IRNA Report: [Renk County, Upper Nile State] [2-6 October 2014]

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1 IRNA Report: [Renk County, Upper Nile State] [2-6 October 2014] This IRNA Report is a product of Inter-Agency Assessment mission conducted and information compiled based on the inputs provided by partners on the ground including; government authorities, affected communities/idps and agencies. Highlights: From 2-6 Oct, an IRNA assessment was conducted in Renk to assess the needs of people affected by fighting that took place in the eastern part of Renk in September The results of the assessment indicated that there are 7,349 displaced people in Geiger Bayam, and another 500 people in Shimudi Payam. Priority needs include food, NFI/ES. Protection, Education and WASH. Geigar payam is accessible by road from Renk town all weather road. Registration/verification of IDPs has been recommended for planning purpose. Situation overview Renk County is one of the flash point areas in UNS, because of its proximity to the border with Sudan. It lies North-East of the State capital Malakal on the Eastern bank of river Nile. The County has a population of 137,700 people (Census, 2008) Renk has been a transit site for south Sudanese returning from Sudan following the Independence of South Sudan in It is also significant because of its fertile land for sorghum production. Since December 2013, Renk had experienced an influx of IDPs seeking protection mainly from Malakal, Baliet, Kodok, Manyo and other counties. Renk itself was shelled on several occasions and still remain a hot spot area. Last month, the shelling intensified with ground offensive in Geigar and Shimudi payams. The community leaders reported 15 villages (Dukduk, Umamit, Gergbana, Koleng 1 koleng 2, Undols, Gambar, Wadbata, Gospamy, Nger, Biayang,rom, Uwely) that were burnt in areas where the fighting was most concentrated with 39 deaths and unknown number injured. Presently, the IDPs are living with the host community in 10 bomas of Geigar payam. The team indeed met multiple families residing with host community, in schools and abandoned houses. Drinking water is fetched from nearby river and food is shared with the host community. Many of them do not have the shelter at all; only protecting children from the rain by putting them into the houses of host community. According to the RCC County Coordinator, the IDPs have not received any assistance since the displacement occurred.

2 IRNA Report: Renk, Upper Nile State, 2-6 October Site overview Breast feeding mother at Monydiang School Impact of the shelling on ECS school compound Location map: Renk County, Upper Nile

3 IRNA Report: Renk, Upper Nile State, 2-6 October Drivers and underlying factors Scope of the crisis and humanitarian profile Current population figures 1 County/Payam/Boma Location Host Displaced Source population population Renk Geiger Payam 7,349 RRC Notes Renk Shimudi Payam 500 RRC Status of the population in the affected area Key response priorities Health: Functioning CHD Primary Health Care Facility to be supported by IMA. ) Referral facility for secondary care, CEMONC, SC (IMA advocate to CHD) Essential medicines including RDTs and malaria treatment in the MoH PHCUs. EPI services at MoH facility (IMA to advocate to CHD) Measles mass vaccination for Renk County. Follow up of new IDPs in Wonthow and Abayock through existing EPI at Medair clinic. Nutrition: Scale up of OTP/TSFP in host communities in Renk County (Medair) Integrated nutrition programming at PHC level (CHD with support IMA) GFD to new IDPs (WFP, WVI) Food Security and Livelihood There is need for population registration to know the exact number of affected population and response needed for food distribution planning. Registration of afftected people for food distribution has not been done. NFIs/Emergency Shelter Priority needs include cooking sets, mosquito nets, sleeping mats, plastic sheeting and blankets are the priority needs of the IDPs. Protection/Child Protection: Provision of psychosocial support to GBV surviviors and other conflict-affected people Registration of separated, unaccompanied and missing children with family tracing/reunification Advocate with responsible persons the issues of the children associate with armed forces. WASH Distribution of WASH NFI (soaps, buckets, household water treatment tablet etc) NFIs/Emergency Shelter

4 IRNA Report: Renk, Upper Nile State, 2-6 October Rehabilitation of water treatment system Rehabilitation of existing latrine blocks Physical access Road access from Malakal is not currently possible due to the rainy season meanwhile accessibly by river through Mina port is not possible due to security concern. Renk has an airstrip for fixed winged aircraft with a landing site at the base for UNMISS helicopters. Geigar payam were the displaced populations are settled is accessible by all season road (tarmac) from Renk to Wanthou bordering Sudan. Telecommunication is by Zain, NTN and Vivacel network thought erratic sometimes. Medair and IOM have compounds in Renk Humanitarian access Currently Renk is under the control of the government. The security situation was calm and though there were about 2-3 check-points from Renk to Geigar, the team did not encounter any problem during the assessment. Humanitarian workers are welcomed and encouraged by the local authorities to return and provided assurances for safety. It s worth to mention that Medair had relocated to Juba following the crisis. However, the security situation should be monitored and any operation carefully planned. Education: There are no functional schools in the County since the start of the conflict in December as both teachers and children fled the area. Before the crisis in February, ECS primary school had a population of 950 pupils but after fighting in September the population reduced to 60 pupils, as of Oct 14. The headmaster office was partially destroyed by fragments from a bomb shell that exploded near the door Monydiang primary school is occupied by IDPs estimated to be about 500 individuals meanwhile Fakur primary school is occupied by IDPs mainly from Gosphamy and Wadbata TLS in Joda have been destroyed by wind and the teachers teaching in TLS have left for Sudan. Temporary learning spaces should be provided to schools whose structures were destroyed Wash facilities need to be provided in schools Distribution of education emergency supplies Life skills and lifesaving messages Recreation kit Food security and livelihood During the displacement people left behind their food stock and crops at harvest stage including Sesame. They are concerned that the conflict may delay harvesting resulting in poor crop yield due shattering of the seeds. Delay of harvest period and poor crop yield, resulting in food shortage at household level. Similarly, last year crop harvest was destroyed in storage as houses were burnt Significant reduction of daily food/meal consumption at household level. The number of meals consumed per day has decreased/skipped to leave for the children

5 IRNA Report: Renk, Upper Nile State, 2-6 October Food distribution including therapeutic food for children Distribution of seed for planting in the next season. season Health Lack of referral facility for secondary care, CEMONC, SC (IMA advocate to CHD) Stock outage of essential medicines including RDTs and malaria treatment MoH PHCUs including Gerger Lack of EPI services at MoH facility Measles mass vaccination for Renk County postponed due to the conflict. Support to CHD Health care facilities to become operational (IMA) Establish cold chain facilities and plan for vaccinations campaign Nutrition Rapid MUAC screening in Monydeng School for 6 children 6-59mths indicated 1 MAM- referred to Medair TSFP in Abayock, 3 PLW all > 23cm; Wunthou 10 children 6-59mths, 2 MAM, 1 already enrolled Medair TSFP, 1 referred, 5PLW all >23 cm Gerger payam 4 children 6-59mths, 1 SAM and 1 MAM, 3 PLWs 1 MAM, referred to Wonthow OTP/TSFP Scale up of OTP/TSFP in host communities in Renk County (Medair) integrated nutrition programming at PHC level (CHD with IMA support) Protection Absence of shelter in 2 of 4 visited locations forces the IDPs move back to their bomas of origin, which are are still unsafe.. Increased vulnerability particularly children, as most of the families live under the trees.. Limited protection system in the area, with both IDPs and host community feel insecure - some few SPLA and Community Defense Force present in the area. It has been noticed that CDF often enlists children, as well as IDPs. Under aged teenager manning check point along Renk-Wanthau road seen. Most of the IDPs are women and children, men are normally said to be away for the day. - indications of the large number of family separations. Some IDPs were already displaced twice, as the offensive of SPLA/IO progressed. It has been reported killing of vulnerable persons who could not move by themselves and left behind died in a blaze when rebels set on fire their houses. Reportedly, over 1000 IDPs (according to the community leaders) have moved to Sudan to become refugees there. In Wanthou there are five orphan children with the eldest 8years and youngest three whose parents were killed during the fighting in Gosphamy village Psychosocial support for GBV survivors and other affected people.

6 IRNA Report: Renk, Upper Nile State, 2-6 October Registration of separated/missing children and family tracing Monitoring and reporting child rights violations WASH Medair who has been providing comprehensive WASH services to IDPs and the host communities since The IDP settlement is located along the river Nile. Water Supply Medair has set up emergency water treatment system consisting of 30m 3 and 10m 3 onion tanks and 3-10m 3 bladders with two tap stands (sixteen (16) taps) and been producing 70m3/day average since the conflict in started in March Aluminum Sulfate and chlorine have been used for treatment. At the time of the assessment, one of the 10m3 bladders was not functioning due to the broken valve. The treated volume has been increased compare with 30m3 when last IRNA assessment done. The system was generally highly appreciated by the IDPs and community that produce clean and safe water. Intake of pump is about 20m away from the shore where treatment system is set up. Given the water level down during dry season, Medair has plan to extend the pipe to install in deeper level of river. A few parameters of water quality were tested during the assessment and showed that turbidity at original water source was >100NTU and produced <5NTU through treatment system. However, Free Residual Chlorine (FRC) test resulted in <0.1mg/L at tap stands with ph 6.8. The reason could be the fact that water was chlorinated last day and the remained water in the bladder was released in the next day without checking the FRC. It was observed that the turbidity test was very familiar with the water point committee but according the committee the FRC test was sometimes done when Renk staff brings the test kit from Renk. Aluminum Sulfate was used to use 8kg when turbidity is high but current wet season reduced to 3kg along with low turbidity. Interview with several IDPs indicated that quality of treated water is good and their children has rarely have diarrhea. However, queuing time is the raised one of the concerns from the community members as sometimes they queue over 2 hours at water point. This could be due to the fact that 2 tap stands consisting of 16 taps cover entire population both IDPs and the host community. Accurate population size is yet confirmed but the number of taps could be insufficient to supply water effectively. One of the key issues were shortage of sufficient water containers for both carrying water and for storing water at their settlement. One family sometimes has four containers while 3 households consisting of 16 family members share only 1 buckets and 1 jerry can Good practice was observed at the water point that Medair set up washing facility, soap bucket, clothes for cleaning up water container/jerry cans before IDPs collect water from water treatment system. In fact, cleanness of water containers both inside and outside were observed during random household visits. Sanitation 85 emergency latrine stances were constructed by Medair (between May and October). The number of latrines has been also increased from 18 latrine stances at the last IRNA assessment on last May. Out of 85 latrine stances, 17 stances were already full so 68 working latrine stances remain function. However, visited latrines were not equipped with inside locks and some of them had no doors. 13 households were assigned as latrine caretakers by Medair and their role is clean up the latrine and fills handwashing facility with water. Visited latrines being used were clean and relatively free of odor and insects. 24 volunteer Hygiene Promoters were trained by Medair and interviewed households are aware of their presence and received hygiene messages. Open defecation is observed everywhere at river side. Location of latrine blocks is 3 areas; one is along with river about 100m away, between settlement and paved road, and crossed paved road. However, some interviewed households. Vector-Borne Control Quarry site is located southern area with stag water, which can increase vector borne disease risks. No vector control activity using chemical exists. The affected people also need mosquito nets.. Hygiene Soap is hardly found at household levels although soap is available at market. Distribution of soaps and other WASH NFI has not been done since last April;

7 IRNA Report: Renk, Upper Nile State, 2-6 October People receive hygiene message from Hygiene Promoters (HPs) trained by Medair on food handling and handwashing. Bathing practice with large number of population has been observed at upwards of river side. This exercise and location should be re-considered because the intake of water treatment plant is just downwards of bathing practice. 20 voluntary HPs workers conduct house-to-house visit although not observed during the assessment. IMediar plans dislodging excreta from filled latrines The soil formation consists of clay soils. Lining would be necessary for any new latrines to be constructed. Handwashing facility with no soap at some of the places. There is no access for women to sanitary supplies. Solid Waste Disposal Solid waste is one of the serious issue observed in Wan Thau. This could be due to the fact that Wan Thaw is hub of transportation between south and north, and the market grows and produce lots of goods. This resulted in increase the solid waste and disposed everywhere. Hygiene promoters have monthly garbage collection exercise that collect garbage and burn. Payam administrator support garbage collection by truck 2 times per week but no specific site was identified to dispose of the solid waste. Drainage No drainage system is observed. When it rains, water stag in the settlement. The characteristic of the soil doesn t allow seepage and rather stag or flow into river. Mony deny Primary School Reported with 300 HHs IDPs but are in the school and surrounding villages. Seven days ago, displaced from Faram, Rabyo, Bangi, Wautepu and Karajay. People stayed in Karajay and displaced again to the school. Geiger People collect water from swamp University of Renk contributed water tanker and County commissioner supported filled water from river but no treatment. The size of water truck is around 5m3. No latrine exists. Water Supply Medair has handed over the water system and 6 kiosks (4 taps/kiosk) to WASH committee July this year. The volume of water used to provide is 100,000L/ day. Mediar also handed over chemicals (Almininum Sulphate, chlorine) and fuel to the WASH committee Currently people are directly fetching water from river because of the non-functioning the system. This is due to 1) water leakage from piping system and 2) Some of the WASH committee fled due to the incidents Community (host) used to pay small water fee (1-3SSP per jerry cans) for maintaining running cost but currently no practice as of now. Sanitation No latrine exists in the community and practice of open defecation is both at river side and the area crossed tarmac road. Mediar has plan to mobilize community to increase awareness of importance to have latrines. Hygiene Soap is available locally but no household water treatment At least last four months no distribution of WASH NFI No exercise for household water treatment including boiling Interviewed households were just came from East Geger Payam and no WASH items with them, such as water containers Solid Waste Disposal Compared with Wau Thaw area, currently the issue of solid waste disposal is not critical. This is partially because the scale of the market is small and lack of items attributes the issue of generation of solid waste.

8 IRNA Report: Renk, Upper Nile State, 2-6 October Next steps Cluster Priority actions Human and material resources needed FSL Registration and food distribution (GFD) including Therapeutic food for children Responsible entity WFP/WVI By when ASAP WASH Distribution of WASH materials, Rehabilitation of water treatment existing latrine blocks. Strengthen coordination of hygiene promotion - Soaps/ Buckets and Water treatment sachet. 10m3 water bladder repair the leaking valve Medair/WASH cluster Medair Heath Mass Measles vaccination Restore functioning referral facility, Renk hospital Fridge, cold boxes, logistic support Supplies IOM,UNICE, Medair ASAP NUT services in Gerger and other host community locations in Renk County Medair Education Conduct out mobilization of teachers, Organise education activities for IDPs and Host community children, spaces for education activities. Distribution of education emergency supplies teachers mobilization, Social mobilization of children and parents, Tents and plastic sheets, School in a Box, recreation County Education office & Root of Love ASAP 3 Weeks

9 IRNA Report: Renk, Upper Nile State, 2-6 October Assessment information IRNA stands for Initial Rapid Needs Assessment. Initial: Serves as a first look at locations where immediate emergency humanitarian response is anticipated, and determines immediate priorities for intervention registration and targeting of caseload can be required as followup, or blanket distribution of aid can be actioned directly. Rapid: Deployed quickly, from a list of pre-trained and pre-qualified humanitarian personnel Needs Assessment: The IRNA is an Inter-agency and inter-cluster process using an ICWG-endorsed tool, reporting format and methodology namely The IRNA form, and the IRNA Reporting Template. The IRNA was endorsed by the South Sudan Inter Cluster Working Group (ICWG) and launched in November 2012, combined with training of humanitarian actors at Juba and state level. The assessment to Renk County was carried out by the following individuals: Cluster Name Organization Phone Coordination Ismail A Lado OCHA Ladoi@un.org Coordination Santino Padiet RRC FSL Yohannes Akich WVI Health Tecla Ngairel Medair Healthrenk@medair.org Education James Atanasio Roots of Love jumajame@yahoo.com FSL Mareng Dau WFP Mareng.dau@wfp.org WASH Koji Kumamaru UNICEF kkumamru@unicerf.org Education Florence Okayo UNICEF fokayo@unicef.org Protection Sergii Lavrukhin UNHCR LAVRUKHI@unhcr.org Protection Health Florence May Atoa Hakim Kur Nebil UNHCR IOM may@unhcr.org nhakimkur@iom.int