1. Re-establish Access to Basic Services
Partnership for Recovery and Resilience Accountability and Learning Event,
13-15 November 2018
Resilient development: Resilient development means providing children and families with what they need to
better prepare for and manage crises, and recover from them more rapidly. (UNICEF)
Hazard: A dangerous phenomenon, substance, human activity or condition that may cause loss of life, injury or other health
impacts, property damage, loss of livelihoods and services, social and economic disruption and/or environmental damage.
Stress: Similar to a shock, a stress is a longer-term trend that undermines the potential of a given system and
increases the vulnerability of actors within it.
Shock: A sudden and potentially damaging hazard or other phenomenon. A shock can also refer to the moment at
which a slow-onset process (a stress) passes its ‘tipping point’ and becomes an extreme event.
Resilience: The ability of a system, community or society exposed to hazards to resist, absorb, adapt to and recover
from the effects of a hazard in a timely and efficient manner, including through the preservation and restoration of
its essential structures and functions.
Recovery: The restoration, and improvement where appropriate, of the facilities, livelihoods and living conditions
of disaster-affected communities, including efforts to reduce disaster risk factors.
Vulnerability: This is defined as the characteristics and circumstances of individual children, households or communities
that make them particularly susceptible to the damaging effects of a shock or stress. (Adapted by UNICEF)
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2. Integrated Rapid Response Mechanism (IRRMs)
UNICEF/WFP/FAO

3. Description
The Integrated Rapid Response Mechanism (IRRM) was created in March 2014 in coordination with WFP to respond to the needs of South Sudan’s most conflict affected populations with a multi-sectoral package of life-saving services comprising of General Food Distribution (GFD), Nutrition, Health, WASH, Protection and Education Services. In 2018, the IRRM was joined by FAO who is distributing Livelihoods and Emergency kits (fishing and agricultural tools, seeds).
In 2017, the IRRM reached a total of 714,000 beneficiaries through 51 joint missions in 46 locations.
The average duration of an IRRM missions was 8 days. In 2017, 47 of the IRRM missions took place in Greater Upper Nile states, 85 per cent in areas controlled by opposition groups and was the only mechanism for mitigating famine in Koch, Mayendit and Leer upon the declaration of famine in February 2017.
So far, this year, there have been 42 missions reaching nearly half a million people. This has been the primary mechanism for accessing the most inaccessible children and women within the most insecure locations.

4. Delivery of services for children and women in IRRMs
IRRM and Static programming
UNICEF WASH
WFP
General Food Distribution
WFP BSFP
FAO Livelihoods and Emergency kits
WFP Treatment of children with MAM /TSFP
UNICEF treatment of SAM, IYCF counselling VitA supplementation, albandazole
UNICEF Child protection
UNICEF education

5. What worked well
Timely response to various humanitarian crisis i.e. Central Unity crisis, Population displacements, Coverage of IPC 4/5 counties.
More impact with Integrated package of intervention: Food distribution(WFP) + Livelihood (FAO) + (Nutrition WFP+UNICEF) + Health/ WASH/Protection/Education (UNICEF+ Partners)
Capacity to deploy up to 5 IRRM joint teams in multiple sites simultaneously for headcount, reaching tens of thousands of unreached beneficiaries with life-saving services.
Capacity to deploy over 50 IRRM mission each calendar year ( ).
Nationalization of IRRM teams, capacity building

6. What could be done differently
The IRRM will continue to adapt to changing environment as South Sudan will slowly transition towards more peace and stability.
De-escalation of conflict may give more opportunities to use alternative mode of transport (river, Roads) hence reducing the cost of operations and improving access to communities.
Biometrics registration, where possible, will mitigate recycling of beneficiaries, improve programme quality and data collection.
Increased engagement of Partners

7. Thank You
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