Sudan Protracted Joint Response 2024-2026 (Parent) SUMMARY
In response to the humanitarian crisis in Sudan, the Dutch Relief Alliance (DRA) established the Sudan Joint Response (SDNJR) in 2019. The partners joined forces to provide multi-sectoral assistance to respond to the immediate needs and protection risks of the most vulnerable and conflict affected people, through an effective and efficient humanitarian response throughout 2019-2023. Based on the persisting high needs in Sudan, the DRA has decided to continue to provide life-saving assistance from 2024-2026.

Between 2024-2026, thirteen organisations will implement the DRA Sudan JR: Plan International (as lead), Stichting Vluchteling (through IRC), ZOA and SOS Children’s Villages, AA, ASSIST, AMVO, CAFA, FPDO, GPA, NAHA, SOS Sahel and VetCare. Interventions will be implemented in the sectors of Food, Security & Livelihoods, Health, WASH, (Child) Protection, Multipurpose Cash, Education & Nutrition in seven States. Before the crisis, Sudan already had 3.7M displaced people in the country. Since the start of the hostilities between the SAF and RSF in April, over a million persons have been affected, including internally displaced individuals and refugees across the country. According to the May 2023 HRP update, 24.7 million people are now in need of humanitarian assistance, reflecting an increase of 8.9 million people who are newly affected individuals who are in need of humanitarian assistance. 

The  context in Sudan is complex and characterized by overlapping crisis situations due to conflict, economic crisis, and climate related shocks and emergencies. Sudan is on the list of forgotten crisis assessment of 2022-2023, and the current context in the country is rapidly changing. The scale and speed of what is unfolding is unprecedented. The current context has further deteriorated the living situation for the population, with an escalation of conflict that has resulted in mass displacements across the country, stretching existing services and increasing humanitarian needs. The scope and scale of the damage includes large disruptions of critical services & assistance, also resulting in new critical sector specific needs/gaps. The proposed programme is informed by the 2023 Humanitarian Needs Overview and aligned to the updated 2023 Humanitarian Response Plan. The revised HRP updates the response strategy in the initial HRP, specifically regarding the scale-up of life-saving multisectoral assistance & protection services in line with HRP Strategic Objectives (SO) 1 & 2, including related to implementation approaches and costs. Programming related to SO 3 of the HRP (access to livelihood & basic services) will be paused and, depending on contextual developments, successively re-established within the scope initially foreseen in the HRP. Similarly, SO 4 will be resumed once the situation allows in the mid-term.

Complementary multi-sector assistance, resilience building & protection mainstreaming will remain at the core of the programming as was the case during SDNJR 1-4. 

The overall objective of the SDNJR5 is as follows: The Sudan Joint Response 4 aims to address the needs in 2022 and 2023 by providing affected people with multi-sectoral assistance to respond to the immediate needs and protection risks of the most at risk and conflict affected people in targeted areas in North-, East- and South Darfur, South Kordofan, White Nile, Aljazeera and Gedaref. The primary target groups of the project are displaced communities in & out of camps, returnees and host communities in North, South and East Darfur, South Kordofan, Gedaref, White Nile & Aljazeera. The program participants include children, adolescents, youth, men, & women from households below the poverty line or households that included persons with disabilities (PWD).