Life-saving food security and livelihood support and WASH services to vulnerable  people with extreme severity in Pigi/Canal. Jonglei is one of the states severely affected by the rains and consequent floods, and one of its most affected counties is Pigi/Canal. In Pigi/Canal the floods reached the highest point in September 2021, since than displacing over 78.00 people. 53.000 people out of these are now facing IPC4+ when the lean season has not even started. Pigi/Canal has an estimated population of 106,424 people: 73% of the population has been affected/displaced by the floods and 50% of these are in IPC4/5 classification (FSNMS+, Feb ’22). The number of vulnerable people is likely to increase as it still has to be seen of people will be able to use the next planting season (starting from March/April).
The increased food insecurity is a result of the large displacements (many people have not been able to return to their villages), destructions of livelihoods and homes, missing or dead animals and submersion of farmlands and subsequent destruction of crops, due to the floods. At the same time, people have reduced access to basic services and water infrastructures are unsafe for drinking. 
The rapid assessment done by Reach (‘Jan 22) confirms this information: the flooding in 2020/2021 coincide with the harvest period, therefor in both years very few households were able to harvest. Due to the flooding and diseases, many people list their cattle, and only few households still own livestock, if they are due, it has been moved further away, while the population typically relies on livestock during the lean season. People are relying on HFA (Hum Food Assistance), wild foods and fishing, but ratios for HFA have reduce, are shared with more than one household and floods have challenges to access the HFA distributions. Continued reliance on wild foods is likely to result in sickness for children as well as the elderly. 
Supplies in markets have also reduced due to the flooding’s. Identified needs by the community are increased HFA, medicines, shelter items, canoes, fishing nets and flashlights.
This data confirms the FSNMS+ report, where the projection is that food insecurity in Pigi will increase further, with even IPC5 levels. 
In Pigi/Canal, a limited number of actors is present, Cordaid has a long-term history in Pigi, although currently no ongoing projects; our local partner ADA also recently started in Pigi and has presence on the ground. Limited efforts to address the current gaps are ongoing, and the needs are huge. 

In summary people are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance for their survival, as food insecurity is projected to increase even further over the next few months. At the same time, access to basic services has reduced drastically and there is need for save drinking water. As community structures are changing as well, due to reduction of traditional coping mechanisms, it will as well be important to engage with the communities to look beyond the next three months. To provide life-saving assistance to 6,000 severely food insecure people in Pigi/Canal through an FSL and WASH intervention. Cordaid/ADA will target the most vulnerable, food insecure, households. For beneficiary targeting the cluster standards will be used. Criteria for beneficiary selection include: 
•	HHs with children under 5 
•	Women headed households.
•	Child headed households.
•	Elderly headed households and persons with specific needs (PSN) such as HH with chronically ill, PWD, PLW.
•	Type of shelter and condition the beneficiaries are being accommodated in now.
•	Households with no basic items /or those who have lost most of their properties during displacement.
•	Households with SAM/MAM cases.