#17 Providing Holistic Psychosocial Support to Internally Displaced Persons in Fako Division

This project registered 150 internally displaced persons and provided them with some of these services:

· Dignity Kits (buckets, napkins, and mother care pads)

· Rice, soap, and oil.

· Text messages and social worker calls

· Spiritual guidance

· Medical assistance

· COVID-19 awareness raising

· Sexual Reproductive Health awareness raising

· Training on soap making

· Training on the production of mushrooms

This was a very wholistic project that achieved many things, however under the category of health is difficult to compete with other projects because only 11 persons were referred to medical assistance and an undetermined number received awareness-raising on COVID and Sexual Reproductive health. The many expenses across different sectors make the project cost per beneficiary high. These and the other activities only have an indirect effect on health and mortality.

In next year submission, our advice would be to break down the project presented to focus only on the sector of submission, so some activities don’t make the core intervention expensive.

Moreover, we advise to set up some tools to understand the effects of the project, such as surveys with a sample of beneficiaries.

We appreciate the project invested substantially in direct transfers of resources to beneficiaries.