Danida-SP-ToC3-SouthSudan-HUM

The protracted humanitarian crisis in South Sudan deteriorated further with the renewed conflict in July 2016. According to the latest humanitarian assessments 7.5 M people are in need of humanitarian assistance. 4.9 M people are severely food insecure (42% of the population). Since December 2013 nearly 3 M people have been displaced, incl. 1.1 M refugees in neighbouring countries. Most of the displaced persons are children and women. South Sudan is a prioritized protracted crisis situation for Denmark to respond to and this programme contributes to the 3 areas of strategic interest in the South Sudan Interim Country Policy Paper (2016-2018). The crisis has regional dimensions with increasing flow of refugees. This ToC embraces the possibility to extend the intervention to the neighbouring countries and to support Oxfam in coordinating its regional humanitarian policy work. The presence and capacity of Oxfam in South Sudan to gather contextual information, undertake analysis and disseminate it, is a strength that benefits regional response activities; and Oxfam already delivers a massive humanitarian response in support of the refugee and host populations in Uganda, Ethiopia, Sudan and DRC. Overall objective: The Oxfam in South Sudan country programme aims at “building resilience and conflict reduction” with a one-programme approach: actively linking humanitarian response to gender-sensitive resilience building (incl. joint context analysis with humanitarian and development teams), long-term development, governance and campaigns. Oxfam IBIS will work as an integrated part of Oxfam’s humanitarian response to the South Sudan crisis contributing specifically to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4, 5 and youth. Currently more than 70% of the programme focuses on ensuring that the immediate, life-saving and essential needs of the most vulnerable conflict affected populations in South Sudan are met in areas of WaSH, protection and education. Oxfam distinguishes between protracted humanitarian interventions and humanitarian emergency responses. The latter is led by Oxfam’s roving Emergency Preparedness and Response (EP&R) team in which technical expertise on Education in Emergencies (EiE) is being integrated as Oxfam IBIS’ contribution to the response. Where there are gaps in capacity, additional resources are usually drawn from the region and when required from the Global Humanitarian Team/global register.