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IOM Donor briefing 17 June South Sudan
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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