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IOM South Sudan: Core Pipeline Flood Response - November 2019

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Due to the abnormally heavy rainfall since July 2019, seven states across South Sudan has been experiencing severe flooding that has affected approximately 908,000 people, of whom at least 420,000 are in need of immediate humanitarian assistance . The scale and magnitude of the flooding prompted the Government to declare the State of Emergency, in Greater Upper Nile and Jonglei. Humanitarian actors have conducted interagency needs assessments of flood-affected areas, identifying medicine, safe drinking water, and shelter and non-food items (S-NFI) as the most critical needs, in addition to emergency food assistance. Needs assessments have observed destruction of houses and household goods, crops, nutrition facilities, schools and water and sanitation infrastructure. Access to safe clean water, basic hygiene and sanitation is very limited due to the destruction of WASH facilities such as boreholes.

Humanitarian partners are immediately scaling up their emergency flood response assistance, targeting priority locations in Jonglei, Unity and Upper Nile, covering Pibor, Ulang, Nasir, Twic, Ayod and Mayom. Immediate priorities include distribution of household water treatment and storage, plastic sheeting for temporary shelter, mosquito nets, blankets, fishing kits, and medicine for malaria, diarrhea and other waterborne diseases.

IOM, as WASH and S-NFI pipeline agency supports the clusters to provide frontline life-saving assistance within the immediate flood response through provision and transportation of WASH and S-NFI supplies. As its initial action, IOM has released the contingency WASH and S-NFI supplies from three key-hubs locations in Juba, Bor and Rumbek, to support the 19 pipeline requests from eight partners.