ReliefWeb

In Numbers

2 million South Sudanese assisted by WFP in March

1.9 million internally displaced people (OCHA)

1.7 million South Sudanese refugees (UNHCR)

217,622 seeking shelter with the UN (UNMISS)

5.5 million people facing severe food insecurity from May to July 2017 (IPC, Feb. 2017)

Highlights

 As part of the ongoing emergency scale-up activities in the Greater Eastern Equatoria region, food assistance was provided to people in both Kapoeta North and Kapoeta South Counties.

 Following recent fighting in Aburoc, an integrated rapid response mechanism team (IRRM) conducted registration of just over 19,000 people in Upper Nile, and food distributions are ongoing.

Situation Update

 In parts of the country which are stable, WFP is implementing food assistance for assets (FFA) programmes, targeting more than 450,000 people in five states (Northern Bahr el Ghazal, Warrap, Lakes, Western Equatoria and Abyei). Community based participatory planning workshops have been held through which communities have identified their priorities for asset creation activities. Households have now started asset creation work, such as development of community access roads, water control dykes and group crop farms and will be provided with food or cash assistance in exchange for their participation over the course of six months. Combined with Purchase for Progress (P4P) and food for education (FFE), FFA forms part of WFP’s resilience strategy in South Sudan which seeks to assist recovery and increase resilience to future shocks.

 The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) technical working group is holding an analysis update workshop in Juba during the second and third week of May. The workshop aims to analyse data from identified hot spots in 30 counties that require an in-depth assessment as well as to review the February IPC classification. The final IPC report is planned to be published by the end of May.