The WASH program was not part of the program when it started in 2011. WASH was formally launched in March 2015, as a response to the needs identified after the December 2013 violent conflict. Since implementation, the program has rehabilitated non-functional boreholes and drilled new boreholes expanding access to water for thousands of individuals. The WASH program has the following components;
Rehabilitation of boreholes
The community in Duk is made up of both Dinka and displaced Nuer. Sharing resources, such as a water source was often a point of tension between the two groups. However, Mary Byanwuor (R) and Nyanthak Wany found common ground after attending a Trauma Awareness Workshop which was implemented by JFSP and helped these communities address underlying issues and diminish tensions at the water point. “I changed my attitude toward Nuer IDPs after the training, by forgiving others,” says Mary. Displaced and in despair, Nyanthak was welcomed into the community and allowed access to the water point freely without fear. “Trauma healing teaches us to forgive one another and not to fight your peers”, explains Nyanthak. and Nyanthak Wany found common ground after attending a Trauma Awareness Workshop which was implemented by JFSP and helped these communities address underlying issues and diminish tensions at the water point. “I changed my attitude toward Nuer IDPs after the training, by forgiving others,” says Mary. Displaced and in despair, Nyanthak was welcomed into the community and allowed access to the water point freely without fear. “Trauma healing teaches us to forgive one another and not to fight your peers”, explains Nyanthak.
The program rehabilitates boreholes to meet the objective of increasing access to safe drinking water to target communities. The program identifies boreholes with the help of the community leaders that have broken down and need rehabilitation.
Public health promotion (PHP)
The PHP activities focus on increasing the knowledge and practice of hygiene of the target community through intensive hygiene awareness raising activities.
Multiple uses of water services (MUS) is the core implementing strategy. The program promotes different best practices that encourage and motivate target communities to overcome development challenges. These include sanitation and marketing and empowering women pump mechanics.
Sanitation and Marketing:
The program introduced innovative sanitation solutions with the ecological latrine called “Arborloo”. This concept involves using an Arborloo simple latrine with an average diameter of 0. 8 meters, 0.5 to 1.5 meters deep, concrete/plastic slab and superstructure to provide privacy. When the pit is nearly full, the superstructure and slab are shifted to a newly dug pit. The old pit is covered with earth (obtained from the new pit site) and left to compost and a tree later planted on the location. The program established four sanitation marketing groups which are predominantly women. These groups are responsible for social and sanitation marketing of the Arborloo latrines.
Hand pump mechanics:
The program established hand pump mechanic groups in the operational areas. The groups’ purpose is to improve the functionality of water sources through collaborative means. Half of the group members are women, bringing a gender angle to the mechanics’ job. 
Women are the most concerned with water issues at household level in the operational areas. Empowering women to fix boreholes enables them to fix them on their own without the need to wait for men to do so. The pump mechanics also carry out sanitation promotion.
