Appeal

Southern Sudan - Juba County

Assistance to returnees in Munuki and Kator Payams, Juba County, Southern Sudan - AFSD72

Appeal Target: US$ 1,091,385

Geneva, 30 November 2006

Southern Sudan`s low social development levels have been exacerbated by significant numbers of returnees from within and outside the country following the years of conflict. Many of these returnees are flocking into Juba at unprecedented rates. Juba is considered a way station for almost all returnees moving from south to north and as a final destination for some, according UNOCHA. There is little infrastructure in the two payams of Munuki and Kator where ACT member Church Ecumenical Action in Sudan (CEAS) is proposing to respond. What little infrastructure that exists is either destroyed or non existent. Repeated disease outbreaks in these areas such as acute watery diarrhoea/cholera makes it urgent to rehabilitate basic health infrastructure and water supplies. Many of the schools in the area are serving less than half the existing school-age population. The sectors that are planned include water/sanitation, education and health services in two payams to assist approximately 66,000 people.

CEAS are planning to construct improved water and sanitation facilities. For sustaining these services, village health committees and hand pump mechanics will be trained. CEAS will partner with the education structures of the African Inland Church, the Episcopal church of Sudan, Sudan Aid (the Roman Catholic Church), and the Sudan Pentecostal Church to improve the Church's ability to deliver primary education to local host and returnee communities. The intervention will target the rehabilitation of 37 classrooms, facilitate training for 30 pre-school teachers and provide school furniture. In addition CEAS will also be partnering with Sudan Aid to improve and increase access to primary health care. It will target the rehabilitation of four clinics, and provide essential drugs and other supplies to these clinics, and facilitate staff training.

Name of ACT member/partner:

 Church Ecumenical Action in Sudan (CEAS)

Project Completion Date: 31 December 2007

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We would appreciate being informed of any intent to submit applications for EU, USAID and/or other back donor funding and the subsequent results. We thank you in advance for your kind cooperation.

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