Emergency shelter and Non Food Item Response to Vulnerable People in South Sudan The proposed project will ensure the distribution of lifesaving Non Food Items (NFIs) to households affected by the South Sudan crisis. The project will source the NFI items from the NFI cluster core- pipline. The project locations will be in Unity (Koch, Abiemnhom, Mayom, Guit and Leer), Jonglei (Fangak, Uror and Ayod) and Upper Nile (Ulang, Longochuk) States. This support will be provided to the newly displaced households, protracted IDPs, those in formal IDP site, and the vulnerable households within the host community. Through the provision of more sustainable and cost-effective non-food items (where possible sourced from local markets), emergency shelter (where possible using locally available material e.g. grass thatch as roofing material) as well as targeting the vulnerable members within the host community, the project will also support strengthening of community coping mechanisms and cohesion of vulnerable and at-risk communities.  

WVSS has ongoing operations in the Greater Equatoria Greater Upper Nile and Greater Bhar el- Ghazal states with staff equipped with skills to respond to the needs of crisis affected populations including the needs assessment and NFI distribution. In addition to this, WVSS has teams positioned in strategic static locations Kuajok (Warrap), Yambio (Greater Western Equatoria State), Juba (Central Equatoria) and Melut and Malakal (Upper Nile). Three of these teams (two in Juba and one in Malakal) are agile and flexible enough to respond to the needs of beneficiaries in deep and hard to reach field locations. The three mobile NFI teams will be available to carry out the assessments, verification, registrations, and distributions of NFI to the conflict affected groups. 

The project will target 48,782 beneficiaries (9,756 households), comprising of 14,147 men, 13,659 women and 20,976 children affected by the conflict. The majority (36,587) of these will be the newly displaced people, while the remaining (12,195) will be from the protracted IDPs and other vulnerable groups within the host community. The priority locations will be Unity, Jonglei, and Upper Nile States with the ability of the project to respond, through WVSS mobile response mechanism, to anywhere else in the country where there is need for NFI assistance.

Depending on the circumstances like the recent displacement of people in Wau Shiluk that require immediate multi-cluster, multi- agency response, WVSS in collaboration with other interested agencies and stakeholders will conduct the Inter agency Rapid Needs Assessments (IRNA) to determine the lifesaving NFI needs of the most vulnerable IDP population. Otherwise WVSS will conduct the NFI specific assessments to facilitate the identification of affected IDPs and vulnerable groups (women, children, elderly, People Living with Disability) followed by verification and registration exercises. Once the IDPs needing NFI support have been verified and registered, distributions will be conducted by our mobile team. With assistance from the Quality Assurance Unit within WVSS, the project will also carry out Post Distribution Monitoring (PDM) to determine among other issues, the level of satisfaction and usage of NFIs distributed. This will complement the Onsite Distribution Monitoring (OSDM) exercise.

WVSS will provide all the relevant project information to the beneficiaries regarding the implementation. This includes the beneficiary entitlements, the selection criteria and available feedback mechanisms for any complaints or compliments. To mainstream protection issues this NFI intervention will ensure the safety and dignity of beneficiaries is upheld. Further any incidents of abuse will be reported to the relevant partners. Priority will be given to the most vulnerable groups (Pregnant and Lactating Mothers, People Living with Disability, the elderly)during the registration, verification and distributions.