Respond to critical Child Protection issues (including family separation, psychosocial distress and risks related to Explosive Remnants of War) through delivery of lifesaving services By 15th February 2017, 9,250 children and 6,000 caregivers (mainly women headed of household) will directly benefit directly from this emergency project in priority locations in Upper Nile (Wau Shilluk), Easter Equatoria (Magwi), Jonglei (Fangak) and Lakes (Awerial).

4,250 children (2,125 girls and 2,125 boys) will be provided with dedicated psychosocial care. Within this target, 250 children (125 boys and 125 girls) will be also assisted with timely family tracing and reunification services and other 400 children (200 boys and 200 girls) will be supported with integrated case management services, including referrals to other needed services.

1000 caregivers will be reached through programmes offering psychosocial care and/or supporting parental skills.

5,000 conflict-affected children and 5,000 vulnerable caregivers (1,000 males and 4,000 females) will be reached with life-saving messages and supportive messages in order to strengthen community protective mechanisms and mitigate the risk to possibly incur further harm.

Through partnerships, the following services will be provided:
1. Identification, registration, family tracing and reunification (FTR) services, and temporary care placements for separated, unaccompanied, and missing girls and boys
2. Individual case management, community psychosocial support (PSS), and referral services when needed 
3. Monitoring and reporting of the general child protection situation and participation in specific Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism (MRM), where appropriate
4. Support good practices and prevent family separation, violence, exploitation, abuse, and risks associated to explosive remnants of war, ERW (including mines and UXOs), through awareness raising on lifesaving messages
5. Provide capacity building (training, coaching, and mentoring) support to community partners to deliver rapid FTR services, community based psychosocial support, and quality dedicated care, in line with minimum standards
6. Coordination with other relevant partners to inform broader service delivery, including through regular engagement with cluster mechanisms and the Child Protection Information Management System (CPIMS). 

UNICEF will also transport and preposition emergency, age-appropriate child protection supplies and deploy Child Protection staff in partner locations to continuously provide coaching, mentoring, and coordination of child protection response and, where necessary, directly implement FTR activities including through its Rapid Response Mechanism. UNICEF will continue to oversee and arrange air transport for family reunifications and, throughout the project, will support partners to link with other services and sectors (including Education, WASH, Nutrition, and Health), drawing on both UNICEF’s other programme sections and its broader network of partners through the various clusters. In addition to partners supported directly through this programme, UNICEF will continue to provide information and technical support to other partners and the broader Protection Cluster to ensure continuity of service delivery and promote the sharing of good practices and lessons learned, in particular through the dedicated technical forums (including the PSS Task Force, the FTR Working Group, the CAAFAG Working Group, and the MRM Technical Working Group).