Provision of critical child protection in emergencies services in Panyijiar County (greater Nyal and Greater Ganyiel, Unity State Despite the formation of the Transitional Government of National Unity (TGoNU) in April 2016, violence continued in multiple locations, while the economic situation deteriorated, causing humanitarian needs to intensify and increase, including in locations previously considered relatively stable in the Greater Bahr El Ghazal and Greater Equatoria regions.  The eruption of conflict on 8th July 2016 in Juba left many displaced some who are in Protection of civilian and other within host community.  Though ceasefire was announced after four days of fighting, there has been continued fighting which spilled over to Leer and Mayendit counties displacing communities and injuring many more civilians.  With the current fighting in Leer and Mayendit North, community have moved to Island - Kok, among others, Child protection team in Nyal has reported cases of IDPs women and children  arriving in  Panyijiar - Nyal which is relatively calm.  During displacement, families separate, children boys and girls are greatly affected psychologically as they are displaced and flee for safety.  Children are separated from their families as they flee to safer places. With the disruption of the routine activities, change of environment, dropping out of school and missing out on friends, causes distress among children boys and girls that need to be addressed by providing psycho social support through creative structured age and sex appropriate  activities giving a chance to children both boys and girls to rebuild, reconnect and cope positively. Separated and Unaccompanied children, UNIDO will endeavour to work and coordinate with other actors to trace families and facilitate the reunification.  UNIDO in collaboration with community leaders will identify, arrange and support temporary fosters families for identified unaccompanied children as tracing is initiated. Lifesaving messages will be passed to communities in Panyijiar to prevent further separation and good parenting.  Communities in Panyijair will be sensitized on child rights, child protection,  exploded Ordinance of war, prevention of separation and psychosomatic support through public awareness session during community meetings, church services and targeted community discussion ( focused group discussion). 

 This project aim at delivering critical child protection in emergency services including Family Tracing and Reunification (FTR) package according to child protection minimum standard, providing psychosocial support to conflict affected children, advocacy and awareness creation of child rights, unexploded ordinances of war AXO, and building and strengthen community based network to respond to child right violence in Panyijiar – greater Nyal and Ganyiel.
The total caseload of 749 cases of separated and unaccompanied children in Panyijiar County identified and documented by UNIDO in greater Nyal and IRC in greater Ganyiel that still need attention, providing temporary care monitoring at least once a month and  coordinating with other actors to scale up in family tracing and reunification rate.   With the volatile situation in southern Unity, UNIDO anticipate the increase in documentation of unaccompanied and separated children targeting 250 more additional to already documented 749 cases.The child protection intervention will cover whole panyijiar ( greater Nyal and greater Ganyiel payams)