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The humanitarian situation in South Sudan is critical as more than 1. Million people fled their homes. This humanitarian situation is the result of a conflict that is taking place between two leaders that turned into a civil war. The challenge is to coordinate with UN and non-UN Humanitarian Organizations such as UNHCR, UNICEF, and care intl.
The humanitarian situation in South Sudan is critical as more than 1. Million people fled their homes. This humanitarian situation is the result of a conflict that is taking place between two leaders that turned into a civil war. The challenge is to coordinate with UN and non-UN Humanitarian Organizations such as UNHCR, UNICEF, and care intl.
The humanitarian situation in South Sudan is critical as more than 1. Million people fled their homes. This humanitarian situation is the result of a conflict that is taking place between two leaders that turned into a civil war. The challenge is to coordinate with UN and non-UN Humanitarian Organizations such as UNHCR, UNICEF, and care intl.
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