Emergency Shelter and NFI support to vulnerable conflict-affected internally displaced communities in Mayendit, Koch and Leer counties, South Sudan PAH will provide life-saving ES-NFIs to the most vulnerable newly displaced conflict-affected communities in Mayendit, Koch and Leer counties, South Sudan, targeting 38,000 beneficiaries displaced due to the ongoing conflict in these areas. The emergency shelter and NFI intervention is meant to save lives and reduce the suffering of the communities targeted. This will be done through supporting people who will mostly already be receiving a multiplicity of other assistance such food assistance, FSL, health, WASH and nutrition to assist them live dignified lives and also re-build their lives in the face the famine and emergency food insecurity affecting the areas where they are seeking temporary shelter. 

The activities will be conducted by the PAH Emergency Response Team (ERT) comprised of ES/NFIs specialists with 3 teams of 2 staff each (1 male and 1 female staff) supervised by a Project Coordinator. In order to successfully and rapidly conduct responses, the three teams are deployable to three locations at once. The team will implement the project activities by conducting needs assessments, verification/registrations, preparing and carrying out distributions with demonstration on the use of items distributed e.g. mosquito nets and proper use of plastic sheets. 4 PAH MampE Officers and the MampE Coordinator will independently conduct all PDM surveys and share the outcomes with the team and cluster partners. PAH will involve the beneficiaries at all the stages of the intervention cycle to provide a response best suited for the needs of the particular communities served, taking into account vulnerabilities of each represented group: men, women, boys and girls.

Strong focus will be 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 not exposing 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/registrations, distributions and pot-distribution monitoring, including in designing and implementing a complaints response mechanism for each intervention. 

Due to the insecurity in other locations, PAH can recommend survival kits for distribution working with the local authorities and partners on the ground. In most of the targeted locations, PAH will work closely with WASH partners (including the PAH EP and R team) to ensure that the WASH and Emergency Shelter and NFIs are coordinated as they will be targeting the same beneficiaries (Currently, the locations where survival kits will be recommended are not known, the same with the number of beneficiaries that will be targeted for survival kits. These locations and the number of beneficiaries will only be known after an assessment and registration is done depending on the context on the ground when the programme starts). 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.

The response will be coordinated with the S-NFI cluster at national and state levels in order to ensure that PAH is answering to the priority needs and gaps in response capacity in the four focal areas, and any other locations as may be highlighted by the cluster 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. This will enhance the efficient use of cluster capacity, ensure gaps are effectively filled, needs addressed and lessons are shared to improve future interventions and to contribute towards the revision of the ES-NFI implementation strategy.