AYWAD SGBV & Protection Hum  interventio AYWAD. Project Title:Enhanced capacity of vulnerable South Sudanese refugees and local host community members to identify, prevent and mitigate Sexual and Gender Based Violence and protection risks with focus on newly establsihed camps in Lamwo District.
Findingsfrom the initial protection assessment conducted by UNHCR, AWYAD and Lamwo district local government conducted among refugees and host communities reveal that women and girls especially from the refugees face a number of protection challenges including physical and sexual assult, rape, early and forced marriages, descrimination and marginalization.  Findings from the individual and key informant interviews confirm that most incidents of physical and sexual assault occur during collection of firewood. Findings reveal that 54% of respondents of individual interviews and 46% of key informants reported incidents of violence against women in firewood collection places. Beating accounts for 49% of incidents occurring to women when they go to collect firewood. Attempted rape is the second most reported incident, accounting for 34% of total incidents happening in firewood collection places. As regards the identity of the perpetrators of incidents of violence against women in firewood collection places,97% of respondents indicated men from the hostcommunity as the alleged offenders. All key informants interviewed identified men from the host community as the perpetrators of incidents of violence taking place in the forest where women collect firewood.Physical and sexual assault also take place also at water points. 52% of respondents reported incidents of violence against women at water points. Beating was reported in 24% of cases while sexual abuse accounts for 40% of all incidents taking place at water points. 31% of key informants also reported incidents of violence against women at water points, of which 50% reported cases of sexual abuse and 25% reported cases of attempted rape

The project therefor  will be addressing gender and social protection issues with the aim to improve relationships among refugees and host communities. There will also be increased participation in of women in decision making, more enrollment of girls in schools and more unity among refugees and host communities.
AWYAD will provide SGBV preventive activities such as awareness raising ,trainings for school tecahers hosting both host and refugee communities,AWYAD will  also provide SGBV response activities such as  accompaninments,referalls,among others.Other activitieswill relate to Protection of persons with disabilities catagegory, The project will also integrate protection in to WASH  through Promote menstrual hygiene among refugee women at boarder points through provision of menstral hygiene kits and equip women and girls among refugee, host communities and schools with skills in making of hygiene kits using locally available materials.
Other critical areas of intervention for the project will be ;
# Promote social cohesion among refugees and hostcommunities
#Humanitarian Advocacy and lobbying
The project will apply  the rights based approach which involves project beneficiaries in project planning and implementation hence taking care of Gender, Age, Conflict Sensistivity and Diversity.

A total of over 10,000people are envisoned to be reached both host and refugees communities in the newly established camps in Lamwo district which isthe project area of focus.