Emergency Water Sanitation Hygiene and Nutrition in Sudan - Save the Children Canada 2013

March 2013 - Since May 2011 fighting forces of the government of Sudan (the Sudanese Armed Forces) a domestic militia (the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement - North) and the military forces of South Sudan (Sudan People's Liberation Army) have clashed in the Sudanese states of Blue Nile South Kordofan and Abyei. The conflict in the three states has affected an estimated 950 000 people with over 500 000 people estimated to be internally displaced. With Canada's support Save the Children Canada will provide emergency nutritional services at 15 nutrition centres and emergency water sanitation and hygiene interventions to more than 200 000 conflict affected children and families in Abyei Blue Nile and South Kordofan States Sudan. Project activities focus on: providing essential primary healthcare and basic maternal newborn and child healthcare services in 15 nutrition centres; training for community health workers to detect and screen for acute malnutrition; rehabilitating 60 water points for 66 000 internally displaced people and constructing 30 emergency latrines for 3 000 children; providing nutrition hygiene and health education campaigns in local communities; and providing child protection messages and trainings.

Specific outputs include: rehabilitating equipping and supplying 15 nutrition centres to treat severe acute malnutrition in over 7 200 children under five and 1 120 pregnant and lactating women; training 45 health personnel on Community Management of Acute Malnutrition child protection and participation; training 75 community health workers to conduct screening and testing; rehabilitating or upgrading 64 water points; establishing 30 latrines; training and supporting 500 community-based hygiene promotion volunteers; and distributing 400 hygiene kits to children at child-friendly spaces. The expected intermediate outcome is reduced vulnerability of crisis-affected people especially women and children.