HIGHLIGHTS
10,000 Refugee children participated in child friendly spaces activities
9,000 Vulnerable IDPs received non-food items from UNHCR and partners
7,767 Additional refugees registered across South Sudan since 1 January 2016
1,116 Refugees and refugee response stakeholders received training by UNHCR
Unity and Upper Nile: UNHCR in consultation with WFP and UNICEF began implementation of preventive and mitigating measures to tackle malnutrition, chronic malnutrition and anemia among camp refugees, including blanket and targeted supplementary feeding programmes, and therapeutic feeding. A recent nutrition survey indicates higher rate of malnutrition in all refugee camps in Unity and Upper Nile as compared to 2014.
Central Equatoria: In Gorom camp, UNHCR partner ACROSS conducted a training for 210 farmers on harvest and post-‐harvest handling, plants management and disease identification to help the community become more food secure and self-‐reliant. In Lasu settlement, 2,620 families were registered for distribution of agricultural inputs.
Unity: In Ajuong Thok camp, UNHCR partner Action Africa Help International began constructing a new primary school to help decrease classroom congestion, bringing the total number of primary schools in the camp to four