Sudan - Emergency Water Sanitation Hygiene and Protection Assistance - ADRA 2021-2023

March 2021 - An estimated 13.4 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance and protection across Sudan as a result of armed conflict food insecurity malnutrition economic decline and disease. Up to 2.5 million people are internally displaced within the country. Instability around Sudan’s borders has also led to more than 1.1 million people to seek refuge in Sudan including asylum seekers from Central African Republic Chad Eritrea Ethiopia South Sudan and Syria. With GAC’s support Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) Canada is providing emergency water sanitation hygiene and protection assistance for up to 94 185 conflict-affected people in Sudan’s Blue Nile state. Project activities include: (1) rehabilitating and maintaining 20 water systems; (2) constructing gender-sensitive latrines and handwashing facilities in 15 schools health centers and public spaces such as markets; (3) providing gender sensitive and culturally appropriate hygiene items for internally displaced people returnee and host community households; (4) providing psychosocial support through mobile clinics; and (5) conducting community mobilization/sensitization on protection issues such as gender equality.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) increased utilisation of safe drinking water and safe sanitation and adoption of gender-sensitive and age and culturally appropriate sanitation and hygiene services and practices; and (2) increased adoption of gender transformative protection services and practices that are age and culturally appropriate. The expected ultimate outcome is lives saved suffering alleviated and human dignity maintained in countries experiencing humanitarian crises or acute food insecurity.