The UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Omar Abdi will be visiting Sudan during the second week of November to see at first hand the impact of a protracted emergency on children.
The UNICEF Sudan humanitarian appeal for 2015 is 61% unfunded. The worst affected sectors are Education and Child Protection.
A new water supply source treating and delivering clean, safe water to the Al Redis I refugee site and its host community was completed serving over 18,000 beneficiaries.
The effects of climate change, strongly linked to the El Niño oscillation, have begun to impact some communities in Red Sea State.
Six villages in Hayaa and Tokar localities have been severely affected by floods after the rainy season. UNICEF was amongst the first agencies responding to urgent needs on the ground.
UNICEF has scaled up implementation of a strategy to increase the CMAM programme coverage in Central, West and North Jebel Mara. Five new OTPs have subsequently been opened in the hard to access area this month.
The third round of the countrywide measles immunisation campaign in the Darfur states, was completed in October. 27,733 children aged under one have been vaccinated with the first dose of the measles vaccine and a further 32,728 in the same age group with Penta 3.
UNICEF still urgently needs USD $1 million for the second S3M child survival survey in 2016.