Sudan – Emergency Water Sanitation Hygiene and Nutrition – Save the Children Canada 2015

March 2015 – Ongoing conflicts in Darfur South Kordofan and Blue Nile States as well as an influx of refugees from South Sudan have contributed to a significant deterioration of the humanitarian situation in Sudan. Some 6.6 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance including 3.1 million internally displaced people 700 000 refugees and asylum seekers 1.2 million malnourished children under the age of five and 1.6 million people who are food insecure. Food security and malnutrition continue to be priority sectors for humanitarian assistance as well as health and sanitation needs. With DFATD’s support Save the Children Canada is providing emergency food water sanitation and hygiene services to over 127 000 conflict-affected people in North and South Kordofan as well as Blue Nile State. Project activities include: (1) rehabilitating three water yards benefitting 9 000 people improving five hand-dug wells benefitting 2 000 people and constructing eight waste water collections points benefitting 3 200 people; (2) providing training to 56 community members to create eight water committees to manage water points; (3) rehabilitating 40 latrines at nutrition and community centres and providing 250 sets of latrine and sanitary tools; (4) providing training and awareness on infant and young child feeding through 100 nutrition education sessions targeting 6 820 mothers and caretakers in 20 communities as well as providing therapeutic supplemental feeding to 5 070 people with moderate acute malnutrition; and (5) providing agricultural inputs and cash grants to increase access and availability of diversified food.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) increased access to safe drinking water; (2) increased awareness of the importance of proper hygiene to maintain and improve health; (3) increased access to sanitation facilities; (4) increased access to livelihoods activities; and increased access to treatment to address malnutrition. The expected ultimate outcome is lives saved suffering alleviated and human dignity maintained in countries experiencing humanitarian crises or acute food insecurity.