WFP South Sudan Situation Report #94, 11 September 2015

Highlights

• WFP and UNICEF intensify efforts to reverse the dire malnutrition situation in South Sudan. On 09 September, the two UN agencies launched an enhanced joint nutrition response plan which will seek to assist over two million people for the prevention and treatment of acute malnutrition until May 2016. These efforts build upon the joint nutrition scale-up plan launched last year which helped to avert famine and save lives including through rapid response teams in the conflict-affected states and expanded coverage of nutrition services in non-conflict states.
• Food airdrops commence in Bentiu to address the large influx of IDPs into the Protection of Civilians (PoC) site. The caseload has multiplied three-fold in recent months and prepositioned stocks in the area have been exhausted. The daily airdrops began on 07 September.
• A first for WFP South Sudan, protection risk assessments for food assistance programmes have been undertaken in the Juba PoC. These assessments are aligned with WFP’s global efforts towards integrating protection and accountability to affected populations into operations. A series of protection risk assessments will also take place in the PoC sites in Malakal (Upper Nile) and Bentiu (Unity).