March 2015 – Ongoing conflicts in Darfur, South Kordofan and Blue Nile States, as well as an influx of refugees from South Sudan, have contributed to a significant deterioration of the humanitarian situation in Sudan. Some 6.6 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance, including 3.1 million internally displaced people, 700,000 refugees and asylum seekers, 1.2 million malnourished children under the age of five, and 1.6 million people who are food insecure. Food security and malnutrition continue to be priority sectors for humanitarian assistance, as well as health and sanitation needs. With DFATD’s support, Save the Children Canada is providing emergency food, water, sanitation and hygiene services to over 127,000 conflict-affected people in North and South Kordofan, as well as Blue Nile State. Project activities include: (1) rehabilitating three water yards benefitting 9,000 people, improving five hand-dug wells, benefitting 2,000 people, and constructing eight waste water collections points, benefitting 3,200 people; (2) providing training to 56 community members to create eight water committees to manage water points; (3) rehabilitating 40 latrines at nutrition and community centres and providing 250 sets of latrine and sanitary tools; (4) providing training and awareness on infant and young child feeding through 100 nutrition education sessions, targeting 6,820 mothers and caretakers in 20 communities as well as providing therapeutic supplemental feeding to 5,070 people with moderate acute malnutrition; and (5) providing agricultural inputs and cash grants to increase access and availability of diversified food.
