Project Number:

MAP14030-1801

Partners:

UNICEF in Mozambique - Government of Mozambique

UNICEF in Mozambique throuth the Government of Mozambique

MOZ - UNICEF – WASH for Children in Zambézia 2018-2020

Improved WASH services reach children and contribute to better health, education and economic well-being in rural communities and schools in Zambézia Province

The project marks the second formal collaboration between UNICEF and ICEIDA in Mozambique to improve WASH conditions in Zambezia province. The first collaboration, 2014-2017, succeeded in improving the enabling environment for WASH in Mozambique through a variety of capacity development initiatives and increased the access to clean water and safe sanitation in the 6 targeted districts of Zambezia province.

Impact: Improved WASH services reach children and contribute to better health, education and economic well-being in rural communities and schools in Zambézia Province.

Outcome: By 2020, people in targeted rural, small towns, and peri-urban areas use sustainable and safe drinking water services, adequate sanitation and improved hygiene practices.

In the 2017-2020 UNICEF Country Programme structure, the WASH Programme has four key outputs. The ICEIDA collaboration will support three of the four existing Country Program Outputs (the missing fourth being emergency response).

Outputs & Activities:

1. By 2020, the capacity of the Government at national and decentralized level in policy development, planning, monitoring, coordination, programme implementation, financial resource leveraging and budgeting for equitable and sustainable access to WASH services at scale has improved.
   1. Recruitment and training of district and provincial staff in procurement, contract management, supervision, quality assurance and rural water supply concepts.
   2. Training district and provincial staff and NGOs on community education and participation (PEC Zonal), participatoryapproaches, total sanitation, water point mapping and database management, sustainability, water quality improvement.
   3. Provincial ODF evaluation and certification exercises.
   4. Technical assistance for institutional strengthening.
   5. Operationalization of national database on water and sanitation facilities (SINAS), including . school WASH data.
   6. Knowledge management and advocacy for informing national policy dialogue.
   7. Sanitation marketing (training of artisans on production and marketing of sanitation products such as latrine slabs) for increased access to and use of sanitation facilities.
   8. Design and promotion of low-cost, appropriate institutional WASH solutions.
   9. Support the development of a national rural sanitation strategy
   10. Support the modernization of SINAS.
2. Communities in target rural and peri-urban areas, small towns, schools and health centres, have access to sustainable water services and scalable service delivery models.
   1. Construction of 52 new water points (boreholes and small systems) serving a total of 25,000 users in rural communities.
   2. Construction óf new water points in 15 schools.
   3. Training of community water management committees and maintenance groups.
   4. Establishment of supply chain of spare parts and training of local artisans for production of sanitation products.
3. Communities in target rural and peri-urban areas, small towns, schools and health centres, achieve open defecation free (ODF) status, with increased access to adequate, scalable sanitation services, and improved hygiene practices.
   1. Training for community health workers (APEs), activists, teachers and NGO staff in community mobilization and hygiene promotion for construction of family latrine (150,000 beneficiaries).
   2. Implementing PEC Zonal to ensure the sustainability of institutional sanitation facilities.
   3. Creating demand for total sanitation (SANTOLlC) through behaviour change communication (sanitation campaigns, formative research, mass media, household visits).
   4. Construction of sanitation and hygiene facilities in 15 schools.
   5. Teacher refresher training for hygiene curriculum in schools.

Targeted districts: UNICEF will continue to focus on specific districts in Zambezia. Under the previous agreement, UNICEF support the districts of Milange, Molumbo, Gurue, Mulevala, Pebane and Gile. Districts in the new partnership will be selected together with the provincial government based on coverage statistics and coordinated with investments from other sector partners. Given that significant capacity support has already been injected into the six districts listed above, there will likely be some districts that will continue in the new partnership.

Despite many international agreements affirming women’s rights, women in Mozambique are still more likely than men to be poor, illiterate and excluded from decision making processes. In the context of WASH, women often assume a heavier burden of the work required to provide water and sanitation at the household level. Studies show that the vast majority of water-fetching activities are performed by girls and women. Yet they participate less in community decision making about improving water and sanitation services. 

Poor sanitation negatively affects health, as well as dignity. Women and girls, often already marginalized, are further disempowered and even put at risk because of a lack of sanitation facilities. Inadequate or lack of WASH services lead many Mozambican girls to miss school or drop out. Girls are vulnerable to rape or other violence when taking care of personal hygiene in insecure areas, especially in humanitarian crisis settings. UNICEF aims to promote the equal rights of women and girls and to support their participation in schools and in the development of their communities by: 

• Promoting women members of institutions responsible for planning and overseeing operations and management of water supply systems. 
• Installing separate, gender-specific toilets for girls and boys in schools. 
• Exploring integration of menstrual hygiene management in schools to support girls’ enrolment and retention in school. 
• Encouraging and documenting inclusive WASH approaches for dissemination of good practice at national, provincial and local level. Identify opportunities to incorporate these issues into advocacy activities in other WASH programmes in the country. 
• Supporting implementation partners to report gender-disaggregated data.

The programme uses the Checklist for the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) throughout the programme period.