Protection

UNICEF has globally implemented a new procedure and tools related to prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse and its partnerships with NGOs.

An action plan for protection from sexual exploitation and abuse and to address sexual exploitation and abuse and other misconduct.

The Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) of South Sudan is committed to a future that sees people being self-reliant. Sadly, evidence-based needs remain high, and the people of South Sudan will continue to require significant support from the international community throughout 2024.
An estimated 9 million people, including refugees in South Sudan, will experience critical needs in 2024. As the HCT, we aim to target 6 million of these people with some form of humanitarian support, depending on the resources available. This means that some people will experience needs that humanitarians cannot respond to.
The HCT’s two-year strategy, articulated in this document, seeks to maximise opportunities to address peoples’ needs in a collaborative and cooperative way with peace and development actors, leveraging opportunities to address the root causes and drivers of peoples’ needs. The strategy will be reviewed after one year or when the context changes.

This guide provides an overview of social protection concepts, approaches, issues, debates and evidence, and a selection of key references and signposting to further resources. It primarily focuses on longer-term developmental social protection rather than humanitarian responses, and on low-income countries, including in contexts of shocks, and draws on other income contexts where appropriate.

On July 11, 2023, the Protection Cluster South Sudan (PC) and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, conducted a rapid protection assessment exercise in three locations identified as arrival points for South Sudanese returnees who recently arrived from Sudan in Juba County. The teams consisted of UNHCR staff members and UNHCR’s implementing partner staff from the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and Humanitarian Development Consortium (HDC). The purpose of the assessment was to get an idea of the situation of the returnees and IDPs at the site.