Provision of Emergency shelter and Non Food Item to Returnees and conflict affected Population in South Sudan Through the provision of Emergency Shelter and Non Food Items (ES/NFI), World Vision South Sudan (WVSS) seeks to protect and save lives of the returnees and conflict displaced individuals within the country. The project is designed to run from April 2018 to October 2018 (7 Months), targeting Upper Nile (Maiwut and Ulang), Jonglei (Akobo and Nyirol), Unity (Koch and Mayendit) and Western Equatoria (Yambio). WVSS will utilize the ES/NFI from the core-pipeline managed by IOM on behalf of the ES/NFI Cluster through both the mobile and static ES/NFI teams. A combination of both the RRM and static presence enables the speed and agility required to effectively respond to the needs of the returnees and the conflict displaced individuals with lifesaving Shelter and Non Food Items.

The proposed project will target 26,500 returnees and IDPs (approximately 5300 households), comprising of 7,685 men, 7,420 women and 11,395 children affected by the conflict. 80 percent (21,200) of these will be the conflict displaced people, while the remaining 20 percent (5,300) will be the returnees who were displaced as the result of the armed conflicts within the country. The returnees are anticipated mainly in the Greater Equatoria region. 

To better serve the affected populations with lifesaving assistance, WVSS will continue to be part of the humanitarian responses with immediate multi-cluster, multi- agency response. This will ensure that the needs of the affected populations are served in a more holistic manner and in the shortest possible time. Through this project, WVSS will continue participating in the Inter agency Rapid Needs Assessments (IRNA) to determine the lifesaving needs of the affected populations. For the responses that do not require the multi cluster and multi-agency response, WVSS will use its experienced staff to conduct the ES-NFI specific assessments to facilitate the identification of affected IDPs, returnees and other vulnerable groups (women, children, elderly, People Living with Disability). These will be followed by verification and registration exercises once assessment reports are approved by the cluster, after which distributions will be conducted by our mobile team in hard to reach locations while in locations where WVSS has presence, the static teams in those locations will conduct the distributions. WVSS will also continue partnering with National NGOs e.g. South Sudan Development Agency and Africa Development Agency and others newly joining the ES/NFI cluster, as part of its capacity building and collaborative efforts towards greater impact. 

The Quality Assurance Unit within WVSS will carry out Post Distribution Monitoring (PDM) to determine among other issues, the level of satisfaction and usage of S/NFIs distributed. This will complement the Onsite Distribution Monitoring (OSDM) exercise that WVSS deploys at various stages of the response cycle. Through all the cycle of the project implementations (assessment, verification, registration, distribution and PDMs) WVSS will ensure that accountability to the affected populations is visible at all levels. All relevant project information will be shared with the affected populations. They will also be part of the project from inception to ensure they have an understanding of the project objective, goal, criteria, and the feedback mechanisms as well as share any concerns they might have. This will ensure that quality humanitarian assistance is given to the targeted affected populations. WVSS, through its internal capacity in protection and gender based violence, will seek to main stream the protection and GBV through this project.