Attachments
Highlights
• WFP and UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) organized a launch workshop for an upcoming Joint Assessment Mission (JAM) for South Sudan to assess the food and non-food needs of refugees and other populations of concern.
• WFP has so far prepositioned 85,000 mt - equivalent to 60 percent of the 140,000 mt target. Deliveries are ongoing to reach the target before the onset of the main rain season.
Situation Update
• The food and nutrition security situation continues to deteriorate as the peak of the hunger season which typically runs from May - July approaches. Unless a sustained and comprehensive humanitarian response is mounted, the most vulnerable - who have been weakened by years of conflict will slide into ‘famine-like’ conditions as was the case in 2017. WFP and partners are working to scale-up food assistance to reach up to 4.8 million people with critical food supplies at the height of the response in June/July.
• Latest findings from the mobile Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping (mVAM) surveys, an initiative of WFP’s in collecting, analyzing and presenting food security and related information through use of surveys based on mobile phones indicate that poor food consumption persists in Torit and Juba. Overall, there is high market dependence, particularly in Kapoeta South where all households are dependent on markets for their food needs.
• WFP has suspended activities in Koch and Mayendit, counties due to a deteriorating security situation in most targeted locations. WFP continues to monitor the security situation. Activities will resume when situation improves.