Situation Overview: Greater Equatoria, South Sudan January - March 2018
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Situation Overview: Greater Equatoria, South Sudan January - March 2018 Map 2: REACH assessment coverage of the Greater Equatoria region, January (A), February (B) of the situation in a hard-to-reach settlement. REACH Area of Knowledge (AoK) settlement coverage - February 2018 Introduction REACH Area of Knowledge (AoK) settlement coverage - January 2018 1 and March 2018 (C) 1 Legend Legend 0 - 4.9% From January to March 2018, REACH 0 - 4.9% 5 - 10% Following the outbreak of violence in Juba in (A) 5 - 10% (B) July 2016, the conflict in South Sudan expanded interviewed 900 KIs that had knowledge about to previously peaceful areas, including the 400 different settlements: 214 settlements in all six counties of Central Equatoria State, Greater Equatoria region (Central, Eastern, 71 settlements in five out of eight counties of REACH Area of Knowledge (AoK) settlement coverage - March 2018 and Western Equatoria states). Many areas 1 Legend Eastern Equatoria State and 115 settlements 0 - 4.9% in the Greater Equatoria region are largely 5 - 10% in six out of ten counties of Western Equatoria (C) Map based on Longitude (generated) and Latitude (generated) and Latitude (generated). For pane Latitude (generated): Color shows details about A.Indicator color (coverage). Details are shown for County and Month Month. For pane Latitude inaccessible to humanitarian actors due to (generated) (2): Size shows Settlement Size (Parameters). Details are shown for Namecounty. The data is filtered on Month Month and State Label. The Month Month filter keeps February 2018. The State Label filter keeps Central Equatoria, Eastern Map based on Longitude (generated) and Latitude (generated) and Latitude (generated). For pane Latitude (generated): Color shows details about A.Indicator color (coverage). Details are shown for County and Month Month. For pane Latitude Equatoria and Western Equatoria. The view is filtered on Latitude (generated), which keeps non-Null values only. (generated) (2): Size shows Settlement Size (Parameters). Details are shown for Namecounty. The data is filtered on Month Month and State Label. The Month Month filter keeps January 2018. The State Label filter keeps Central Equatoria, Eastern State (Map 2). Findings were triangulated with 4 Equatoria and Western Equatoria. The view is filtered on Latitude (generated), which keeps non-Null values only. insecurity. As a result, only limited information is 0 44 21 0 Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) conducted in 4 10 1 100 available on the humanitarian situation outside Kapoeta Town with internally displaced persons of a few large towns and displacement sites. (IDPs) from Budi County, and secondary data, 11 20 ee ettleent In order to fill these information gaps and including other assessments conducted by Map based on Longitude (generated) and Latitude (generated) and Latitude (generated). For pane Latitude (generated): Color shows details about A.Indicator color (coverage). Details are shown for County and Month Month. For pane Latitude REACH in the Greater Equatoria region over communities across the Greater Equatoria(genera ted) (2): Size shofows Settle mensouthernt Size (Parameters). Details are shown for Nam ecoCentralunty. The data is filtered on Month Mon th aEquatoriand State Label. The Month Month filter keeps March 201State8. The State Label filter keep s Ce(Morobo,ntral Equatoria, Eastern facilitate humanitarian programming, REACH Equatoria and Western Equatoria. The view is filtered on Latitude (generated), which keeps non-Null values only. began collecting monthly data on hard-to- the reporting period. Primary data collection region from January to March 2018. The Yei, Lainya and Kajo-Keji Counties), in Mundri reach areas in the Greater Equatoria region was complemented by consultations with following analysis will summarize trends for the East County (Western Equatoria State) and fro January 2017 through interviews with Key humanitarian partners based in Yambio and Greater Equatoria region as well as analyse in Kapoeta South County (Eastern Equatoria 1 Informants (KIs). Between January and March Kapoeta towns. the three states separately. State). 2018, data was collected through phone call This Situation Overview provides a summary Population Movement and Due to the combination of relative safety interviews with KIs residing across the Greater of displacement trends in addition to access to around main towns and the beginning of the Equatoria region and who had direct knowledge food and basic services for both IDPs and host Displacement cultivation season in the Greenbelt area of Map 1: Counties in the Greater Equatoria Region, March 2018 Following episodes of heavy armed clashes South Sudan, some of those displaced by and large scale displacement at the end of conflict which began in July 2016 started Nagero Tambura 2017, lower intensity fighting continued to take returning from their displacement areas Mvolo place in the first quarter of 2018. While security outside and within South Sudan, mostly to Terekeka deteriorated in areas previously quiet such as settle in population centres perceived to be Mundri Lopa Ibba West Mundri Kapoeta Kapoeta Kapoeta South County, other areas were more secure and to look for income generating Ezo East North East Maridi quiet than through most of 2017, including activities. This has lead to a trend of urban Nzara Yambio Juba Kapoeta the western portion of Western Equatoria. displacement by IDPs returning from foreign South Yei Lainya Torit Budi The main towns of the Greater Equatoria or remote displacment sites and settling in Ikotos Kajo-Keji Magwi region were largely quiet, but armed clashes major towns, including Kapoeta, Torit, Juba, Morobo continued to displace populations in rural areas Yei, and Yambio. Whether these movements 1. ACLED. Political Violence and Protest Data - South Sudan. March 2018. Figure 1: Proportion of assessed settlements displacement caused by the recent clashes A REACH assessment in Yei County in March METHODOLOGY reporting IDP presence, March 2018 remains unknown. Finally, partners reported 2018 found a large numbers of IDPs who had To provide an overview of the situation displacement due to cattle raiding from returned from refugee settlements in Uganda in largely inaccessible areas of Greater 50%Yes Terekeka toward the town of Kuda, in Jubek from where they had been displaced since Equatoria, REACH uses primary data provided 4 50% No State, in late March. 2016, and who had settled in Yei town while by KIs living in or recently arrived from these Displacement toward urban areas waiting for the security situation in rural areas areas, or “Areas of Knowledge” (AoK). 50+50+A to become more stable.7 Those IDPs were As of 28 February, UNHCR reported that Information for this report was collected refugee settlements in most border areas often found to be occupying the homes of 1,053,598 refugees from South Sudan were primarily from newly arrived KIs from Greater such as Magwi, Torit, Ikotos, Kajo-Keji and people who were still in Uganda. in Uganda.5 The number of South Sudanese Equatoria to Yambio and Kapoeta Towns Lainya County. In March, 80% of assessed Temporary returns and supplemented with remote phone calls settlements reported that members of the local refugees present in Uganda has been stable to KIs living in the settlements of interest. community had returned to the settlement since July 2017, following a steep, sustained Another REACH assessment of displacement 6 The remote assessment involved in-depth following prior displacement. Among those, increase throughout the previous year. While between Moyo town in Uganda and Kajo interviews with participants selected through a 34% reported that returns had a large impact populations are still occasionally moving out Keji County also found that traditional and snowball sampling technique, where each KI on the population’s ability to access enough of South Sudan toward Uganda as a result of religious leaders from Kajo Keji County had bouts of small scale fighting in the southern was asked to name two addtional people who food in the settlement, including 100% of successfully negotiated safe access to South portion of Central Equatoria State, returns could be interviewed. A standardised survey assessed settlements in Lainya County. Sudanese refugees seeking to go cultivate are increasingly being reported. Following the tool was used that comprised questions on the land in February. This reportedly led to an 50% of assessed settlements reported trend in the rest of the Greater Equatoria region, displacement trends, population needs and increase in short trips across the border (Map access to basic services. IDP presence in March 2018, suggesting most of those returning to South Sudan settled 4).8 that many areas remain off limits and that in major towns as they do not feel safe enough After data collection was completed, all protracted displacement remains the rule in a Astose settlessed sbackettle mine theirnts r originaleportin grural yes settlements to average .o f the selected indicators - March 2018 data was examined at the settlement level, large portion of the Greater Equatoria region. 1 and settlements were assigned the modal Map 3: Percentage of assessed settlements in the Greater Equatoria region reporting IDP presence, 0% Central Equatoria State 1 - 20% response. When no consensus could be March 2018. 21 - 40% found for a settlement, it was not included in 41 - 60% Many instances of localized fighting caused 61 - 80% Nagero 81 - 100% reporting.