South Sudan Joint Response 4 (SSJR4) SUMMARY 
In response to the worsening humanitarian situation, Plan, with 8 Dutch NGOs and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, continued the South Sudan Joint Response. The project aims at providing life-saving assistance to most vulnerable households and preventing and responding with local actors to conflict induced child protection concerns. Plan implemented this project from January 1st to December 31st 2018 in Eastern Equatoria (Torit County) and Central Equatoria States (Lainya County), focussing on the Food Security and Livelihoods and Protection sectors, including Multi-purpose cash (MPC). Plan supported most vulnerable farming households, with training, agricultural inputs and MPC. It enabled also most vulnerable children to access psychosocial support through Child Friendly Spaces, strengthened the capacities of the community and local authorities to protect children and delivered case management services to vulnerable children, especially unaccompanied and separated children. As of October 2017, the number of people displaced rose to nearly 4 million - including 1.9 million internally displaced and more than 2.1 million refugees in the region. The crisis continues to remain first and foremost a protection crisis, following larger scale government offensives in Jonglei and Upper Nile, and insecurity in the Equatoria States. Localized famine was declared in Unity in Februay 2017, and overall food insecurity reached unprecedented level during 2017. At the height of the lean season, approximately 6 million people in South Sudan were severly food insecure. With the majority of those displaced are women and children, there recent developments have further increased protection risks, and heightened the risk of gender based violence, with women and girls forced to travel further to access fuel, food and clean water. Very little progress has been made in the peace process and sadly the national peace agreement remains underimplemented. The "National Dialogue" initiated in March 2017 is seen by many as yet another national failure in furthering the peace process. The impact of the conflict has gone far beyond the frontlines of war : sparking food shortages, an economic crisis of massive proportion and causing a massive displacement of people, indiscriminate attacks, targerted killings, forced disappearances, systematic rape and other forms of sexual violence are the realities of life in war-torn South Sudan. Plan targets 15000 individuals, 13000 under protection and 2400 under FSL and multipurpose cash. For FSl and multipurpose cash, beneficiarie stargetd are the most vulnerable households, having land to cultivate, with a priority to female and elderly headed households, households hosting UASC, disabled persons, chronic ill persons, elderly persons, pregnant and lactating women, teenage mothers as well as returnees, or IDP households. FSL/ CASH:
After community mobilization, ... households will be selected through a participative process to benefit from training and receive conditional cash transfer for unrestricted use. 
Same households will also receive cash transfers to buy seeds and other Agricultural inputs.
Beneficiaries will be grouped in farners groups ad receive mentoring from the staff and Minsitry of Agriculture extension workers

Protection :
Community based Protection Network will be created and trained and referral pathways developped in 5 communities.
They will identify  children victim of abuse, especially UASC, CAFAAG and GBV survivors as well as adults GBV survivors and refer them to Plan for case management.
In the same time, Plan will set up 5 CFS for children to be protected and benefit from psychosocial support
Awarenes raising on children rights, especially girls, capacity building of local service providers and authorities will be facilitated by Plan 
A training on Child Protection and Gender will be provided with acre to staff from local organizations.