Provision of CCCM mobile services and CCCM capacity building to IDPs and host community members in urgent humanitarian need located in hard-to-reach areas In the framework of the proposed intervention ACTED aims to expand its mobile Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM) capacity across South Sudan. Through targeting hard to reach displacement-affected populations, ACTED’s emergency intervention at an area-based level recognises the impact of new displacements upon existing communities, and works towards reducing the collective negative impact. ACTED’s interventions aim to mitigate the well understood “pull factors” of (mobile) CCCM responses and promote holistic durable solutions to displacement, by considering early recovery mechanisms at all stages of the programme cycle. ACTED’s mobile CCCM team is committed to following displacement-affected populations throughout their displacement cycle ensuring a community-led and owned sustainable grassroots programme that hopefully “builds back better”. 

Building on its extensive static and mobile CCCM experience in South Sudan, ACTED’s mobile CCCM team will respond to sudden onset displacements across the country, aiming to reach some of the 84% of internally displaced people (IDPs) living in hard to reach areas and supporting them with emergency CCCM activities. Building on previous experiences in Mangateen and Akobo, ACTED’s interventions will target not only IDPs, but also the host community and local polity (known collectively as a displacement -affected community) with CCCM activities. ACTED undertakes this area-based approach to ensure the benefits of the intervention are durable, and that the newly displaced IDPs are better prepared for self-management, either in the presence of humanitarians or not, after ACTED officially exits the site. 

With this grant, ACTED is proposing to undertake eight assessment missions and indicatively four responses (lasting roughly four to six weeks) with estimated target populations of 7,500 individuals per location. ACTED’s CCCM interventions will primarily focus on six key cluster priorities: 1. Enhanced Coordination, 2. Enhanced Information Management, 3. Community Engagement, 4. Site Maintenance, 5. Enhanced Service Monitoring and 6. Strengthened Protection. 

ACTED’s Mobile Team will initially assess the current capabilities of a given displacement-affected population and then tailor a suitable intervention meeting their specific needs. Proposed CCCM activities will include enhancing/creating local governance structures and reinforcing their camp management capacity, improvement or implementation of NGO/local authority engagement and coordination, improved access to information for populations, construction of community spaces or basic repairs to communal infrastructure. ACTED will also undertake CCCM site profile assessments, multi-sector needs assessments and the IASC durable solutions assessments to produce initial site profiles. Further to this, ACTED can provide basic site mapping, service mapping, flow monitoring and contingency and evacuation planning. 

ACTED will continue to work closely with the CCCM cluster, DRC, IOM, REACH and where possible National CCCM partners. ACTED recognises that the displacement across South Sudan continues unabated and as such will work with the CCCM Cluster, REACH, NAWG and ICWG on the identification of target locations, while coordinating to fill gaps and avoid duplication of interventions.

Please also see attached ACTED’s mobile response SOP, assessment criteria and holistic displacement model (Annex I).