Integrated emergency nutrition and food security response for flood affected communities in Pibor County. This project is being proposed to deliver time sensitive and life-saving services to communities affected by flood emergency in Pibor and who are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance in Pibor County. The proposal seeks to deliver an integrated and multisectoral response that combines nutrition and food security (FSL) interventions to effectively address the needs of 15,000 people over a period of six months. In line with the nutrition cluster response plan, the project targets 4468 beneficiaries ( SAM:783,MAM:2032 and PLWs: 1653 ) with an aim of preventing further deterioration of nutritional situation of children under 5 years and pregnant and lactating women in Pibor ensure continuity of detection and treatment of children under 5 years with SAM and MAM and pregnant and lactating women with acute malnutrition as well as rehabilitate nutrition sites affected by flooding and inter communal conflicts to ensure availability of infrastructure, human resources, and equipment for nutrition service delivery in flood affected areas. Under the Food security and Livelihood (FSL) response component, the project will deliver emergency livelihood inputs to 3,600 flood affected households to restore their livelihood and enhance their own emergency food production. The project will directly distribute critical agricultural inputs such as vegetable seeds and fishing kits and provide extension/training to facilitate their entry into production of nutritious vegetables and fish harvesting. To enhance better integration and synergy with nutrition interventions, the project will train and support 160 members of mother to mother support groups on kitchen gardens and will restore kitchen gardens in all the 16 Outpatient Therapeutic Program (OTP) nutrition sites which were damaged by the recent flooding. The project will be implemented in partnership with other actors in Pibor to maximize synergy and ensure a successful delivery of an integrated flood response. It will collaborate with PLAN international to deliver MAM services to flood affected communities which is currently managing Targeted supplementary feeding Program (TSFP) sites in Pibor work with Health partners to ensure that all children with SAM and children with MAM that have fever will be screened for malaria and positive cases referred to the health staff for treatment. It will further integrate WASH actions into nutrition activities through ensuring that all children with SAM are provided with a take home WASH kit. The project will assign sufficient field staff and closely work with local institutions to ensure accountability to affected community such as to reach the community on regular intervals with key messages and information including on targeting criteria, entitlements, available nutrition service and locations and distribution place and times. JAM will ensure gender balance in recruitment of additional community workers under both nutrition and FSL components. 
The project will be implemented in a COVID-19 sensitive manner. The project will integrate COVID-19 risk communication and awareness through all planned nutrition focused behavioral communication actions, FSL trainings as well as scale up its WASH activities to contribute to the containment of the spread of the disease.