Objective:

• To provide emergency response and early recovery in essential WASH services integrating sustainability and climate-resilience to improve health and well-being of disaster affected communities.
• To repair and rehabilitate damaged water supply and sanitation systems to restore functionality and improve living conditions.
• To build the capacity of community members, Water Supply and Sanitation User Committees (WSUCs) and stakeholders for the effective management, monitoring, and sustainability of WASH infrastructure.
• To empower communities through education and participatory approaches, fostering ownership, improved hygiene practices, and sustainable WASH management.
• To integrate climate-resilient features into WASH systems, ensuring they withstand future climate-related hazards.
• To provide support for children, women, and other marginalized groups in ensuring equitable access to safe water and sanitation facilities.

Key Activities:

• One day orientation of 12 social mobilisers in need assessment for WASH sector emergency response and early recovery in the selected municipalities.
• Conduct comprehensive need assessments in the 4 selected rural/urban municipalities.
• Organize meetings with local government to gather input and validate findings regarding the need assessment results.
• Regular WASH cluster coordination meetings including activities of partners mapping and tracking of humanitarian WASH interventions through 4W.
• Organize review and reflection meeting.
• Minor repairs of water supply systems.
• Major repairs/rehabilitation of water supply systems.
• Capacity building of Water Supply and Sanitation Users Committee's (WSUCs) on Water safety plan and Plumbing training for sustainability of scheme.
• Handover of Water Quality Test Kits to WSUCs.
• Households latrines repair and rehabilitation.
• Conduct mass hygiene education and awareness campaigns through community engagement in 18 communities.
• Provide Menstrual Hygiene Management Orientation (use of sanitary napkins/cloths & proper disposals) for Adolescent girls and women in 18 communities.
• Distribute hygiene kits, water supply and sanitation supplies to 1000 families in selected communities.
• Capacity Building of Palikas on Water Quality Testing and Monitoring.
• Formalization of MoUs on Operation and Maintenance (Sustainability Compact).
• Capacity development training on N-WASH MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM (MIS).
• Declaration of Water Safe Community.
• Training to community volunteers on data collection tools, communication skills and working with affected populations.

Expected Results:

Major Achievements