Lifesaving Emergency Food Assistance to reduce vulnerability to food insecurity and malnutrition among disaster and conflict affected persons South Sudan
PASS proposes to intervene through Lifesaving Emergency Food Assistance to reduce vulnerability to food insecurity and malnutrition among disaster and conflict affected persons South Sudan. The goal of the program is to improve access of conflict-affected IDPs and host community communities to immediate lifesaving assistance and to reduce their vulnerability to food insecurity and malnutrition. A combination of prolonged dry spells, floods, protracted conflict and continued ceasefire violations, poor access to inputs, low productivity, pests such Fall Army Worm (FAW) invasion, livestock diseases and subsequent high mortalities, poor infrastructure, dysfunctional markets, poor terms of trade and poor trade flows, declining economic opportunities and rising inflation have led to unprecedented food insecurity situation in South Sudan
The program focuses on the most vulnerable (single and child headed households, pregnant and lactating women, elderly, those living with disabilities or chronic illnesses), who are unable to participate in cash for work, also taking into account Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) and targeting those who are assessed to be in emergency (severe lack of food access with excess mortality, very high and increasing malnutrition, and irreversible livelihood asset stripping). The intervention is designed to save lives through food assistance (in-kind & cash-based transfers) targeting vulnerable HHs & populations: woman, girls, men & boys, elderly, disabled, PLW, children U5, HIV & chronically sick with focus on famine prevention & response through multi sector collaboration and integrated actions that tackle protection (GBV/Child), WASH, Nutrition & Health.
The programs conducts community based cash for work campaigns, rehabilitation of basic services, capacity building of CAHWs, Vaccination and treatment of livestock, distribution of crops, fishing kits and vegetable kits, conduct seed fairs, ) Unconditional cash transfers/ Voucher system for seed procurement and support value chain addition e.g. through milk & fish preservation & marketing. The Program is done in collaboration with other humanitarian actors in South Sudan
