Support Humanitarian Services by Promoting Public Recognition and Local Feedback Mechanism in Nasir, Maiwut, and Ulang Counties The project will support community engagement, communication, and the work of other humanitarian actors to address challenges encountered during the course of delivering humanitarian assistance. Maiwut, Ulang, and Nasir is proposed for this project. The main aim of this intervention is to scale up community communication and engagement in the above locations. The project will engage local authorities, NGOs working in the earmarked project locations, and the host communities to mutually engage on quality, timeliness, and sufficiency of support to most in-need communities or vulnerable persons. In achieving this, UNKEA will
- Put in place or strengthen existing feedback mechanisms at payam and county levels in each of the three proposed counties. Committees of 6 persons representing youth, women, chiefs, local authorities, religious leaders, and other beneficiary categories will be established in 12 payams spread in 4 counties. Members of the payam committees will select county-level committee members.
- Initiate dialogue between local authorities, committees, and the different humanitarian actors in the respective locations. UNKEA will facilitate initial interface meetings while established committees will facilitate subsequent meetings.
- Provide training and capacity building to the different committees on their facilitatory role towards delivery of humanitarian assistance.
- Facilitate training of local authorities and administrators in the different sectors in at county level to strengthen their coordination role for all forms of assistance to the marginalized communities.
- Support multi sectoral synergy through assessments that provide clear justification for interventions and resource allocations
Beneficiaries will be drawn from host communities, IDPs, retrunees, staff of aid agencies, and local officials/authorities. UNKEA's has facilitated dialgues in the past with considerable knowledge on facilitating sessions that enable fruitful outcomes. The anticipated outcomes is intended to guide future and immediate decisions that improve quality of service provided to the people in need.

The rationale behind the above strategy is to ensure buy-in by the key stakeholders and for long term sustainability of the intervention – beyond the project life cycle. The will strengthen community recognition of humanitarian work, and commitment to upholding the safety and security of aid workers, including by providing a feedback mechanism platform that is relevant, feasible and sustainable for both humanitarian actors and the local community. This will enable the community to voice their opinions, as well as to better appreciate and understand the impact of humanitarian support to their wellbeing and actions that affect humanitarian response activities. It is anticipated that the project will promote mutual respect between the community and aid workers and helping to increase partners’ confidence and a safe environment for the provision of humanitarian services. A total of 30,000 beneficiaries mostly from host communities amp local leaders will be targeted of which (14,700 Male amp 15,300 female) as beneficiaries.