South Sudan Crisis Response Plan 2023 - 2025

South Sudan Crisis Response Plan 2023 - 2025

CRP last updated: September 16 2024
Funding last updated: January 12 2024
$205,198,000
Funding required
1,777,810
People Targeted

IOM Vision

IOM, working with partners, key stakeholders and communities, will continue to support people in vulnerable situations across South Sudan with essential life-saving assistance, while creating conducive environments for sustainable returns and recovery. IOM will adopt a community-driven approach to all programming, to facilitate transformative changes that address vulnerability and risks. Addressing these challenges means not only making a positive and lasting impact on the lives of South Sudanese affected by crises but also supporting the government in fulfilling the promises of the Revitalized Peace Agreement, creating a base of support for its continued efforts to address potential drivers for future crises.

Objective 1 - Saving lives and protecting people on the move
Objective
Saving lives and protecting people on the move

$94,500,000
Funding required
1,190,810
People Targeted
90
Entities Targeted
Internal migrant, Internally displaced person, International migrant, Local population / community
Primary target groups
Description of People and Entities Targeted

Recognizing the protracted nature of the conflict and associated humanitarian crisis in the country and the continuous, and worsening shocks facing local populations, IOM foresees that humanitarian support will be needed for three population groups: (1) IDPs, both protracted and newly displaced populations; (2) IDPs and migrants who have returned and continue to face a variety of challenges; and (3) vulnerable host communities affected by disasters and/or conflict and in areas in which services are limited. IOM will continue to provide life-saving assistance in tandem with supporting self-reliance and mitigation across multiple sectors, including water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), health, NGOs coordination and camp management (CCCM), migration management and transition and recovery. Protection principles will be mainstreamed across interventions to ensure safety and dignity, avoid causing harm and guarantee meaningful access to assistance for all persons in need, without discrimination. This includes GBV risk mitigation as well as Disability Inclusion throughout the program cycle. Particular attention will be given to effective participation and empowerment of the community, ensuring that Complaint and Feedback Mechanisms (CFM) and other reporting mechanisms related to Prevention against Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) and the Child Safeguarding Policy, are in place to prevent misconduct and guarantee accountability to the affected population, in line with the IOM AAP Framework. "

IOM will build the capacity of government officials and support national NGOs (NGOs) and associations for persons with disabilities with technical support. Entities targeted will include the Relief and Rehabilitation Commission (RRC), Peace Corp Organization, Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Welfare, Ministry for Water Resources and irrigation, Active Youth Agency, and various organizations for persons with disabilities.

Funding confirmed 57%
43% Funding gap

Camp coordination and camp management

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. 
Funding required
$10,000,000
Funding confirmed
$1,909,404
Last updated: 12 Jan 2024
Plan types
19%
Funding confirmed
81%
Funding gap

Direct health support

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.
Funding required
$8,000,000
Funding confirmed
$2,202,596
Last updated: 12 Jan 2024
Plan types
27%
Funding confirmed
73%
Funding gap

Humanitarian border management and services for citizens abroad

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.
Funding required
$11,500,000
Plan types

Protection

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:

  • Provide technical guidance, training and support to ensure interventions are informed by robust protection and gender analyses and that services can be accessed in a safe and dignified manner.
  • Deploy protection and GBV staff to multisectoral teams and missions for vulnerability screening and identification, for victims of trafficking.
  • Implement protection monitoring in areas of displacement and return to identify human rights violations and protection risks, which can act as early warning mechanisms to support preparedness and response.
  • Strengthen community-based protection efforts by working with communities to support their self-protection capacities or develop new strategies.
  • Provide direct protection assistance to GBV survivors, victims of trafficking, those facing HLP issues, or other vulnerable individuals in need of assistance.
  • Deepen and expand gender-transformative programming to address the root causes of GBV within integrated programming with IOM's humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding programmes.
  • Work with and build the capacity of organizations for persons with disabilities or other rights groups to advocate and ensure respect of the rights of marginalized groups such as persons with disabilities.
  • Establish standardized vulnerability criteria for the overall Sudan response to target the most at risk populations and provide direct support to vulnerable populations on the move, including migrants and IDPs, in coordination with local partners and state ministries.
Funding required
$4,594,000
Funding confirmed
$1,606,165
Last updated: 12 Jan 2024
Plan types
34%
Funding confirmed
66%
Funding gap

Provision of water, sanitation and hygiene in emergencies

IOM is the WASH Cluster State Focal Point (SFP) for Upper Nile, manages a part of the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) core pipeline and co-leads the Technical Working Groups on Humanitarian Development Nexus, Disaster Risk Reduction and WASH & Accountability to the Affected Population (AAP). IOM will continue to To provide integrated, safe, equitable and dignified access to cost-efficient, robust and climate-resilient WASH services to most vulnerable IDPs, host communities, and returnees.  

IOM will also continue to provide WASH services in existing areas of operation and mobilize its emergency preparedness and response (EP&R) teams in order to rapidly restore service provision in response to crises (famine-like conditions, conflict-/flood related displacement) and prevent infectious diseases such as Hepatitis E virus, acute watery diarrhoea/cholera thus safeguarding and preventing public health risks.  

With the escalation of hostilities, WASH infrastructure is projected to become more severely impacted in Sudan, resulting in a high number of people in need of lifesaving drinking water, as well as other WASH services.

Activities will include: 

  • Ensure provision of safe, dignified, expandable, cost-efficient and robust water, sanitation and hygiene services for most vulnerable people including  conflict-affected and flood-affected IDPs and host communities, including population living in PoCs and IDP sites in Malakal, Bentiu, Wau, Twic, etc. A special focus will be exerted on reducing the likelihood of public health crisis by providing tailor-made flood-resilient services, and faecal sludge management and solid waste management systems in the intervention areas. 
  • Surge support to the national WASH Cluster by the timely mobilization of a WASH rapid response team across the country in order to rapidly restore critical life-saving WASH service provision, including emergency rehabilitation of water drinking supplies, disinfection and distribution of WASH NFIs with a special emphasis on soap and menstrual hygiene management items. GBV-related risks and concerns are taken into consideration in all programming; 
  • Ensure primary health facilities and schools in areas of return have minimum basic standards for WASH services and facilities, including latrines, water quality and quantity, drainage and waste management;  
  • Strengthen local economy and improve community resilience through cash-for-work for community members in the intervention areas through their engagement in the rehabilitation of WASH facilities and promote community engagement and ownership. 
  • Scale up assistance at border locations, providing lifesaving WASH services to the most vulnerable individuals in points of entry and transit centres to response to the Sudan crisis
Funding required
$15,000,000
Funding confirmed
$4,506,354
Last updated: 12 Jan 2024
Plan types
30%
Funding confirmed
70%
Funding gap

Mental health and psychosocial support in humanitarian response

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.
Funding required
$4,300,000
Funding confirmed
$443,035
Last updated: 12 Jan 2024
Plan types
10%
Funding confirmed
90%
Funding gap

Shelter and settlements

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.
Funding required
$10,750,000
Funding confirmed
$5,585,625
Last updated: 12 Jan 2024
Plan types
51%
Funding confirmed
49%
Funding gap

Humanitarian assistance to survivors of human rights violations

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.
Funding required
$500,000
Plan types

Multi-sectoral support

Includes funding which supports multi-sectoral interventions or cannot be attributed to a specific activity area.
Funding confirmed
$29,197,563
Last updated: 12 Jan 2024

Movement assistance

IOM will facilitate safe and dignified humanitarian assistance, including movement assistance to third-country nationals and returnees arriving from the Sudan crisis. Main activities will include:

  • Provide humanitarian transportation to vulnerable new arrivals from the border points to IOM’s transit centres. Humanitarian assistance will seek to safeguard dignified and safe human mobility, ensuring physical well-being and focusing on the prevention and mitigation of protection, health and other physical risks. 
Funding required
$29,856,000
Funding confirmed
$8,619,178
Last updated: 12 Jan 2024
Plan types
28%
Funding confirmed
72%
Funding gap
Convoy transporting new arrivals from Sudan for onward transportation assistance. © IOM South Sudan 2023
Convoy transporting new arrivals from Sudan for onward transportation assistance. © IOM South Sudan 2023

Objective 2 - Driving solutions to displacement
Objective
Driving solutions to displacement

$57,050,000
Funding required
396,110
People Targeted
35
Entities Targeted
Internal migrant, Internally displaced person, Local population / community
Primary target groups
Description of People and Entities Targeted

IOM foresees that, in order to address the drivers and longer-term impacts of crisis and displacement, support will be needed for three population groups: (1) IDPs, both protracted and newly displaced populations, based on context-specific vulnerability analyses and emergency gaps analysis; (2) IDPs and migrants who have returned, who continue to face challenges in accessing services, livelihood opportunities, and housing, land, and property; and (3) vulnerable host communities in areas in which services are limited. Key beneficiaries will include vulnerable community members such as women, youths and children as well as community leaders, civil society, local authorities, and relevant ministries. Marginalized groups including women and youth have borne the brunt of continued shocks. The lives of South Sudanese women and girls continue to be marked by violence and discrimination, with high rates of gender-based violence persisting against the backdrop of the peace deal, worsened by the economic impact of conflict and natural disasters. Youth are also being excluded from meaningful participation and have few avenues for mobility or a sense of belonging. Violence and crime are one of the few ways that youth can access resources. IOM is committed to implementing needs-based programming to reach those that are most vulnerable. The targeting of beneficiaries will be based on protection concerns and context-specific vulnerability analyses.

Funding confirmed 100%
0% Funding gap

Community stabilization

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.
Funding required
$25,000,000
Funding confirmed
$74,971,250
Last updated: 12 Jan 2024
Plan types
100%
Funding confirmed
0%
Funding gap

Durable solutions

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.
Funding required
$3,100,000
Funding confirmed
$2,641,970
Last updated: 12 Jan 2024
Plan types
85%
Funding confirmed
15%
Funding gap

Mental health and psychosocial support in transition and recovery

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.
Funding required
$450,000
Plan types

Health system strengthening

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).
Funding required
$4,500,000
Plan types

Peacebuilding and peace preservation

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. 
Funding required
$16,000,000
Funding confirmed
$1,017,951
Last updated: 12 Jan 2024
Plan types
6%
Funding confirmed
94%
Funding gap

Provision of water, sanitation and hygiene in transitional and post-crisis situations

IOM’s WASH interventions will span across the humanitarian-development-peace nexus, providing a comprehensive and tailored package that responds to a range of needs (individual, community and institutional), across different settings (conflict-/ flood-affected, in responding to public health emergencies, within IDP camps, at the border, and in areas of return). IOM’s WASH interventions will provide nature-based, climate-resilient, resource-oriented, cost-efficient, durable, gender-sensitive and inclusive water, sanitation and hygiene services in transitional and post-crisis contexts through the systematic application of integrated water resources management, circularity, systems design, ecological sanitation and WASH market-based programming, in support of food security, climate resilience and livelihoods.  

Key activities include:   

  • Ensure provision of nature-based, climate-resilient, resource-oriented, cost-efficient, durable, gender-sensitive and inclusive water, sanitation and hygiene services  in transitional and post-crisis contexts through the systematic application of integrated water resources management, circularity, systems design, ecological sanitation and WASH market-based programming, in support of public health, food security, climate resilience and livelihoods. Gender-sensitivity and inclusiveness will be prioritized throughout all interventions. 
  • Operationalize cost-efficient and self-replicable water supply techniques with a special emphasis on manual drilling and small-scale solar pumps. 
  •   Operationalize water supply interventions which focus beyond domestic water uses by giving prioritizing to integrated water resource management interventions.  A particular focus will be exerted to the use of renewable water resources for pastoralists, small-scale farmers, and livelihood.  
  • Operationalize nature-based, climate-resilient and resource-efficient WASH services through the implementation of green infrastructure and multi-functional WASH systems. A particular focus on ecological sanitation and water harvesting techniques will be exerted. 
  • Strengthen self-sufficient WASH management mechanisms and governance systems to enable communities to better respond to their needs and endure future shocks. 
  • Strengthen market-based programming by supporting entrepreneurship and small-scale enterprise development, by working through or supporting local markets. 
Funding required
$5,000,000
Plan types

Land and property

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.
Funding required
$3,000,000
Plan types

Objective
Strengthen preparedness and reduce disaster risk

$25,600,000
Funding required
587,000
People Targeted
38
Entities Targeted
Internal migrant, Internally displaced person, Local population / community
Primary target groups
Description of People and Entities Targeted

IOM will continue to work with the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management for policy development, operationalization of the National Disaster Risk Reduction Strategy, development of Disaster Risk Management manuals and supporting consultations on the Disaster Risk Management Bill. IOM will build the capacities of local government and communities prone to floods and other natural hazards to mitigate flood risks through community-based disaster management committees. IOM will continue to work with the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation (MWRI) to ensure that vulnerable communities benefit from WASH interventions that are scalable, sustainable, adaptable and resilient, and the Ministry of Environment and Forestry for strengthening Early Warning Systems. IOM will also continue to work closely with the Ministry of Health (MOH) to strengthen health systems to prevent, detect and respond to complex communicable disease outbreaks, such as COVID-19, cholera, measles, Ebola virus disease (EVD) and other health threats, as well as building capacity of health and social workers.

Funding confirmed 8%
92% Funding gap

Disaster prevention

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.
Funding required
$15,000,000
Funding confirmed
$2,040,250
Last updated: 12 Jan 2024
Plan types
13%
Funding confirmed
87%
Funding gap

Emergency preparedness - rename

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.
Funding required
$3,000,000
Funding confirmed
$17,901
Last updated: 12 Jan 2024
Plan types

Health components of preparedness and risk reduction

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.
Funding required
$1,300,000
Plan types

System strengthening for mental health and psychosocial support

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.  
Funding required
$800,000
Plan types

Water, sanitation and hygiene in preparedness and risk reduction

IOM will provide nature-based, cost-efficient, durable, community-based disaster-resilient water, sanitation and hygiene services through the systematic application of disaster preparedness, response and recovery approaches in support of climate and disaster risk resilience. Key activities are highlighted below. 

  • To provide nature-based, cost-efficient, durable, community-based disaster-resilient water, sanitation and hygiene services through the systematic application of disaster preparedness, response and recovery approaches in support of climate and disaster risk resilience. 
  • To operationalize community-based flood and drought-resilient programming by means of the construction of nature-based and resource-oriented infrastructure across South Sudan. A particular emphasis will be given to nature-based circular water resources and wastewater treatment systems. 
  • To operationalize community-based flood and drought-resilient programming by means of the rehabilitation of grey infrastructure (dykes, weirs, etc.) across South Sudan. 
  • Increase the disaster risk resilience of existing WASH services to floods and droughts by means of tailor-made upgrades. A particular emphasis will be given to high-impact, cost-efficient and durable interventions. 
  • Increase the understanding of the effects of WASH interventions across the entire crisis life cycle on the available natural resources. A particular emphasis will be exerted on the operationalization of integrated water resources assessment at watershed level and the analysis of the environmental impact of WASH services in the intervention areas.   
Funding required
$5,500,000
Plan types

Objective
Contribute to an evidence-based and efficient crisis response system

$14,024,000
Funding required
At risk communities
People Targeted
183
Entities Targeted
Internal migrant, Internally displaced person, Local population / community
Primary target groups
Description of People and Entities Targeted

IOM will target 183 partner organizations, including 105 national NGOs, 68 international NGOs and 10 UN organizations funds and programmes, with the provision of information on the number and geographic distribution of IDPs and returnees, mixed migration trends, infrastructural and sectoral gaps and the evolving needs of crisis-affected populations to enable better planning. IOM will also continue to promote access to multisectoral humanitarian services for vulnerable communities through the provision and management of the core WASH and S-NFI pipelines and support to the logistics cluster for efficient and economic transportation of items, as well as the establishment and management of humanitarian hubs and disbursement of funds through the rapid response mechanism.

Funding confirmed 15%
85% Funding gap

Displacement tracking - rename

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.
Funding required
$10,000,000
Funding confirmed
$1,443,879
Last updated: 12 Jan 2024
Plan types
14%
Funding confirmed
86%
Funding gap

Support services for response actors - rename

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.
Funding required
$4,024,000
Funding confirmed
$713,357
Last updated: 12 Jan 2024
Plan types
17%
Funding confirmed
83%
Funding gap
Operational presence in

South Sudan

14
International staff and affiliated work force
3000
National staff and affiliated work force
5
IOM field office

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Figures are as of 31 December 2023. For more details of IOM's operational capacity in country, please see the IOM Capacity section.

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