Our action focuses on 4 poles of activity:

1.Rehabilitation of basic facilities and support for the revival of agricultural activities, to ensure the long-term resettlement of displaced families in the Toulepleu - Moyin Cavally province.

Number of direct beneficiaries : 21 000 people

Activities carried out :

Rehabilitation of schools (Kambly)

- Rehabilitation of basic schooling infrastructure : This programme covers the rehabilitation of schools which were worst affected by the crisis, as well as housing for school teachers, to enable them to give classes. An additional phase of this project will provide the schools with latrines.

- Improvement of access to water for the population: Since many wells and pumps have become unusable, this programme aims to rehabilitate the most important water points for the population throughout the province. At the same time, a hygiene awareness campaign will be carried out.

- Reviving and securing agricultural activities: This programme seeks to assist farmers in the villages of Toulepleu province so that they can resume farming cycles in March-April 2004 (shallow irrigated and rainwater irrigated rice, market gardening). Indeed, these farmers no longer have the equipment and financial means required to cultivate their land.

2. Programme to manage water and sanitation facilities, and to rehabilitate sanitation and hydraulics infrastructure in the Peace Town camp for Liberian refugees, in Guiglo:

Beneficiaries: 7 100 refugees

Activities carried out:

Water management committee

- Creation of water management committees

- Rehabilitation and maintenance of pumps: we plan to rehabilitate 25 pumps and 8 enclosures. Water quality tests will also be carried out (Del Agua kits). One person will be trained to carry out monthly tests.

Latrine construction

- Rehabilitation of family latrines:
Since most of the latrine blocks are damaged, they will be rehabilitated: repairs to ventilation ducts and tank constructions, replacing doors and damaged mosquito nets.
We also plan to build new family latrines in order that each household may have a latrine, in total 100 latrines.

- Rehabilitation and maintenance of showers: in total we plan to rehabilitate 41 showers.
- Waste management
- Sewage disposal and rainwater drainage
- Camp maintenance
- Hygiene awareness

3. Programme to improve resettlement conditions for populations displaced by the Ivorian crisis: rehabilitation of hydraulics infrastructure

Beneficiaries: 40 000

Activities carried out:

Installation of a pump

- Improvement of latrine coverage: Construction of around 300 family latrines.

- Raise awareness among the population about water and hygiene issues: Organisation of hygiene awareness campaigns in each village.

- Développer la capacité de gestion et d'entretien des installations hydrauliques : Relance de 16 comités de gestion de l'eau et formation de deux techniciens réparateurs par village.

- Assainir la ville de Guiglo : Volet " nettoyage " et volet " gestion des déchets " dans les trois villes.

Our programmes cover two poles of activity:

Rapatriation and reintegration of 7000 Ivorian refugees returning to their country:
Activities : water and sanitation
Location : 23 villages in the Blolequin area
Project duration : 7 months (from June 1st, 2004) until December 31, 2004.

 Rehabilitation of basic facilities and support to resume agricultural activities, to ensure the long-term resettlement of displaced families in the Toulepleu - Moyin Cavally province.
Activities : - water and sanitation, food safety and rehabilitation of basic schooling facilities
Location : 45 villages in the Toulepleu area
Project duration :18 months (from January 26, 2004)

Emergency food distribution (programme completed at the end of June 2004)
Activities : food aid
Location : Nicla displaced persons camp, villages in the Duékoué and Blolequin areas.
Project duration : from April 2003 to the end of June 2004

Construction, improvement and maintenance of water and sanitation facilities in the Temporary Accommodation Centre for displaced persons in Guiglo (programme completed at the end of June 2004)
Activities : water and sanitation
Location : Nicla displaced persons camp (Guiglo)
Project duration : from January 2004 to the end of June 2004

Our action aims to achieve two main objectives:

Ensure food safety for the displaced population in the Guiglo, Duékoué and Daloa provinces (around 60,000 people) during the first phase, then for Toulepleu province during the second phase (Septembre 2003), through food distributions.

Improve living conditions and sanitary conditions for these populations (and also for families residing in the area).

Our programmes include 3 complementary activities,
which are implemented by a team of eight volunteers:

1. General emergency distributions for the 60,000 displaced persons in the Guiglo, Duékoué and Daloa provinces, targeting displaced persons in camps or dispersed among families providing refuge along the cease-fire line (Guiglo, Duékoué and Daloa towns; Belleville, Zahibo and Bonoufla villages).
These food distributions (rice maize flour, oil, salt, split peas, flour enriched with maize and soya) are being carried out in partnership with the WFP (United Nations World Food Programme).

2. "Food for Work" programme starting at the end of April, comprising:
Food distributions in payment for work for 8,000 heads of displaced families (40,000 people - 80% of those having received the first emergency distributions) in the Guiglo, Duékoué and Daloa provinces. Those old enough to work participated in high labour sanitation works, and also in the installation and running of canteens (see below).
"Food for work" distributions for 2,000 heads of vulnerable families (10,000 people) resident in the Guiglo, Duékoué and Daloa provinces.

Free distributions in the form of canteens targeting 3,500 of the most vulnerable displaced people per day (children aged 1 to 6, pregnant and breast-feeding women) at 10 sites in Guiglo, Duékoué and in villages near Daloa. These canteens serve two meals pers day, one in the morning (flour enriched with maize and soya, sugar) and one at midday (rice, split peas, oil and salt).

3. Sanitation activities
Following on from food distributions and as part of the "Food for Work" programme, priority was given to sanitation activities to provide the displaced families and those providing refuge with decent living and hygiene conditions : emptying of drains, installation of latrines, showers and washing areas.

Since Septembre 2003, SOLIDARITES is also working in the Toulepleu area (canteens, reconstruction and cleaning of wells, distribution of small equipment to 2,400 vulnerable farmers' families to enable them to resume agricultural activites as they return to their villages).

In parallel to these three activities, three studies have been undertaken, to further develop our action:

A socio-economic study of households in the area
A preliminary study for the implementation of agricultural revival, rural rehabilitation and assistance for returning refugees programmes, (in Guiglo, Duékoué, and Vavoua provinces, and to a lesser extent in Daloa province).
A technical study concerning the drinking water supply networks in various towns and villages in the area so as to provide solutions to possible shortages.