Sectoral Contingency Plan for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene 2012, West Department

The plan was prepared to strengthen the sector's capacity to respond to a major crisis in the West department, the department most affected by the January 12, 2010 earthquake. It follows the national contingency plan of 2011 of the Direction de la Protection Civile and came out of a planning process in October and November 2011 among DINEPA, UNICEF, civil protection and the WASH Cluster coordination unit.

The planning scenario is a category IV tropical storm with six days of heavy rain that floods 14 communes. It assumes nearly 90,000 people evacuated, 300 dead, 175 injured and 60 missing, and damage to roads, bridges, health centers and agricultural infrastructure. The response plan covers coordination of sector actors, activation of the alert, needs assessment, operational objectives such as a minimum of 2.5 liters of drinking water per person per day for the first five days and then 10 liters, information management, a matrix of rapid actions, an analysis of challenges and preparedness actions.