Water and sanitation for internally displaced people in transitional housing sites
- Funding: ECHO (Humanitarian Aid service of the European Commission)
DAH (Délégation à l’action humanitaire – French Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
- Budget: €380,000
- Duration: 8 months (June 2008 to april 2009 )
Amount of beneficiaries: 9,272 people
This project aims to offer emergency relief to people impacted by the crisis in Timor-Leste. In particular we will provide safe and reliable water and sanitation (WatSan) services to internally displaced populations (IDPs) currently living in transitional shelter sites.
Expected results:
- IDPs in the transitional shelter camps have access to a sufficient amount of good quality water
- IDPs in the transitional shelter camps have access to sanitary facilities (showers, latrines, clothes-washing points)
- The camps offer better living conditions, and people’s awareness about safe hygiene benefits and practices is improved.
Triangle G H works in coordination with other humanitarian organizations, particularly the NRC (Norwegian Refugee Council) and the Government of Timor-Leste, to ensure that all needs are met.
Activites:
- Build water networks
- Connect water networks to the town network, or to wells (65 m) if the town network is deficient and the aquifer allows it
- Support maintenance of all current facilities in the transition camps (empowerment of established water committees and creation of new ones)
- Monitor quantity and quality of water
- Build sanitary facilities (latrines, showers and clothes-washing points)
- Connect sanitary facilities to the water network and drainage system for wastewaters disposal
- Build and/or repair drainage systems to limit waterborne diseases
- Run hygiene-awareness campaigns in the new transitional camps and supply hygiene kits
- Finalise the technical plans and scope of the facilities in relation to the various results.
