Overview
The continuation of conflict since December 2013 has created a complex humanitarian crisis in the country, restricting humanitarian access and hindering the flow of information required by aid partners to deliver humanitarian assistance to populations in need. To address information gaps faced by the humanitarian response in South Sudan, REACH employs its Area of Knowledge (AoK) methodology to collect relevant information in hard-to-reach areas to inform humanitarian planning and interventions outside formal settlement sites.
Using the AoK methodology, REACH remotely monitors needs and access to services in the Greater Upper Nile, Greater Equatoria and Greater Bahr el Ghazal regions. AoK data is collected monthly and through multi-sector interviews with the following typology of Key Informants (KIs):
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KIs who are newly arrived internally displaced persons (IDPs) who have left a hard-to-reach settlement in the last month
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KIs who have been in contact with someone living in a hard-to-reach settlement, or have been visiting one in the last month (traders, migrants, family members, etc.)
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KIs who are remaining in hard-to-reach settlements, contacted through phone
Selected KIs are purposively sampled and have knowledge from within the last month about a specific settlement in South Sudan, with data collected at the settlement level. About half of settlements assessed have more than one KI reporting on the settlement. In these cases, data is aggregated at the settlement level according to a weighting mechanism, which can be found in the Terms of Reference (ToRs).
All percentages presented in this factsheet, unless otherwise specified, represent the proportion of settlements assessed with that specific response.
The findings presented in this factsheet are indicative of the broad food security and livelihood trends in assessed settlements in April 2020, and are not statistically generalisable.
Assessment Coverage
2,292 Key Informants interviewed
1,776 Settlements assessed
70 Counties assessed
67 Counties with 5% or more coverage
Newer news items:
- China vows continued support to South Sudan's education sector - 28/09/2020
- Population movement baseline report: Movement and displacement in South Sudan, 1983-2019 (September 2020) - 28/09/2020
- The East African Community (EAC) seeks integration of financial services - 28/09/2020
- Exiles return to rebuild post-Bashir Sudan - 28/09/2020
- Filipino aid worker remembers ordeal in South Sudan attack - 26/09/2020
Older news items:
- Coronavirus - South Sudan: Regional Refugee Response Plan - 25/09/2020
- SouthSudanese-Australian Mother of 7 who drove into lake killing 3 toddlers wants early release because she was ‘stressed about debt’ - 25/09/2020
- Elimination of “river epilepsy” has started in South Sudan - 25/09/2020
- South Sudan: Keeping the Oil Flowing - 25/09/2020
- Severe floods in South Sudan displace over 600,000 people, UN says - 25/09/2020
Popular news items:
- No oil in troubled waters - 25/03/2014 - Read 19939 times
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- Former Lost Boy Gives Back to South Sudan - Care2.com (blog) - 31/05/2012 - Read 15718 times
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