LOCATION: WFP Tukul Conference Room DATE: 25 September, 2014
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SOUTH SUDAN FSL JONGLEI COORDINATION – MEETING MINUTES LOCATION: WFP Tukul Conference Room DATE: 25 September, 2014 CHAIR: George Mvula, FSL Area Cluster Coordinator AGENDA: The following was the agenda of the meeting: 1. Introductions; 2. Review and endorsing previous minutes; 3. Recap of the FSL Partners meeting; 4. Key challenges to humanitarian response interventions in Jonglei; 5. Partners’ presentation of county level information (planned versus actual) and where; 6. Presentation by SAADO on elevated Hunger Situation in Twic East; 7. Presentation by Oxfam Intermon on Urban Livelihood assessment in Bor Town; 8. Review of gaps per county; 9. Briefing on the IPC report September 2014 and implications on response programming; 10. AOB Monthly Updates from Partners Church and Development Key achievements in the month of September: Trained 150 women headed households on construction and usage of energy efficient stoves (Rocket Lorena model). Trained 300 fish folks (277 male, 03 female) on fish processing and preservation, this also involved construction of improved fish drying ovens using local materials. 60 households trained on village savings and loans association methodology and equipping them with startup kits. 400 beneficiaries from Bor Town registered and verified for unconditional cash transfer. http://foodsecuritycluster.net/operations/south-sudan SOUTH SUDAN FSL JONGLEI COORDINATION – MEETING MINUTES Plans for October 600 households in Bor targeted to receive ganny bags and assorted tools for construction of secondary dykes around their homesteads Cash transfer to verified 400 vulnerable households Post cash transfer assessment in Bor main market and other markets in the Payam. Catholic Relief Services (Jonglei Food Security Programme) General Food Distribution: CRS has been doing general food distributions in Bor and Twic East. The following is the breakdown for August and September 2014: Month County Number of Type of Quantity of Beneficiaries Beneficiaries food distributed (MT) August Bor 29,112 IDP/returnees, 606.65 RR/FFA and model farmers Twic East IDP/returnees, 40.75 RR/FFA and model farmers September Bor 63,406 IDP/Returnees 934.02 Bor and 6,884 DRR/FFA 199.63 Twic East Twic East 1,489 Model farmers 20.64 Total 100,891 1,801.64 Under the Disaster Risk Reduction initiative in Bor, CRS is supporting food for asset activities such as road clearing (Pagook-Mayen road) and construction of flood protection dyke in Mac-deng. So far, a total of 90.48MT of food has been distributed under the initiative. CRS has also conducted post harvest assessment in Malual-agorbaar village where it was noted that a majority of farmers have harvested ad are preparing for a second crop (ground nuts) while cassava is doing well. In Kondai, farmers are currently harvesting but are not planning to plant for the second crop. http://foodsecuritycluster.net/operations/south-sudan SOUTH SUDAN FSL JONGLEI COORDINATION – MEETING MINUTES Challenges/constraints • Bad roads between Jalle - Bor as well as inaccessibility owing to heavy rainfall affect staff mobility and distributions in Jalle, Mach-Deng, and Kolmarek; • Inadequate sanitation (absence of latrines) at distribution centers; • There is lack of nutrition package for children under 5 years in Payams which were allocated to other agencies. Plans for October Under the DRR/FFA component, the following will continue: • Rehabilitation of dykes, opening of feeder roads and support to agricultural production in Bor and Twic East, • Opening of feeder roads and support to agricultural production in Uror, Pibor and Pochalla Counties, • Continue with food distribution in Bor and Twic East counties and, • Identification and formation of farmer producer groups in all the counties mentioned above. NRC The following is the update from the NRC: Activity Location and Target beneficiaries Remarks Identification and Bor County: registration of Target: beneficiaries a) 500 HHs of Internally Displaced Persons 500 HHs (IDPs) were (vegetable seeds) b) 100 HHs host community registered The selected Internally Displaced Persons were from community of Twic East and 100 HHs from the host Duk counties communities were registered Host community selected were from Anyidi and Makuach Payams Identification and Bor County: registration of Target: beneficiaries (fishing a) 500 HHs Internal Displace Person 500 HHs (IDPs) were community) registered b) 100 HHs from the host community 100 HHs from host Internal Displace Person selected were communities were registered from community of Twic East and Duk counties Host community selected were from Anyidi and Makuach Payams Next Pan Distribution of beneficiary items (vegetable seeds, tools and fishing kits); http://foodsecuritycluster.net/operations/south-sudan SOUTH SUDAN FSL JONGLEI COORDINATION – MEETING MINUTES Training of selected Agriculture Community Workers to assist vegetable farmers in the fields in terms of field management/agronomic practices in order to maximize productivity; Training of groups of vegetable farmers in their respective locations SAADO SAADO made a detailed presentation on the livestock sector. Of more importance was the trend in market prices of steers and cows, the presentation highlighted that there has been an increase in prices of steers and cows between April and September 2014. The graph below illustrates the point: Common diseases observed for livestock include the following: east coast fever, trypanosomiasis, black quarter, flukes/internal worms, foot and mouth disease, contagious bovine pleura-pneumonia and peste des petite ruminants amongst many others. SAADO has carried out vaccination and treatment campaigns in Bor Town, Kolnyang, Baidit, Anyidi, Makuach and Jalle. Challenges • Limited access to cattle camps due to bad roads and location; • Negative community perception on some vaccines and drugs; • Irregular movement of animals, from county to county; http://foodsecuritycluster.net/operations/south-sudan SOUTH SUDAN FSL JONGLEI COORDINATION – MEETING MINUTES • Unpredictable and limited funding leaving out key livestock related issues e.g. public health. Gaps Key strategic gaps exist in livestock industry such as: - Re-establishment of Bor marketing centre and veterinary clinic - Renovation of slaughter houses and butchery; - Improvement of waste management and; - Training of more animal health workers to improve animal health service delivery. NPA NPA is implementing food assistance activities in Old Fangak, New Fangak, Pochalla and Pigi. Food distribution for September: County Number of IDPs Old Fangak 20’300 New Fangak 18’315 Pochalla 54’414 Pigi 9’405 Total amount of food distributed is 1 210MT. Constraints There are a number of strategic constraints experienced by NPA in implementing their activities. These include; - Limited staff movement owing to insecurity - Poor communication facilities and; - Inaccessibility (cancelled flights, etc). In Twic East, NPA has been supporting farmer groups through a revolving fund scheme. So far, 40 percent of the funds have been disbursed. http://foodsecuritycluster.net/operations/south-sudan SOUTH SUDAN FSL JONGLEI COORDINATION – MEETING MINUTES Table xxx: show total amounts disbursed to producer groups in Bor County Total Target amount in area in S/N Producer groups SSP feddan Achievement Women sugar cane and vegetable production 1 group 15,500 30 20 2 Bor women self-help farmer group 15,500 20 22 3 Deutoong (1) farmer group 15,210 30 20 4 Deutoong (2) farmer group 15,400 27 21 5 Abierbeek farmer group 15,500 20 16 Baidit Community Agriculture project farmer 6 group 15,500 21 20 7 Chileu women producer group 9,300 25 15 8 Seed multiplication Centre farmer group 9,207 30 18 Total 111,126 203 152 JAM Working with WFP in providing food assistance to Pibor, Bor, Duk and Twic East. A total of 54 493 beneficiaries have been assisted in Bor Town where the distribution is in progress. Problems with pipeline (road inaccessibility) have affected deliveries in Twic East. Constraints - Space: the distribution space in Bor is too small for the population that comes to the sites. The issue has already been raised with the RRC for action. ACTION POINT: WFP, JAM and RRC to discuss and resolve the problem. VSF-G - VSF-G is supporting beneficiaries in Bor and Pibor through food aid and livestock based assistance (meat distribution). - VSF-G is also targeting 400HHs with fishing gear - 40 Community Animal Health Workers will also be trained to support veterinary services. Presentation by SAADO on Twic East At the request of the Cluster, SAADO made a presentation on the state of food security in Twic East. The presentation raised the following points: http://foodsecuritycluster.net/operations/south-sudan SOUTH SUDAN FSL JONGLEI COORDINATION – MEETING MINUTES - SAADO has been supporting crisis affected populations in Kongor, Nyuak and Lith Payams. A total of 35 465 people had been supported by July 2014. - Nutrition packages (comprising CSB++) were also distributed to 1690 children in all the three payams. Gaps SAADO has been approached by government/local authorities to facilitate identification of support for the following Bomas (Aliet, Baping, Lualjokbil, Pakuor and Pageer. These areas last received food assistance in July 2014. The population that needs assistance is estimated at 11 500 people subject to verification. In addition, farming inputs, fishing gears and nutritional response for IDPs are needed. During the discussion, it was mentioned that JAM, Oxfam, VSf-G and CRS will be able