The water and environmental sanitation component, wholly fits into the drought preparedness, mitigation and recovery intervention. The programme mainly addresses the water scarcity in areas hardly hit by water shortages whenever droughts starts biting hard. The main focus has been establishing rainwater harvesting water structures along with the good hygiene practices. As far as this intervention is concerned, the beneficiary communities have access to water during normal dry seasons thus, reducing stress on women and loading camels entrusted with this onerous task. Availability of domestic water in the often deserted areas have improved the security situation along the Kenya and Ethiopia border, which used to be very porous and allowed aliens to undertake highway banditry and rustling on Kenyan side. Community dependency on relief food have significantly reduced by with the availability of water for domestic and lactating animals in the rangelands often deserted by pastoralists during the time of stress, thus increasing food security among the beneficiary communities.

The basic education and scholarship programme is new programme in PISP. Under scholarship arrangements, PISP supports about 50 bright but poor students. Most of them have opted to stay out of school due to lack of school fees when PISP offered them the support. Through basic education, which involved training the teaching staff, Parents Teachers Assciations, School Management Committes and support for the education office to undertake regular inspection of the schools.As a result the preformance in National Examination have improved.

Through the Micro Enterprise development initiative, the clients household income level increased by at least 20%. Many target men and women have diversified their economic base by undertaking small-scale businesses along with livestock keeping. This significantly enhanced the communities' capacities to withstand the negative impacts of drought and reduced dependency on external handouts. Economic diversification was strengthened through establishing regional revolving self-based credit schemes for the target women and men groups. PISP supported in the formation of 5 regularised livestock trader groups, which undertakes marketing of livestock and livestock products. The marketing groups organizes auction days where the traders come to the area as opposed to the previous practice where the sellers takes their goods to the market. This reduced much burden the producers used to experience.

The animal off-take programme undertaken by PISP had a multiple effect in reducing the number of herds kept by pastoralists and turning the weak and useless herds into human foods. The sellers acquired the cash and meat, which would have gone into waste were it not for this intervention. This also reduced the number of herds competing for the meagre resources of pasture and water.