Access to integrated lifesaving General Protection, Gender-Based Violence and Child Protection services for violence-affected children, women, persons with disabilities and other persons of concern in Tambura, Western Equatoria The humanitarian situation in Tambura is a protection crisis. The outbreak of violence in Tambura County in June 2021 resulted in significant human rights violations including rape of young women and girls, torture and killing of pregnant women, civilian injuries, death, family separation and destruction of education facilities including classrooms and WASH facilities in the area. The most vulnerable people including elderly, persons with disabilities, pregnant and lactating mothers, women, girls, boys among others suffered greater risks and abuses during the violence and they continue to lack access to protection information and services, psychosocial support, safe spaces and basic services. CINA deployed a mobile protection team in Tambura in the first week of July 2022 to fill a critical protection gap after partners pulled out in May 2022 due to lack of funding. CINA has so verified presence of 122 unaccompanied and separated children (UASC) and 90 other vulnerable children, 541 persons with specific needs and 15 cases of GBV in the five IDP camps in Tambura and is currently responding.

General Protection (GP): This project will provide lifesaving protection assistance to 10,000 persons with specific needs and other violence affected people (4,698 men, 5,232 women, 30 boys and 40 girls) through deployment of mobile/or semi static emergency protection teams, provision of specialized Psychosocial (PSS) and other related general protection services, including provision of community-based prevention and response, mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) to individuals including persons with disabilities and older persons, and undertaking Protection Monitoring to identify and report on the trends and patterns of violations of rights to inform the response as well as advocacy and programming. Static response will be implemented in the five IDP camps of Tambura Payam (hosting the largest IDP caseload and will target 8,000 affected persons) and mobile/semi-static emergency response will be implemented in Mupoi and South Yubu Payams (targeting 2,000 affected persons).

Gender-Based Violence (GBV): CINA will provide lifesaving GBV response, risk mitigation and prevention services targeting 2,857 beneficiaries (1,225 women, 432 men, 500 boys , 700 girls) through cash-based case management assistance, Women and Girls Friendly Space (WGFS) programming, psychosocial support, dignity kit, referral services and community outreach activities. CINA will support non-GBV actors on integration of GBV into their response and how to conduct multi-sectoral safety audits to inform their sectoral intervention activities. 

Child Protection (CP): The project will reach 5,555 violence-affected children and caregivers (2,229 boys, 2,406 girls, 436 men, and 484 women) including children with disabilities by providing tailored case management support for the most vulnerable children, Family Tracing and Reunification (FTR) for UASC, MHPSS for children and caregivers, building capacity of community-based child protection networks on Child Protection in Emergencies (CPiE), PSS and case management, CP awareness raising and training of non-CP actors to integrate child protection into their sectoral responses. 


The financial requirements will be based on the ratios GP: 33.33%, GBV: 22.22%, and CP: 44.44% CINA implemented child protection and health projects in Tambura in 2019 and UNICEF supported Multi-Sectoral Safety Audits and GBV project in 2021 and will use this static experience and its current mobile protection team to accelerate an integrated CP, GBV, and GP response for better outcomes for children and other vulnerable individuals affected by the Tambura crisis. CINA will coordinate complementarities with similar projects in Tambura, uphold centrality of protection and harness a conflict sensitive programming that is responsive, inclusive and adaptive.