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In this case study, IOM CCCM Team in South Sudan explains how CCCM Mobile Teams can be a valuable modality to support hard to reach communities displaced by floods in South Sudan.
Context In 2022, despite the signature of the Revitalized Agreement for the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (R-ARCSS) and its agreed extensions, more than two thirds of the people in South Sudan (8.9 million) were estimated to be in need of humanitarian assistance (HNO, 2022). At the start of the year, in the Abyei Administrative Area (AAA) and Twic County of South Sudan’s Warrap State, violent inter-communal conflict driven by territorial disputes, inter-tribal tensions and revenge-seeking displaced more than 129,000 people from both locations. In February 2022, an Inter-Agency Rapid Needs Assessment (IRNA) was conducted to confirm the reported humanitarian needs. A few months later, on 17 April 2022, an IRNA conducted in Leer County of Unity State confirmed massive displacement of more than 26,000 people due to clashes between Leer and Mayendit communities, and between the Sudan People’s Liberation Army-In Opposition (SPLA-IO) and the youth from Koch and Mayendit. In addition to displacement due to conflict in early 2022, an assessment from the CCCM Cluster in Unity State confirmed that the southern parts of the State were hit by unprecedented flooding because of heavy rainfall in the month of August 2022, causing displacement of residents from their locations of origin, particularly in Leer County – with the estimated affected population standing at 49,854 individuals. In Mayendit County (Unity State), heavily affected by the floods, the CCCM Cluster estimated the affected population to be 21,265 individuals. In Panyijar (Unity State), the total estimate stood at 17,648 people affected by flooding. In these counties, based on organizational assessments, IRNAs and DTM event tracking reports, acute needs fell within CCCM, FSL, SNFI, WASH, Health, Nutrition, Protection and Education. It is worth nothing that in the first half of 2022, IOM DTM conducted multiple assessments in Warrap, Jonglei and Unity States tracking the displacement of 156,605 people across 41 different payams, noting the severe need for SNFI, Health, WASH, and protection support. About 52% of the population were living in displacement sites, informal settlements and collective centers, indicating the dire need for CCCM support to engage communities.