Community Health & Nutrition Initiative
Community-based health promotion, nutrition screening and referral, and disease prevention, integrated with WASH to address the roots of preventable illness.
Health, Nutrition, WASH & Community Wellbeing
Breaking the cycle linking unsafe water, poor sanitation and recurring outbreaks of preventable disease.
Strategic objective 2
Our approach
Promoting community health, nutrition and WASH for healthier, more resilient communities.
The context
Published humanitarian data on the need this work responds to. Each figure is shown with its source.
10%
Of Nigerians have complete basic WASH access
Source: WASH NORM 2021
46M+
People practise open defecation
Source: UNICEF Nigeria
3,109
Suspected cholera cases in the first half of 2025
Source: UNICEF, 30 July 2025
Flagship programmes
Flagship programmes set out in the Strategic Plan 2025–2030, translating this objective into fundable, replicable models.
WASH Emergency Response Initiative
Rapid water quality testing, chlorination, hygiene promotion and RCCE deployed within days of a flood or cholera alert, backed by community surveillance and support.
From the field
Hand pump installation
Household hygiene promotion session
