Summary of needs
Poor infrastructure, seasonal hazards, ongoing insecurity, demographic constraints, and limited aviation services create significant logistical challenges and bottlenecks to humanitarian organizations delivering life-saving assistance to affected people. The underdeveloped aviation sector, insufficient investment in infrastructure and poor safety records among commercial carriers contribute to delays in delivering essential relief to locations requiring humanitarian assistance. Changes in climate patterns have caused flooding and damage to major supply routes and limited transportation options have resulted in humanitarian organization’s inability to pre-position vital relief supplies to strategic locations during the short dry season. Continued violence and insecurity further aggravate challenges in providing access to services, opening key supply routes to the commercial sector and hinder humanitarian operations. The continued arrivals from Sudan, flooding and the need to support other static responses necessitate additional transportation, construction and rehabilitation of critical infrastructure to enable humanitarian actors to deliver life-saving assistance.
Response strategy
Through multi-stakeholder coordination at the national and state levels, the logistics projects will support approximately 300 humanitarian actors across South Sudan, including UN agencies, and national and international NGOs. The United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) will provide air transport services for humanitarian passengers and light cargo to 48 destinations, including support of emergency services (e.g., medical evacuations and security relocations), ICCG missions and charter flights. Using the most cost-efficient transport modality, the Logistics Cluster will continue to coordinate and facilitate access to common logistics services through the transport of humanitarian cargo to ICCG-prioritized locations. The International Organization for Migration will continue to provide last-mile humanitarian cargo deliveries using 18 trucks positioned in Bor, Bentiu, Malakal, Wau and Juba. The infrastructure project will continue to rehabilitate and construct critical roads and dyke infrastructure to enable humanitarian actors to deliver multisectoral relief items to vulnerable communities.
Targeting and prioritization
The Logistics Cluster will maintain the delivery of critical life-saving cargo on behalf of humanitarian partners, implementing multisectoral projects in priority locations identified by the ICCG. The common transport services project will continue to transport relief cargo from warehouses to airstrips/riverside docks for onward delivery to ICCG-prioritized locations. UNHAS will target all areas of humanitarian interest identified as priority by the HNRP. The infrastructure project will conduct needs assessments to identify critical infrastructure that needs to be rehabilitated and prioritized, using the participatory approach. During project implementation, joint monitoring in collaboration with local stakeholders will be conducted.
