Improving Emergency Shelter and Non-food Items interventions to communities affected by conflict to access support and lifesaving assistance in Ayod and Fangak of Jonglei State  in South Sudan. The ADA 1st round allocation will focus to provide emergency shelter and none food items assistance using the cluster single approach to support populations assessed to be in vulnerable state in the prioritized counties of Ayod and Fangak in Jonglei state. REACH February 2020 FGD conducted in Ayod county, indicated that flooding has destroyed several shelters and NFIs in affected settlements, larger proportion of the individual shelters were destroyed approximately 60-70% remain homeless. Besides, the poor quality of construction materials contributed on the quick disappearing of these local properties, consequently they could not resist the powerful move of flooding water.  ADA aims to provide essential Shelter amp NFI assistance to 20,000 individuals in this project (10,000) persons in Ayod and (10,000) persons in Fangak counties. The project target is dis-aggregated into (Men= 2,000 Women= 10,000 Boys= 4,000 Girls=4,000) which is about 3,333 Households. Out of 20,000 individuals targeted, it’s estimated that 15,000 are to be newly affected IDPs, while 2,000 considered returnees and 3,000 vulnerable host communities with in-kind NFI kits. ADA will conduct 2 interventions in each project location. The project will build on the ongoing humanitarian efforts to intervene to conflict affected newly IDPs, returnees and vulnerable host communities across two counties in Jonglei state (Ayod and Fangak). Existing best practices both in emergency and resilience responses will be employed through the S/NFI methodology step to step stages include an alert analysis extensive needs analysis S/NFI response or distribution post distribution monitoring. Other key elements for consideration will include storage of core pipeline items after delivery in hard to reach locations, transportation, reporting and capacity building of communities to enhance project implementation through AAP/CCE approaches. 

This project will target payams with high needs and significant numbers of displacement affected populations. ADA will focus on newly displaced populations, population in a protracted displacement and most vulnerable host communities unable to meet S/NFI needs. This project will give special consideration to vulnerable populations including the elderly, disabled, pregnant and lactating mothers, child-headed or female-headed households, unaccompanied minors to receive the S/NFI assistance. Both returnees from abroad and in country PoCs and within the displaced communities will be included for the assistance. In this project, ADA protection sector will address the physical and psycho-social protection needs of the targeted populations through mainstreaming protection and GBV into NFI activities, which will include awareness raising on sexual exploitation and abuse, risks mitigation on harmful traditional practices and referral for support to other available service providers. Awareness raising on risks mitigation on flooding will be conducted too.

This project will seek to protect and build very conducive environments for the conflict affected vulnerable categories of persons including unaccompanied children (girls, boys), youth, female headed household, and the elderly, disabled, lactating and pregnant mothers. The project (protection and NFI) teams will establish and engage communities to form community based networks such as community committee, women and youth groups to create conducive environments for local solutions examples include accurate and timely reporting of beneficiaries complaints and feedback, timely identification of risks, dangers and impediments, initiating practical mitigation measures of risks, initiating advocacy mechanisms and promoting peaceful co-existence among diverse multicultural settings like newly IDPs, Returnees and most vulnerable Host Community.