Contribution to maintaining a direct response to the essential needs of vulnerable populations, while increasing the involvement of local populations and actors
- Funding: ECHO (Humanitarian Aid Department of the European Commission) – United Nations Common Humanitarian Fund
- Global budget: €1.580.000
- Duration: 16 months (January 2011 – April 2012)
- Number of beneficiaries: 126,687, including 20,415 vulnerable people (physical disability, mental deficiency, extreme poverty, isolation) – 200 local employees
- Partners : HAC (Humanitarian Aid Commission, Sudan) - Ministry of environment (WES Sudan) – UNICEF - UNJLC (United Nations Joint Logistics Center) - Al Shoroog (Sudanese NGO)
This program aims to reduce mortality and morbidity among the most vulnerable populations through an integrated aid.
The supply of drinking water, the access to sanitation (latrines, water points), the waste collection and processing and the promotion of hygiene are crucial in controlling the main vectors of health risks. A sudden stop of the mechanisms currently in place would lead to a rapid deterioration in the overall health situation in the region. A transitional phase towards a greater involvement of the local people and authorities is needed, as well as the monitoring of population movements and the distribution of non-food emergency aid.
Access to drinking water and involvement of concerned partners:
- Construction of new water points (water towers, hand pumps, motor pumps, wells);
- Maintenance / rehabilitation of the installations;
- Regular tests on water quality (microbiological and chemical testing) and sharing of the results with health services and other concerned institutional actors;
- Regular and continuous interventions with local institutions (WES...) and the local population to enhance their participation.
Limitation of major health risks in densely populated areas:
- construction/rehabilitation/maintenance of latrines with the help of the beneficiaries;
- Needs assessment through an annual survey and the ongoing monitoring of the state of the existing equipment;
- Experimenting of a new design for more sustainable latrines;
- Waste collection and treatment by the teams of Triangle G H, in collaboration with local actors (local NGO, group of inhabitants), who will in the end entirely take over the dispositive.
Improvement of the population’s knowledge on good hygiene practices
- Running of hygiene promotion sessions (hygiene promotion centers, schools, home visits, collective campaigns...) and development of training sessions for trainers in order to facilitate the transmission of these activities to the communities, local associations, teachers...
- Assessment surveys on the impact of hygiene promoting activities.
Coordination of the development of the humanitarian situation with the concerned actors and distribution of bare necessities to the most vulnerable populations and to the newcomers:
- monitoring of population displacements in the intervention areas, regular reports to relevant agencies;
- conducting studies to respond quickly to the essential needs of newcomers;
- Distribution of non-food items (blankets, plastic mats, kitchen sets, clothing ...) to the newcomers, to the most vulnerable populations, or to the entire population in case of emergency situation (fire, flood ...);
- Maintaining an emergency stock (non-food products, materials and equipment needed for the construction of water points and latrines) in order to be able to meet the essential needs of newcomers.
