2019 SS4007 * Dutch Relief Alliance South Sudan Joint Response 5 (SSJR5)

Please provide a brief description of the project in order to familiarize oneself with the project.Malakal Town, PoC and Aburoch is mainly inhabited by IDPs who are in need of both protection and FSL support. The project catchment area hosts about 47,500 people (28,000 Malakal PoC; 12,000 Malakal Town; and 7,500 Aburoch IDP Camp). As per the recent assessment done in the area, both Malakal and Aburoch are at IPC 4 phase requiring continued humanitarian response in 2019. Child protection and psychosocial support assessments conducted and discussion conducted with community leaders also indicated increasing trends in self-harm (suicidal attempts), involvement of children in exploitative work, aggressive behaviours among children and youth, school dropout, neglect, sexual violence and child marriage. The protracted conflict also affected the capacity of local government and community structures to respond to the multi-dimensional needs of children and community members in the project locations. In addition, both protection and FSL needs are also not fully met by humanitarian organizations who are struggling with limited resources as disclosed during the recent cluster meetings. . By multipurpose cash programming, we intend to offer a more dignified support to communities who have been affected by the crisis for a long period and to supplement/ fill in the gaps of the different services offered by the other actors, such as food, health or education. WCH and PLAN will train staff and promote adherence to CHS, SPHERE, child protection and relevant FSL standards and guidance from initial assessment and planning up to monitoring and evaluation phase. Targeting both in FSL and protection follows appropriate cluster eligibility criteria and mechanism for identification of beneficiaries. Case management support will adhere to SoPs and guidance developed by CP cluster. For instance, case management service eligibility criteria as per the SoP prioritizes separated and unaccompanied children, child GBV cases, de-mobilized children (CAAFAG), children in female headed HHs, child headed HHs and children experiencing child labour specially girls. Key child protection standards to consider during implementation includes coordination with cluster members, strengthening local capacity and existing systems, training staffs on core CP functions, addressing identified child protection needs, implementation of key child protection strategies such as case management and child friendly spaces and mainstreaming of child protection in other sectors. WCH and Plan Int. will ensure adherence to CHS for instance through involving community members in planning phase so that the interventions are relevant and appropriate to their needs, transparently communicating entitlements and available services, setting up complaints/feedback mechanism. Besides, both organizations will continue actively participating in cluster meetings to harmonize the interventions with other partners and applicable minimum standards. WCH and PLAN will ensure that gender is mainstreamed both at organizational and intervention level through gender balanced recruitment, involvement of men, women , boys and girls at community level planning, promoting participation of girls and women in project activities and organizing gender appropriate activities. Specific areas of gender consideration includes: (i) Gender balance in beneficiary selection; (ii) Gender representation in community committee membership and leadership; (iii) Gender balance in staffing and recruitment of female staff for sensitive interventions such as case management; (iv) Designing gender appropriate interventions such as organizing separate session/activity for girls in CFS based on their preference; (v) Efforts to recognize specific barriers to women’s participation and jointly addressing them; (vi) Selection of local partners with specific expertise in gender within the local context.