This project carries on the previous COSV experience in this area, ongoing since 1994 through the implementation of several Health programmes. By the management of one PHC Center and 7 PHC Units, more than 80.000 persons are being helped with the supply of basic health services, mother and child health services, nutritional assistance for malnourished children and interventions in water and sanitation sectors. In this project, COSV area of intervention is wider and the needs of other populations of the area are being met, with 30.000 new beneficiaries. The steady presence of expatriate personnel, playing a fundamental role in training the Sudanese local staff, and the management of supplementary services to those normally offered by a basic health project (as the opening of a analysis laboratory), underline the rehabilitation/development characteristics of this project, implemented in a region under "chronic emergency" since decades.