IOM Donor briefing 17 June South Sudan

South Sudan Humani tar ian Br ief ing

David DerthickIOM Chief of Mission

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Violations continue with impunity

Humanitarians under threat

• Aid workers killed, abducted, detained, etc.

• National staff face threats based on ethnicity

• Humanitarian access routinely hindered

• NGOs burdened by additional fees and taxes

• Food aid and humanitarian compounds attacked and looted

• Humanitarian Coordinator expelled

4.6 million: IPC level 3 and 4

250,000 children: severe acute malnutrition

Unprecedented and expanding needs

Public health threats intensified

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AnticipatedRevenue

Low Production Reduced OilPrice

Fees paid toSudan

2015 Revenue: expectations vs. reality(in million USD)

Government expenditure

The value of the South Sudanese Pound (SSP) continues to fall

Official and ‘black market’ exchange rate

Implications of the economic crisis

• Doesn’t directly impact 80% of the people but…

• Does impact 2 million in urban areas

• Deterioration of all social sectors

• Exodus of foreign workforce

• Dramatic increase in crime

• De-capacitates humanitarian response

• Short-term and long-term implications

Regional implications

Support not keeping up with need

• Initial request: USD 1.8 billion

• Received: USD 656 million – 36%

• Revised request: USD 1.63 billion

Increased focus:

– 610,000 urban poor

– Rapid response teams

– Resupply to NGOs at deep field locations

With no end to the conflict in sight, how does the world engage with South Sudan?

• The presence of 15,322 IDPs in UN House is a safety and security risk to UNMISS

• PoC 1 is hazardously congested. A fire, civil unrest or disease outbreak would be a reputational risk to the UN

• NGO workers in the PoCs face the threat of violence and violence daily

• There is no more space in PoC 3. Those relocated from PoC 2 will be sheltered on the perimeter road.

• 20,000 sought protection Jan-Mar 2014

• Vast majority left. Nuer do not feel safe in Bor

• On 17 Apr 2014, there was an attack on the UNMISS base – 50+ IDPs were killed

• 2,644 IDPs remain

• UNMISS and humanitarians are considering a ‘transitional relocation’ plan.

• On Christmas 2013, 20,000 IDPs entered the base

• Control of Malakal has changed several times; so has the composition of IDPs

• Number and composition stable since July 2013

• This is the only mixed-tribe PoC

• A new PoC was completed in Aug for 9,000 IDPs, 15,000 now live there

• An extension will be completed end-Mar, at which point all IDPs will be relocated from the base

• Most IDPs used to live in Malakal Town

• A tentative return strategy is being developed.

• Increase from 7,000 to 40,000 IDPs April-June 2014 -- now 52,825

• PoC was under water June-Nov 2014

• IDPs unlikely to leave due to fighting and food insecurity

• Huge renovation/expansion of PoC site underway – must be completed by June.

Bentiu, August 2014

Bentiu, May 2015