Scaling up life-saving interventions through improving Child Protection, quality and coverage of CMAM and provision of shelter and NFIs  for vulnerable children and targeted communities in Eastern Equatoria, Jonglei and Lakes States. Nutrition-Improving the quality and Coverage of CMAM program in Pibor County,Jonglei State

This six-month project will be implemented in Pibor county. Pibor is one of the very few counties where there is a likelihood of populations experiencing Catastrophe (IPC Phase 5) conditions during the two periods, for January to April 2019 and May to August 2019 projection periods based on the January 2019 IPC analysis. Women and children are worse hit by malnutrition compared to men and boys. One reason being the patriarchal nature of the society, which prioritises the needs of boys and men over women and girls. When food is insufficient in a household, men and boys are served first and then the girls and women eat later. Most of time they end up not eating as the little available is consumed by men and hence exposes women and girls to higher risks of malnutrition. For example, cases of men consuming the Corn Soya Blended (CSP++) meant to boost good health and nutrition among pregnant and lactating women have been reported in Pibor. Such practices have further undermined interventions aimed at protecting women at risk from malnutrition in Pibor. For this reason, the project will strategically target vulnerable women groups and girls. Awareness raising activities will be conducted to educate the community on local preventive measures and the dangers of malnutrition on pregnant and lactating mothers. Delivering multi-sectoral humanitarian assistance at enhanced scale is therefore critical in order to prevent further deterioration of the food security situation into famine and build people’s coping strategies. Pibor is therefore one of the counties selected for SSHF second round funding this year. Plan International’s aim for this project is to enhance the coverage and quality of the existing CMAM program, and targeted supplementary feeding program (TSFP) in sixteen sites of Pibor county, in order to reduce mortality and morbidity due to acute malnutrition (i.e. children under five and pregnant and lactating women (PLW)). With this project, Plan International will also integrate and promote preventive activities affecting maternal infant young children nutrition (MIYCN) in the community. 
This project will directly target children aged 6-59 months, boys and girls, with moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) and pregnant and lactating women (PLW) with acute malnutrition in 16 static and five outreach sites. The MIYCN activity will benefit the population in general, but with a major focus on mothers and caregivers of children under two years.   The MIYCN activities will also identify and create awareness on the different socio-cultural factors associated with women, girls, boys and men's nutrition. Furthermore, as PLW have different nutrition requirements, they will be counselled and refereed for additional services to nearby health facilities (eg. for FeFol supplementation). For this project, mother support groups (MSG, majority of which are women), community nutrition volunteers (CNVs - men and women) and nutrition staff (men and women) will be recruited, trained, assigned and mentored regularly to run the  nutrition programme effectively. The national guidelines on Community based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) and MIYCN will be used in the implementation of this project, while strong collaboration and integration with local government bodies, communities and other humanitarian response partners will be ensured. Through these steps Plan International will guarantee accountability to the affected population.

Protection-  SSD-19/HSS10/SA2/P Scaling up and improving life-saving Child Protection interventions for vulnerable children and their caregivers in Pibor County (Gumuruk and VerthetScaling

NFI/ shelter--Provide life-saving shelter and life-sustaining non-food items to the most vulnerable newly displaced population, returnees, host community in Lakes State (Cueibet, Yirol East, Yirol West and Rumbek Centre) and Eastern