Joint Response (Nutrition and Protection) to Populations Affected by Intercommunal Violence in Twic County, Warrap State The continuous emergencies triggered by conflicts, natural disasters (floods), and poverty continue to pose protection threats to vulnerable boys and girls in Twic County (Warrap State). The tensions between Abyei and Twic communities, are at the core of the factors driving conflicts with some of the main issues being territorial disputes, inter-tribal conflicts, and revenge killings that target civilians, women, men boys and girls. According to IRNA several partners namely World Vision, IOM among others show that more than 20,460 individuals and 3,411 HH have been displaced in Twic. The increase in population has a direct impact on the existing social amenities. The influx of new IDPs, mostly women and children, has placed pressure on the provision of social amenities and is overwhelming the already fragile human and material resources in Twic. This emergency has revealed the need for a joint response which includes protection (child protection) and Nutrition. WVSS in partnership with CAO intends to implement a joint response to the emergency to alleviate the vulnerabilities of the IDPs and Host communities.

The main activities of this action are:
Nutrition:. A total of 25 OTP/TSFP sites will be supported to provide treatment to children aged 6-59months with SAM without medical complications and MAM cases and to children having severe malnutrition with medical complications at the stabilization center. A minimum of 2 community nutrition workers will be deployed to support frontline treatment at the nutrition sites. To strengthen the capacity of health workers, World Vision will provide a refresher training on CMAM, integrated MIYCN to both health workers and community nutrition volunteers. Additionally, WVSS will provide food support to caretakers whose children will be admitted at the stabilization centers.  In the community, WV will deploy 120 CNVs to conduct routine screening of CU5 and PLW and referring all those identified as having severe and moderate malnutrition to the supported nutrition sites for further management. World Vision will also work with the existing M2MSGs to improve kitchen gardening and to conduct cooking demonstrations in a bid to strengthen prevention of malnutrition in the community. Given the existence of the IDPs in Twic county, World Vision will support two mobile teams to provide weekly mobile nutrition services to the IDPs.. Minor rehabilitations to fix leaking roofs, broken doors/windows, ceiling for supplies stores shall be undertaken in four nutrition sites in Twic county. World Vision will provide IPC/WASH supplies such as soap, JIK, masks and detergents for routine disinfection of the nutrition sites during service delivery. To ensure the project stays on track throughout the implementation period, World Vision will conduct joint quarterly support supervision visits and review meetings with the state ministry of health and the county health department. 
Protection: The program includes, provision of comprehensive case management to the identified and registered  children with protection concerns,  provision of psychosocial support ( PSS), provision of comprehensive  case management provision of referral services to the identified and registered girls and boys with protection concerns, provision of  individual, group, specialized PSS and other related services at the child friendly spaces, establishing one Child friendly space, Prevent and mitigate protection risks through enhanced preparedness and resilience to the identified  girls and boys, CAO will carry out awareness -raising to women, men, girls and boys on child protection in emergency (CPIE ). Working with CAO for protection related issues. WV will work with the community structures such as mother to mother support groups.

WV (Support Offices) will provide additional funding for this project. WVSS and Support Offices shall jointly be responsible for this project.