SOUTH SUDAN - CRISIS FACT SHEET #7, FISCAL YEAR (FY) 2016 APRIL 29, 2016 NUMBERS AT USAID/OFDA1 FUNDING HIGHLIGHTS A GLANCE BY SECTOR IN FY 2016 The USG announces more than $86 million in additional humanitarian 5% 5% * 7% 24% funding for South Sudan on April 27 1,696,962 USAID/FFP partner WFP reaches Individuals Displaced in 9% nearly 65 percent of emergency food South Sudan since December 15, 2013 9% pre-positioning target as of April 26 23% *Includes approximately 9,400 displaced persons in Abyei Area. 18% OCHA – February 2016 Logistics & Relief Commodities (24%) HUMANITARIAN FUNDING Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (23%) FOR THE SOUTH SUDAN RESPONSE Health (18%) Agriculture & Food Security (9%) USAID/OFDA1 $38,664,077 179,836 Humanitarian Coordination & Information Management (9%) Protection (7%) USAID/FFP2 $189,978,217 Individuals Seeking Refuge at Nutrition (5%) UNMISS Bases Shelter & Settlements (5%) State/PRM3 $46,050,000 UNMISS – April 21, 2016 $274,692,294 TOTAL USG HUMANITARIAN FUNDING * 2 836,148 USAID/FFP FUNDING FOR THE SOUTH SUDAN RESPONSE TO BY MODALITY IN FY 2016 DATE IN FY 2016 Refugees from South Sudan in Neighboring Countries 100% $1,582,870,463 *Includes an unconfirmed number TOTAL USG HUMANITARIAN FUNDING of refugees, returnees, and U.S. In-Kind Food Aid (100%) FOR THE SOUTH SUDAN RESPONSE IN nomads who have fled to Sudan. FY 2014, FY 2015, AND FY 2016 TO DATE, UNHCR – April 22, 2016 INCLUDES FUNDING FOR SOUTH SUDANESE REFUGEES IN NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES 270,767 KEY DEVELOPMENTS Refugees from Neighboring On April 27, the U.S. Government (USG) announced more than $86 million in additional Countries in South Sudan humanitarian funding for South Sudan, bringing the total USG contribution since the UNHCR – March 31, 2016 beginning of the crisis to nearly $1.6 billion. The USAID/OFDA and State/PRM funding will support life-saving assistance—including logistics, nutrition, protection, and food security and livelihoods support, as well as health, camp management, and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services—for internally displaced populations, refugees seeking asylum in South Sudan, and South Sudanese refugees in neighboring countries. Riek Machar returned to South Sudan’s capital city of Juba and was sworn in as First Vice President on April 26. Government of the Republic of South Sudan (GoRSS) President Salva Kiir appointed a Transitional Government of National Unity (TGNU) on April 28. Countrywide relief activities continued uninterrupted as of April 29. 1 USAID’s Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) 2 USAID’s Office of Food for Peace (USAID/FFP) 3 U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (State/PRM) 1 INSECURITY, DISPLACEMENT, AND HUMANITARIAN ACCESS Humanitarians continue to face attacks, harassment, and violence that hinder their ability to respond to populations in need of assistance throughout South Sudan. On April 12, unidentified armed actors ambushed a group of Danish Refugee Council relief workers traveling in marked vehicles in southern Central Equatoria State. The ensuing attack resulted in the death of two South Sudanese relief workers. Since the start of the current conflict, at least 52 humanitarian workers have been killed in South Sudan. Aid organizations have reported nearly 1,900 humanitarian access incidents, including arrests or detention of staff, attacks on international non-governmental organization (NGO) compounds, and cases of violence against humanitarian personnel and assets since January 2014, according to the UN. On April 7, an interagency humanitarian mission accessed Western Bahr el Ghazal State’s Mboro town in Wau County, which hosts approximately 8,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs), following several security-related delays in March. During the mission, relief staff conducted a rapid needs assessment and delivered nutrition and medical supplies. The interagency team found that the escalation of conflict in Wau County since November 2015 had damaged or destroyed many houses and community facilities in Mboro and prompted the majority of the town’s residents to flee to various locations, with some IDPs sheltering in nearby forests, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Relief staff provided humanitarian assistance to IDPs present during the mission, and identified health, nutrition, and shelter assistance as priority needs in Mboro. Relief organizations also commenced humanitarian assessments in Wau County’s Wau town and Gette payam in neighbouring Jur River County in Western Bahr el Ghazal on April 6 and 11, respectively, to verify the number of IDPs sheltering in the two locations and identify urgent humanitarian needs. As of April 16, approximately 5,000 IDPs were sheltering in Gette, and relief actors were providing health and nutrition assistance to the conflict-affected population. To ensure appropriateness and scale of aid provision, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is verifying the number of IDPs at various displacement sites throughout South Sudan, including UN Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS) protection of civilian (PoC) sites. As of April 12, IOM had completed a verification of the population in the UNMISS PoC site in Melut County, Upper Nile State, and was verifying the population in the UNMISS PoC site in Bentiu town, Unity State. IOM also plans to verify the population sheltering in the UNMISS PoC site in Malakal town, Upper Nile, as well as the number of displaced individuals in Malakal and the Wau Shilluk area, Upper Nile. On March 23, the South Sudan Inter-Cluster Working Group (ICWG) completed a humanitarian mission to Bentiu town and surrounding areas in Unity, including Nhialdu, Nimne, and Kuach towns, in an effort to assess the security situation and feasibility of scaling up static humanitarian presence and assistance. The mission identified approximately 30,000 IDPs in Nhialdu and approximately 15,000 IDPs in Nimne and Kuach, where priority needs include emergency food, nutrition, and protection support. FOOD SECURITY Conflict continues to negatively affect food security and livelihoods in South Sudan, resulting in increasing levels of acute malnutrition in many conflict-affected areas. Between April and September, the food security situation will likely deteriorate further in the Greater Upper Nile region, which comprises Jonglei, Unity, and Upper Nile states, due to ongoing insecurity, loss of income-generating activities, and economic and political instability, according to the USAID- funded Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET). In Unity, populations currently experiencing Emergency—IPC 4—levels of food insecurity may face an elevated risk for high levels of acute malnutrition and increased mortality.4 Without increased humanitarian assistance, food security conditions in northern Jonglei and parts of Upper Nile will also deteriorate to Emergency levels, according to FEWS NET. Economic instability—leading to high food prices and poor market functioning—is also affecting urban populations that are dependent on markets for food, such as in South Sudan’s capital city of Juba. In response, USAID/FFP partners WFP and the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) are scaling up the provision of ready-to-use supplementary food 4 The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) is a standardized tool that aims to classify the severity and magnitude of food insecurity. The IPC scale, which is comparable across countries, ranges from Minimal—IPC I—to Famine—IPC 5. 2 for the treatment of moderate acute malnutrition and ready-to-use therapeutic food for the treatment of severe acute malnutrition via nutrition programs in eight locations in and around Juba. Deteriorating food insecurity has driven more than 55,000 people from Northern Bahr el Ghazal State to Sudan since January 2016, the UN reports. In response, WFP and partner agencies conducted general food distributions, reaching approximately 29,300 people in Northern Bahr el Ghazal—including an estimated 14,500 people in Aweil North County, approximately 7,400 people in Aweil Center County, and 7,400 people in Aweil East County—as of April 18. WFP had also begun moving 20,000 metric tons (MT) of cereals to respond to food insecurity throughout the Greater Bahr el Ghazal region, including Lakes, Northern Bahr el Ghazal, Warrap, and Western Bahr el Ghazal states, as of April 19. Overall, WFP has delivered more than 110,000 MT of food commodities throughout South Sudan via road, air, and river to date in 2016, of which an estimated 78,400 MT of food had reached pre-positioning locations as of April 26— or approximately 65 percent of WFP’s target for the 2015/2016 pre-positioning period. Limited improvement in humanitarian access in recent months enabled WFP to pre-position an increased proportion of food commodities via road in difficult-to-access areas that previously required mobile team or air operations, including in Upper Nile’s Mathiang and Udier towns. WFP distributed more than 21,500 MT of food to approximately 1.6 million people throughout South Sudan in March—the largest amount of food delivered in a one-month period since December 2013. While WFP typically distributes 65 to 70 percent of targeted monthly caseloads due to logistical constraints, the UN agency distributed nearly 100 percent of the March target because of enhanced overland mobility and improved access into Jonglei and Unity. From March 31–April 19, WFP mobile teams delivered 5,300 MT of emergency food assistance to approximately 300,000 people in Unity and Upper Nile, including three missions via road and air that delivered an estimated 1,300 MT of food assistance to 70,500 beneficiaries. Despite these successes, road conditions on two key transport routes in South Sudan have begun to deteriorate due to the onset of the rainy season and may close by the end of April, according to WFP. The affected routes include the Bor–Pibor road in Jonglei and the road between Juba and Terekeka town in Central Equatoria, which is the main access route to the Western Corridor and a major artery for transporting humanitarian cargo.