Provision of CCCM services and CCCM capacity building to hard-to-reach and recently displaced Internally Displaced People (IDPs) living outside camps and camp-like settings across South Sudan. Years of violent conflict have left millions of South Sudanese facing one of the world’s most devastating, complex and deep-rooted humanitarian crises in recent history. The compounding effect of repeated waves of violence and an increasingly fast economic decline have pushed the number of people uprooted since the start of the conflict to 4 million, with roughly 1.9 million estimated to be internally displaced. In response to the growing and shifting needs in South Sudan, and in line with the 2018/2019 CCCM Cluster Strategy of expanding CCCM activities outside PoCs and camp-like settings, ACTED will build on its experience in Camp Coordination and Camp Management in PoCs and camp-like settings across the country, to launch a CCCM Mobile Team able to 1) respond to sudden IDP emergencies and crises, thus reaching some of the 84% of internally displaced people (IDPs) living in precarious conditions, supporting them through the implementation of emergency CCCM activities and 2) train existing NNGOs and community structures operating in support of vulnerable IDPs living in collective centres, to foster their ability to carry out CCCM activities and continuously engage with such communities, reinforcing two-way communication channels and providing consistent humanitarian information to both beneficiaries and the CCCM Cluster. In a context where prioritisation is becoming ever more complex and there is a disjunct between data and response, ACTED will ensure that this response is coordinated, and that sustainability is built within through a grassroots approach focusing on community capacity building and self-management. Indeed, through the implementation of multi-sectoral rapid assessments carried out in close coordination with the CCCM Cluster and Partners across South Sudan, ACTED will be able to promptly identify highly vulnerable IDPs settled in hard-to-reach areas and with limited – if not absent – humanitarian support, their main needs and priorities, therefore informing a coordinated humanitarian response. Furthermore, by conducting CCCM capacity building trainings focusing on camp management, humanitarian principles and protection, targeted communities will be provided with the necessary tools to implement self-managed CCCM activities. Particular attention will be given to the development of Protection and PSEA trainings and policies, which will enable communities and newly-trained CCCM staff to implement protection policies and to cascade them to beneficiaries, with the aim of reducing protection risks within IDPs settlements.
To identify target locations, ACTED will coordinate with the CCCM Cluster and partners, establishing what areas will be prioritised while avoiding duplication of interventions. Following discussions at Cluster level, and based on data collected across the country by ACTED, its sister organisation REACH and other official data available, ACTED expects to carry out at least three emergency response interventions throughout the project implementation period, along with targeting at least one NNGO operating in collective centres.