Project Title Ensuring Access to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for

Niger 2012
Appealing Agency
Project Title
Project Code
Sector/Cluster
Refugee project
SAVE THE CHILDREN (SC)
Ensuring Access to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Children and Families Affected
by the Food Security Crisis in Niger Crisis
NIG-12/WS/49615/R
WATER, SANITATION AND HYGIENE
Implementing Partners
Project Duration
No
Improve children’s nutritional status and increase resilience of
drought/cholera/flood-affected families in Niger, through increased access to safe
water and sanitation, and improved hygiene practices in 6 district of Maradi, Zinder
and Diffa region
Total: 1,000,000 Children and their families affected by food security, cholera or flood
crisis
Female: 30,000
Children (under 18): 40,000
Ministry of Health, Ministry of Hydraulics, WaterAid, local NGOs
Apr 2012 - Apr 2013
Current Funds Requested
Location
Priority / Category
Gender Marker Code
$1,500,000.00
Multiple locations
MEDIUM
2a - The project is designed to contribute significantly to gender equality
Subset Of Appeal
Sahel Food Insecurity Crisis
Enhanced Geographical
Fields
Diffa
Maradi
Zinder
Objectives
Beneficiaries
Needs
Important drinking water, sanitation and hygiene gaps were highlighted in the three operational areas of Save the Children
in Niger, clearly more linked to structural problems than to the deficit of rains during summer 2011. However, they
represent a significant cause of malnutrition, and lack of resilience of population to face current food insecurity. Rural
sanitation coverage has significantly increased the past few years, reaching 34% in some of the area assessed. Majority
of villages are covered with one or several water points, although their insufficient yield and numbers oblige women and
girls to spend between 1 or 2 hours per day to fetch water to cover the needs of their large family. Apart from the urban
centers covered with chlorinated pipe water, drinking water is never treated. Hygiene knowledge is often good: usage of
soap is for example significant. But, depending on the area, hygiene and sanitation practices such as solid /liquid waste
management, or management of babies’ excreta, remain extremely worrying.
WASH conditions of the 90 health centers supervised by Save in Niger varies a lot from one region to another one; all of
them have been assessed during the evaluation, which will allow corrective measures to be taken in the coming months .
About half of them had a water point available, although often an unprotected well, and drinking water treatment is very
seldom done, putting at risk both patients and staff to diarrhoeal diseases transmission. About 60% of them had
incinerators and latrines, although often in insufficient numbers to cover needs of staff, and male and female patients.
Schools very seldom have a water point, but often have water storage /hand washing containers that children or school
committee members are expected to fill by turn, which is rarely done, highlighting gaps in terms of management. Very
few schools had hygiene and cleaning materials, apart some in Maradi. Between 30 to 80% of the schools have
functioning latrines, although often in insufficient numbers, or unused by many children. When latrines were not
separated, girls mentioned being prevented from using them by fear that boys would tease her. Boys mentioned not
using a latrine because of bad smell, or fear to fall in the pit.
Activities
Activities linked to Result 1:
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Activities will consist in providing each health centres with a hygiene, cleaning and water treatment kit, implement small
scale sanitation and water supply rehabilitation works, and train health centre management committees
Activities linked to Result 2:
Activities will consist in the following:
o Provide mothers with malnourished child attending to the health centres with a WASH package consisting in hygiene
promotion, and hygiene and water treatment kit.
o In villages identified for their high malnutrition rate through the health centres:
? improve hygiene promotion training and visual tools of the existing community health volunteers
? Create and support children club, which will be a platform for approaching children for various sectors, such as
education, protection and hygiene promotion
o According to funding, the following non-priority components can also be deployed in the same villages identified for
their high malnutrition rate:
? Increase sanitation coverage through CLTS,
? Improve or rehabilitate water points
? Create/support WASH committees, to ensure the proper management of the infrastructure. Committees (or Water
users association in the case of a mechanical pumping system) and their management system will be set up according
to Niger national guidelines . Committees will be provided with technical and financial management training, hygiene
promotion training, as well as donated a kit of material and tools.
Activities linked to Result3
In the areas identified as flood or cholera prone, Save the Children will carry out contingency activities to prepare the
local authorities and communities to face possible disasters in summer 2012. Activities will consist in training staff of
both ministry of health and hydraulics in emergency response, identifying and training a network of community volunteers
in the areas usually affected by cholera and floods, stock piling a contingency stock of hygiene kits and hygiene
promotion material for 500 families and materials to mount a 5 bed CTC (Cholera Treatment Center).
Outcomes
Result 1: The 90 Health and Nutrition centres supervised by Save the Children in the affected area have adequate WASH
facilities.
Result 2: 100,000 persons (malnourished children and families) adopt better hygiene and sanitation practices at home
through supply of hygiene kits, supporting hygiene promotion activities and promotion of low cost latrine construction
activities
Result 3: 30,000 People have improved their resilience to shocks, and local governmental and non -governmental actors
are better prepared to respond to disasters such as drought, cholera outbreak and floods
Save the Children
Original BUDGET items
$
0
Total
Save the Children
Current BUDGET items
WASH in health center
Hygiene and water treatment kits
community based WASH
Flood and cholera Disaster risk reducation
HR and support cost
Total
$
350,000
200,000
300,000
200,000
450,000
1,500,000
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