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Step by Step - Promoting freedom of Expression and Press freedom in South Sudan. This project seeks to provide a free platform for South Sudanese citizens’ engagement in the peace process especially on the High Level Revitalization Forum (HLRF) and the Agreement on Resolution of Conflict as whole and other issues that pertain to peace building, democracy, good governance, 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-FCO on ‘’Strengthening Peace, Democracy and Freedom of Expression in South Sudan’’. The project aims to create an enabling environment for journalists and citizens to express themselves freely. The project will continue with radio talk shows and dialogues that will focus on freedom of expression, peace building, trauma healing and reconciliation and the justice process. The activities shall be radio talk shows, dialogues, panel discussions, Vox Pops and public service announcements.
Emergency Response Project for Tonj North and South (CAFOD Famine Appeal) The CAFOD Appeal funded project will Provide timely, safe, dignified, and accountable humanitarian assistance. The area is affected by intercommunal conflicts causing displacements and as a result, hunger as communities are not stable to farm their land and produce their own food.  In addition, the displacement has caused trauma and stress among women, children and elderly which was initially related to property left back, lack of food and poor sleeping and living conditions. The population displaced are  deprived of their food, livestock, NFIs and their living conditions have deteriorated which counts to  more than 18,000 internal displaced persons (IDPs) are  temporarily hosted at Mayom biong Primary school, Church and some hosted by their relatives of Gogrial East County. The overall psychological wellbeing of IDPs and host communities is affected due to this calamities.
Community Care and Empowerment to marginalised Women and Girls This project will be implemented in Alek North, Alek South, Gogrial Town, Kuac North and Kuac South (former Gogrial west county), Manyang, Riang Alek/Matiel (Gogrial East) is expected to start in January 2020 to March 2021 (run for 15 months) building on the previous community Care and women empowerment project aimed to address livelihood through economic empowerment of vulnerable women, community care to transform lives and preventing violence. 
TOCH plan to use a right based approach through building capacities of community leaders and vulnerable groups (women, girls and diverse groups) to identify marginalising cultural norms and bring into the public domain rather than allowing it to remain surrounded by shame and secrecy because of social norms that create silence, and help communities identify, promote gender-equitable and non-violent expectations and behaviours that are protective against violence.
TOCH will work with the already existing community structures among which are the women peace networks (WPN) and any other structures at payam and boma levels. However to get into these existing structures, work directly with the county and state line ministries for purposes of sustainability even when the intervention’s direct support comes to an end will be promoted during the project period. The state ministries among which are the Gender ministry will play the guiding role as we go along with the different project activities.
Project Efficiency and Community Needs Assessment at the grassroots In former Warrap State where CTP partner (TOCH) is implementing a peace building and access to justice project is a hot spot to conflict. CTP Governance and Peace Building Programme is planning to conduct a community needs assessment in Gogrial West county to understand the drivers, actors and the affected groups by conflict in the community and device a way on how to resolve those conflicts. Also CTP is planning to do partner project reviews to  evaluate the progress, challenges, opportunities and make decisions on which partners they should continue to work with based on the findings. 

Governance and Peace Building Programme had planned support visit and accompaniment to partners in the field. The support visit to partners is meant for project efficiency check, working together with partners and get solutions to issues affecting partners.
Provision of Emergency WASH and ES/NFIs and Multi-purpose cash assistance to vulnerable in Renk By end of April 2023, around 10,000 refugees had entered South Sudan from Sudan, fleeing an internal fighting between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary forces (RSF - Rapid Support Forces). According to IOM/Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) and UNHCR figures, since the fighting erupted in Sudan on 15 April, people started arriving in South Sudan in small groups. As of 24 April, IOM/DTM and UNHCR teams have recorded nearly 4,000 individuals arriving from various neighbourhoods in Sudan to South Sudan through Renk (Upper Nile). The figure continues to rise daily, and as of 10th May, is approaching 50,000.
The target population are mostly women and children coming to South Sudan with nothing; having left everything behind.  “They need water, as access to it is difficult especially at the border.  They need shelters, as people are sleeping under trees. They also require infrastructures for potable water and latrines to avoid diseases, such as cholera,” – Source: County Commissioner, Renk County. 
Humanitarian teams in Renk and partner organisations are verifying the numbers, said to be increasing by 600 – 700 persons daily. Agencies, including ADA are working on the most critical criteria for determining vulnerabilities, as they observe more arrivals of vulnerable people, including women and children travelling alone. 
The new arrivals are in dire need of food. Based on local observation, a cash intervention would address the multiplicity of needs that includes food, personal effects, shelter, medicine and communication.  A cash intervention is viable, based on the Market Assessment conducted by NRC in Renk.  The market is reasonably functional, with good access to Renk and commodities being supplied from both Sudan and South Sudan. Cash interventions would boost the local economy, allowing traders to continue supply essential goods to the affected populations.
Supporting Farmers Livelihoods through collective organizations in selected localities in Gogrial This project is funded by AFD through Secure Catholique to support famers’ livelihoods through collective organization, improving resilience and food security of vulnerable households targeted, the project will focus on forming and strengthening existing self-help and informal farmer groups, into farmer associations (FAs). FAs will be capacitated to function as democratic structures acting to empower members through collective organizing and engagement with markets. FA’s are an entry point for integrated support delivered by the project. Support for FAs will strengthen food security, resilient livelihoods and coping capacities of members (particularly focusing on women-80% of FA members) increasing access to micro-finance, psychosocial support and GBV service provision. Addressing drivers and communities resilience to conflict and environmental shocks is crucial to supporting an enabling environment for FAs, as well as the broader community. FA members will participate in activities lead by peace and DRR committees supported by the project.  To improve farm productivity and production, seed sovereignty, reduce post-harvest loss and increase their household’s food security FA members participate in tool and seed fairs, receiving locally adapted varieties of seed and training on applying principles and practices in agroecology. Food security is the essential foundation  for building resilience and improving agri-based livelihoods.
Partner Strategic Support. Funding set aside for capacity strengthening support for partner staff on Partner Safeguarding Profile process, including successful partner assessment, completion of the profile and execution of follow up actions.
Caritas Norway Multi sectoral emergency response in Gogrial East & West, Warrap State. This is a 3rd of the 4 years Caritas Norway funded project.  The project is designed to target highly vulnerable households and individuals including poor female headed households, households with persons living with disability, those with low income, and the most food insecure with malnourished children in Gogrial East & West of Warrap State. Women and youths will be at the center of this project.  Targeting will be based on humanitarian principles of humanity and impartiality to save lives and alleviate suffering with aid being provided based on need, in proportion to identified needs. To achieve this, the CTP protection and safeguarding framework will be used which considers safety, meaningful access, dignity and inclusivity.  A participatory and consultative approach will be used to agree targeting criteria that ensures the most vulnerable individuals/households are identified and benefit from this support, building on the methodology used in previous CTP interventions. The project will target at least 10 percent of the beneficiaries based on the membership of person living with disabilities. After setting out the criteria, women groups containing 5 members each are established as targeting committees (3 from host, 2 from IDP HHs) in different locations. These committees will identify and present a list of potential beneficiaries who meet the criteria. Following this, mass verification and validation will be conducted. The final list will be presented and posted at community level for further verification as well as to give an opportunity for residents to raise any grievances which will be handled in accordance with locally established complaints handling mechanisms. The process promotes active participation, inclusiveness and ownership of the project by the community.
Providing technical support to TOCH (Yirol East and West) team on community grassroots peacebuilding CTP and Peace Canal has had several discussions on developing a collaborative approach with its implementing partners in Yirol East and West. Peace Canal will work with TOCH in peacebuilding approaches at the community grassroot levels drawing from their lessons learnt and experiences. This proposal is designed to enable Peace Canal to share their peacebuilding approaches, lessons learned and experiences engaging the communities of Gawaar, Lou, Dinka Bor, Dinka Agar and Murle for the last two years. Through this project, Peace Canal will provide technical support to TOCH team in Yirol East and West, to enable them to mainstream peace building in livelihoods and recovery projects and apply the emergency, peace building and development nexus approach.
Emergency Response to the COVID-19 Epidemic in Western Bahr el Ghazal On April 5th 2020, South Sudan confirmed its first COVID-19 case within its borders. The announcement did not come as a surprise for the humanitarian community as the country was one of the last ones in Africa to not report any cases despite the fact that the number of cases at its borders has been consistently increasing over the last few weeks. Although the announcement of an additional case in South Sudan on April 7th cannot be interpreted as a sign of large spread of the disease, it surely isn’t a positive indicator for the South Sudanese population. Indeed, if the two confirmed cases are both employees of the same international organisation in Juba, official sources declared they did not have contact between each other thus indicating there are other cases undetected. More importantly, uncertainty remains high on the actual caseload of contaminated individuals as only very few number of tests, around thirty, have been conducted since the beginning of the crisis, underlying the lack of capacity of the health sector to face such outbreak.

Should COVID-19 spread across the country, as it will unfortunately most likely be the case, there is no doubt that the health system will not be able to respond effectively as the health facilities coverage is particularly weak due to inadequate human resources, funding and essential commodities. As detailed in the START FUND alert raised on April 6th, only approximately 1,000 health facilities providing healthcare services are functional while only two ventilators are available in the whole country (although essential equipment in case of respiratory complications due to COVID-19). As South Sudan is already facing a worrying humanitarian situation with almost half of all counties having a convergence of high needs related to food insecurity, protection, and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), thorough preparedness is an essential mean to limit the epidemic spread and impact.
Multisector emergency response for IDP, returnee and host communities in Kajo-Keji, CES With funding from CGF, this project will be implemented in the 3 Payams Kangapo 1, Lire  and Nyepo Payam of Kajo-Keji County, CES following recent CTP needs assessment conducted in the Kajo-Keji. The proposed activities will include provision farm inputs (seeds and tools) to most vulnerable households. Establishment of demo plots for practical demonstrations.    Farmers will be formed into groups of 20 members for easy provision of extension support and to share experience/ideas. 3 extension agents (seconded from County Agriculture Department) and 6 Agriculture Extension Workers (recruited locally from community) will be trained and deployed to support farmers. WASH activities will focus on rehabilitation of critical boreholes in high priority areas informed by malnutrition and diarrhoea data collected from health facilities. To ensure sustainability, functional fully equipped community-based committees will be established to oversee operations and maintenance of the water supply system. Hygiene promotion will be a key focus and CAFOD will work through community-based hygiene promoter (3 hygiene promoters will be seconded from the CWD and 6 HPVs will recruited at community level to carry out awareness raising campaigns in schools, health facilities, marketplaces and other public places to change bad hygiene practices amongst the community to reduce incidences of diarrhoea and other WASH related diseases. Hygiene promotion will be supplemented with provision of WASH NFIs to most vulnerable households. Accountability of affected population is central to our work. Also, a robust functional complaint and response handling mechanism is in place which offer programme participants opportunity to express their views and their feedback fed to programme on real time to shape the direction of our programme. CAFOD will continue to facilitate community consultation meetings to ensure active community participation, transparency and handling community feedback.
Multi-Sector Response for IDPs and Vulnerable Host Communities in Yirol East, Lakes State. This project will be implemented in Yirol East, following on from previous work in the area which CTP implemented successfully with consortium of 3 organisations (DMI, TOCH and CDOR). Just to highlight in Phase VII, Caritas Diocese of Rumbek implemented Livelihoods and WASH components of the project, PSS by TOCH and DMI established VSLA aimed to promote savings and loans lending to support women’s groups establish small-scale business enterprises to increase income levels. This grant will be utilised to build on the previous DMI work in Yirol East. The existing groups will be strengthened and new groups will be established. The overall objective of this holistic approach is to transition communities into more resilient community. DMI will also facilitate the various women's groups at boma and/or Payam to coalesced to form women's group network or federation at county and state level for women to voice their concerns.
Provision of integrated multi-sector support to people affected by food insecurity in Greater Tonj This type 2 project is raised to support the implementation of project SSD268 (UNOCH-SSHF).  Protracted crises exposed the people of Greater Tonj to recurrent inter-communal violence, displacement-induced food insecurity and loss of livelihood assets eroding peoples coping capacity, ability to recover and withstand future shocks. Humanitarian assistance is urgently required to alleviate extreme suffering, save lives and reduce morbidity. 
The proposed activities are designed to achieve the strategic objectives of the HRP 2021: 1) reduce morbidity and mortality, protection threats and incidents for the most vulnerable populations in severity levels 4 and 5. 2) ensure safe, equitable and dignified access to critical cross sectoral basic services to enable populations meet their basic needs in locations of severity level 4 and 5; 3) Enable vulnerable people to recover from crisis, seek solutions to displacement in respect of their rights, and build resilience to shocks and stresses.
The proposed project will target 42,897 of the most vulnerable IDPs (50%) and host households (50%). 42,897 households, (19,461 HHs in Tonj North; 8,833 HHs in Tonj South; and 14,693 in Tonj East) in IPC 4 and 5 individuals identified by the FSL cluster, across 21 payams will receive integrated multi-sector support in FSL. Protection activities will reach 8,125 beneficiaries in Tonj North and Tonj East including 6,000 receiving Psycho-social support accessing WGFSs and 4,000 receiving dignity kits.
The project will be implemented by CAFOD and Trocaire in Partnership (CTP) with it’s local partner TOCH.
Multi sectoral emergency response in Gogrial. This project is designed to target highly vulnerable households and individuals including poor female headed households, households with persons living with disability, those with low income, and the most food insecure with malnourished children in Gogrial. Women and youths will be at the centre of this project.  Targeting will be based on humanitarian principles of humanity and impartiality to save lives and alleviate suffering with aid being provided based on need, in proportion to identified needs. To achieve this, the CTP protection and safeguarding framework will be used which considers safety, meaningful access, dignity and inclusivity.  A participatory and consultative approach will be used to agree targeting criteria that ensures the most vulnerable individuals/households are identified and benefit from this support, building on the methodology used in previous CTP interventions. The project will target at least 10 percent of the beneficiaries based on the membership of person living with disabilities. 
After setting out the criteria, women groups containing 5 members are established as targeting committees (3 from host, 2 from IDP HHs) in different locations. These committees will identify and present a list of potential beneficiaries who meet the criteria. Following this, mass verification and validation will be conducted. The final list will be presented and posted at community level for further verification as well as to give an opportunity for residents to raise any grievances which will be handled in accordance with locally established complaints handling mechanisms. The process promotes active participation, inclusiveness and ownership of the project by the community.
EA 15/2011  - South Sudan: Access to Basic services for Returnees, IDPs and other vulnerable populat The aim of the project will be twofold: responding to the needs of the vulnerable population in the 2 diocese within South Sudan and capacity building of the local diocesan partners (Caritas Yei & Juba). The activities will deal with the emergency needs and improving access to basic services targeting vulnerable communities and households in all areas of operations; The activities to implemented are;
•	Emergency preparedness and response 
•	Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion
•	Shelter and Non-Food Items
•	Food Security ( Food aid distribution)
•	Capacity building(CMDRR)
 
The project will put emphasis on local ownership and responsibility for the program delivery with local diocesan partners. From the previous appeal EA12/2010; it was noted that the scope of assistance has to be wider than just emergency response; the focus needs to be on implementing activities that will create a positive and lasting change in the lives of beneficiaries. 

The direct beneficiaries of the project will be the staff working in the 2 Dioceses in South Sudan (Caritas Yei and Juba) and CAFOD personnel coordinating and managing the appeal .Potentially up to 15,000 direct beneficiaries will be targeted in the 2 diocese beside in direct beneficiaries within the Communities in the targeted dioceses that will also benefit through participation in emergency preparedness, response, recovery & rehabilitation activities. The project will be managed by Caritas Yei, Juba and CAFOD. CAFOD will participate in the programme steering committee alongside CRS and Caritas South Sudan, and will “twin” with 3 dioceses to facilitate appeal activities at diocesan and community level: Yei Juba and Tombura-Yambio.

This contribution to the overall project will target the salaries for staff implementing activities in Yei and Juba diocese activities included are WASH, NFIs and food distribution and emergency preparedness and response training with emphasis in CMDRR.
Institutional Support for Caritas Diocese of Malakal This project is raised to approve £9,999.00 for refurbishment of Palica offices in Malakal.   The offices in the mean time will be used by the South Sudan Council of Churches (SSCC) for its peace building programme, AFP (Action for Peace in South Sudan, but in the medium to long term will be handover to the Diocese of Malakal.
Caritas Diocese of Malakal was one of the worse affected dioceses in South Sudan by the conflict that erupted in Juba in December 2013, and quickly spread to greater Upper Nile.  The capture and re-capture of Malakal town by the two worrying parties which happened more than once left the whole infrastructures in the town including Church buildings destroyed.
As a result, the clergy as well as Caritas Diocese of Malakal were left with no choice but to relocate to Juba.  Upto this point in time there is no presence of Caritas Diocese of Malakal in Malakal town.  With situation a bit calming down and with concerted efforts by IGAD and Troika as reflected by the current peace negotiations in Addis Ababa, there are hopes that peace will again return to Malakal.
Emergency Response to the Returnees Crisis in Upper Nile State It is very important to intervene now because, as the emergency continues, people who fled the conflict in Sudan have lost all belongings and require basic human needs in order to survive, among which are food, shelter and to support resettle them once the returnees reach their home areas, for instance Fashoda county. 

The overall objective of this project is to provide lifesaving assistance to the returnees and help them in South Sudan in a dignified way, with their basic humanitarian needs of food, and emergency seeds. CDoM have been supporting the emergency response to returnees from Sudan since the outset of the crisis in April 2023. They have been coordinating with the Cluster response mechanism and IOM, providing transport via boat for onward movement, emergency shelter NFIs and food assistance throughout 2023. Through coordination with the agencies active in the response, CDoM have continued to monitor needs and gaps in the response. A rapid needs assessment was conducted by Caritas Malakal at Malakal transit camp, in Fashoda-Kodok and Wadakona prior to planning for this emergency humanitarian response, where the beneficiaries had the lead in indicating their priority needs.