Sudan

Summary of Needs

Sudan faces growing shelter needs due to conflict, refugee influxes, and natural disasters. In 2025, 11.7 million people will need shelter and non-food items (NFI), an increase of 36 per cent from 2024. Key issues include inadequate shelters, with 15.22 per cent of people living in makeshift homes suffering from leakage of roofs (50 per cent), lack of privacy (24 per cent), and lack of lighting (16 per cent). Many households lack bedding (75 per cent) and kitchen sets (30 per cent). There is also an urgent need for women- and girl-friendly spaces, and solutions for 191,619 displacedfamilies using schools as shelters.

Response Strategy

NFI kits and emergency shelter assistance will be provided either via cash or in-kind to newly displaced populations, those in protracted displacement, and households affected by floods, fires, or hosting displaced individuals. Emergency shelter assistance includes the provision of emergency shelter kits, cash for shelter or rent, and the rehabilitation of collective centres. Support for host families aims to improve living conditions of both hosts and IDPs, reducing the need for IDPs to relocate to gathering sites or IDP camps.

As a last resort, IDP sites will be established due to the increasing number of displaced people and limited host community capacity. Local authorities will identify locations, ensuring Housing, Land and Property (HLP) due diligence, inter-agency assessments, and coordination from protection partners. Site planning will adopt a settlement-area based approach, integrating emergency shelter and infrastructure. Local authorities will receive support in urban response planning, with effective coordination crucial to addressing urgent needs and enhancing community resilience.

Targeting and Prioritization

The prioritization criteria will focus on floods, famine, and cholera-affected localities, especially those previously overlooked. The response strategy balances distribution of NFI while targeting specific population groups, with a strong emphasis on health-related sub-cluster.

At the locality level, the most urgent needs are in states with the highest levels of severity, particularly in Aj Jazirah, Blue Nile, Central Darfur, Kassala, Khartoum, North Darfur, Red Sea, Sennar, South Darfur, South Kordofan, and White Nile. These areas face critical challenges, including the absence of basic services, overcrowding, disaster risk, protection risks, and the presence of armed groups, especially in border regions. Priority groups include vulnerable populations such as female-headed households, children and adolescents, minority groups in remote areas, people with disabilities, elderly persons, victims of trafficking, and GBV survivors . Each group faces unique challenges that require urgent attention. Coordinated humanitarian action with local authorities is essential to ensure their safety, well-being, and access to services and rights. The resilience of these communities depends on timely interventions to address critical issues and ensure equitable access to basic services and rights.

Cost of Response

The Shelter and NFI Cluster aims to assist 2.2 million people in 2025, with a funding requirement of $229.43 million.