinforce coping mechanism to manage current shocks and sustain livelihoods, strengthen linkages with development actions to support resilience. The project will be linked with PAH’s separate drilling funding.
With the involvement of our MampE department, the indicators will track cooperation with communities through existing beneficiary feedback mechanism, to address GBV and protection threats in WASH, and ensuring service