Integrated Child Protection, GBV and Nutrition Emergence Response Project in Aweil South County, South Sudan With a population of 138,485, Aweil South County has enormous humanitarian needs that cut across various sectors. About 7,000 people are projected to face acute crises in Aweil South County of Northern Bahr el Ghazal.

In line with the main objective of the Reserve Allocation #3, the proposed integrated response aims to respond to immediate humanitarian needs and provide life-saving assistance through the implementation of Protection and Nutrition activities in Aweil South. Both Gender Based Violence (GBV) and Child Protection (CP) components of the proposed intervention aims at scaling up the provision of prevention and response services for GBV and CP. The IRC’s Women Protection and Empowerment (WPE) program will provide mobile and static GBV comprehensive case management (CCM), referrals, individual psychosocial support services (PSS) and establish temporary women's and girls’ friendly spaces (WGFS). The WPE intervention will further emphasize on the provision of access to all-inclusive survivor-centered services and collaboration with service providers. 

The Child protection program will provide comprehensive case management, cash assistance for vulnerable children, social-emotional learning and psychological support in the existing Safe Healing and Learning Space (SHLS)/Child-Friendly Space (CFS) and schools, parenting skills, training for caregivers, training to teachers on Child Protection in Emergencies (CPIE)  and Psychosocial Support Services PSS, community awareness on CPiE and strengthening the existing Community Based Child Protection Network (CBCPN). The child protection program will establish a child protection help desk in the targeted schools, health facility and nutrition facilities. The community nutrition volunteers will be trained on screening of child protection concerns and they will continue referring to the IRC caseworkers for further support. Inclusive and consultative women’s resilience and economic well-being will be promoted through referrals for livelihood interventions and WASH programs.

Furthermore, IRC will provide integrated nutrition interventions for acutely malnourished beneficiaries focusing on the communities living in hard-to-reach areas of the county. The response will be through the community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) approach targeting 20,998 boys and girls under the age of five (U5) and 8,000  pregnant and lactating women (PLWs). Family Mid-Upper Arm Circumference (MUAC) will be implemented to ensure children are screened and timely  referred to the nearest nutrition sites. Mothers will be trained on MUAC screening and provided with MUAC tapes.  To address the underlying causes of malnutrition there will be  strong referral linkage with primary health care units including malarial rapid test of SAM children  and referral of children with complicated  malaria. All children discharged from Targeted Supplementary Feeding Program (TSFP) will be linked to General Food Distribution (GFD) and all U5 children and PLW with risk of acute malnutrition will be rereferred to Blanket Supplementary Feeding Program(BSFP). Cooking demonstrations and kitchen garden demonstration will be also be done .The project will be implemented in one stabilization centre, 10 static Outpatient Therapeutic Programme (OTP) /TSFP sites in nine Payams:  Tiar Aliet, Nyieth , Panthou, Wathmuok  Tarweng , Gakrol, Nyoc Awany, and  Ayai Payams and Two RRM team will be deployed in hard to reaches areas of the county to reach the underserved and  the most vulnerable community. IRC has identified the Payams and Bomas where service provision is constrained in the selected 4 RRM mobile sites in Aleith Garrol and Ayai Payams.

Overall IRC will support approximately  36,013 beneficiaries (2186 Men,10,729 Women, 11189 boys, 11,909 girls) through six-month integrated emergency protection and nutrition response in the nine Payams of Aweil South through static and mobile program delivery approach.