Sudan: Summary of the Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan and the Regional Refugee Response Plan (February 2025)

At a glance

This document is a summary of the humanitarian response presented in the Humanitarian needs and Response Plan (HNRP) and of the Regional Refugee Response Plan (RRP). Both plans present needs and requirements for 2025 and may be revised and adjusted based on the context and needs.

Strategic objectives

Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan

• Provide safe, timely, principled, and genderresponsive humanitarian assistance to the most vulnerable groups to reduce mortality and morbidity in areas with high severity of need or at risk of further deterioration of critical humanitarian needs.
• Provide direct responses to the protection needs arising from crisis for affected women, men, girls, and boys, especially those who are most vulnerable and marginalized and ensure that assistance and advocacy are guided by principles of protection, conflict sensitivity, and inclusivity across gender and diversity, in accordance with international norms and standards and prevent and reduce emerging protection risks.
• Provide safe, equitable, dignified, and unhindered access to critical basic services and livelihood opportunities for the most vulnerable groups to prevent further erosion of their coping abilities.

Regional Refugee Response Plan

• Support host countries in ensuring access to territory and asylum for all individuals in need of international protection, in compliance with the principle of nonrefoulement and other regional and international obligations, including maintaining the civilian and humanitarian character of asylum.
• Support host countries to provide timely, effective and inclusive life-saving protection and humanitarian assistance for those fleeing Sudan, with a specific focus on identifying protection risks and supporting those at heightened risk and in need of specialized protection interventions including family reunification, resettlement and complementary pathways.
• Support host countries to strengthen institutional and local capacity to include refugees in national systems and services, particularly in health, education, child protection and the economy – develop integrated settlements for refugees and their hosting communities in rural and semi-urban settings and support socioeconomic inclusion and provide targeted assistance for refugees in urban settings.
• Support neighboring countries to ensure access to their territory for third country nationals fleeing Sudan, and assist, in close coordination with embassies and consulates, immigration procedures and the option to enable them to return home to their respective countries of origin.