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South Sudan - Duk Islands, Unity State: IRNA Report to People affected by Conflict and Floods - December 2021

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Situation Overview

This crisis are flood and heavy rains, which have affected means of livelihood e.g. cattle have nowhere to graze and shelter, the heavy rains and floods in Duk area has caused damage of infrastructure and suspended economic activities bringing losses for the community. The floods disaster effect was highest in the Social Sector whereby the Households settlement were all damaged. The floods have covered extensive sections of infrastructure like education whereby some schools are flooded, the other factor for displacement is contributed by the inter communal violence, cattle raiding of 2020 that cause loss of human life and properties in Duk mainland.

Women are the most disadvantaged groups, due to the floods, collecting firewood, carrying water, or even involving in heavy removal of properties has become a challenge and exposing them to risks such as rape or abuse. The floods have made, women become less mobile limiting them in productive work. This calamity has increased psychological stresses for instance and some women complained of sleepless nights because of the worries of their members drowning, getting sick, and the flood impacts women the most with food security.
Their livelihood activity is only fishing, and fish in the only food for survival, the initial sources of livelihood was cattle hence the flood has cause loses of all the cattle.

Open defecation and human congestion favor outbreaks of human diseases, the lack of enough space for living The factors cause people to seek refuge in dry grounds in the island putting more inaccessibility by the businesspeople, as such no market and increased chances of human diseases shall evolve as open defecation continues and the extended wet grounds and flooded The most vulnerable groups affected by flooding are women, children and the elderly.in Duk Island. The main centers in the islands are; Moldova (Koyom), Mayen, Majak, Kawer, and Amech. Most of the people in Duk Islands hail from the Counties of Duk, Ayod, Uror, Twic East and Panyijar are IDPs. However, the majority are from Duk County. The distance between Duk County (Padiet) and Duk Islands is a 3-4 days travel making it difficult to access the humanitarian services from Duk Mainland. While most of the flood-affected households in the Duk mainland have been reached by humanitarian actors, those displaced to Duk Islands have hardly received any assistance since these islands are ‘’hard-to-reach’’.

Between November 2020 and August 2021 FAO in partnership with National NGO called Wadeng Wing of Hope (WWoH), reported providing emergency livelihood kits (crop, vegetable and fishing Kits) to 7,000 households (45,000 people) in the Islands. John Dau Foundation (JDF) a national NGO in partnership with UNICEF is providing nutrition and health service with a base in Koyom (Moldova) main Island.

The overall prioritized needs in Duk Island include WASH, food, emergency livelihood kits (vegetable and fishing kits), NFIs, Nutrition, Health, Education, Dignity kits and Protection From 4-6 December, the ICCG/Bor led by OCHA and Wadeng Wings of Hope-WWOH (partner on the ground), with participation of almost all clusters (except education, CCCM and Logistics ), comprising of WFP for FSL cluster, UNICEF for Nutrition cluster, Charity Mission Corps (CMC) for WASH cluster, Sudan Medical Care (SMC) for Health cluster, Protection cluster/ HDC, and ADA for NFIs/Shelters, successfully conducted IRNA to floods affected people in Duk Islands, Duk County.

The mission was logistically supported by FAO (speedboats, fuel, driver/captain). Due to logistics access constraints to navigate through to all the planned population catchment island centers, the assessment team managed to reach only three centers of Koyom (Moldova), Amech, and Kawar Islands.

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