Reporting Organization: | Islamic Relief Canada |
---|---|
Total Budget ($CAD): | $ 800,832 |
Timeframe: | September 1, 2017 - August 31, 2018 |
Status: | Completion |
Contact Information: | Unspecified |
Unspecified
South Sudan - $ 800,832.00 (100.00%) | |
|
Nutrition (30 %) | |
|
|
Infectious & Communicable Diseases (20 %) | |
|
|
Primary Health Care (20 %) | |
|
WASH (30 %) | |
|
This project will reach 31,900 conflict and drought-affected individuals in three states in South Sudan through the provision of potable water by drilling new boreholes and/or rehabilitating non-functional ones and nutritional and health support to children under five, pregnant women, lactating mothers, and the elderly. The main objective of the project is to reduce the suffering caused by a lack of clean and safe water, food and nutrition insecurity and poor health for the target population in WAU and Kapoeta.
Gender and age: | Adult women Adult men Children, girls Children, boys Under-5 children |
---|---|
Descriptors: | Rural Internally displaced people (IDP) |
Total Direct Population: | 38,898 |
Improved WASH practices adopted | |
Increased capacity of health facilities | |
TFC established |
Improved culturally appropriate, gender-sensitive, and dignified WASH practices adopted amongst households in WAU and Kapoeta leading to a decrease in water and sanitation related morbidities and mortalities
Increase access and use of gender sensitive health services
Reduction of acute malnutrition rates and morbidity/mortality incidences caused by malnutrition among children <5, pregnant and lactating women, and the elderly by 30%
Outcome 1 Result: 17,935 beneficiaries (10,207 female, 7,728 male) accessed gender-sensitive WASH services through this project
Outcome 2 Result: 10,186 people (5,867 female, 4,319 male) accessed primary health care in Wau, along with outreach services in Todu, Ngoku, Bendego, and Kapoeta. Note: 35% of this total were children under 5.
Outcome 3 Result: 10,777 children under 5 were screened for malnutrition, with the SMART survey before and after the project intervention noting a 58% reduction in GAM. A total of 526 pregnant and lactating women were screened for malnutrition, with 123 having MAM and received the respective treatment