Provision of multi-sectoral life-saving services to crisis affected populations in Tonj East, Tonj South and Tonj North counties According to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis released in December 2020, a projected 5.82 million people will face food crisis in the country between December 2020 and March 2021. The number of affected populations estimated to increase to 7.24 million from April to July 2021 in the lean season. Based on the projections, Twenty two (22) counties classified in emergency acute food insecurity with the number likely to increase to 33 counties in the period April to July 2021. An unprecedented caseload of 38,916 SAM, and 116,029 MAM burden in under-fives projected for 2021 in Warrap state.  Greater Tonj is among the most affected by food insecurity in the country. An estimate of 136,814 people projected to be food insecure by March 2021, with a further deterioration of 20% expected by July 2021. Between March and July 2021, the number of people at catastrophe level (IPC5) will halve in Tonj South, remain the same in Tonj North but double in Tonj East. Overall, the proportion of people at famine-likely level (IPC4) will increase by 27% across the zone during the same period. A deteriorating economy characterized by currency devaluation and the COVID-19 pandemic have added to the complexity by exhausting people’s adaptive capacity in the face of recurrent intercommunal violence and flooding. According to the Integrated Nutrition and Mortality SMART Survey conducted in Tonj North in July 2019, 38.4% of children had illnesses while 65.3% did not boil or treat their drinking water
This is a multi-sectoral life-saving response to crisis affected populations in Tonj North, Tonj East, and Tonj South counties, Warrap state. The response will provide protection (child protection, Gender Based Violence, and peace building), health, nutrition, and Food Security and Livelihoods services to crisis affected households in the greater Tonj area for a period up to 9 months, save for FSL intervention which will be four months going by the seasonal calendar. World Vision partners with Comitato Collaborazione Medica (CCM) in nutrition sector in all the three counties of the greater Tonj meanwhile, World Vision directly implements Health in Tonj North. WVSS also directly implements FSL and Protection components directly in all the three counties of Tonj. Overall, the project aims to reach 117,244 people (22,474 men, 41,797 women, 21,949 boys, and 30,842 girls) of which 55,000 individuals will be supported under the protection, over 49,200 households under FSL, 13,217 persons under Nutrition and 20,840 under Health. Additionally 14,647(9138 U5 and 5509 PLW) 1570(748M, 822F) SAM Children U5, 4173(1989M, 2184F) MAM Children U5, 3395 (1618M, 1777F) BSFP U5, 1430 BSFP PLW and 4079 AM PLWs direct beneficiaries under Nutrition . With regards to complementarity and integrated approach, children at all contact points in the health facility will be screened for acute malnutrition and referred for nutrition services as appropriate
The main protection risks in the greater Tonj include psychological distress due to conflict, child marriage/forced marriage, intimate partner violence, child neglect, intensified intercommunal conflict among others. The project therefore will under the following interventions to address the protection concerns: comprehensive case management, psychosocial support, establish referral pathways, child protection and Gender-Based Violence (GBV) awareness campaigns, provide mobile psychosocial support services, run child right clubs, construct and operate Women and Girls Friendly Spaces (WGFSs), support people with special needs, and conflict mitigation through peacebuilding activities. Linkage and referral will be done between health and nutrition sector for RDT testing, vaccination and management of medical complications. TSFP discharges will be linked to FSL sector and GFD for participation in own production and income generating activities for resilience