Requesting Organization : Community Action Organization Allocation Type : 2nd Round Standard Allocation Primary Cluster Sub Cluster Percentage PROTECTION Child Protection in Emergencies 100.00 100 Project Title : Strengthening the provision of quality child protection prevention and response services in Nasir County, Upper Nile State. Allocation Type Category : Frontline services OPS Details Project Code : SSD-17/P-HR-RL/103037 Fund Project Code : SSD-17/HSS10/SA2/P/NGO/6546 Cluster : Protection Project Budget in US$ : 84,000.00 Planned project duration : 6 months Priority: Planned Start Date : 01/08/2017 Planned End Date : 31/01/2018 Actual Start Date: 01/08/2017 Actual End Date: 31/01/2018 Project Summary : The project is targeting 4,100 vulnerable children and Young people in IDPs and host community in Nasir County Upper Nile State with significant impact which aims at helping children and young people affected by armed conflict. Facilitating access to community led, child friendly spaces, psycho social support, strengthening resiliency and developing health, safe coping mechanisms to reduce risk of children and adolescents resort to recruitment with armed groups/forces, becoming street working children, or being left without care takers, with an overall objective to provide quality and timely child protection prevention and response services to 4,100 vulnerable boys, girls, women and men who are internally displaced including their host community, through case management and psycho-social support in Nasir County. The trained volunteers and local community on psycho-social support on rights of children will be there to support child protection issues that affecting children in the community through Community based Outreach, to respond and offer psycho-social support to unaccompanied and separated children, identified caregivers within the community and arrange for referral pathways to Identified unaccompanied and separated children who are registered and tracing, follow up and reunification support from the cluster and other actors Direct beneficiaries : Men Women Boys Girls Total 550 550 1,500 1,500 4,100 Other Beneficiaries : Beneficiary name Men Women Boys Girls Total Internally Displaced People 250 250 950 950 2,400 People in Host Communities 150 150 450 450 1,200 Trainers, Promoters, Caretakers, 120 120 50 50 340 committee members, etc. Other 30 30 50 50 160 Indirect Beneficiaries : Indirect beneficiaries include an estimated 100 women and 50 girls 50 boys and 50 men living in Jikmir and Mandeang Payam Nasir county who depend on also get support from others organization such access to health facility and others social services Catchment Population: The population in Nasir County is occupied by Nuer tribes who have been together with IDP from different place. They are mainly engaging in farming and small scale businesses as a means of livelihood. They have relatively good infrastructure in jikmir of South Sudan, however critical infrastructure like schools, health facilities and markets have been destroyed or looted by the warring parties. Link with allocation strategy : Page No : 1 of 11 The strategy has prioritized protection as the top need among the targeted counties. This project is envisioned to Strengthening the provision of quality child protection prevention and response services in Nasir County, Upper Nile State. These are children whose destiny is bound to be jeopardized, unless immediate response is undertaken. The intervention will be done through psycho-social support, identification, registration documentation and reunification of both the separated and unaccompanied children. We shall liaise with the area civil leaders to select and empower the teachers and children in the most vulnerable the activities shall include mapping, provision of PSS, FTR and awareness raising mobilization that would reduce the psycho-socio and economic risk of children in targeted areas, establishment CFS and support vulnerable children. These interventions match with our organizational objectives and work that we have been carrying out for the last 4 years. Sub-Grants to Implementing Partners : Partner Name Partner Type Budget in US$ Other funding secured for the same project (to date) : Other Funding Source Other Funding Amount Organization focal point : Name Title Email Phone Lam David Kuach Executive Director [email protected] +211955472577 Lillian Achan Kennedy protection Coordinator [email protected] +211955006209 BACKGROUND 1. Humanitarian context analysis In the recent past, the South Sudan has experienced political turbulence leading to insecurity and inter-communal conflicts resulting in loss of life, destruction of property and population displacements. This has increased levels of humanitarian catastrophes particularly in three State of Greater Upper Nile including, the most affected county being Nasir. Fighting in Nasir County in January 2017 displaced an estimated 33,000 people, including around 22,110 who were staying in the four locations near the border with Ethiopia that were visited by the Inter-Agency Rapid Needs Assessment according to IRNA report 2017 .The first attack on 2 January 2017 displaced people , homes were reportedly looted and burnt, ten people, including six children, were reportedly killed, more than 20 children were reported as missing or separated, and cases of sexual violence on children were reported. The majority of people displaced by the fighting were women, children and the elderly, including persons with specific needs. An estimated 4,000 people are staying with host communities in Jikmir center and Retguk village in Maker payam; more than 11,500 people were staying in and around Malual, including at the cattle camp; and a further 6,600 people were estimated to be staying in Bou village of stretching along the Giro river. In addition to the IDPs in the four locations that the IRNA team visited, the IRNA team estimated that a further 11,000 people were likely to be displaced within Nasir County, considering that such payams as Kuerengke were reportedly completely deserted and based on November 2016 General Food Distribution (GFD) registration provided by local authorities. The children have suffered traumatic experiences with majority saying they have witnessed their parents and relatives being killed in the fighting. Parents who fled to neighboring Ethiopia have children who have not been accounted for. CAO intends to work with partners in ground to analyze Child Rights issues and Child Protection trends in Upper Nile and explore strategies for developing a feasible child protection programming for the IDP and host community affected by the on-going violence in which children are the most affected. As the conflict may be protracted and the underlying factors are not likely to be resolved any time soon it is possible that the situation will remain severe for some time. • To address underlying vulnerabilities, rather than targeting individual groups or categories of vulnerable children with disparate initiatives • Improving coordination, maximizing scarce resources, and eliminating duplication, since a system is better placed to continually identify and address gaps in child protection in an ongoing way, linking children with a range of services and actors, it frequently maximizes benefit from finite resources • Place a strong emphasis on prevention in compliance with the ‘best interests’ principle and thereby also achieve greater long-term cost- effectiveness. • To develop and maintain links with other systems or act in concert with them in order to meet all child protection needs 2. Needs assessment It is clear from the above humanitarian context analysis that boys, girls’ men and women living in Nasir County are facing critical protection threats. According to REACH Situation overview of upper Nile state as of March 2017, Nasir County reported 53% deaths with a number of children included in what is likely indicative of the ongoing insecurity in Upper Nile. Conflict was the most common cause of death, reported by 87% of respondents in the report. According to IRNA assessment conducted in January 2017, there is a breakdown in community protection mechanisms as IDPs are scattered in different areas and armed actors remain present in multiple locations in Nasir County. The assessment team also reports presence of UASC who have been exposed to harsh weather conditions indicating a breakdown in the family ties. An estimated 1,000 people were killed, 1,300 women and girls raped and 1,600 women and children (mostly girls) abducted) while boys faced forced recruitment by armed groups / actors in Jikmir, Mandeang payams. The young boys who remained were forcefully recruited into the army. There is an urgent need to respond to protection issues affecting children in order to save lives. Returnee Children, the elderly, and people with disabilities have been particularly vulnerable during displacement and are returning home to start afresh, look for their family members and hang on the hope that one day they will be re-united with their loved ones. The working caseload of existing UASC children, according to the key community informants is estimated at 2000 boys and 1000 girls below 18 years. CAO intends to provide FTR services to the identified UASCs. According to the South Sudan Humanitarian Needs Overview 2017, an estimated one million children across the country are suffering from psycho social distress and at risk of developing negative coping mechanisms. Community