The trio of the United Nations Agencies, the Food and
Agriculture Organisation (FAO), United Nation Children Fund (UNICEF) and World
Food Programme (WFP), with other partners, have conducted massive relief
operations since the conflict began, and intensified those efforts throughout
2016 to mitigate the worst effects of the humanitarian crisis, reports NaijaAgroNet.
For example, the said that in Northern Bahr El Ghazal state,
among others, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC)
assessment team found that humanitarian relief had lessened the risk of famine
there.
Also, FAO has provided emergency livelihood kits to more
than 2.3 million people to help them fish or plant vegetables. FAO has also
vaccinated more than 6 million livestock such as goats and sheep to prevent
further loss.
While WFP continued to scale up its support in South Sudan
as humanitarian needs increase, and plans to provide food and nutrition
assistance to 4.1 million people through the hunger season in South Sudan this
year.
This, NaijaAgroNet gathered, includes lifesaving emergency
food, cash and nutrition assistance for people displaced and affected by
conflict, as well as community-based recovery or resilience programs and school
meals.
In 2016, WFP reached a record 4 million people in South
Sudan with food assistance - including cash assistance amounting to US$13.8
million, and more than 265,000 metric tons of food and nutrition supplies. It
is the largest number of people assisted by WFP in South Sudan since
independence, despite problems resulting from the challenging context.
UNICEF aims to treat 207,000 children for severe acute
malnutrition in 2017. Working with over 40 partners and in close collaboration
with WFP, UNICEF is supporting 620 outpatient therapeutic programme sites and
about 50 inpatient therapeutic sites across the country to provide children
with urgently needed treatment.
Through a rapid response mechanism carried out jointly with
WFP, UNICEF continues to reach communities in the most remote locations. These
rapid response missions treat thousands of children for malnutrition as well as
provide them with immunization services, safe water and sanitation which also
prevent recurring malnutrition.
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