Humanitarian Action for Children 2021

Spanish Committee for UNICEF United States Fund for UNICEF Total SM1899100944 SM1899100183 23,439 24,673 16,533 2,889,137 17,403 3,048,051 Future work plan Through integrated and multisectoral services, UNICEF will put the rights of the child at the centre of all interventions. Strengthening social service delivery systems in high-risk areas will improve accountability to and results for children, by building resilience and sustaining gains. Risk-informed programming will strengthen the capacities of individuals, communities, and local partners from the onset of humanitarian action. UNICEF's programmes will be informed by a conflict sensitive approach, with a strong focus on social cohesion, embedded in an analysis of socio-political-ethnic dynamics as the main drivers of violence. UNICEF established agreements with NGO partners in advance of the rainy season, to rapidly respond to flood displacement response needs. Further innovative thinking and analysis will be taken forward in 2022 to improve how UNICEF works in flooded contexts and work towards local level resilience building, disaster risk reduction and adaptable mobile light responses. UNICEF will continue to strengthen leadership and coordination through its leadership of the nutrition, education and WASH clusters and the child protection AoR to contribute to strategic humanitarian action linked to development. Nutrition As laid out in the UNICEF conceptual framework on nutrition, the underlying causes of malnutrition reflect a variety of interconnected socioeconomic risks and vulnerabilities. To address this, UNICEF will implement a systems approach to nutrition that is multisectoral in nature and aligns with food security, health, WASH, risk communication and social protection sectors among others. In 2021, UNICEF supported a network of 7,404 (2,947 female) community nutrition volunteers (CNVs) (an increase of 1,000 from 2020) on a cost sharing basis with WFP to promote optimal maternal, infant and young child nutrition (MIYCN) at household level. Similar efforts will increase the number of CNVs by a further 1,000 in 2022 to scale up availability and access to preventive nutrition services. 2022 Programme Targets - Nutrition 33 • • • 241,500 children aged 6 to 59 months with severe acute malnutrition admitted for treatment 1,234,257 primary caregivers of children aged 0 to 23 months receiving infant and young child feeding counselling 2,940,435 children aged 6 to 59 months receiving vitamin A supplementation. Health A draft Health Sector Stabilization and Recovery Plan (2020-2022) is being validated which includes recommendations for a limited number of key cross cutting interventions in critical elements of the health system (human resources, infrastructure, information systems etc.) with a catalytic potential. 2022 Programme Targets - Health • 97,067 children aged 6 to 59 months vaccinated against measles • 311,000 pregnant women and children provided with insecticide-treated nets in malaria-endemic areas. WASH UNICEF will continue to respond to emergency WASH triggers in 2022 through anticipatory financing and actions for more predictable emergency needs such as floods. UNICEF will continue to manage the warehouses and teams for the WASH core pipeline. 33 All programme targets from UNICEF, Humanitarian Action for Children 2022, December 2021 https://www.unicef.org/southsudan/media/9126/file/2022-HAC-South-Sudan.pdf 22 22

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