Integrated Multi-sector Emergency Responses in Kapoeta North Recent food security analysis has placed Kapoeta North County in emergency phase 4, evident in increasing malnutrition rates, is a result of the cumulative effect of local conflict and insecurity, poverty and lack of public services and recent flooding. Save the Children (SC) and OPEN(NNGO) will ensure quality, integrated lifesaving services using combined information and analysis to reach the most vulnerable with an effective public health service that addresses basic needs and raises awareness on key risks and identifies and supports the most vulnerable, combining to provide the best support possible. 

The spread of COVID-19 could have consequences for counties like Kapoeta North due to increased mortality. stress on the health care system, significant economic disruption, and cessation of basic care for nutrition, malaria and maternity care and more an increase vulnerable children. Economic stress will increase sexual gender based violence (SGBV). SCI and OPEN will use their combined local experience and SCI global support to prioritize risk communication surveillance and protection of service providers and the wider population. 

WASH, health and protection services will form an integrated support service for nutrition programming in food insecure areas ensuring a network of community volunteers and primary services that cross refer and support essential prevention measures and treatment reach the most vulnerable. Communities will be prioritized using food security livelihoods (FSL) and nutrition assessments. 

SCI will support 6,000 households (36,000 people) to engage in food production, strengthen local agricultural production and income sources through provision of agriculture inputs (crop kits, vegetable kits, fishing kits) and training packages to improved their farming practices. SCI will employ a community-based beneficiary selection approach which will entail establishing a beneficiary targeting committee which will lead the selection of eligible HHs among the IDPs, returnees and host communities based on the agreed-on beneficiary selection criteria with the target community. Vulnerable households with severe food insecurity and children with cases of malnutrition including female, child, disabled/ chronically ill headed households persons living with or at risk of HIV/AIDS and survivors of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) will be targeted under this project. 

The nutrition programme will support Mother, Infant and Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN) services to increase utilization of nutrition interventions reaching 11,530 children between 6-59 months of age and 4,530 pregnant and lactating women. SCI and Open will support facilities and communities with facility based WASH services with essential infection, protection and control measures and ensuring health services support nutrition services and community WASH in vulnerable areas informed by food insecurity and malnutrition levels. WASH services and Integrated community case management will support awareness raising, surveillance and case management in the most distant and food insecure communities served by within nutrition programmes. This WASH programme will target 33,889 beneficiaries. PHC will reach 15,833. Child protection interventions will support the most vulnerable in these locations with awareness and comprehensive case management services, benefitting 4,000 people. The protection programme will address gender based violence and prevent child separation and support unaccompanied minors, mental health well-being in the community and ensuring sustained capacity and care for vulnerable women and children through community case management supporting 200 children (100 boys, 100 girls) with comprehensive case management services. This integrated community based approach allow SC and OPEN to address  issues like, gender violence, disability effectively and to address current threats of food insecurity, disease outbreak and economic collapse across sectors