Response to Acute Humanitarian Needs of Vulnerable Women and Men through Food Security (OFDA 8)

In the WASH sector, CECI has targeted the domestic, garden and pastoral wells that it has rehabilitated to improve the availability of water for households, livelihood activities and livestock. Due to the lack of functional wells, communities collect water for human consumption at garden or pastoral wells. To ensure that the water collected for human consumption is safe, CECI has installed multi-use systems that separate water for livestock consumption from the one used for human consumption. Water purification kits were also added to each site. Representative Water Management Committees have taken charge daily of the safe water storage and purification, and have made sure that proper sanitation practices were applied around the wells. Furthermore, CECI has targeted the vulnerable households for the distribution of WASH kits in order to increase safe water storage and treatment capacity at the household level.

In order to adapt project activities to the Covid-19 pandemic, hygiene promotion sensitization messages became standard practice during all project activities.

To ensure a sustainable impact, especially for women and young women, CECI works with locally led women groups to increase community awareness around gender-based violence and available response services.

Boys, men and community leaders are also involved in GBV prevention activities through the écoles des maris, which are groups that aim at understanding the roots of violence against women and at identifying and supporting positive masculinities.