WASH Program Focus

Unsafe or inadequate access to water, sanitation and hygiene has a profound effect on public health around the world.

Diarrhea alone kills nearly 2 million people worldwide each year, of which 1.5 million are children. Nearly 90 percent of diarrhea is attributed to unsafe drinking water, inadequate sanitation, and poor hygiene. "WASH-related diseases are the number one cause of hospitalization and mortality for children under five. More than 50 percent of all hospital visits in Kenya are for illnesses related to water, sanitation and hygiene,” said Karen Freeman, Mission Director for USAID in Kenya.

SCC has been implementing WASH programme since 2012 todate cumulatively completing 16 WASH projects in Middle Shabelle, Bandari, Lower Shabelle and lower Juba regions. In order to improve access to safe drinking water and sanitation facilities and promote good hygiene and sanitation practices in an effort to reduce the transmission of fecal-oral diseases among conflict affected IDPs and host communities in those regions.

The interventions include emergency and humanitarian services targeting vulnerable people including women and children displaced by floods, conflicts and droughts. SCC established regional offices in Kismayu, Jowhar and Afgoye and has experienced WASH program teams in the target regions and a strong network of national and international organizations working in the same areas.

SCC program focuses on water supply and sanitation access, hygiene promotion, management, and environmental sustainability in rural areas, especially the arid and semi-arid lands. SCC will continue to place communities at the Centre of its programming. Empowered communities claim their rights, have capacity to actively engage with service provides and policy makers, and create and maintain social norms. SCC will continue supporting communities to:

-Rehabilitation/construction of borehole and shallow wells, construction of gender segregated latrines, capacity building for hygiene promoters, and establishing of water management committees.

-Actively participate in WASH-related processes and have access to information, knowledge and tools – including monitoring – to hold service providers and local authorities accountable;

-To provide training to volunteers, birth attendants, Community Health Workers (CHWs) on hygiene promotion, and safe practices.

-Mobilize the necessary support and resources to have access to reliable services and increased community resilience;

-Establish and sustain healthy WASH practices by creating, changing or reinforcing social norms. -vulnerable arid lands, displaced communities especially women and children.

Our Vision

SCC seeks a world of lasting hope, tolerance, and social justice, where poverty overcome and people live in dignified and secure livelihoods; SCC will be a global force and a partner of choice when it comes to building community resilience; We will be known everywhere for our unshakable commitment to the dignity of people including vulnerable communities; Because we want lasting solutions, we fight the inequalities that keep people locked in poverty, insecurity, and injustice, we tackle not the symptoms but the systems, and we campaign for genuine, durable change.

Our Core Values

Transformation:

SCC believes in urgent action, innovation, and the necessity of transformation—within the

community and our own organization.

Mutual Respect:

SCC affirms the dignity, potential, and contribution of participants, donors, and partners.

Integrity:

SCC acts consistently with SCC’s mission, being honest and transparent in what we do and

say, and accept responsibility for our collective and individual actions.

Commitment:

SCC work together effectively to serve the larger community excellence: We

constantly challenge ourselves to the highest levels of learning and

performance to achieve greater impact

Excellence:

We constantly challenge ourselves to the highest levels of learning and

performance to achieve a greater impact

Areas of intervention

SCC is implementing software and hardware programs in the areas of WASH, Protection, GBV, food security, conflict resolution and peacebuilding, and Education. our local and international partners, with whom we have created real sustainable work; our workers, local and expatriates, who often cooperate with us for decades; the final beneficiaries of the interventions; local and international authorities; friends and supporters.

Over the years we have developed projects in a whole range of sectors: such as Health care and Nutrition, Vocational Training, Primary Education, Protection, and Environmental Sustainability, WASH programs for IDPs and poor hosting communities to increasingly complex and innovative projects – economic projects; support to small and medium organizations and Cooperatives; Capacity Building of institutions, both public and created by local civil society; protection of human rights; habitat and territory. We also learned to deal with humanitarian aid and emergency (environmental and social) and with the security issues that these interventions require. We currently read development projects as opportunity and sustainable.

With conviction and pragmatism, we want to go beyond the logic of gift whenever the conditions of communities we work with permit this approach: in Somalia and in the neighboring countries our partners ask for a real partnership. This means accepting with the courage to overturn our role.

WASH Program Focus

Our Vision

Our Core Values

Areas of intervention

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