Multi sector Integrated Emergency and Resilience Building response through Nutrition,  WaSH and Protection Interventions for Vulnerable Communities in Fangak  and Pigi Counties, Jonglei State In 2020, South Sudan was faced with some successes and continued challenges. The implementation of the revitalized peace agreement in 2020 enabled the Transitional Government of National Unity to be re-established. This strengthened peace efforts in most parts of the country despite pockets of localized inter clan/tribal conflicts. COVID-19 greatly affected people and the humanitarian community, disrupting markets, services and movement across the country. South Sudan also experienced its 2nd consecutive year of devastating flooding that has affected almost 1 million people each year. This situation is true for Fangak County, where continued armed violence, excessive flooding and resource scarcity foment repeated displacement and severe humanitarian needs. Facing a GAM rate of 20.27% and IPC Phase 4 level food insecurity, scaling up of multi-sectoral and integrated comprehensive humanitarian response is required in Fangak County to meet increasing needs of these conflict prone and flood affected communities. The overall objective of the project is to reduce morbidity and mortality among conflict prone and flood affected communities of Fangak County of Jonglei State, through increased access to basic services in Nutrition, WASH, and Protection. With the support of SSHF, World Relief (WR) and its sub-implementing partner, Community Action Organization (CAO), propose to restore and expand lifesaving nutrition, WaSH, and protection services for the areas’ most hard-to-reach and underserved communities. The partners will apply a gender-targeted and nutrition-sensitive approach in service delivery by prioritizing households with acutely malnourished children and food insecure households for holistic, multi-sector support. Targeted beneficiaries will include: WaSH 28,830 (11,532 Male 17,298 Female) reached through door to door hygiene campaign, borehole repairs and WaSH kits provision and Nutrition targets under 5 children in Outpatient Therapeutic Program sites (OTP) and Targeted Supplementary Feeding Program sites (TSFP) with target 3,654 (1,462 M 2,192 F) children 6-59 months and 1,861 PLWs. The major services under WASH will include rehabilitation of 14 water points and hygiene promotion. Under Nutrition, the project will maintain 7 of the existing static nutrition centers (Kualdiar, Palei, Kuerkang,  Panyang, Bolbel, Gerger,  and Kuerkan) and include one more site (Thalier) to respond to the displaced population in Fangak county. The project will also run 2 outreach nutrition units to all sites with population who are hard to reach in Fangak County. The protection part will provide awareness target population on dangers, and effects of mines and explosive ordnance risk education (EORE) on safe behavior. It will reach 10,000 individuals (3,000 women, 3,000 girls 2,000 men and 2,000 boys) of host communities, returnees and IDPs affected populations living in Fangak and Canal/Pigi counties of Jonglei state. There is a need for community liaison with partners to ensure girls, women, boys, men, and animals are protected from mines and ERW. 
To improve evidence-based program intervention, WR will collect program data through assessments and surveys, analyze and share reports on monthly, biannual as well as end of project report to all relevant stakeholder. To ensure beneficiaries’ satisfaction and create accountability, WR will implement compliant feedback mechanism in each service delivery point, and information collected will be used for service improvement and scale up program activities. WR will also work in collaboration with UN agencies, other partners, relevant Government Ministries and the community.