Italy and the European Union EU are launching two initiatives to foster the quality of Primary and Reproductive Health Care, nutrition services and to promote the access to safe water and sanitation for migrants, IDPs and host communities in Eastern Sudan.
The Delegation of the European Union in Sudan, the Embassy of Italy together with the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation are launching two projects tackling migrants, IDPs and host communities in Eastern Sudan.
Awareness raising on health risks The two initiatives invest in capacity building and in promoting the community involvement and awareness raising on health risks and behaviors as well as encouraging hygiene and sanitation, in partnership with Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education and Ministry of Water and Irrigation both at Federal and State levels.
“Access to water, sanitation and health services in these areas is critically low.
“Our main goal – he affirms – is to ensure efficiency and effectiveness of our actions.
Our joint interventions are in line with the SDG’s 3 and SDG’s 6 aimed at respectively ensuring healthy lives and well-being at all ages and ensuring availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all”, concluded the Ambassador.
Eu major provider of humanitarian assistance to Sudan Ambassador Jean-Michel Dumond, Head of Delegation of the European Union to Sudan, said that the EU has been and is a major provider of humanitarian assistance to Sudan.
“The EU and its Member States agree with the Government of Sudan that we have to move towards more longer-term, development cooperation”.In the European Union “we call this the ‘Humanitarian -Development Nexus’.
We are currently identifying new programmes in the context of the Humanitarian-Development Nexus and I expect we will conclude a new joint programme on health with the Italian Cooperation next year", concluded Ambassador Dumond.
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