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The humanitarian situation in South Sudan is critical as more

than 1.7 million people fled their homes. Recent forecasts


projects that the number of hungry people in South Sudan will
continue increasing dramatically. This humanitarian situation is
the result of a conflict that is taking place between two leaders
that turned into a civil war (1). Men, women, and children have
been targeted because of their ethnicity and nationality.
Humanitarian Organizations are faced with three main
challenges:
First, there are more than 300,000 people who are seeking
asylum in neighboring countries such as Kenya and Uganda,
according to the Christian Aid. The challenge is to coordinate
with UN and non-UN humanitarian organizations such as
UNHCR, UNICEF, and Care Intl, is accommodating those
people in camps in the first place. For instance, coordination is
needed to secure road convoys and warehoused to deliver
food to persons of concern. Thereafter, refugees/asylum
seekers in those camps should be supported to move to urban
areas in the neighboring countries to seek livelihood,
education, medical assistance...etc.
Second, there are more than 1.5 million people who are
internally displaced in South Sudan. The challenge is to
provide those IDPs with protection, shelter, and food in
coordination with UNMISS. This coordination industry will
include cluster coordination, which target handling the stages
of humanitarian crisis from prevention to reconstruction. The
idea here is to create new partnerships that will ensure
addressing risks in a systematic way and that will ensure
utilizing resources to save lives. One of the critical aspects is
to understand that humanitarian organizations cannot do this
alone and that enhancing the national capacity of South
Sudan Government is crucial to obtain successful risk
management.
Third, humanitarian organizations should coordinate together
in order to project the amount of fun needed to respond to the

humanitarian crisis. In other words, a joint-humanitarian needs


assessment should be carried out in a short period of time and
communicated to donors in order to obtain the required
funding. One of the main tools in this aspect is the Common
Humanitarian Fund (CHF) which is a funding tool that match
donations with the priorities in the humanitarian field, in a
predictable way, and through strengthening the coordination
and the leadership of the Humanitarian Coordinator. Another
tool that is beneficial for coordination is the Country-level
coordination in which the UN resident coordinator facilitate the
preparedness to crisis through engaging with all actors
working in the humanitarian and development field such as
UNDAC, UNDP, FAO, and Oxfam.

In brief, humanitarian assistance must reach those in need at


South Sudan and to people who fled to neighboring countries.
Also, humanitarian organizations should coordinate together in
order to ensure adequate funding for the aid activities. Finally,
all humanitarian aid activities must be in accordance with the
Humanitarian Principles (3) which is about addressing human
suffering, maintaining neutrality without engaging in
controversies, carrying aid activities, on the basis of needs
alone, and maintaining operational independence.

(1)From Crisis to Catastrophe: South Sudan Manmade crisis


http://adesoafrica.org/download/561d16527d3f6/
(2) South Sudan Humanitarian Crisis
http://www.christianaid.org.uk/images/south-sudanhumanitarian-briefing-may-2014.pdf
(3) OCHA on Message: Humanitarian principles
https://docs.unocha.org/sites/dms/Documents/OOM_HumPrin
ciple_English.pdf

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