Maban Refugee Crisis Response In September 2011 fighting erupted between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Movement- North (SPLM-N) in Blue Nile State, Sudan.  Since then, around 120,000 refugees fled into Maban County in South Sudan’s Upper Nile State, citing fighting and bombing as their reason for flight.  On arrival, refugees are generally exhausted, hungry and dehydrated from having travelled on foot for several weeks, without access to proper food and having had to drink untreated water from open sources.  Four camps (Doro, Jamam, Yusuf Batil and Gendrassa) have been established where humanitarian actors provide material assistance and basic services.  
The host community of Maban was already severely stressed as a result of the influx of returnees, which had nearly doubled the population of Maban from 50,316 in 2008 to over 95,000 in 2012.  Provision of basic services is poor, with inadequate access to clean and reliable water sources.  Agricultural production is sub-optimal due to a lack of access to farming inputs and basic farming practices.  As the already limited focus of attention has turned to refugee camps and even more vulnerable people compete for extremely limited resources, tensions between hosts, returnees and refugees are mounting.
The project will contribute to enabling refugee and host communities in Maban to live together safely, sustainably, harmoniously and with dignity.  This will be achieved firstly through the development of livelihoods opportunities for refugee and host communities, and secondly through improving hygiene awareness and practises in the host communities of Yusuf Batil,Gendrassa and other villages in Bunj Payam.  As a result, in both communities, food security will be enhanced, quality of life improved and nascent tensions reduced.  In host communities health status will be improved and incidences of diarrhoeal, malaria and hygiene related diseases reduced.  Due to limited partner capacity and logistical constraints CAFOD will take lead in implementing the programme activities with a clear and strategic plan to hand over management responsibility to national church partners as appropriate.
To achieve the first purpose of the project, the development of livelihoods opportunities, the project will initiate six sets of activities including establishing kitchen gardens, agricultural support, vocational training and business start-up support, cash for work programmes, introduction of fuel efficient stoves and reforestation.
In order to improve hygiene awareness in the host communities, the proposed project will train and support ten community mobilisers from the host community as well as providing soap and mosquito nets for target households.    
In total, the project intends to provide assistance to 3,800 vulnerable households represented by an individual programme participant. In supporting refugees the programme will support 2,550 refugee households from Yusuf Batil Camp, which has a total population of 34,112 individuals in 7,103 households, with an average of five persons in each household.  In supporting the host community, 1,250 households, each with an average of six persons per household will be targeted. Direct beneficiaries targeted by the project

Activities	                               Refugee    Host Community HHs 
Home gardens		1,200	600
Agricultural assistance	-	600
Vocational Training	                50             50
Cash for Work	                300           300
Fuel efficient stoves	               1,000            -
Reforestation                              -              600
Public Health Promotion	-	600
Total direct beneficiary hhs	2,550	1,250*
*Note that a total of 1,250 different host community households will receive assistance, some households may benefit from more than one type of activity.
A total of 21,894 indirect beneficiaries are also likely to benefit from the project, as follows:
2,550 refugee households, composed of five members each, 12,750 individuals
1,524 host community households composed of six members each, 9,144 individuals.  The project will target 1250 out of 1,524 host community households though it is assumed effects will be felt throughout the whole community through disease reduction etc.