SUDAN

AREA OF EXPERTISE

Water, hygiene and sanitation

FUNDING

• Funding: OFDA funds channeled through the International Organization for Migration (IOM) via the Rapid Response Fund for Sudan (RRF)
• Number of beneficiaries: 68,931 people including 62,669 people who have returned to the intervention area and 6,262 displaced persons already settled in the area of intervention
• Partners: Sudan's Department of Water, Environment and Sanitation (WES)

Since the beginning of 2016, the city of Um Dukhun has been facing massive flows of refugee populations fleeing conflicts between Salamat, Misseriya and Teisha tribes coming from Chad or temporarily displaced in Darfur. The peace agreement signed on June 24th, 2014 led to an improvement in the security situation and to the closing of some camps, and prompted people to move back to the villages they fled in 2013/2014. Thus, massive population flows have been observed from the beginning of 2015, and the number of forecasted returns is increasing for the year 2016. These massive arrivals destabilized an already precarious situation in the villages of the city of Um Dukhun. Regarding the water, hygiene and sanitation sector, the already limited amount of available drinking water per person is further shrinking. The populations rely on poorly maintained hand pumps that they need to share to get water supplies. Hygiene conditions are also generally low, and diseases spread easily, especially because of the lack of infrastructure (latrines) and basic hygiene products.

In order to meet the urgent needs of the populations in this area, the program is divided into three parts:

1. Improve access to drinking water through the installation and use of 4 emergency water systems, and repair and ensure the maintenance of two hand pumps.
2. Improve populations' sanitary conditions through the installation of 655 emergency latrines.
3. Improve the health of populations through the promotion of basic hygiene principles, via the organization of thematic events, the creation of hygiene promotion centers, and the distribution of soap, hygiene kits and treated mosquito nets to the populations.