Integrated Protection in Emergency  Services (IPiE 2) for conflict affected children and other persons of concern in Jonglei Duk, Pibor and Bor South counties of Jonglei have continued to experience copious inter-communal violence and displacement towards the second quarter of 2019 associated with cattle raiding, women and children abduction, and targeted physical attack resulting into civilian unrest and restriction of movement. This situation has been exacerbated by catastrophic food insecurity in Pibor, shutdown of health facilities in Bor South and flooding in Duk resulting into disruption of humanitarian services.

Overall, the affected populations comprise of 61% children, 5.1% persons with disabilities, 2% elderly while 54% are women and girls (PC HRP 2019). Crises affected boys and girls are exposed to stern threats and risks including separation from families, psychosocial distress, armed recruitment and sexual and physical violence. Without appropriate care and family-based/community support system, affected boys and girls are forced to process their conflict experience alone which may compromise their childhood. In situations of violence and other emergencies, the most vulnerable groups including pregnant and lactating mothers, elderly, persons with disabilities, survivors of GBV, HLP concerns and other persons with specific needs face multiple threats and vulnerabilities including access to safe places, information,  livelihoods  and other basic services.
This project will therefore target a total of 22,000 affected people (5200 girls, 4800 boys, 4500 men and 7500 women) including 1,100 persons with disabilities. This is a joint general protection (GP) and child protection (CP) project. GP activities will be implemented in Duk, Pibor and Bor South while CP activities will target Duk and Bor South at a budget ratio GP: CP of 54%:46%.  CP activities will target 12,000 affected children and caregivers and community members (4800 boys, 5200 girls, 1500 women and 500 men) with comprehensive case management, psychosocial support and resilience activities and strengthening of family and community based child protection structures. GP activities will target 10,000 persons with specific needs and at-risk adults (6000 women and 4000 men) for safe referral and individual protection assistance, psychosocial support, community-based protection approaches including effective youth resilience initiatives and conducting time-sensitive protection monitoring and assessments to inform appropriate response and advocacy towards addressing the needs of the affected people including those of IDPs returning spontaneously. 

To ensure that protection remains central, CINA will adhere to information sharing protocol during comprehensive case management and IPA interventions. CINA will ensure adherence to its safeguarding and PSEA procedures to protect beneficiaries from any eventual abuse and exploitation. The IDP, returnee and host community members will be equally targeted to avoid causing harm during interventions. CINA will strictly follow its existing beneficiary complaint and response mechanism (using complaint box, banners and hotline number) as a means of accountability. CINA just ended its UNICEF-supported CPiE project in Jonglei. The SSHF SA2 funding will therefore meet the critical gaps and avoid the disruption of integrated protection services in the priority locations while CINA continues to solicit for complementary funds. CINA is a long term static protection partner in Jonglei and will readily deploy its frontline teams including to Pibor as rapidly as possible.