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Maiwut County faces constant emergencies which affect the living condition of community members living in it.
These emergencies ranging from: manmade conflicts to Natural disasters which some occur annually with different intensities that expose communities to complex risk situation and acerbate suffering of children, women and elderly. The local cope up mechanisms have become very insignificant because most of communities are overwhelmed by the frequency and rampant occurrences of life threatening conditions. Few humanitarian organizations have registered their presence in Maiwut with hope to provide assistance to the suffering community. The government partners are fatigued by the political unrest and slow peace implementation meanwhile services provision remain lagging behind and do not reach most remote areas where most civil population reside.
Owing to this context, all service providing organizations in Maiwut collectively pulled their synergies to conduct an Inter-Agency Rapid Need Assessment in order to find facts on the humanitarian situation as well as needs concerns of community members living in Maiwut. The Member teams include: ADRA South Sudan,
Samaritan Purse, Relief International, UNKEA, RUCAPD, CMD, CARE and NIDO. The process was coordinated by the county RRC coordination offices that were very vital during interaction between assessment teams and community Members.
The teams initial planning was held on July 26th, 2021 at RRC office being chaired by the Maiwut county RRC coordinator. Teams and sites were selected with priorities being given to areas that are being affected by floods and conflicts as well as returnee and IDPs settlement sites. During the assessment, the following areas were visited: Urieng at Jekow and Turu Payam, Jotome payam, Uleng Payam, Pagak Payam and Maiwut central Payams and kigile. There were mainly Four (4) teams that were formed and each was assigned to specific location. All in all, a total of 14 Humanitarian staffs (12M: 2F) were involved during the activity. Each team was composed of 3-4 individuals from different humanitarian service providers.
All Humanitarian partners after establishment of a common pull for facilitation, they went ahead to donate equipment for movement. Relief International provided their vehicle for transportation of staff working at Maiwut and Turu area; ADRA and Samaritan Purse provided Two (2) quad bikes each donating one for movement to Jotome and Uleng areas that have a lot of water and mud. When all things were set, on July 27th, 2021 and by August 4th ,2021 all teams set out for field.
Relative peace in South Sudan has given hope to many refugees living in various Ethiopian refugee camps to return back home with a desire to resume their livelihood activities and rebuild their normal living conditions.
During the assessment, there were about 11,181 Returnees (6261 F: 4920M) whose information was assessed. About 6212 IDPs (2982F: 3230M) were assessed and identified to be victims of flood displacement in various Payams of Maiwut. The teams were also in a position to find out service provision gaps and basic needs of the affected communities. The methodology used included conducting: 16 FGDs, 20 K.I interviews with local village chiefs and use of physical observation to collect the statistics.