Contribution to OCHA's South Sudan Programme 2022



Contract partner: UNOCHA - United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Switzerland Country: Südsudan Funding amount: € 1.000.000,00 Project start: 01.01.2022 End: 31.12.2022

Short Description:

Overall goal


The interventions of humanitarian organisations that participate in OCHA-led coordination mechanisms is well coordinated and based on robust and timely evidence. Advocacy for humanitarian access, the respect of humanitarian principles and for the protection of people in need is effective.


Expected results


R1. Improved coordination and support to joint needs assessments, joint strategic response planning, and joint monitoring and reporting of collective results

I1. 60 key context updates and analysis produced for HCT and ICCG.

I2. 4 humanitarian response monitoring products with funding updates produced

I3. At least 8 Ad hoc ICCG field missions are organized to best advise the HC and HCT on coordination challenges and provide timely support to field-based stakeholders and state cluster focal points

R2. Reinforced operational support to humanitarian leaders, with enhanced quality of contextual analysis, improved timeliness and quality of information, and strengthened context-specific coordination mechanisms

I1. 12 Humanitarian Snapshots containing gender and protection sensitive information

I2. 26 reports shared from IRNA’s undertaken.

R3. Improved engagement across the humanitarian system around the protection of affected people, with improved protection coordination, sustained analysis, monitoring and advocacy on humanitarian access, and system readiness

I1. 10 key messages or/and briefings to the senior leadership of the humanitarian anddiplomatic community, to inform donor and diplomatic engagement on protection and access issues as part of regular high-level engagement in HCT Plus, Heads of Mission, Humanitarian Coordination Forum and broader government engagement.

I2. At least 10 formal and informal training and briefings conducted on UN Humanitarian Civil-Military Coordination for personnel from UNMISS, UN Agencies, NGOs and armed groups.

I3. At least 8 civ-mil advocacy missions undertaken to address civ-mil hotspot locations and/or emerging issues.


Target group / Beneficiaries


The 2022 HRP encompasses projects to be undertaken by 183 organisations - 10 UN agencies, 66 international NGOs and 107 national NGOs. In addition, OCHA will continue closely working with organizations outside HRP that are delivering humanitarian assistance in South Sudan, including partners such as the Red Cross Movement, donor organizations and government.

Indirect beneficiaries are the estimated 6.7 million people targeted for humanitarian assistance in 2022 provided the HRP is fully funded.


The number of indirect beneficiaries related to the Austrian funding should be all beneficiaries reached by implementing partners that benefit from OCHA’s activities. For this exercise, we will apportion proportionally based on the Austrian contribution towards the overall requirements of the 2022 South Sudan HRP, which is for $1.67 billion to reach 6.7 million people. The Austrian funding would therefore benefit roughly 4,569 people. The number of direct beneficiaries will stay in all the organizations who have projects in the 2022 HRP, and for all humanitarian partners who coordinate through the cluster approach.


Activities


R1A1. Convene, chair and minute all meetings and facilitate all processes of the ICCG to enhance synergies and maximize impact of the humanitarian response.

R1A2. Ensure that when new response requirements and/or competing priorities arise, collective decision are taken to prioritize the use of common services (i.e. UNHAS and Logistics Cluster services).

R2A1. Preparation and dissemination of context updates for HCT and ICCG

R2A2. Facilitate planning and undertaking of IRNAs in locations prioritised by ICWG, including mobilization of inter-agency staff, liaison and briefing regarding security, coordination of logistical arrangements, and timely production and circulation of corresponding reports

R3A1. Convene and facilitate the access working group, maintaining a register of key strategic access issues and associated facts for the preparation of access snapshots and to inform high level engagement by the HC/HCT.

R3A2. Undertake access negotiations with all parties to the conflict in order to facilitate humanitarian partners’ operations and their security in contested locations, advocating with relevant interlocutors to remove access constraints for safe, unhindered and immediate access, and support security of their operations.

R3A3. Ensuring protection, including from gender-based violence, is central to HC and HCT messaging, and is achieved by drafting relevant statements and key messages, and incorporating protection-related concerns in the HRP and information products.

R3A4. Convene regular meetings of the Civil Military Advisory Group (CMAG) as an advisory forum to humanitarian partners on best practice in relation to UN Humanitarian Civil-Military Coordination that emphasizes the principles of separation and distinction between humanitarian and military activities, as well as OCHA participation and action related to MCDA meetings.


Context


Ten years after independence and three years after the signing of the revitalized peace agreement, people in South Sudan continue to face deteriorating humanitarian conditions. Their situation is worsened by endemic violence, conflict, access constraints and operational interference, public health challenges such as direct and indirect effects of COVID-19 and climatic shocks resulting in the dual phenomena of extraordinary flooding and localized drought, which have a severe impact on people’s livelihoods, hampers access to education and water, sanitation and hygiene and health services. Protection concerns remain high, with people impacted by violence having limited access to justice and the rule of law. In 2022, the humanitarian community in South Sudan estimates that more than two-thirds of South Sudan's population, 8.9 million people, are in need of humanitarian assistance, an increase of 600,000 since 2021.

Continued conflict and instability in the country combined with flooding have resulted in large-scale internal and cross-border displacement. At the same time, limited improvements in some areas have prompted some people to spontaneously return. In addition, the government, with the support of some humanitarian agencies - has facilitated returns to certain areas. Due to compounding shocks, both in areas of Humanitarian Aid Measures / Te

displacement and return, populations have been forced to keep displacing time and again.

Climate change continues to impact different sectors, particularly agriculture, which is one of the most climate sensitive economic sectors. Above normal rainfall for the third consecutive year in 2021 led to prolonged flooding, which impacted areas that had not flooded in previous years.

Humanitarian access to essential services, including health care, education, water and sanitation, as well as protection and legal services, remains a challenge in an already complex context. Between January and December 2021, 591 reported humanitarian access incidents were recorded. These ranged from violence against humanitarian personnel and assets to operational interference.

project number 2709-00/2022
source of funding AKF
sector Humanitäre Hilfe: Sofortmaßnahmen
tied 0
modality
marker Disaster risk reduction: 1
  • Policy marker: are used to identify, assess and facilitate the monitoring of activities in support of policy objectives concerning gender equality, aid to environment, participatory development/good governance, trade development and reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health. Activities targeting the objectives of the Rio Conventions include the identification of biodiversity, climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, and desertification.
    • 1= policy is a significant objective of the activity
    • 2= policy is the principal objective of the activity
  • Donor/ source of funding: The ADA is not only implementing projects and programmes of the Austrian Development Cooperation , but also projects funded from other sources and donors such as
    • AKF - Foreign Disaster Fund of the Austrian federal government
    • BMLFUW - Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water
    • EU - Funds of the European Commission
    • Others - various other donors are listed in ADA’s annual business report.
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  • Tied/Untied: Untied aid is defined as loans and grants whose proceeds are fully and freely available to finance procurement from all OECD countries and substantially all developing countries. Transactions are considered tied unless the donor has, at the time of the aid offer, clearly specified a range of countries eligible for procurement which meets the tests for “untied” aid.