Effective provision of basic life-saving NFIs and Emergency Shelter materials to most vulnerable flood - affected population through In -kind modality to vulnerable communities in Juba (Mangalla) and Awerial counties, south Sudan. Under this project, Polish Humanitarian Action (PAH) will provide life-saving emergency shelter materials and life-sustaining non-food items to the most vulnerable populations, focusing on floods –affected internally displaced persons, HC and returnees in Juba County, Central Equatoria state  and Awerial county of Lakes state and other priority locations in South Sudan, through mobile response modality lasting up to 6 months which will contribute to the reduction of protection risks and reduce exposure to diseases attributed with poor shelter conditions and lack of non-food items. The Project will support the existing coping mechanisms of the local community. Builds resilience towards other shocks, that have indirect effect (such as the worsening economic situation). Mobile modality will be supported with community awareness on Covid-19 to reduce health and protection risks to women and girls during distribution. Environmental awareness campaigns will also be done including HLP issues.
PAH will conduct in-depth need analysis, verification and distribution with the involvement of protection staff and the participation of the target populations through consultative community meetings, key informant interviews, focus group discussions with men, women, boys and girls, household level and individual interviews, and direct observations conducted by the assessment teams at household level to identify the needs of affected gender, age and diversity groups, the vulnerabilities of the targeted community and coping strategies employed by the affected population. The activities will be planned and implemented jointly with Nutrition, FSL,WASH, Health and S/NFI actors working in Juba and Awerial. PAH will target 42,500 beneficiaries (17,000 IDPs, 14,875 HC and 10,625 returnees 6,800 men,7,650 women, 13,600 boys, 14,450 girls) focusing on female headed households, unaccompanied elderly, people with no links to the community, separated children, women at risk (pregnant and lactating mothers), child-headed households, people living with disability and returnees whose properties were damaged and looted during the conflict.
PAH plans 5 interventions - 3 in Awerial and 2 in Juba. In case of needs reaised in other locations, after cluster recommendation and UN OCHA accept PAH is ready to intervene in other locations. In areas where PAH is dedicated to respond it is reported 87 000 people are affected by the floods (53 000 in Awerial and 34 000 in Juba).
PAH teams will comprise of experienced ES/NFI officers and protection personnel (50% women and 50% men). Two protection officers will participate in interventions with close coordination and collaboration with the Protection Cluster. The team will implement the interventions jointly with other partners’ particularly static partners, especially ES/NFI, WASH, FSL and Protection actors and in close coordination with the respective clusters (SFPs) and cluster coordinators will be involved in the planning, coordination and reporting of the interventions.