Water Sanitation & Hygiene Impact Report 2021 | Islamic Relief Canada

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Projects IMPACT REPORT | 2021 ROHINGYA PROFILE | IMPACT REPORT 2021

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Thank You for Your Support “The best charity is giving water to drink”.

– Prophet Muhammad ‫ﷺ‬ Thank you for your generous contributions to Islamic Relief Canada in support of our clean water, hygiene and sanitation projects this year.

By providing access to clean water, as well as improved hygiene and sanitation, you are helping to make an immense difference for communities all around the world.

Your support makes it possible for them to stay healthy, gain an education, sustain an income, and be more resilient in the face of climate change.

Their lives will be forever changed, and their futures made brighter. Thank you!

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The Widespread Need Access to clean water is considered a basic right and yet more than 660 million people live without safe water and over 2 billion people do not have access to adequate sanitation.

Millions of people within rural communities are constantly at risk of waterborne diseases, like cholera and dengue fever, as a result of inadequate access to water. Water and sanitation related diseases remain the leading cause of death for children under the age of five.

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Women and girls are especially affected by water crises, as they walk for hours at a time to collect dirty water. This detracts from the time they could use to attend school and limits their availability to support themselves.

Additionally, water sustains crops and livestock, which are a major source of income for many communities Islamic Relief Canada works in. Without water, pastoral families lose their livelihood, as well as their food security.

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Our Approach The demand for water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) assistance has increased significantly with rapid population growth, urbanization, conflict, and frequent natural disasters.

Whether assistance is for emergency relief or long-term development, WASH is an essential component of our work.

It encompasses various forms of assistance, such as providing safe drinking water, distributing hygiene kits, building gendersensitive latrines and toilets as well as improving hygiene awareness and practices.

Due to the generous contributions of donors like you, Islamic Relief Canada has been able to operate in various countries across multiple regions to increase access to clean water and improve the quality of life for hundreds of thousands of people.

When conducting water projects, Islamic Relief choses a holistic approach that combines clean water services with better food sustainability and income opportunities.

Through skills training and improving hygiene awareness and practices, Islamic Relief equips the community to overcome barriers and be resilient to the effects of climate change.

SAFE DRINKING WATER

DISTRIBUTING HYGIENE KITS

GENDER SENSITIVE LATRINES & TOILETS

HYGIENE AWARENESS & PRACTICES

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Your Donations in Action With your support, we are implementing a series of WASH projects this year, which continue to complement our ongoing work. We are grateful to share the impact of your donations for the following projects.

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AFGHANISTAN

ALBANIA & KOSOVO

BANGLADESH

Emergency WASH and Protection Response in Nangarhar

Sustainable Livelihood

Safe Water for Life Ensuring Public Health in Bangladesh

Improving Access to Water & Sanitation in Sherpur

This emergency response aims to support thousands of vulnerable internally displaced people, returnees and host communities across the Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. This project establishes community protection mechanisms, with a focus on genderbased violence and child protection. We are working to install clean water systems, handwashing points and latrines and distributing water storage, hygiene items, and dignity kits. We are also working to train community volunteers on menstrual hygiene management awareness.

This project is focused on enhancing economic empowerment and livelihood opportunities for vulnerable families, particularly orphan and female-led households.

Islamic Relief is providing families with support based on their needs and skill set; this will include greenhouse, livestock, poultry, and water wells.

This is helping families meet their food/ nutrition needs and provide longterm benefits such as surplus production.

This project seeks to improve access to WASH services for families in Jamalpur and Sunamgonj districts in Bangladesh.

This includes constructing 200 shallow tube wells, 50 deep tube wells, and 250 household latrines.

The project will also train community members on maintenance, and conduct hygiene awareness sessions. There is a special focus on the active participation of the local community, and especially women as they play the main role in water collection and usage for their families.

Recognizing the inadequate water and sanitation options within schools and communities of Sherpur, this response tackles these concerns through two projects. We are building multiple solar-driven water distribution systems for the community, which reduces water collection time for women and girls who usually collect water. Additionally, we are building 10 water, sanitation and hygiene blocks for school children.

This increases accessibility to education and ensures children are able to learn in a safe environment.

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42,900 individuals

The project includes building hand pump wells.

Some of these wells will be used to ensure adequate water supply for greenhouses while the rest will provide clean and safe water for domestic use.

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12,250 individuals

3,756 individuals

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1,900 individuals

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KENYA

KOSOVO

LEBANON

Community Resilience in Mandera and Kilifi

Clean Water for People in Need

Emergency Shelter, WASH, Livelihood and Protection Response

This integrated project aims to create resilient communities through increased productivity, income, and access to safe water. We are providing techniques to support crop diversification, drought-tolerant crops, home garden production, and the establishment of community-based livestock. Other components of this project include environment, WASH, nutrition advocacy through school clubs, protection and gender awareness campaigns, fencing of a girls school, school gardening, development of water facilities and the installation of irrigation systems. In order to improve income generation, we are establishing Group Savings and Loan Associations and providing financial institution linkages.

Health and quality of life in Kosovo are increasingly threatened by the poor quality of water and scarcity of water reserves. The protection, conservation and monitoring of water quality is a major environmental challenge.

Islamic Relief Canada’s response supports families that lack drinking water by increasing their access to water sources through the provision of water wells.

Continuing a more comprehensive socioeconomic recovery response for vulnerable families and those affected by the explosion and widespread financial crisis, this project supports beneficiaries across Beirut, Mount Lebanon, Akkar and Bekaa. Efforts include rebuilding homes, providing safe water tanks,

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2,390 individuals

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27,675 individuals

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hygiene kits, generating sustainable income activities and prioritizing care for youth, femaleheaded households and gender-based violence survivors. The project also includes training and awareness sessions to protect the rights and safety of women and girls, through a collaborative community approach to ensure long-term results.

BENEFICIARIES

16,328 individuals

MALI

MYANMAR

NIGER

Emergency Water & Sanitation Response

Solar Water Wells in Jignuman

Socioeconomic Transformation in Rakhine State

Poverty Reduction in Vulnerable Communities in Dosso Region

This response provided urgent support in the Circle of Gourma Rharous to families who have been displaced due to violence and are struggling to survive without clean water. This response helped increase access to safe, potable water through the rehabilitation of drinking water points while consulting and including women and girls, who primarily are the ones to collect water, in these efforts. It also focused on strengthening social cohesion through the formation of genderinclusive committees and conducting training sessions to improve hygiene practices, ensure child protection and help prevent gender-based violence.

Conflict and insecurity in Mali has led to high levels of internal displacement and heightened the need for assistance, burdening the limited existing water infrastructure. This project increases access to drinking water by establishing six new basic water systems reliant on solar pumping. In addition, we are improving knowledge and skills in regards to hygiene, sanitation, and water point management for the target community through campaigns and lessons.

Islamic Relief is taking on an integrated approach by improving the socioeconomic conditions of rural and marginalized communities through increased access to livelihood means, WASH facilities and the ability to cope with conflict, shocks and disaster. This project aims to increase the income and assets of vulnerable households, their knowledge and awareness on WASH behaviours, and improve their access to a dignified livelihood through skills training and support.

Additionally, we are installing safe sanitation points, clean water infrastructure, and solar home sets to ensure ultimate protection of rural and marginalized communities.

This project contributes to reducing poverty, food and nutrition insecurity rates in Dogondoutchi district of Dosso Region. This is being achieved through sustainable, climate adaptive agriculture development and small business development for vulnerable people.

The project is expected to support household food security through the generation of income and growing nutritious food. The project includes installation of 10 solar powered water systems, one for each village.

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8,073 individuals

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12,156 individuals

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7,000 beneficiaries

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10,470 individuals

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NIGER

PAKISTAN

Strengthening Protection in Tillabery

Water and Livelihood Support for Two Villages

Transformation and Adaptation Against Climate Variability

Islamic Relief Canada is increasing access to safe and dignified protection services for vulnerable community members, which include people with disabilities, women, girls and the elderly. We are supporting protection services across the village, district and municipal levels through awarenessraising sessions for girls, WASH, maternal health and nutrition, and legal services. Solar water supply systems and gender-sensitive sanitation facilities are being built to ensure protection within schools. Additionally, this project forms community groups to train them on entrepreneurship and small-scale business development, ensuring their sustainable livelihood.

This project focused on the construction of two mini solar powered water supply systems.

It promoted income generation for women through the installation of a market garden where cooperatives of women produced high market value food. Additionally, peanut production and processing were promoted in the village, where women were provided with the manual machinery to take groundnuts from their gardens to produce oil, butter and cakes. Our work focused on immediate income generation while ensuring sustainability, especially for women.

This project is focused on increasing drought resilience through water use efficiency and indigenous and sustainable access to food security in the Quetta and Harnai districts, with a focus on women and girls.

This includes installing clean water sources for domestic use as well as public water stations, establishing agricultural irrigation systems and constructing water reservoirs for climate adaptive agriculture.

This is accompanied by food security training for farmers and community members to help improve off-season vegetable production, and providing them with drought tolerant seeds.

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4,596 individuals

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5,624 individuals

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To sustain long term effects, this project also includes policy advocacy for public climate adaptive mechanisms, as well as improved planning and budgeting for better awareness and hygiene practices around Covid-19.

This project will be implemented to reduce the socio-economic impacts of Covid-19 through implementing climate-adaptive economic opportunities. This will incorporate installing different water systems, including: water irrigation systems for agriculture, public water stations, and water reservoirs to control flooding.

BENEFICIARIES

19,800 individuals

PAKISTAN

PALESTINE

SOMALIA

Water & Livelihood Inclusive Initiative in Kashmir

Multi-Sectoral Humanitarian Assistance

Barrage Rehabilitation in Sabun Village

Water Assistance in Sanag

This Islamic Relief Canada project aims to enhance economic empowerment among community members, particularly women, in Muzaffarabad.

We are incorporating various livelihood elements that consider the economic role of women, such as honey bee-keeping, poultry farming, livestock, and more. Climate adaptive techniques are being considered in all livelihood elements such as farming techniques and rainwater harvesting to ensure sustainable success. Additionally, we are installing water purification solutions to increase access to safe drinking water and minimize the participation of women and girls in risky water collection.

​​This multi-sectoral recovery project is in response to the escalations in violence in May 2021.

We are providing highly needed support under 3 main areas: cash assistance, rehabilitation and livelihood. Vulnerable households are receiving cash assistance in order to purchase essential needs.

Our second main area includes the rehabilitation of 110 water, sanitation and hygiene facilities, with the purpose of repairing damaged water systems and enhancing access to clean water. Lastly, we are supporting 25 struggling micro-businesses towards achieving dignified livelihoods.

Islamic Relief Canada is rehabilitating the barrage that supports the irrigation of water from the Shebelle River, which is a major source of water that sustains local agricultural production. We are clearing debris, repairing and maintaining the main canal, and replacing and repairing gates as needed.

On the ground, we are establishing a Canal Water Management Committee to ensure the sustainability of the project.

This Islamic Relief Canada project seeks to improve the availability of clean and safe water to the communities living in four villages in the Sanaag region. Water Supply systems are being installed in two of the four villages, coupled with the provision of hygiene kits and hygiene promotion activities. Each hygiene kit includes one 10-litre jerry for drawing water and another for storage, bath soap, laundry soap, and chlorine tablets.

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30,000 individuals

12,000 individuals

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1,600 individuals

BENEFICIARIES

29,934 individuals

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SOMALIA

SUDAN

Health, Education, Agriculture and Livelihood Project (Phase 2)

Access to Safe Drinking Water for Al Rahad Locality

This project aims to improve the livelihood of vulnerable communities in five different ways.

This includes providing primary health care services through a health facility, and supporting the current school in the local district through training and teaching materials for students. It is also focused on increasing food security by supporting farming households with low-cost, high-quality agricultural technology to increase food production. It includes strengthening community level resilience with micro-financing and skills improvements training provided to women.

The project is currently being implemented in the Al Rahad Locality in the central sector of Wadi Abu-Habel Basin Area.

Water is usually fetched by women and younger boys and girls; and the average time spent getting to the water source is about 35 minutes. Currently most communities in North Kordofan rely on rain water pans and surface water, both of which are susceptible to contamination.

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Finally, improving sanitation through construction of culturally appropriate latrines for the affected communities.

The project is taking place in the Balaad, Beledweyne, and Banadir Districts as well as the surrounding areas along the river Shabelle belt. The project includes the rehabilitation of shallow wells to ensure families have access to clean and safe water.

Additionally, river dykes are being built to reduce the flooding in the area.

BENEFICIARIES

90,000 individuals

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The project helped increase access to and utilization of improved and sustainable water facilities, which will in turn reduce waterborne diseases.

Part of the project will go towards the installation of hand pump wells and solar pump mini-yards.

Furthermore, to ensure long term sustainability, the project includes the training of community health promoters.

BENEFICIARIES

29,148 individuals

SUDAN

SYRIA

Shelter and WASH Support for FloodAffected Communities in West Kordofan

Access to Safe Drinking Water for Damazine Locality

Water & Sanitation Services in Northwest Syria

Our project was focused on improving water, sanitation and hygiene conditions for flood-affected households.

This included providing emergency shelter kits, mosquito nets, hygiene and dignity kits and water purification materials. We rehabilitated water sources and pumps, built and rehabilitated latrines, as well as improved hygiene conditions and awareness through a gender-sensitive approach. Female-headed households, the elderly, children, and people with disabilities were prioritized to ensure that we reached those who were most vulnerable.

Sudan’s Blue Nile State has been severely affected by the civil war, leading to an increase in internally displaced people and little access to clean drinking water. To reduce cases of water-borne diseases and increase access to clean and safe drinking water, Islamic Relief is installing over 10 hand pumps in the Damazine locality. Additionally, the installation of hand pumps increase access to improved drinking water, reduce overcrowding in host community water sources, and improve relations between host communities and displaced people.

This project aims to help alleviate the suffering of the vulnerable and displaced Syrians and their host communities with emergency water and sanitation services across Aleppo and Idlib.

These services include establishing a solarpowered network for water pumps and sewage, as well as improving waste disposal, living environments and hygiene conditions.

It also focuses on improving the quality of basic education of school children through the construction and maintenance of water and sanitation facilities in schools.

This project also targets the elderly and people with disabilities by distributing hygiene kits and ensuring the most vulnerable are protected. To help combat the spread of Covid-19, we are providing specialized hygiene kits alongside hygiene awareness and promotion.

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282,925 individuals

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33,695 individuals

15,800 individuals

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YEMEN Emergency Food, WASH & Livelihood Assistance in Amran

Emergency WASH & Livelihood Assistance in Sana’a

In the face of the devastating impacts of conflict, famine and health crises, this response is assisting families in dire need in the Amran Governorate. Our teams are distributing emergency food baskets and providing employment opportunities to families through cash for work activities.

Participants help to create, rehabilitate or protect community assets in their areas such as roads, small bodies of water, agricultural terraces, and more.

This response assists families in dire need in the Sana’a Governorate through rehabilitating 3 non-functional public water sources, in addition to providing hygiene kits and hosting awarenessraising sessions on WASH. This project also provides employment opportunities through cash for work activities, where community members rehabilitate or protect community assets such as roads, small bodies of water such as ponds, agricultural terraces, and more.

In the face of Covid-19, this project responded to ensure preparedness and community awareness on the prevention and control of Covid-19. An isolation centre equipped with highly needed medicines, medical supplies, consumables, medical equipment, IEC materials, and wash facilities was established. Hygiene kits were also distributed in the region.

BENEFICIARIES

10,657 individuals

The response also includes rehabilitating two water sources in Amran, installing a new solarpowered water pump, training a committee of locals who can take over management of these sources, performing routine water quality testing and distributing chlorine tablets. Alongside these activities, local committees host hygiene awareness and learning sessions.

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13,370 individuals

YEMEN WASH, Food Security and Livelihood

This response aims to reduce suffering while maintaining the human dignity of internally displaced people in Al Dhale’e and Dhamar. It focuses on rehabilitating 4 water systems to improve long-term access to clean drinking water. One way this is being achieved is by upgrading water systems to solar powered versions in order to minimize negative environmental impacts and ensure a long-term power source.

We are also extending the water piping system to ensure accessibility of water stations by making them close to houses, with adequate privacy and lighting.

We further emphasize the importance of minimizing environmental impacts through cleaning campaigns and waste management awareness sessions in an attempt to reduce pollution. Hygiene kits that include chlorine tablets, soap bars for hand washing, washing powder and water containers, are being distributed. In order to meet food and essential living needs, Islamic Relief is providing unconditional cash assistance to internally displaced persons and host communities. Families are also being granted cashfor-work opportunities to construct and repair community assets such as ponds, rural roads and harvesting tanks.

This project focuses in particular on femaleheaded households and people with special needs, as we recognize the barriers they face to accessing safe water and employment opportunities.

BENEFICIARIES

35,868 individuals

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Donor Sponsored Water Systems Thus far, and through the continued efforts of our donors, Islamic Relief has also built individual water systems for donors on behalf of their loved ones.

BANGLADESH

KOSOVO

NIGER

SOUTH SUDAN

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10

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WATER WELLS

WATER WELLS

SOLAR POWERED WATER WELLS

SOLAR POWERED DRIP IRRIGATION SYSTEMS

10 WASH BLOCKS FOR SCHOOLS

PAKISTAN

SOMALIA

SUDAN

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IRRIGATION SYSTEMS

WATER DYKES

HAND PUMP WELLS

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PUBLIC WATER STATIONS

SHALLOW WELLS

SOLAR POWERED SYSTEMS

2 WATER RESERVOIRS

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Thank You! Thank you for your support! Your donation is so often the gift of life itself and we take special care to reach those who are most at risk.

We’ve seen with our own eyes how their lives have been uplifted and transformed by what you give.

“Whoever relieves the hardship of a believer in this world, Allah will relieve his hardship on the Day of Resurrection. Whoever helps ease one in difficulty, Allah will make it easy for him in this world and in the Hereafter..."

– Prophet Muhammad ‫ﷺ‬ We could not have done it without you!

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