Humanitarian Action for Children 2021
As part of Accountability to Affected People (AAP), 29, 124 calls were received through the UNICEF-supported
2222 hotline. This facilitated information sharing, tracking of rumours around COVID-19 and other health issues
and providing psychosocial support to callers. About 32 per cent of callers sought information related to health
including COVID-19 and routine immunization. A total of 341 focus group discussions (FGDs) (761 females;
1012 males) were conducted across all states, allowing women to openly discuss barriers to women accessing
health services.
In 2021, UNICEF continued to sustain its engagement on the "Faith for Positive Change for Children" initiative
in collaboration CSOs and FBOs such as Episcopal Church for South Sudan (ECSS), The Rescue Initiative of
South Sudan, Care International, United Network for Health, Eye Media and others. Other important partners
include mobile operators such as Zain and MTN, the Ministry of Health, Health Link, and South Sudan Council
of Churches which supported hotlines 6666 and 2222. These engagements and collaborations helped UNICEF
to reach the unreached across the country during multiple disease outbreak scenarios.
Table 7: Key indicators table for C4D
Indicators
Communication platforms or
networks supported by UNICEF
meet quality standards for children
and adolescent engagement and
participation across development
priorities
Communication and community
engagement coordination
Cluster/sector
2021 Target
Cluster/sector
total results
UNICEF
2021
UNICEF
Target
Total
results
N/A
N/A
Level 4
Level 4
N/A
N/A
Level 4
Level 4
mechanism meets standards for
AAP during humanitarian crises
Number of households reached with
key life-saving messages
450,000
540,300
7.5 million 7,579,988
Number of people who participate in
COVID-19 engagement actions
[COVID SitRep]
Results achieved from humanitarian thematic funding
In 2021, thematic funding allowed UNICEF and partners to support emergency programming in the WASH,
Child Protection, Nutrition and Education sectors. Of these, the Education and Child Protection sectors are
critically underfunded.
Extensive communications were undertaken during 2021 covering all areas of global and thematic funding,
including numerous UNICEF website articles and social media posts which directly credited the respective
donors.
WASH thematic funding
Global thematic funding and thematic funding from Germany allowed UNICEF to be a more predictable and
dependable partner to other UN agencies but also to other partners. For example, through funds to operate and
manage a WASH core pipeline warehouse in Aweil through an NGO partner, Centre for Emergency and
Development Services. Similarly, UNICEF operated a WASH core pipeline warehouse in Bentiu that provided
WASH items to WASH Cluster partners responding to displacements caused by flooding. Through German
thematic funds UNICEF also operated dewatering pumps in Bentiu Town to divert flood water while the dykes
to protect the city from submersion were constructed.
The funding also allowed UNICEF to provide integrated services, for example, by supporting a state level WASH
Cluster Coordinator for Northern Bar Ghazal which was a priority food insecurity response county in 2021.
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