Water for Recovery and Peace Program (WRAPP)
Name: Water for Recovery and Peace Program (WRAPP) The goal of Pact's Water for Recovery and Peace Program (WRAPP) is to improve accessibility to sustainable, safe water for rural communities, with a special awareness and emphasis on addressing conflict over water, supporting "post-conflict" recovery, especially in relation to historical inequities in access to basic services in south Sudan and in response to demand returning populations are placing on existing water resources. In response to the scarcity of water Pact has increased the number of water points and promoted local ownership and management of water resources through partnerships with international and Sudanese borehole drilling organizations and more than 25 local Sudanese nongovernmental organizations and community based organizations. These partnerships support a number of activities, including new borehole drilling, hand pump rehabilitation, semi-urban water distribution systems, sanitation projects, and rainwater harvesting projects, as well as community mobilization and Sustainable Community Water Management (SCWM) committee training at each new or rehabilitated water point. An innovative component of WRAPP is The Sustainable Community Water Management committee trainings, which are led at the community level by members of local Sudanese organizations trained in Pact-facilitated training-of-trainers sessions. The trainings focus committee roles and responsibilities; effective leadership; gender balance; conflict prevention and resolution, hand pump/borehole operation and maintenance, environmental awareness, financial accountability, and cost recovery.
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