Action Contre la Faim France

The emergency response project aims to provide comprehensive support to flood and landslide-affected communities through a series of targeted activities in Madhesh and Koshi province. These activities are designed to address immediate needs, enhance disaster response capabilities, and support for recovery and resilience following the 2024 flood. It also enhance the local disaster response team capacity and ensure healthe and dignity of the affected individuals. The major interventions include cash distribution, enabling families to prioritize their needs such as food, shelter, and medicine. Other activities involve providing emergency shelter and Non-Food Items (NFI), food support, hygiene kits, and restoring WASH facilities.

The proposed second phase of this project will further cover around 20,000 beneficiaries in the same districts, through construction of 15 community water supply schemes and WASH facilities in 10 remote schools covering most vulnerable areas of 4 Rural Municipality (6 VDCs). This phase of project considers the evolving context of these two districts (two years after the earthquake) by taking into account the aspirations of people living in the area. The constraints posed by time and funds during the 1st phase are well-thought-out to ensure that this phase of project would leave no one behind. This project employs participatory methodologies that promote inclusion and community decision making, and is building the capacity of community based platforms including users committee, health management committee and school management committee. Considering the new federal structure in Nepal - Action Against Hunger and its local partners are building dialogue between communities and local government in order to increase government support for WASH sector and investment for sustainability of the WASH structure in the long run. Apart from this, this project will contemplate the integration of WASH and nutrition specially targeting the Severe/Acute malnourished children along with under 2 year old children from the targeted areas by implementing intensive WASH behaviour change related activities. Expected results: Unreached earthquake affected as well as nutritional vulnerable population have improved access to safe and sufficient water. WASH governance of water and sanitation user committee at targeted rural municipality is strengthen WASH related Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices/behaviours of the nutritional vulnerable population are improved in the targeted area. Estimated 3,874 household