Africa-Press – South-Sudan. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) South Sudan has said aid plans for 2022 for violence and flood-affected people will depend on analysis and findings.
Annette Hearns, UNOCHA Deputy Head of Office Policy, said there are fewer resources in the hands of agencies and international non-governmental organisations assisting the people of South Sudan.
She said there is a need for them to know the numbers of the population in need and their locations because they have funding gaps.
“We have to be sensible because our resources are also diminishing. We need more and more resources. What to do is to understand what is required. We are going to develop the plan based on that analysis and finding, ” Annette stated on the Radio Miraya Breakfast morning show over the weekend, while giving a new year plan for the needy.
She said after the finding, they will be in a position to request the donors to provide the funding that is necessary to enable their partners to undertake the activities of assisting the South Sudanese.
Annette said their focus would be in the areas of COVID-19 and malaria preventive measures.
The official stressed that they have thousands of organisations that have hygiene preventable illnesses, and they require the activities to be done in complementarity.
“Not just with humanitarians but with development partners, peacekeepers, and political leaders to assist those who are suffering, be medicated, and prevented.”
According to Annette, there are 8.4 million people who are in humanitarian need in South Sudan, and there is a need to provide access to what people need including health and water.
She also stated that there are an estimated 1.4 million children under the age of five in her country, which is equivalent to 20 per cent of the total population.
Annette stated that the majority of those children are malnourished, as well as thousands of women who are either pregnant or lactating.
“They all need support, and they need to be treated and looked at as human beings with appropriate lives.”
In her message, she said: “Every man, woman, girl, boy, it doesn’t matter if you are displaced, disabled, or refugees; you have the right to life here in South Sudan.” Violence is not an option with that sense of peace and stability, so let’s all build the future that we highly deserve for tomorrow. If you look at the smile of every child, and you look at how much they are suffering, they deserve to smile, and we are fighting for their future. “
She said climate change has had adverse effects on people compared to previous years. According to her, over 837,000 people—a greater proportion of whom are women and children—are impacted by flooding.
Annette said about 626,000 had their status verified and received assistance.
Last December, UNOCHA reported that over 8,000 people fell victim to floods in May 2021. The most affected people are from Jonglei and Unity states, followed by Northern Bahr el Ghazal and the Upper Nile states, which have been the hardest hit to date.
According to the recent assessment carried out by UNOCHA, priority intervention measures need to include food assistance, emergency shelters, and non-food items, as well as water, sanitation, and hygiene services.
The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator and interim in South Sudan is also demanding that the authorities bring to book the perpetrators who attacked the World Food Program (WFP) convoy and killed an aid worker and injured another in December 2021.
Matthew Hollingworth, the Acting Coordinator for UNOCHA, strongly condemned the killing of the United Nation’s construction aid worker and called on the law enforcers to make sure that the perpetrators face the law.
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