IOM appeals for $190m for humanitarian responses in South Sudan
July 11, 2023 (JUBA) – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has launched a Consolidated Appeal (CAP) 2023 for $190.5 million to meet needs of internally displaced persons, returnees, host community and migrants in South Sudan.
The CAP recognises the significant needs that persist across South Sudan as highlighted in the 2023 Humanitarian Needs Overview.
“Through humanitarian assistance and an integrated, multi-sector approach, whereby migration management, transition, recovery, and stabilization complement humanitarian interventions, IOM will continue to champion integrated, multisectoral initiatives that combine humanitarian assistance with development-oriented, conflict-sensitive programming whilst leveraging its multi-sectoral capacity and collaboration with partners”, the agency said in a statement on Tuesday.
CAP 2023 highlights IOM’s preparedness actions that includes adopting a risk-informed approach, with a focus on climate resilience and conflict to strengthen communities’ resilience to shocks. IOM’s humanitarian response will be informed by contextual analyses that promote a strong focus on social cohesion for returnees, internally displaced and host communities, thereby contributing to peace building and linkages between humanitarian and development programmes.
To-date, people in South Sudan continue to face deteriorating humanitarian conditions worsened by endemic violence, conflict and climatic shocks resulting in extraordinary flooding and drought in some parts of the young nation.
Over 4 million people are displaced, 2.5 million internally and 2.2 million in neighbouring countries.
IOM further stated that in addition to the already dire humanitarian situation, the outbreak of fighting in Sudan on 15 April 2023 has resulted in an influx of people fleeing the country to neighboring countries, including South Sudan.
More than 148,000 individuals, 93 per cent of whom are South Sudanese nationals, have arrived in South Sudan as of 30 June 2023, according to the agency.
(ST)