Rapid integrated mobile response to prevent and respond to emergency protection concerns due to conflict outbreaks and severe food insecurity in Tonj North and Aweil South, South Sudan Through this project, NP will deploy a rapid response team to enhance the multi-cluster response and to ensure there is access to safe and dignified services throughout South Sudan. The project further aims to strengthen the capacities of community-based protection mechanisms to prevent and respond to protection risks in a sustainable manner in locations suffering severe food insecurity (IPC 4 or 5). This project will reach an estimated 7,679 people directly.

The Integrated Protection Mobile Team (IPMT) will conduct response to the complex protection dynamics caused or exacerbated by violent conflict, subnational violence, displacement, and food insecurity. The IPMT will conduct seven mobile missions to IPC4 and IPC5 affected areas which lack a strong or static protection presence, to respond to the emergency needs of communities. This is determined on a case-by-case basis in coordination with the Protection Cluster (PC), Needs Analysis Working Group (NAWG) and Inter-Cluster Working Group (ICWG). Considering some of the SSHF priority locations are already covered by NP’s static programming funded by other donors (Tonj East, Tonj South, Akobo and Pibor), NP proposes to deploy the IPMT to Aweil South (Northern Bahr el Ghazal) and Tonj North (Warrap) using the 2021 standard allocation 1.

Each mission will be planned in consultation with the PC and humanitarian partners on the ground to confirm response locations. The IPMT will be deployed to each proposed location three times during the project’s lifespan, with each mission lasting approximately 14 calendar days, depending on the scope and scale of the area and population. The exact period will also depend on the recommendations offered by the High-Level Task Force (HLTF) regarding movement restrictions related to COVID-19. Each mission will consist of immediate response components, addressing the most pressing protection needs identified through the use of Unarmed Civilian Protection (UCP) methods, which is rooted in primacy of local actors to develop protections strategies through participatory exercises building on the local capacities of communities. 

After each mission, NP will disseminate reports containing complete mission findings and response. Additionally, to respond to identified protection needs and effectively integrate protection into the wider humanitarian scale-up in IPC 4 and IPC 5 areas, NP also proposes the following response interventions to be conducted by the IPMT wherever it is appropriate and needed: 

1) Conducting proactive, strategic and deterrent patrolling and protective presence in identified high risk areas 
2) Establishing and/or strengthening 3 SGBV and/or CP referral pathways
3) Referring and, where necessary, providing protective accompaniment for GBV survivors or unaccompanied children (UAC) 
4) Facilitating 28 Child Safe Spaces (CSS) activities for girls and boys affected by violence, conflict and displacement
5) Conducting 7 protection mainstreaming trainings for partner agencies and
6) Providing protection mainstreaming support, as needed, during the distribution of humanitarian assistance. 


After each response mission, NP will provide a debriefing in Juba to share analysis and disseminate response reports to the PC and other relevant stakeholders. 

The team will operationalize NP’s Unarmed Civilian Protection (UCP) methodology in each of these activities. Additionally, and in light of the COVID-19 situation, NP will consistently follow the recommendations provided by the HLTF on this topic, in order to safeguard the security of staff and project participants.