In 2023, IOM’s Camp Coordination and Camp Management team will:

• Continue to co-lead the CCCM Cluster, Communication and Community Engagement (CCE)/ Accountability to the Affected Population (AAP) Working Group, Revitalized Partnership for Peace, Recovery and Resilience (PfPRR) platform for IDP Solutions Task team.
• Continue performing essential camp management functions, including site care and maintenance, coordination of humanitarian services, and capacity-building of community leadership structures and governance activities.
• Support communication and community engagement activities that remain critical in delivering information on camp services.
• Operationalize the enhanced complaints and feedback mechanisms (Zite Manager) and firm up accountability to affected populations across CCCM’s programming.
• Roll out a thematic perception survey to complement the service monitoring in the IDP sites.
• Maintain a static presence as the camp management agency in Bentiu and Naivasha IDP sites and collective centres, as well as continue to provide site care and maintenance inside Malakal PoC. 
• Continue to respond to emerging displacements through mobile responses, as well as expanding mobile response interventions in hard-to-reach areas of the country, encompassing site assessments, coordination of humanitarian partners, building the capacity of the community for self-management, and strengthening community governance structures.
• Establish transit centers, in coordination with local authorities and in partnership with humanitarian organisations. The centers will provide essential services to populations on the move at their arrival over the border with Sudan. Services include, among others, temporary communal shelters, basic WASH and health facilities, protection and information desks. 

For Direct Health Support, in 2023 IOM will:

• Provide direct health service delivery and health promotion for crisis-affected populations in the IDP camps of Wau, Bentiu and Malakal and among IDP returnees and host communities within the respective counties of Wau, Rubkona, Malakal and Abyei Administrative Area, including reception transit centres at points of entry. This includes primary health care, rapid response team deployments, outreach interventions for remote areas, communicable diseases detection and management including HIV and tuberculosis; sexual, reproductive, maternal and child health and nutrition.
• Implement migration-responsive strategies and tools within national immunization plans to increase vaccination coverage to hard-to-reach populations.  
• Share positive experiences, best practices, policy instruments, effective tools, and lessons learned in migrant health promotion and protection among agencies, and other relevant actors to support learning and adaptation or replication of successful interventions.
• Conduct sensitization and training of healthcare providers and other government officials, about the health needs of, IDPs and crisis-affected populations and the services available for appropriate referral.

When it comes to Humanitarian Border Management and assistance to citizens abroad, IOM will:

• Conduct capacity assessments for Humanitarian border management to anticipate efficient capacity-building measures to bolster preparedness.
• Support national authorities in the review of standard operating procedures (SOPs) for natural, man-made or health emergencies, originating internally or in neighbouring countries.
• Provide border officials with systems and equipment to record cross-border movements, including in times of emergencies.
• Train national authorities in evaluating migration movements and migration policies related to identity, temporary entry, health requirements, migrant smuggling and human trafficking, and migrants in need of protection.
• Support to create border measures to assist in the delivery of aid, including goods and equipment, and entry for humanitarian workers.

IOM will continue to provide standalone protection activities as well as strengthen protection mainstreaming, including gender-based violence (GBV) risk mitigation, prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA) and disability inclusion across all programming. IOM will maintain close coordination with key protection partners, relevant clusters and technical working groups. Key activities will include:

In 2023, IOM's Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) team will:

• Provide focused, non-specialized MHPSS services, such as counselling, support group discussions and care for crisis-affected individuals, including returnees at the Sudan - South Sudan borders, and caretakers of persons with mental and neurological illnesses as part of integrated health-care services (static MHPSS response on the premises of health clinic) and through community outreach and home visits as and when required.
• Provide community-driven awareness raising and sensitization on priority MHPSS topics and concerns.
• Provide referral services to specialized mental health care for persons with severe mental disorders.
• Provide socio-relational activities to strengthen support networks. The planned activities will be implemented by interdisciplinary Psychosocial Mobile Teams in addition to the static response.

IOM will continue to provide emergency shelter and NFI support across South Sudan, with the most appropriate modalities determined through comprehensive needs and market assessments, with special consideration to persons with special needs and other vulnerable groups throughout the project cycle, including:

• Respond to the multifaceted needs of flood and conflicted-affected households across the country through the provision of in-kind and cash assistance.
• Contribute to improving the target population's living standard through improved shelter for protection and safety and Non- Food Items to meet the urgent needs for cooking, malaria prevention and lighting.
• Improve coordination through S-NFI cluster coordination and enhanced support to S-NFI cluster partners through IOM’s role as the S-NFI Cluster Lead Agency, and co-lead for Cash Working Group ensuring an effective and coordinated response, both in serving beneficiaries and providing technical support to partner organizations.
• Strengthen local economy and improve community resilience through cash-based interventions (CBI) in areas with functional markets, including at the northern border of South Sudan affected by the Sudan crisis.

IOM will provide assistance to survivors of human rights violations, including those arising from the conflict. Activities will include:

• Supporting survivors of GBV, including conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) survivors, to exercise their rights, including access to justice and protection and multisectoral services, as well as tailored assistance to survivors, including livelihoods assistance and MHPSS, in support of their recovery, well-being and resilience.
• Through partnerships and capacity building of local partners, strengthen direct GBV response services, including case management, MHPSS, and legal counselling services for GBV survivors, including CRSV survivors and victims of trafficking.
• Provide direct services to victims of all forms of trafficking, including case management and referrals to specialized services.

IOM will continue to design and deliver locally driven, development-principled initiatives that facilitate transformative change that addresses the drivers of vulnerability and risk, and mitigate further displacement, with a focus on access and provision of essential services, economic recovery, and local governance and social cohesion. Activities will include:

• Restore local capacities for dispute resolution, agricultural production, vocational training and livelihoods for 10,000 individuals in five states including the greater upper Nile, Unity, Jonglei, central and eastern Equatoria.
• Strengthen community institutions and local government’s capacity (in five states including the greater upper Nile, Unity, Jonglei, central and eastern Equatoria) to better manage local development and inter-communal tensions over services and supporting the state and national government to provide oversight.
• Support institutional capacity-building on the community-based/participatory development planning process, infrastructure construction, rehabilitation and monitoring at local, state and national levels using conflict-sensitive approaches and gender and youth consideration.
• Implement inclusive governance dialogue and training, ensuring community-driven solutions.
• Improve access to services and public infrastructures, such as safe water and sanitation infrastructure, as well as hand hygiene infrastructures, and recreational spaces and ensure that women’s meaningful participation in leadership and decision-making is promoted through participatory development planning.
• Support eligible community-level infrastructure and services. This includes the rehabilitation and new construction of community infrastructure identified through the community participatory planning process.

IOM will play a proactive role in advocating for and implementing durable solutions by bringing IDPs to the centre of the conversation, and involving them in the process to inform the solutions strategy. Activities will include:

• CCCM will continue to engage the IDPs living in camps and camp-like settings, in understanding the barriers to solutions as this will inform partners and donors on concrete actions to be taken in achieving IDP solutions. IOM will make information available to IDPs who wish to return/ locally integrate/settle elsewhere. IOM will support IDPs to make informed decisions on the durable solution they would like to pursue, including local integration, return or relocation to a third location within South Sudan. 
• Support the Western Bahr el Ghazal (WBeG) State Government’s efforts in offering displacement solutions by engaging key Humanitarian and government stakeholders, in developing a roadmap with the objectives of outlining the principles and steps to be taken to support displacement solutions, including the voluntary and dignified return, local integration and resettlement of families taking refuge in two displacement sites within Wau, the State capital of WBeG. 
• Commit to the co-leadership role on IDP Solutions Task Team under the Revitalized Partnership for Peace, Recovery and Resilience (PfPRR) platform, a platform that operationalizes Humanitarian, Development and Peacebuilding nexus through 3 priority thematic entry points: Climate Action, Food Security, and IDP Solutions. IOM will support discussions with stakeholders on transitioning the Bentiu IDP site into a settlement site.
• Construct Permanent shelters in areas with high returns.
• Provide technical support, and items (including construction materials, brick-making machines, roofing materials, and solar panels ), and engage the affected communities in cash for work activities for the construction of their permanent shelters.
• Conduct labour market assessments at displacement sites to map out their skills and include their skill profiles in Labor Market Information Systems.

In line with IOM's Manual on Community-Based Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) in Emergencies and Displacement, IOM will integrate MHPSS with conflict transformation and mediation activities, as well as within wider livelihood efforts. IOM will:

• Provide MHPSS training on social cohesion and positive coping mechanisms towards addressing dialogue and crisis prevention. 
• Provide MHPSS activities at the individual, family and community levels that contribute to wider efforts to mend social fabrics and strengthen social cohesion. Examples are support groups and self-help groups for women, or youth, or people with disabilities; structured play activities for children; storytelling; music making; sports; and handicrafts. 
• Promote positive coping strategies at individual, family and community levels to reduce emotional distress and use of violence among youth at risk.
• Provide training and other support to facilitate the integration of MHPSS in conflict transformation and mediation as well as in livelihoods and development programmes.

In 2023, IOM will:

• Enhance resilience and promote humanitarian-development linkages to strengthen health system recovery and coping mechanisms through improved health infrastructure and support to county health departments towards provision of quality health services.
• Strengthen the capacity of the government of South Sudan through the Ministry of Health to address migration health with whole-of-government and society approach including through facilitating consultations and multisectoral networks of expertise to inform migration health policy and governance to advance the migration health agenda in the country.
• Advocacy and action to ensure that migrants, IDPs, returnees and cross-border communities are not left behind in migration health-related SDGs achievements, including universal health coverage (UHC) (SDG 3.8) in compliance with World Health Assembly (WHA) resolutions on the health of migrants and refugees (61.17, 2008 and 70.15, 2017), the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Action Plan (GAP) Promoting the Health of Migrants and Refugees and national processes and strategies.
• Advocate for and provide recommendations for addressing multisectoral determinants of migrant health and the critical inclusion of health within country-led processes and the sectoral migration agenda (e.g. Cluster Coordination Groups (CCG) UN Migration Network, climate change, labour migration, border management, migration policy development).

When it comes to peacebuilding and peace preservation, in 2023 IOM will:

• Facilitate stakeholder-driven processes for conflict prevention and mitigation within and between communities, and support initiatives that restore and rebuild relationships at various levels.
• Advocate for the implementation of peace initiatives in roadmaps or peacebuilding action plans and build the capacity of national actors to design and implement peacebuilding road maps contributing to local ownership and localisation.
• Support the development and maintenance of peace dividends within and between communities using the established community infrastructure such as water and energy infrastructure, livelihoods, and income-generating activities as entry points for social cohesion and longer-term peacebuilding.
• Engage, connect and empower youth through targeted youth programming for conflict prevention and social cohesion.
• Strengthen local mechanisms for conflict prevention, peacebuilding and reconciliation between pastoralists and agriculturalists in border areas of Warrap and Western Bahr el Ghazal States. Contributed to crime prevention and enhanced social cohesion through transformative engagement with over 40 urban youth gangs in Wau Town.
• Build the capacities of law enforcement and local communities at the borders to participate in maintaining peace and security including establishing community safety plans that cater for the needs of host communities, IDPs, and migrants, using the community policing approach.
• Partner with Conflict Sensitivity Resource Facility to strengthen institutional capacity to document, analyze, and develop programmes for conflict sensitivity with a view to intentionally contribute to peacebuilding. 

IOM will continue advancing national land legislation in conjunction with national ministries and parliamentarians, while simultaneously serving individual HLP needs at the grassroots level. IOM will:

• Expand HLP rights-based education to individuals across the country, including comprehensive training in collaborative/alternative dispute resolution (CDR/ADR) methodologies, to provide community members with tools to settle disputes in a transparent, equitable and accessible manner, without reliance on overburdened and inaccessible court systems.
• Mainstream HLP consideration across all IOM interventions, ensuring all interventions adhere to established HLP due diligence guidelines, grounded in “Do No Harm” principles.
• Promote returnees’ participation in community and peacebuilding processes on an equal basis with the host communities.

IOM’s activities will focus on disaster risk reduction and preparedness, to enhance community resilience to enhance risk knowledge and coping mechanisms  to meet the challenges of climate shocks, in particular, flooding in the Nile Basin with Jonglei, Upper Nile, Warrap and the Equatorias representing severe flood-prone areas. IOM will also enhance the effectiveness of disaster risk mitigation measures to mitigate displacement and food insecurity and inform and influence policymakers and the humanitarian community on disaster risk reduction. Activities will include:

• Strengthening community resilience through community-based climate change adaptation programming, flood risk management and construction of infrastructure in flood-affected areas of South Sudan.
• Facilitate broad-based community consultations to ensure that disaster risk management committees (DRMCs) are inclusive bodies that enable marginalized groups such as women, youth, IDPs, returnees, and host communities to voice their needs. 
• Establish and operationalize the early warning technical working group (EWTWG) to ensure greater awareness on the importance of climate information services in responding to the needs of communities most at-risk from climate shocks and extreme weather events.
• Scale-up water resource management infrastructure such as dikes and drainage systems to mitigate flood risk in the most vulnerable urban areas. Strengthen local community and government understanding of infrastructure operations and maintenance.

IOM will also continue to work with stakeholders, government, civil societies, academic institutions, experts, and communities to generate a knowledge base to inform strategies for disaster risk reduction, mitigation and Response.  Activities will include: 

• Build the capacity of government partners for data collection on loss and damage accounting/disaster displacement to inform government engagement with Loss and Damage financing and related considerations/funding streams.
• Conduct an Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) including hydrological studies to inform flood risk management programming. Obtain a high-resolution, high-accuracy Digital Terrain Model (DTM).
• Partner with a national academic institution for degree programme on DRR.
• Strengthen the knowledge base and governmental, community, and academic engagement on the susceptibility of communities to disaster and fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV) related risks.

IOM will continue to coordinate with relevant stakeholders, including government, UN agencies and NGOs to maintain readiness to respond to crises and disasters. This will include sustaining ongoing capacity-building efforts aiming at national and local authorities, NGOs, and community leaders on disaster risk management, preparedness, and response, based on comprehensive and context-specific needs assessments, including through:

• Equipping key stakeholders at all levels with the capacity to develop emergency preparedness and response plans to face future displacement whether due to conflict or disasters related to natural hazards.
• Roll out training for planning and execution of mass evacuation in disasters (MEND). The training will target key stakeholders involved in emergency preparedness and response.
• Supporting risk-informed conflict-sensitive needs analyses, gender analyses, and protection assessments, to update emergency preparedness and response plans.
• Participating in joint inter-agency rapid needs assessments in hard-to-reach, underserved and new displacement areas through mobile response capacity to inform inter-agency emergency preparedness and contingency plans.
• Strengthening emergency multi-sectoral coordination in response to displacement, including enhancing the emergency preparedness and response capacity of CCCM Partners.
• Awareness campaigns and community-based planning, with a focus on  IDPs to obtain knowledge and skills in responding to emergencies including fire and flooding and providing fire and safety committees with training and tools.
• Maintain readiness to respond by prepositioning trained technical teams and heavy machinery such as excavators, backhoes, and trash pumps, among others, for quick response capacity.
• Promoting the development and utilization of national early warning systems for crises including flooding, famine, locusts, and droughts.
• Updating contingency and humanitarian response plans for the Malakal PoC site, formal IDP camps (former PoC), and collective sites in response to changing dynamics and rapid onset emergencies.

As co-lead for the points of entry technical working group, co-chair of the emergency responders mechanism, and a member of the health cluster strategic advisory group, GAVI/MOH Immunization Committee, IOM will continue to scale up efforts to ensure that health systems are strengthened to better prevent, detect and respond to complex communicable disease outbreaks and other public health threats, including through early warning alert response systems for surveillance and response to disease outbreaks. Activities will include:

• Support timely detection and coordinated response to epidemic-prone diseases to reduce excess mortality and morbidity.
• Provide assistance during travel to ensure the health and safety of individuals and to manage conditions of public health concerns as people move across borders. 
• Facilitate inter-state dialogue and cross-border meetings for enhancing global health security and coordination in compliance with the 2005 International Health Regulations (IHR) and its core capacities with reference to points of entry and border spaces.
• Develop practical migration-responsive public health tools of epidemiological surveillance to detect possible alerts and threats along mobility corridors, including joint analyses with partners of mobility data for forecasting disease transmission trends and identifying priorities health surveillance sites using participatory population mobility mapping.
• Enhance community event-based surveillance and community engagement in areas highly affected by migration including border crossing areas.
• Develop and operationalize a PoE essential package toolkit including SOPs in conjunction with the Migration Management Unit and DTM.
• Define and roll out tailored training for border officials in conjunction with protection and Migration Management units.

Leveraging its role as the coordinator of the MHPSS TWG at the national level, IOM will continue to strengthen efforts at the community level, including capacity building of key actors, and integration of MHPSS considerations within wider humanitarian-development-peace efforts. Activities will include:

• Improving community infrastructure for the provision of mental health and psychosocial support services through the expansion of recreational and counselling services/ activities across primary health care facilities and camp-based facilities. These facilities will have the capacity to offer focused non-specialised services such as Psychological First Aid (PFA), individual and family counselling, and peer support to persons with psychosocial needs.
• Capacity building of government and community leadership structure representatives (such as community and religious leaders, teachers, youth and women leaders, and caretakers of marginalized groups such as people with disabilities, neurological and mental health conditions) and enable them to act as ambassadors of change in the community.  Capacity building will focus on advocacy skills, community analysis to identify relevant community groups to be involved in MHPSS, resource mobilization, problem-solving, conflict resolution, peacebuilding, and linking the relevant government ministries for sustainability.  

IOM will leverage a countrywide network of over 6,500 key informants and close to 700 local enumerators while ensuring equal representation of males and females within the data collection teams as well as key informants, to provide timely information. IOM will:

• Maintain countrywide coverage through mobility tracking to provide regular updates on the numbers, locations and priority needs of IDPs and returnees, as well as comparative trends analysis.
• Provide multisectoral needs analysis undertaken through key informant interviews and household surveys, in coordination with relevant authorities, organizations, and humanitarian partners.
• Conduct flow monitoring at strategic mobility hubs, border points and displacement sites across the country to continue to provide timely information on displacement, mixed migration and return routes, and improve knowledge of migrant profiles, motivations and intentions.
• Develop and conduct tailored surveys to inform policies and durable solution interventions.
• Expand emergency event tracking of new displacement incidents to contribute to early warning efforts and inform conflict prevention and rapid response efforts.
• Strengthen evidence-based decisions, especially by humanitarian actors, and accountability to the Affected Population by leveraging information sharing back to the communities.
• Undertake participatory population mobility mapping and flow monitoring to better understand the mobility dynamics in the region, including at transit hubs, convergence points and major destination points to inform preparedness and response for public health threats. Enumerators will be trained on data protection, confidentiality as well as PSEA.

IOM will continue to provide cost-effective, strategic and timely support for frontline actors across South Sudan. Activities will include:

• Manage the S-NFI common pipeline and a proportion of the WASH common pipeline, facilitating procurement, prepositioning, and management of emergency humanitarian supplies for frontline actors responding to crises.
• Ensure that humanitarian partners receive the timely delivery of humanitarian supplies through the IOM-operated common transport service, a free-for-user service that transports key humanitarian supplies on behalf of humanitarian actors.
• Expand the reach of humanitarian and development actors through the establishment of additional humanitarian hubs, enabling partners to set up a permanent presence in key strategic locations with a long-term perspective, including deep in the field.
• Continue to provide a flexible funding mechanism through the rapid response fund, which enables the immediate disbursement of grants to international and national NGOs (I/NNGOs) responding to the needs of disaster-affected populations across South Sudan and in the Abyei Administrative Area, for a three-month emergency response project.
• Procure, store and deliver supplies as well as facilitate common logistic services, enabling humanitarian actors to reach the most vulnerable people in need of humanitarian assistance.