[{"bbox": [85, 154, 1160, 240], "category": "Text", "text": "More largely, multi-dimensional poverty, exacerbated by conflict and displacement in Northern provinces, has a clear impact on the capacity of the population to pay for or maintain the services provided. Finally, Mozambique is regularly affected by extreme weather and climate events causing important damages on existing infrastructures."}, {"bbox": [85, 256, 1160, 485], "category": "Text", "text": "This action has been designed to address this poor performance in the water and sanitation sector and to ensure access to equitable and sustainable water and sanitation services and infrastructure for population in Northern provinces. In order to achieve this impact (Overall Objective), the action will focus on the enhancement of the efficiency and utilisation of climate-resilient water, sanitation and hygiene services and infrastructure with a gender responsive approach and in line with environmental standards. This outcome can only be reached if capacities of decentralized institutions to regulate, operate and maintain water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services are reinforced; and if there is an enhanced utilisation of water infrastructures and services, on the one hand, and of improved sanitation and hygiene facilities and services, on the other hand."}, {"bbox": [85, 501, 1160, 616], "category": "Text", "text": "In order to obtain these outputs the action will support the establishment of AIAS and AURA presence at decentralized level and provide and ensure a close accompaniment through capacity-building, training and technical assistance, as well as of other stakeholders at national, provincial and district level. The aim is to enable them to regulate, operate and maintain water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services."}, {"bbox": [85, 633, 1160, 776], "category": "Text", "text": "The action will work on the supply side (access) as well as the demand side (utilisation) of water, sanitation and hygiene services. The private sector is actively involved in this action, through the reinforcement of the Public-Private Partnerships for the sustainable management, operation and maintenance of water supply systems and sanitation facilities. Local operators will be trained and accompanied to be able to respond to calls for tender and provide quality services. As such the implementation of the Delegated Management Framework will be scaled up."}, {"bbox": [85, 793, 1160, 908], "category": "Text", "text": "At the same time, this action pays attention to the demand-side. It mobilises the communities in the elimination of open defecation and moving up on the sanitation ladder. Demand will be generated through sanitation promotion activities. Dealing with poor households, the action will ensure that financial mechanisms are set up so that beneficiaries are able to have equal and sustainable access to water, sanitation services and hygiene products."}, {"bbox": [85, 924, 1160, 1068], "category": "Text", "text": "The activities in health care facilities will contribute to achieving results in health and nutrition outcomes, such as reducing the risk of communicable diseases including cholera and COVID-19, reduction of malnutrition and stunting rates, and improvements in maternal and neonatal mortality. The activities in schools will contribute to education outcomes since schools will be able to provide a clean and healthy learning environment, thereby improving dignity and safety at school, which in turn leads to improvements in school retention, especially for girls."}, {"bbox": [85, 1084, 1160, 1371], "category": "Text", "text": "The selection of the intervention area of the action takes into account the three sides of the humanitarian-development-peace Nexus. The North of Nampula and the South of Cabo Delgado, bordering Niassa, are areas heavily affected by the crisis receiving massive afflux of IDPs. In all these areas a WASH humanitarian response (emergency water supply, temporary sanitation solutions and distribution of hygiene kits in transit and resettlements areas), as well as recovery activities (construction/rehabilitation of durable water and sanitation solutions in resettlement areas and host communities) are being implemented since the beginning of the crisis. This action will ensure a continuum between these interventions and will implement durable and long-term solutions contributing to increase the ‘before the crisis’ and ‘current’ access to water and sanitation coverage. All these interventions are conflict-sensitive – based on conflict analysis - and involve community participation to ensure infrastructures built and services provided create the conditions for local development and equity."}, {"bbox": [85, 1387, 1160, 1616], "category": "Text", "text": "All the activities will lead to an enhanced utilisation of equitable and sustainable improved water, sanitation and hygiene services in a minimum number of three targeted towns of Memba (Nampula), Namuno (Cabo Delgado) and Marrupa (Niassa). They were pre identified based on the numerous deprivations, lack of support by other programmes and the poor situation of the existing water systems. In addition, Namuno and Marrupa districts were considered as high priority by AIAS during consultation. In Marrupa, the existing deficient system is under stress and it is currently incapable to supply water for all due to the recent increase of IDPs. Complementarity with other programmes was also a selecting factor: in Marrupa with another programme funded by Japan; in Namuno and Memba nutrition actions are being developed jointly by the EU and UNICEF. Memba has feasibility studies for the water supply system available."}, {"bbox": [1027, 1680, 1143, 1705], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 14 of 26"}]