Humanitarian Action for Children 2021
Sub-national conflict in Tambura County, Western Equatoria resulting in displacement of 90,000 people fleeing
the area. Global thematic funding allowed UNICEF to respond to time-critical needs by instating a partnership
with International Aid Services to provide hygiene NFIs and messaging to 27,000 IDPs; sanitation and
handwashing facilities in three of the IDP camps; and water supply for 14,500 IDPs.
As part of the transition to the restricted voucher modality for provision of water to the 30,000 residents in the
Juba IDP camps through the centralized network, UNICEF entered a partnership with Nile Sustainable
Development Organization to construct water kiosks in the IDP camps and commence community engagement
to identify the locations for the kiosks, identify kiosk attendants, and inform the community how to use the
electronic voucher system to receive water. This partnership and two months of water trucking to this population
was financed with global thematic funding and initiated the sustainable WASH service delivery transition, that
was subsequently financed by the Government of Germany and the South Sudan Humanitarian Fund in the
former Juba PoCs.
Through global thematic funding UNICEF procured 9,000 buckets to provide 54,000 emergency affected
persons (one per household) with water storage and collection containers. This contributed to the overall pre-
positioning for the WASH core pipeline, for the immediate life-saving response to various crises including
COVID-19 prevention.
Child Protection thematic funding
Thematic funding allowed UNICEF and partners to respond equitably to children affected by crisis by delivering
life-saving child protection interventions, reaching 256,522 individuals (91,625 girls; 93,321 boys; 40,358
women; 31,218 men) with critical services including case management, family FTR, MHPSS, support to
CAAFAG, prevention of and response to GBV, EORE and the Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism on Grave
Violations against Children in Situations of Armed Conflict (MRM).
Thematic funds were also used to provide leadership and critical technical support to the Child Protection AoR.
UNICEF is also co-chairing the UASC Working Group and the CTFMR alongside UNMISS.
Thematic funding was instrumental in allowing UNICEF to strengthen the capacity of community-based child
protection networks and increase awareness on child protection, reaching 37,321 people (18,795 girls; 15,603
boys; 1,544 women; 1,379 men) with awareness raising messages on children's rights.
Thematic funding contributed to support UNICEF efforts to strengthen GBV prevention and social norms
transformation through the Communities Care Programme which promotes gender equitable social norms to
prevent GBV and support survivors. The programme continued to be scaled up in 2021 in partnership with the
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and GBV organizations, to address child marriage, adolescent
pregnancies, and sexual violence. Capacity building trainings were conducted for community leaders, and
formal and informal service providers on GBV response. Community members including adolescents, were
trained to lead community discussion groups as allies in harmful social norms transformation. The programme
engaged 709 people (75 girls; 42 boys; 354 women; 238 men) in 15-week community engagement courses to
reach 25,505 people (7,228 girls; 6,376 boys; 7,223 women; 4,678 men) with community actions on subjects
such as such as ending child marriage, and promoting women's participation in peace building
Global thematic funding allowed UNICEF to support the CTFMR in its capacity development efforts, supporting
29 capacity building sessions for 790 members of armed forces (111 women), including Government security
forces (570), Sudan People's Liberation Army in Opposition (SPLA-IO) (202), and South Sudan Opposition
Alliance (SSOA) (18). Further, 3,236 members of the security forces (773 women) benefited from 179 child
protection awareness-raising sessions.
Education thematic funding
In 2021, humanitarian thematic funding supported access to quality education for 27,981 children (11,193 girls)
from IDP settings and host communities in conflict- and flood-affected areas in Upper Nile, Unity, Western
Equatoria, Eastern Equatoria, Jonglei and Warrap States. UNICEF also used this funding to construct and
rehabilitate 21 temporary learning spaces with handwashing facilities.
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