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Covid19 response in Juba, South Sudan This project is raised to respond to COVID19 in Juba, South Sudan. South Sudan’s first confirmed case of COVID-19 was on 5 April 2020, by 24 July 2020 cases had surged to 2,258 with 45 deaths. Cases are reported from 16 out of 78 counties, with Juba, being most affected. Insufficient testing limits the ability to accurately assess the scope of the pandemic. COVID-19 infections are expected to increase significantly and more significantly impact urban poor and IDP camp residents due to factors including high density living conditions (preventing social distancing and making isolation difficult), levels of risk awareness and adoption of prevention and control practices are low, access to WaSH and health care facilities are low and prevalence of existing health conditions (including malaria, diarrhoea), food insecurity and malnutrition is high, particularly at this time of year. The elderly, people with disabilities and women carers (higher exposure risk) are particularly vulnerable, with women more likely to be health workers, community mobilisers or IDPs. CAFOD will implement the project with its local implementing partner Titi Foundation. The project will be implemented in Juba city and strive to deliver safe, accessible, and dignified COVID-19 risk communications, protection services, and food security, as well as foster and enable good hygiene, and sanitation practices for the most vulnerable. The overall programme design and implementation will be guided and underpinned by accountability, protection mainstreaming, inclusive and conflict sensitive approaches. This response plan is designed in line with the revised Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) of South Sudan, developed taking COVID-19 risk into account.
Emergency WASH support to IDPs, Returnees and Vulnerable Host Communities in Renk County, South Suda Recent Needs Assessment conducted by CTP in Upper Nile State has found that predominantly open defecation is practices due to no access to latrines and few households that have access to latrines are not engaging in hand-washing after latrine use. The consequences of poor sanitation and hygiene leave children vulnerable to malnutrition and opportunistic infections like pneumonia. Communities situated along river banks, or near chronically flooded areas as Renk, rely on unsafe surface water for domestic purposes therefore exposing the community to dangers of diarrhoea and other water borne related diseases. Beyond infrastructural deficiencies, traditional beliefs, cultural practices and lack of information are seen as the highest contributing factors to poor hygiene behaviours in Renk. The main outcome of the project will be emergency latrine construction and hygiene promotion to Households affected by current armed conflict. The impact of the project will be that 700 households in the two Payams of Renk County that is, Renk and Geiger Payams of Upper Nile and 3 target schools (2000 girls and boys) will have access to sanitation facilitaties and be aware of hygiene and sanitation practices. The project will be implemented from during the dry season from Feb to April 2016. The project will work with school children, returnees, IDPs and host communities.
CTP and CDO are well placed to implement this £45,000 project as it builds on CDO experience of implementing SCIAF funded projects in Maban and Renk since 2013. CTP will provide technical support. In addition to that CDO and CTP has a good working relationship with the Parish community of Renk Parish (The Parish Pastoral Council, the health Committee and the Parish Development Committee). This is a long term relationship that goes since 1985.  We also enjoy the continuous support and collaboration from the County’s Authorities. The fact that the CDO has made a decision to relocate its main office from Kosti in the Sudan to Renk in South Sudan so that it is closer to the people it serves is in fact an added value
Step by Step-Promoting Peace, Freedom of Expression and Press Freedom in South Sudan. This project is design to facilitate citizens’ interaction and freedom to engage with their leaders and communities in the implementation of the revitalized peace agreement process and other national agendas that will promote   peace-building in South Sudan. The radio programs will be aimed to provide free platform for discussions on peace-building, democratic processes, good governance, Justice, trauma healing and reconciliation that will intend to enhance freedom of expression and press freedom in South Sudan. 
The project will build on the work of an earlier project that was funded through CTP ‘’No Peace, Without Democracy and No Democracy without Freedom of Expression in South Sudan’’. The project aims to create an enabling environment for journalists and citizens to express themselves freely. The activities will be interactive radio talk shows, community dialogues and radio dramas that will focus on the revitalized peace agreement and its supplement provided in Chapter 1, 2, 3 & 5 of ARCISS i.e. Justice, forgiveness, trauma healing and reconciliation.
Enhancing citizen’s participation in peace building at state level in Gogrial and Alek county. The prolonged war in South Sudan has denied its citizens and communities a chance to live together and enjoy peace thus continued cases of violence. 90% percent of the current South Sudanese were born in war and have never experienced peace and love, their minds are stocked with war memories and many of them are traumatized. The Gogrial west county community in Warrap has never experienced peace which makes them suffer from peace deficiency and they are not able to demonstrate peace to their neighboring communities, this has contributed to an increase of community clashes especially in the areas inhabited by Apuk and Aguok tribes.
This project is aimed to conduct activities to reduce inter-clan violence by creating awareness on the importance of women empowerment and peaceful coexistence among the communities, and creating a friendly village forum where people discuss issues related to violence which causes insecurity in the area. By the end of the project the village forum will be empowered to establish the village help desk where by violence cases will be reported and handled. The project activities will also provide the traumatized community with healing process through village public debates and drama where the community will freely discuss their differences and solutions, and as such establish a peaceful society where people live in harmony and perfect peace.
Enhancing Food security, livelihoods recovery and nutrition status for children, returning refugees, This project seeks to ameliorate the suffering of displaced persons and returnees with a focus on women and children who constitute the bulk of the displaced persons and at-risk host families. The project will provide lifesaving assistance to 1,500 (655) households who have children suffering from malnutrition and preventable communicable diseases due to poor access to safe water, hygiene, and sanitation practices.  It will strengthen the capacity for food self-sufficiency for 1,500 households (80% women headed households) as primary beneficiaries and 7,500 (3,276) individuals, as secondary beneficiaries in Owach and Nyiluak payams of Panyikang County in the former Upper Nile State. Amongst the indirect beneficiaries of food and vegetables production will be under 5-year-old children who suffer the most from high levels of malnutrition in the area. The project will reduce dependency on handouts by providing training and resources for agriculture, access to clean water, hygiene promotion and specific support for women and girls to overcome gender-based barriers and improve coping strategies. In addition, peace is indispensable to successful project implementation and hence the project will mainstream peacebuilding and promote peaceful co-existence amongst the different ethnic communities in the project area.
UNICEF In Kind Contribution to EA30/2009 South Sudan The 9 month proposed programme will provide support to the Diocese of Tombura-Yambio to deliver much needed food, non-food items, water and basic shelter for 5,000 households in 3 Counties of Western Equatoria State.

People fleeing attacks left their homes under terrifying circumstances and have arrived as IDPs with little or no resources to establish shelters go about preparing food or collecting water. Most have very little clothing which they have had to travel for days wearing and they do not have blankets, sleeping mats or any provisions to establish their temporary homes. 

This in-kind contribution from UNICEF will provide; Tarpaulin distributed to 5,000 households as a short-term shelter solution and 5,000 households will receive sufficient clothing, blankets and bedding to enable families to ensure their health, privacy and dignity and basic goods and supplies to meet personal hygiene needs, prepare and eat food, and build, maintain or repair shelters.
CAFOD Managed Implementation of ECHO funded WATSAN Emergency Response (CI EA 30-2009 Sudan) This WATSAN project in Western Equatoria State represents a proportion of a larger multi-sector humanitarian response (CI EA 30-2009 Sudan). This WATSAN component is fully funded by ECHO and will be jointly implemented by CAFOD and the Diocese of Tombura Yambio. This grant covers the CAFOD managed components of the ECHO project implementation.
Hygiene Promotion Support to CARITAS Malakal in MELUT and Manyo Counties CARITAS Malakal is a strategic partner of CAFOD in South Sudan responding to the current crisis in Upper Nile state. Phase I of the Emergency Response is in 3 villages with a population of about 7500 people i.e. about 1,500 households.  CARITAS Malakal/CAFOD is targeting these 1,500 households.  Four (4) local Water maintenance and 3 local Bio-Sand filters (BSF) technicians have been identified to support with the projects in Kashaba Torkuach and Mabek.  Two WASH Officers (Hard Ware), one incoming, and 2 Hygiene Promotion Officers’ (HPOs) have been recruited, by the Partner CARITAS Malakal, to oversee the WASH Hard programme. In Phase II of the Emergency Response, Caritas DoM is targeting about 1,600 HH (9,600 persons) in 6 locations (Noun, Dielal Ajak, Nyawutthuro, Athidwoy, Thuro and Nyilyec) in Manyo County.   CARITAS Malakal/CAFOD will be intervening in the Areas of WASH (hygiene promotion, construction of latrines and provision of chlorine water tables), provision of NFIs (shelter, cooking and WASH) and Emergency Livelihoods (unconditional Cash grants) targeting IDPs and vulnerable host community members.
Emergency food support for IDPs and promotion of peaceful coexistence between conflicting communi Long misunderstanding between two clans of Aguok and Apuk of Gogrial started since 2004 before South Sudan's referendum and independence mainly over border disputes, grazing land and water points for their animals. Despite several efforts to bring both communities into peaceful coexistence through dialogues and reconciliations, tension continued and yet worsened in the recent years claiming dozens of lives and displacing several people. An estimated 13,000 households have been displaced since the violence started with majority of the IDPs being women and children. Many people have been seen to have left without basic survival needs like food and shelter. CTP recent needs assessment conducted in July 2017 in Gogrial indicated food being the most immediate need and of course the need to bring both communities to peaceful coexistence. Since 2012, CAFOD’s sister agency in Ireland, Trócaire  has been supporting The Society of Daughters of Mary Immaculate (DMI) implementing peacebuilding programme in Gogrial and this continued after the two sister agencies merged operations in April 2015. DMI has got rich experience in the field of social work and in carrying out women empowerment and peace building programme work since it commenced its ministry at south Sudan in 2012. Since its inception in south Sudan, DMI has facilitated many programmes in the areas of education, women empowerment as well as peacebuilding. Over the years in the selected intervention areas, DMI has mobilised women folk and formed Self Help Groups at each village and initiated village level federations. DMI had series of meetings and discussion with village leaders, women leaders and village chief which has helped to understand in depth needs of the people and continued to bring the conflicting communities into peaceful coexistence. This project will therefore address the most immediate humanitarian needs of the crisis-affected population and will complement the ongoing peacebuilding work in Gogrial.
DoTY Implementation of Southern Sudan Emergency Response (CI EA 30-2009 Sudan) Non- ECHO Please refer to CI EA 30-2009 Sudan
Enhanced Press Freedom: Foundation for Good Governance The project aims to improve freedom of expression by ensuring that journalists are trained to carry out their duties in a restricted environment without compromising their safety and security. The project will also provide space for citizens to express themselves without fear of reprisal and advocate for changes in the laws that govern freedom of expression. This will be achieved through:
•	training of journalists on best practices and safety to improve the standard of reporting, 
•	ensuring that CRN are appropriately equipped to improve access to information, 
•	conducting radio programmes that promote public discussions and engage duty bearers to improve accountability
•	advocating for changes in legislation that are restrictive of the media.
This project will convene advocacy awareness-raising events to discuss the laws that are affecting freedom of expression, especially for the media. CRN, with technical assistance from CTP, will develop a Journalists Training Manual on security, safety and monitoring security situations when in the field collecting news stories in South Sudan. 
The 8 CRN stations in South Sudan will broadcast live programmes for a period of 4 months engaging the citizens in discussing topical issues affecting the communities. Debates and radio shows on freedom of expression will help citizens engage with issues and monitor follow up actions arising from their community discussions.
HIV&AIDS project Western Equatoria – Development and Peace Office, CDTY This is a 3 year project targeting the church structures at parish level in responding to the fight against HIV&AIDS with the aim of increasing personal and community risk perceptions to reduce and prevent new HIV infections as well as re-infections most especially among the most at risk populations (i.e. youths, teenagers, women, etc) in the 12 parishes in the diocese of Tombura-Yambio. The project targets over 25,000 beneficiaries, majority of who are the most at risk populations, clergy, lay leaders, PLWHAs, diocesan medical staff, and school teachers. The project major components focus on prevention through awareness campaigns, care and support initiatives, advocacy, and capacity building of the diocesan HIV team through development of systems, trainings, and surveys.
Support to Peace Initiatives in CDTY South Sudan is in a turbulent political situation marred by fratricidal hatred, war, tribal clashes, ethnic cleansing, more tension is building up leading to killings, and the end might be worst culminating in total extinction of some tribes like the case of Rwanda in 1994. Political insecurity is mushrooming in the Country; the reason attributed to this is breakdown of law, disintegration of social fabrics and loss of common values, persistent failures in system of governance and immature democracy.   The state of affairs is becoming increasingly alarming in Western Equatoria State. Violence is spreading across the whole state, people have become suspicious of each other, and mistrust is on the increase, tribes are living in fear and contempt of one another, language is shifting from friendly to bitter exchange of words signifying a war of words. Every indicator exists to tell that, all is not right. Informal groupings are beginning to emerge entertaining different ideologies. We are witnesses to this especially in the counties of Mvolo, Mundri, Maridi, Yambio and Tombura. This situation is potentially dangerous for peaceful coexistence and nation building. It requires collective efforts and goes beyond tribal, ethnic, regional and religious lines. It equally calls upon concerted efforts especially in pooling resources together to support Peace efforts.
The Diocese has been at the forefront in spearheading peace brokering, negotiations and reconciling disgruntled parties.  We have brokered peace between nomadic pastoralists and Farmers conflicting over grazing and farming land. The Diocese has intervened in peace negotiations in joint forum with Inter Church Committee in their efforts in promoting dialogue with the Lord’s Resistance Army of Joseph Kony. The Diocese has organized several peace conferences, peace sports, Youths for peace and Inter-Border Peace Congress with neighbouring countries like Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda.
Following the recent upheavals in Western Equatoria State particularly in Mvolo, Mundri, Maridi, Yambio and Tombura; Our Church has played significant role in initiating peace talks and dialogue. The crisis in Western Equatoria has created humanitarian crisis with results reaching too far as many deaths, thousands displaced, orphaned, widowed, leaving some amputated. The worst hit categories being women and children.  The Church could not fall silent but speak out on behalf and in defense of the defenceless/voiceless. 
Several successful discussions have been launched led by the Bishop of CDTY with peace as the ultimate objective. CDTY is calling for support from other partners like CTP to help strengthen the capacity of the diocese with financial support to facilitate their planned meetings with government officials, Elders, chiefs, church leaders and Inter-Church Committees for peace.
Welfare Support for Orphans in Tombura-CAFOD related costs This was created to charge CAFOD costs for the Welfare Support for Orphans in Tombura (professional fee for the CAFOD recruited site supervisor, Staff Travel costs, communication and repairs etc).
To save lives and reduce sufferings of flood affected individuals This project is to respond to floods affected people in Mangala Payam of Juba County Central Equatoria State.	Since July 2020, an estimated 1,034,000 people have been affected by floods and of those people affected, some 481,000 were estimated to have been displaced  from their homes by the floods. People were affected in locations across Unity, Upper Nile, Warrap, Western Equatoria, Central Equatoria and Northern Bahr-el-Ghazal States.  The urgent survival needs identified by IRNA include food and livelihood support, emergency shelter and non-food items (ES/NFI), and WASH, health, and protection services.   Flood response activities are considerably constrained by persistent heavy rains, infrastructure damage and reduced physical accessibility (e.g., impassable roads, flooded airstrips), insecurity and limited resources.   Core WaSH Pipeline has been reported depleted by IOM due to COVID 19. This caused difficulty to address urgent needs of flood affected people.   The South Sudan Humanitarian Response Plan is funded at some 50 per cent of the total ask of US$1.9 billion, as of 18 November 2020.   The total requirement for the current response was estimated at $81.9 million. More than $16 million has been mobilized from ECHO, DFID, and USAID in response to the floods and displacement.
Financial support for the position of General Secretary and Finance officer. The South Sudan Council of Churches (SSCC) is in the continuous process of the implementation of the Action Plan for Peace (APP) through delivery of four programme outcomes relating to Advocacy, Neutral Forum, Reconciliation and Institutional capacity strengthening. Through this church-led, nation-wide and multi-stakeholder engagement actions, SCCC envisage the realisation of a peaceful resolution of conflict and restoration of peace in South Sudan. The first phase of the action plan for peace 2016-2017 has ended and SSCC is now implementing a new phase 2018-2021 through annual funding from all its partners including CTP.
Given the peace agreement signed, the SSCC would like to scale up its operation in Bahr El Ghazal, Equatoria and Greater Upper Nile Regions. The council under capacity strengthening outcomes would like to request CTP to support the General Secretary and Finance officer (Accountant) in the secretariat. The position of the General Secretary existed before when the Action Plan for peace (APP) was launched and it manages all the functions in the SSCC Secretariat. 
This position is covered by the EU grant at only 30% leaving all the percentage for the support of SSCC secretariat whose financial support tremendously reduced due to reduction in its retained income. SSCC has also already recruited a Finance officer (Accountant) who is based at the head office. The finance officer is responsible for managing all financial records of the regions including partners and donor funds for implementation of activities in the regions and also gives support to the finance department at the head office.
Western Equatoria State Recovery, Reintegration and Sustainable Livelihoods Project This is a 5 years project for communities in Western Equatoria State.  The project will provide agricultural seeds and tools, extension services, access to markets, support to small scale businesses and value addition to locally available natural resources such as honey processing. The project will specifically target 1000 PLWHAs, 1000 small holder farmers and 1000 with livestock restocking, and non-farm related activities.  IDPs and Refugees will also directly benefit from this project. The project will generally increase agricultural yield, create access to markets and diversify livelihoods strategies for 3000 households.  An agriculture accompanier will be seconded by Caritas Austria to provide technical support during the project implementation and will work closely with Diocesan Livelihoods Programme Coordinator, field officers and extension workers.  The project will also be closely coordinated with Western Equatoria State Ministry of Agriculture, and the County and Payam authorities at the local level.