Quality education for displacement affected communities in Twic County - Warrap State and Nutrition services for most vulnerable communities affected by violence and food insecurity in Leer County - Unity State of South Sudan The project seeks to address  education and nutrition  needs of most vulnerable families affected by violence and food insecurity in Leer/Unity and Twic/Warrap State. NRC in partnership with Health Care Foundation Organization (HFO) will deliver quality education and nutrition services addressing multiple, immediate and long-term needs of emergency affected communities in Twic and Leer counties respectively. In Twic, NRC will  implement Education interventions directly while in Leer  HFO will take up the leadership for the Nutrition component of this project.  Safe and inclusive programming principles will guide project operations, Internally, NRC protection and WASH teams will support the project to ensure that quality technical standards are adhered to..

Education interventions  will increase equitable access to quality learning opportunities in safe and inclusive environments for 11461 children (6361b 5100 g) and reach 539 adults (377m/162f)  in Akoc, Turalei, Panyok and Wunrok Payams of Twic -  Warrap State with training and capacity building activities. The project will conduct social mobilization for enrollment , attendance and retention   conduct barrier analysis for access to education, map out referral pathways and sensitize children and parents about existing services, construct TLS, distribute TLM, recreational kits and dignity kits for girls, train teachers in basic pedagogy, social emotional learning and conflict sensitive education, Hygiene awareness sessions  to children's clubs and provision of Menstrual hygiene/ Dignity to adolescent girls to encourage girls to attend schools through out the term.  Additionally the project will train PTAs/ SMCs  and teachers on GBV, Child protection, PFA, child safeguarding, establish school help desks and support community members to identify girls, boys and children with disability at risk of dropping out of school and support them to continue for their emotional well-being, cognitive and physical development while ensuring that they are safe from protection risks e.g child labour, early marriage, forced recruitment..  

Healthcare Foundation Organization (HFO) with collaboration from health and nutrition clusters, propose to provide essential lifesaving health/nutrition services through mobile outreach as well as strengthening support to available but overstretched static health facilities. Through this allocation of SSHF SA1 2022, HFO and NRC will set up 2 OTPs and 2 TSFP to target SAM cases of 347, MAM 1,123 and PLWs 710 and 1,990 6-59 children and 1,540 PLW to be screened for with MUAC HFO will support integrated nutrition with health services supported by CERF in leer and Pilleny PHCUs in Leer County and will support 2 outreach services to hard to reach areas where health and nutrition posts were destroyed by ongoing conflict between youth and cattle raiders. This project support complementary interventions but avoid duplication and promote holistic care and value for money. Each strategic objective is carefully aligned with several output indicators and type of activities we are going to implement, The same Nutrition workers will work closely with mother support groups to cascade maternal, infant and young child feeding messaging as well as individual and group counseling including on IYCF-E practices such as exclusive breastfeeding. The Facility-level care will provide treatment for MAM, SAM cases without medical complication while at the same time providing MIYCN services and health education. The admission criteria will be as outlined in the CMAM guideline where children are admitted if they have a weight for height z-score of less than -3 or if their MUAC is less than 11.5cm for SAM and less than 12.5 for MAM and the children have neither medical complication nor fail the appetite test will be referred to PHCC with stabilization centers or hospital.