Coordination

South Sudan: 2020 Humanitarian Response in Review

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UN OCHA
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https://unocha.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f2c222dd83de60ecbebe45951&id=cb04d3869d&e=dff69a10a2
Description
Communities across South Sudan, especially women and children, were hit hard in 2020 by the multiple shocks of intensified conflict and sub-national violence, a second consecutive year of major flooding, and the impacts of COVID-19 related restrictions on livelihoods.
Humanitarian organizations worked tirelessly to meet people’s priority needs, guided by three strategic objectives set in the 2020 Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP). Among the more than 200 HRP partners operating across the country, nearly 60 per cent were South Sudanese non-governmental organizations.
By the end of the year, some 7.3 million women, men and children were reached with some form of assistance or protection through the plan.
The humanitarian response was hampered by sub-national violence, violence against humanitarian personnel and assets, bureaucratic impediments, operational interference, and COVID-19 related restrictions on movement.
The response achievements were enabled by generous donor contributions. The response plan was 65 per cent funded, with US$1.2 billion received toward the $1.9 billion appeal.

South Sudan Humanitarian Needs Overview 2023 (November 2022)

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UN OCHA
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Source
https://reliefweb.int/report/south-sudan/south-sudan-humanitarian-needs-overview-2023-november-2022
Description
The deterioration of people’s physical and mental well-being, living standards and coping mechanisms is expected to leave 9.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance in 2023, higher than the 8.9 million people in need of humanitarian assistance in 2022. This increase is largely driven by compounded shocks triggered by continued conflict, widespread flooding, deepening food insecurity, inflation, high food prices and lack of access to basic services.

The inter-sectoral analysis conducted using cluster people in need (PiN) revealed that there are needs in every county of the country. Of the 9.4 million people in need, an estimated 56,325 people will experience catastrophic need in Panyikang county. Moreover, there will be 7.6 million people experiencing extreme need in 66 out of 78 counties and 1.7 million people in severe need in 10 out of 78 counties. Upper Nile and Western Equatoria States will contain the highest number of counties in critical need. In the Abyei Administrative Area, 212,000 people will be in extreme need of humanitarian assistance.

Return response - Inter-agency multi-sector assessment report: Paloich and Renk

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Inter Agency Multi-Sectoral Assessment
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Description
Due to the continuous flow of returnees and asylum seekers to Paloch and to avoid camping of returnees at the Paloch airport, a transit site was identified and established by the government in Paloch to accommodate the returnees and asylum seekers who continue to come from Renk to Paloch and then to their places of origin. Currently, the transit site is hosting over 12,000 returnees, and the humanitarian situation in the transit site continues to deteriorate. A significant number of children are malnourished, and others are sick with measles, respiratory infections, acute watery diarrhoea, and malaria. The returnees at the transit site are in dire need of humanitarian assistance in terms of transportation, food, shelter, health, and WASH.