Compounded shocks resulting from several years of conflict and displacement, coupled with two successive years of floods, resulted in the decimation of livelihoods and key household assets in Fangak County in Jonglei State of South Sudan. Recent flooding has resulted in further displacement of the population in August 2021. The general population in the area are mainly women and children who returned to the community after being displaced by the 2013 and 2016 South Sudan civil war.
REACH factsheet for June 2021 assessment revealed that the population in Fangak was dependent on general food distribution (GFD) from NGOs. It indicates that 91% of the assessed households (HH) do not have enough food. 25% of the assessed households reported that crops were destroyed by floods. In the month of July, the assessed households indicated that 100% people did not receive general food assistance despite the raging floods. Access to food from Fangak marked is currently cut with floods.
The project will provide emergency food distribution to 900 most vulnerable Households. The project funds will be used for emergency food aid for families in flood affected Payams in Fangak County and to help families in crisis and back on their feet again. The initiative will be run by ACRA through consultation with local community leaders. This will involve the distribution of cereals, oil, maize flour and salt to severe food-insecure households affected with floods
Save Lives, reduced acute and severe food insecurity, built resilience, stabilized nutritional status of vulnerable households and reduced dependency on food aid in Fangak. Provision of food will enable the community to help its own members through crises by cohesion, keeps the able bodied in work (fishing) and the children in education. The community will rely on its own leaders rather than depend directly on an NGO. This will in turn keep men and women at work thereby promoting sustainability.
This project has provided additional documentation in a DOCX file (projdoc.docx).
