Provision of frontline health assistance to HEV affected population in Bentiu IDP Camp and emergency medical supplies to conflict and flood-affected people in priority locations in South Sudan (Tambura, Leer, Mayendit, Maiwut, Panyijiar, Guit, Rubkona and Canal Pigi) The World Health Organization (WHO) proposes a project titled “Provision of frontline health assistance to HEV affected population in Bentiu IDP Camp and emergency medical supplies support to conflict- and flood-affected people in priority locations in South Sudan. The proposed project will be implemented in Bentiu IDP Camp with a focus on Hepatitis E virus outbreak response, Tambura in response to the needs of conflict-affected people and Leer, Mayendit, Maiwut, Panyijiar, Guit, Rubkona and Canal Pigi in response to the severe flooding. The project’s main aim is to contribute to the reduction of preventable morbidity and mortality as a result of the acute humanitarian need caused by the Hepatitis E virus outbreak in Bentiu IDP Camp, sub-national violence in Tambura and severe flooding in seven priority counties.
The project will support Hepatitis E virus outbreak response in Bentiu IPD Camp by strengthening surveillance, case investigation, case management and coordination. The joint effort of WHO and health partners, WASH partners and the ministry will be geared towards ending the outbreak in the camp.  Further, the project will deliver time-critical, life-saving emergency health supplies to health partners and health facilities to serve people affected by sub-national violence in Tambura and severe flooding in the 7 priority locations. Through the project, WHO intends to provide health services to 220 000 beneficiaries (M=88,778, W=85,262, B=23,562 and G= 22,638) among them, 33,036 (15%) are people with disabilities (PWDs) to achieve its purpose. 
WHO will utilize its comparative advantage and provide capacity building to support the Hepatitis E virus outbreak response. Capacity in HEV surveillance, investigation case management and referral will be provided to local health care workers and partners by ensuring guidelines exist to support the response. In addition, the project will train health workers in use of standard and community HEV case definition, 3rd Edition IDSR, HEV case management, infection prevention and control (IPC)  to facilitate early detection, investigation, referral and case management  the project will also strengthen onsite testing of suspected HEV cases using rapid testing kits, referral of samples to reference laboratories for confirmation and genotyping and multicluster coordination to ensure a coordinated response. In addition to the above, the project will scale up the availability of essential medicines to conflict-affected communities in Tambura as well as the flood-affected communities in 7 priority locations. WHO will work with the Health Cluster to coordinate assessment of needs and delivery of essential medicines through the Health Cluster partners responding to the consequences of floods and conflicts in the target locations.
A detailed implementation plan (DIP), monitoring and evaluation plan and indicator tracking tool will be developed and used to facilitate SSHF project implementation, performance management and reporting