Deadline: 06-Sep-2025
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is inviting grant applications to provide water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services for refugee and host communities in Uganda. The focus is on ensuring access to safe water, improving sanitation facilities, and promoting positive hygiene practices, particularly in emergency situations and underserved areas.
The work will involve establishing, expanding, maintaining, or upgrading water supply systems, while building institutional capacity for sustainable WASH service management. Activities include operating and maintaining 223 motorized water systems, mobilizing communities to manage over 1,157 hand pumps and springs, responding to emergencies such as epidemics or refugee influxes, and supporting the transition of services to utilities through social marketing. Additional measures include constructing or expanding water systems, implementing water resource management like tree planting near water sources, introducing real-time monitoring, and reducing carbon footprints by minimizing diesel use and eliminating water trucking.
Sanitation efforts will focus on increasing latrine coverage and delivering environmental health campaigns to encourage hygiene behavior change. Activities will include hygiene sensitization through Village Health Teams, managing solid, liquid, and faecal waste, constructing emergency and family latrines, and conducting Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice (KAP) surveys alongside sustainability checks.
The eligible locations for this grant are in Uganda, specifically in the Northern and Western regions.
For more information, visit UN Partner Portal.
