Sudan - Emergency Water Sanitation and Hygiene - Plan Canada 2014

March 2014 - More than 6.1 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance in Sudan 1.7 million more than in 2013. Conflict poverty environmental hazards and weak governance are all contributing to insecurity and internal displacement. An estimated 5 million people concentrated mostly in Darfur South Kordofan Blue Nile and eastern Sudan require life-saving humanitarian assistance. With DFATD’s support Plan Canada is providing assistance to 210 920 conflict-affected people in North Darfur Sudan. Project activities include: (1) rehabilitating 45 hand pumps and 32 kilometres of water distribution pipelines; (2) constructing 1 300 new latrines and rehabilitating 1 250 existing latrines benefitting 43 000 displaced people; (3) training five water committees and providing eight school water points benefitting 6 400 internally displaced children; (4) providing hygiene training to 150 community hygiene promoters and providing 5 000 hygiene kits to vulnerable women and girls; and (5) distributing 9 000 mosquito nets benefitting 18 000 women and children.

The expected immediate outcomes for this project include: (1) increased access to safe drinking water; (2) increased awareness of the importance of proper hygiene to maintain and improved health; (3) increased access to sanitation facilities; and (4) increased access to relief items. The expected intermediate outcome is reduced vulnerability of crisis-affected people especially women and children.