Envelope 3: Common Transport Services for Humanitarian Partners in South Sudan  Support evidence-based humanitarian response through provision of integrated data and analysis on IDPs, returnees and multi-sectoral household needs The International Organization for Migration (IOM)’s Common Transport Service (CTS) project enables the most time-critical, life-saving frontline multi-cluster activities through a cost-effective and reliable logistics resources provision to Inter-Cluster Coordination Group (ICCG) prioritized counties, annually assisting at least 80 humanitarian organizations in South Sudan to deliver life-saving emergency items upon requests where they are most needed across the country, which includes counties and internally displaced persons (IDP) sites suffering severe food insecurity (Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) 4 and worse). In collaboration with the Logistics Cluster, IOM ensures that requests for cargo transportation are prioritized according to systems in place that includes Needs Assessment Working Group (NAWG) and ICCG location prioritization. CTS ensures beneficiaries can safely access services and resources with dignity, including in hard-to-reach/newly accessible locations. By facilitating cargo transportation by road, CTS helps to optimize cost-effectiveness and improve the efficiency and timeliness of the wider humanitarian and transition response projects in South Sudan under the South Sudan Humanitarian Fund (SSHF) Allocation strategy priorities 1 and 2. 

Through the effective management of the CTS, IOM aims to support organizations' preparedness measures to mitigate risks associated with increased insecurity, looting/theft of humanitarian supplies, critical access impediments to vulnerable people, and reduce expensive air and road transport costs, which ultimately supports the timely response to the needs of the affected populations. With this funding, IOM will directly work with 80 humanitarian organizations located in different areas, enabling them to deliver critical life-saving humanitarian services and assistance items. CTS has significantly grown from delivering 2,000 metric tonnes (MT) of humanitarian cargo in 2011 to a total of 18,000 MT by the end of 2020, making a yearly average of 25,000 MT since the beginning, highlighting the increase in the use of road transport as the most cost-efficient mode of transportation as access improves.Through CTS, IOM works with more than 80 unique agencies in key operational locations in Jonglei, Unity, and Greater Upper Nile Region, in the Humanitarian Logistics Hubs (Malakal, Bentiu), and Rumbek, Bor, Juba, and Wau IOM has continued to maintain flexibility and adaptability to the operating environment in South Sudan.

Through this project, IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) will contribute to cross-country multi-sectoral needs assessment (MSNA) process built upon the expanded Food Security Nutrition Monitoring Survey (FSNMS+) system by covering major urban areas and respective displacement sites. This action comes in direct response to priorities set by the Coordination and Common Service (CCS) Cluster and aligns with SSHF 2021 Allocation Strategy. Comprehensive household surveys will provide important findings and analysis to improve understanding of food security, livelihoods, and multi-sector household needs in urban areas to guide evidence-based programming. The expanded FSNMS+/MSNA will align with the global Joint Intersectoral Analysis Framework (JIAF) and the research design will reflect clusters’ needs in line with what is required for the Humanitarian Programme Cycle based on lessons learned from 2020 to ensure tools and methodology chosen through consultative process with clusters and lead agencies – WFP, FAO, OCHA – cater for all information and data gaps identified in previous round of data collection conducted previous year. Through this project, DTM will update enumeration areas for six urban areas (Wau, Juba, Malakal, Bentiu, Bor and Yei), develop sampling frame, conduct field data collection, prepare data for clusters and specific analysis for each urban area and displacement site assessed.