Effective provision of life-sustaining Non-food items and life-saving emergency shelter materials through mobile response to the most vulnerable displaced communities across South Sudan PAH will focus on providing life-saving and life-sustaining Emergency Shelter and Non-Food Items to the most vulnerable newly displaced conflict-affected and returnees in Uror, Nyirol, Duk, Akobo, Magwi, Ikotos, Yambio, Panyijar, Mayendit, Koch, Leer, Kajo-keji, Fangak, Torit, Mundri West and Yei counties, South Sudan, targeting 20,000 beneficiaries (Men, Women, Boys and Girls) displaced due to the ongoing conflict and for returnees to the areas. The emergency shelter and NFIs intervention will save and sustain lives and reduce suffering in the affected communities. PAH’s intervention will be part of an integrated response with other actors, where PAH will provide shelter and NFI’s, and other partners will provide food assistance, livelihoods, health, WASH and nutrition to support and rebuild dignified lives in the face of displacement and need for safety. 

The frontline activities will be implemented by the PAH Mobile Response Team (ERT) comprised of experienced ES/NFIs and protection staff with 3 teams of 3 staff each (1 male, 1 female and 1 protection officer). 2 protection officers in addition to the current 6 ES/NFIs staffs, supervised by a Project Coordinator and supported by an ES/NFIs Response Manager. For PAH to rapidly conduct responses, the three teams are deployable to three locations at once. The mobile team will implement the following project activities, conducting detailed needs assessments, verification/registration of beneficiaries, preparing and conducting distributions with demonstration on the use of items distributed such as mosquito nets and proper use of shelter materials, PAH will critically focus on mainstreaming protection issues at all stages of the intervention. PAH has 5 MEAL Officers and an MEAL Coordinator who will independently conduct all post distribution monitoring and share the outcomes with the mobile team and cluster partners at state and national level.

PAH’s will focus on ensuring that the most sensitive groups (e.g. persons with disabilities, pregnant and lactating women, and unaccompanied elders/minors) in the community will be served appropriately to their needs and in the manner that does not expose them to additional stress and harm. The safety, security and protection needs of the targeted communities will be given particular attention in planning assessments, focus group discussions, verifications/registration, distribution and post distribution monitoring, including in designing and implementing a complaints response mechanism and each data logged at the MEAL department for each intervention. 

In case of access constrains resulting from insecurity and beneficiaries have been trapped with no support for NFIs in the locations prioritized, PAH will recommend survival kits distribution working with the local authorities and partners on the ground. In most of the targeted locations, PAH will work closely with WASH partners (mainly the PAH WASH mobile team) to ensure that WASH, Emergency Shelter and NFIs needs are coordinated as they will be targeting the same beneficiaries. PAH may also provide added capacity for any form of distributions for other health, FSL and nutrition partners on the ground if they have less capacity and the PAH ES-NFI team will be on the ground. 

PAH mobile responses will be coordinate with the ES-NFI cluster at national and state/site levels in order to ensure that PAH is responding to the priority needs and gaps in prioritized areas, and any other locations as may be requested by the ICWG coordination team and the State and Site Focal Points. Assessment, registration/verification, distribution/intervention and post-distribution monitoring reports will be shared with the site, state, cluster coordinators and cluster partners.