An Assessment of WASH Project Final Draft

Prepared by:

IIDOOR DEVELOPMENT AND RELIEF ORGANIZATION (IDRO)

DEC-2016

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

In Jowhar areas, sanitation is a major challenge. A lot has to be done to cover the needs of that population living in the surrounding villages of Jowhar District by 2016 and to achieve national sanitation two years later by 2018. Many national and international organizations have been trying to increase coverage in sanitation sector. But to cover the national sanitation needs within the stipulated time is a major challenge.

Over the years, IDRO has developed strong network for promoting sanitation, apart from providing drinking water facility to the needy people. Realizing the urgency to achieve quick and yet more sustainable result, IDRO piloted Community Let Total Sanitation approach in Sub_villages in Jowhar District.

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Our thanks also go to Mr. Sharfan and Mohamed Mustaf for conducting the field work in so adverse conditions.

Introduction

Natural disaster occurrence in many regions affected droughts, disasters significantly impact vulnerable populations in disaster prone areas, and may lead to unnecessary losses of social and economic capital that usually result in the disruption of services from WASH facilities, which could lead to significant damages to property and trigger other emergency situations such as outbreaks of diarrhea, cholera, and other water related/borne diseases. The combination of these effects reduces the productivity of the population and the losses they suffer are immense and seriously affect their economic and social circumstances.

Having to ensure that when such droughts occur the quality of water supply is not contaminated (during collection, handling, storage, and use) and that good sanitation and hygiene practices are maintained also presents immense challenges to the health of these communities. Rehabilitation costs are usually unaffordable and communities have suffered a drastic fall in their living conditions and opportunities for future development, pushing them further into poverty and deprivation.

The situation is further aggravated in those communities where there is a lack of WASH facilities and services. In such circumstances, the challenges include the prevalence of water borne, vector borne and sanitation related diseases as a result of poor drinking water quality, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene. Women, children and the youth suffer the most from the effects of this lack of access to WASH facilities and related services.

Thus the rapid recovery of access to WASH services after a disaster is one of a suite of actions essential to stabilizing the health of populations and ultimately assisting communities return to a normal existence.

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The above provides a sound justification of the urgent need to develop resilient WASH facilities in the disaster prone communities in order to stabilize the health of the populations, encourage the swift resettlement of residents where necessary, and ultimately assist the communities return to a normal existence during disaster events.

It is within the above context, that IDRO brings together its respective skills and experience to improve health and livelihoods in disaster prone communities in the affected areas.

PROGRAM BRIEF DESCRIPTION

This program of the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Disaster-prone Communities in the assessed sub-villages of Jowhar will 1) improve health and disaster preparedness in select communities increasing access to disaster-resilient sanitation and water facilities, 2) improving hygiene behaviours, 3) strengthening disaster resiliency at the community level, and 4) increasing regional, district and local capacity for sustainable management of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) facilities. The provision of services will target around 6 villages near to Jowhar district.

Specific objectives

The specific objectives of the program are to:a. Implement resilient WASH solutions and reduce the number of

people in disaster prone communities in the surrounding villages of Jowhar where there huge needs of safe drinking water, basic sanita-tion facilities and hygiene services

b. Promote education programmes and awareness of hygiene practices to improve the sanitation and health conditions in the beneficiary communities

c. Enhance regional and local capacity in the beneficiary communities to sustainably manage the WASH facilities and related services to be put in place.

d. Contribute to measures to enhance the preparedness to disasters and minimize future risks in the communities.

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FIELD OBSERVATIONS

Background

IDRO introduced WASH projects in communities with very low coverage of sanitary condition in 2016. The project aimed at achieving sanitation by constructing latrines water supplies. Under the existing arrangement, there was no provision of hardware subsidy. Not only helped increase sanitation coverage but also changed hygienic behavior of the targeted population. However, there are still many challenges that need to be addressed, such as nutrition and lack of health care and education. Field observations carried out by the study team members came out with the following details:

Process

IDRO staff initially developed certain criteria for the selection of project areas. As per the first criteria, the project area should be located at a place where no enough projects or organization effectively worked before. The second criteria was that there should be poor and mixed groups in a community from social, cultural and economic perspectives. And the third criteria was that the area should have accessibility to local materials. :

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BOODAALE VILLAGE NEAR TO JOWHAR DISTRICT

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