Provision of specialized nutrition commodities for the preventative Blanket Supplementary Feeding programme and common services in support of the Humanitarian Community Aim
The suggested project combines two aspects of WFP's work : nutrition support to children under 5 and provision of common services to the humanitarian community in South Sudan - through UNHAS and the Logistics Cluster. 

Nutrition: Firstly, the project will focus on preventing acute malnutrition in high risk counties identified by IPC. This project will provide nutrition prevention services for children 6-59 months to host and internally displaced populations (IDP) communities in the high risk counties with the requested funding to support WFP’s pipeline. 

UNHAS: As the only humanitarian air service that gives access to all humanitarian entities, UNHAS will facilitate ad-hoc movements to priority 1 locations based on inter-cluster coordinated needs based on organizations Cargo amp Passenger transport requests made by humanitarian organisations scaling up activities. While other humanitarian air services exist, the service is not available to the wider humanitarian community.

Logistics Cluster: As a coordination mechanism, it supports humanitarian organizations in South Sudan by sharing operational information and facilitating key logistical services including transportation of humanitarian cargo by air, river, and road, warehousing, and representation at decision-making forums such as the Inter Cluster Coordination Group (ICCG). WFP is requesting funding to cover the costs to ensure the continuity of common logistics services during the targeted response while scaling up cargo transportation services to identified famine-likely priority 1 counties.Taking into consideration that a number of identified response locations, especially in Pibor and Akobo counties (Jonglei), are only accessible by air, the project aims at ensuring the provision of adequate support to responding partners in transporting their humanitarian cargo through the provision of additional helicopter rotations. SSHF funding will enable the cluster to continue to provide vital transport services without cost to humanitarian organizations and scale up air support as needed based on received requests from responding partners, including UN agencies and international and national NGOs.

Mode of Delivery
WFP will be prioritizing assistance in the affected counties to the most vulnerable households. Children 6-59 months from the vulnerable households will be provided with preventive rations of a specialized nutritious food (lipid based nutrient supplement, medium quantity). In conjunction with the rations, all caretakers with children 6-59 months will receive key health and nutrition messages as part of the preventive package.
Aviation in South Sudan is characterized by underdevelopment with little investment in infrastructure and capacity, along with poor safety records of commercial carriers. Airstrips are mainly gravel, except for Juba, Paloich, Malakal and Wau and are only accessible by light aircraft. Airstrips become adversely affected by weather during the rainy season, thereby necessitating the use of helicopters. There are no reliable commercial options in the country serving deep field locations.

Locations
The global IPC identified six counties in Jonglei, Warrap, and Northern Bahr el Gahzal states, namely Akobo, Western Pibor, Aweil South, Tonj East, Tonj North and Tonj South where between five to ten percent of the population is living in IPC Phase 5, meaning they face catastrophic levels of food insecurity. In some counties, the number of people in IPC phase 5 is expected to increase between December 2020 and July 2021.Therefore, WFP will respond to the nutrition needs in the below counties:

COUNTY	BSFP/U5
Akobo	        2,372
Pibor	        28,280
Aweil South	10,527
Tonj East	        4,140
Tonj North	7,220
Tonj South       5,234
TOTAL             57,774