South Sudan Acute Joint Response - Jonglei Flooding SUMMARY
Support flood affected displaced and host communities in Pibor County from 26.11.19-25.5.20 through gender and age sensitive lifesaving food and livelihood interventions to enhance recovery and resilience. In total 8,700 people will be reached in the hardest to reach areas of Pibor town, Lekuangole and Verthet in Pibor County.
1. Improve post-floods environment through cash for work - debris cleaning, making roads and rivers accessible, small repairs of service centres
2. Provide unconditional cash to the most vulnerable who cannot participate in emergency livelihood activities based on a protection criteria e.g. persons with disabilities, survivors of gender-based violence, female or child headed households, elderly
3. Provide emergency livelihoods kits (fishing kits, farming kits) and training to enhance recovery and resilience
4. Enact a clear referral pathway among all partners for the safe and confidential referral of child protection and gender-based violence cases Plan has developed an emergency response plan for Pibor where it lays out its ambition to implement a multi-sector response on FSL, WASH, Education and Protection. The FSL part of this response is submitted for DRA funding. Plan also has been working in Pibor for many years and is well established among the community and partner organisations.
 
Severe flooding has cut off 319.080 people from critical care and services in Pibor, up to 90% of basic services have been suspended. Water sources are contaminated posing health & nutrition risks. Plan's nutrition screening (Oct 24) indicated 9% GAM and 3% SAM rate for children in Pibor. The situation may escalate further as people fail to access treatment centres, food, shelter and safe WASH. All children are out of school due to flooded classrooms, displaced teachers and schools being used as shelters. Children lack safe spaces for protection. Adolescent girls are even more vulnerable during emergencies. According to OCHA's Flood Strategy (Nov 14) immediate priorities include multi-sector flood rapid response kits, food and health support followed by restoring people’s food security and livelihoods and critical water, health, nutrition and education infrastructure. OBJECTIVE: Support flood affected displaced and host communities in Pibor County through gender and age sensitive life-saving food livelihood interventions that will enhance their recovery and resilience. In total 8,700 people will be reached. 

APPROACH: a first-line response consisting out of emergency food and emergency livelihood provision. Plan has secured funding from WFP to distribute food aid which complements partners food aid in this project consortium. Plan is also supporting with resiliency building through livelihoods (farming and fishing) and cash-based programming  for work related to debris cleaning and small repairs of service points. 

COMPLEMENTARITY: Consortium partners have coordinated the activities of the response in Pibor though harmonization of the approach (see above), coordination of beneficiary targeting, sharing of logistics (transport and offices), referral to each other’s activities – specifically for child protection and GBV cases, and ensuring the most vulnerable are reached with holistic programming (FSL & WASH). In total 8,700 direct beneficiaries will be reached. Including: 
-	1800 people through cash for work programming 
-	9000 people with livelihoods training and fishing or farming kits 
-	500 households for shelter and NFI distribution 
Furthermore, linking to protection services with referral pathways to other Plan programming and distribution of Wash, MHM and NFIs. Many of the program activities can be scaled-up from existing ongoing activities immediately. 

•	Month 1: Inception: Start-up/scale-up of the intervention including recruitment and training of project teams. Procurement of FSL inputs. Community sensitization and beneficiary registration. Start service delivery: provision of emergency livelihood support.. Community feedback mechanisms in place.

•	Months 2-5: Continue provision of emergency livelihood support. Conduct CfW activities. Continuous gather community feedback. 
•	Month 6: PDM. Continuation of ongoing activities and handover to community support groups and local government authorities. Plan has been operating in SS since 2006 (in Pibor since 2011) with a humanitarian portfolio of 24 million. Plan is currently  running  FSL, Nutrition, Protection and Education programs (partly under SSJR5) in Pibor. Plan has secured funding for WFP to provide 15,800 flood affected hh in Pibor with emergency food aid.  Plan plays a leading role in Child Protection Sub Cluster and Education Cluster in Pibor and has been the OCHA focal point for Pibor for the past 3 years. This project is not only linking together multiple responses, but also providing emergency relief for those most affected by the flooding, in addition to the ongoing crisis int he area. Plan knows the communities and actors working in this area which will ensure continuity of essential services after the duration of the project. 

As much as possible cash will be giver, for work or to those most vulnerable to support a more sustainable response. This project is hiring local staff from the communities to support distribution and execution of the project.  Risk assessment of the interventions will be conducted and mitigation measures applied; physical safety of beneficiaries coming to collect the agricultural supplies; timing of the distribution; ensure the timing of CfW interventions does not coincide with peak livelihoods season to avoid encouraging child labour.