Sectoral Coordination 

• Health / Nutrition / WATSAN
• Education
• Food Security and Livelihoods
• Logistics / Supply Chain
• Emergency Prepardness and Response

List of Sector Leads and Co Sector Leads for Southern Sudan (May 2009)

Sectoral Coordination - Health and Nutrition

The Southern Sudan Health NGO Forum has been operating since 2005. It was set up to facilitate communication between non-governmental organisations (NGOs), and to enable NGOs to decide on a consensus of opinion to feed into the Health and Nutrition Consultative Group (HNCG). Initially it met in Nairobi, but has been meeting in Juba since mid 2006. It supports the efforts of the approximately 120+ NGOs delivering health services to people in Southern Sudan.

-    NGO Health Forum - ’FAQs for Southern Sudan NGO Health Forum’, (December 2008). 
-    Health Meetings Schedule - 2009
-    NGO Health Forum – ‘Briefing Paper’.
-    ToR for NGO Health Forum

 For contact / queries to the NGO Health Forum - please email - sshealthcoordination@gmail.com  

Sectoral Coordination - WASH

Southern Sudan WASH sector mailing list - All NGOs involved in the WASH sector are invited to join a google group -  http://groups.google.co.ke/group/southern-sudan-wash-ngo-forum?hl=en. The Sector Lead for the WASH sector is UNICEF, and Medair is the NGO co-sector lead - for further information please contact watsan-southsudan@medair.org, or please see the full WASH sector contact list.

WASH Technical Guidelines - http://www.wes-sudan.org/techtraning.aspx?tech_id=0#

WASH Sector minutes - WASH NGO Forum - 24/11/09

Sectoral Coordination - Education

Southern Sudan Education Sector mailing list - All NGOs involved in the education sector are invited to join a google group established by the GoSS Ministry of Science and Technology (MoEST) - http://groups.google.com/group/gosseducationforum.

- GoSS Ministry of Education, Science and Technology - ’Education Statistics for Southern Sudan 2009 - National Statistical Booklet’, (January 2010) 

- GoSS Ministry of Education, Science and Technology - ’Approved Coordination Mechanisms and Fora for the Education Sector’ (March 2009) 

- GoSS Ministry of Education, Science and Technology - ’Partnership Guide’, (2008).  

Sectoral Coordination - Food Security and Livelihoods

  • Food Security and Livelihoods - (monthly at State level / 6 monthly at GoSS Level)
  • Livelihoods Analysis Forum (LAF) – (Quarterly)
  • Livestock and Fisheries Working Group - (Quarterly)
  • Avian Influenza and Rift Valley Fever Task Force – (Quarterly)
  • Crop Technical Working Group – (Quarterly)

- FAO / WFP - ’FAO/WFP Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission to Southern Sudan’, (17 February 2010)

- WFP / SSRRC - ’Executive Brief on the 2009/2010 South Sudan Annual Food Security and Livelihood Assessment (ANLA)’, (December 2009)

- Food Security Technical Secretariat, GoSS - ’Southern Sudan Food Security Update’, (04 December 2009

- FEWSNET - ’South Sudan Food Security Update’, (November 2009)

- Food Security Technical Secretariat, GoSS - ’Southern Sudan Food Security Update’, (May 2009)

- Food Security Technical Secretariat, GoSS - ’Agrometeorology Update’, (May 2009)

- FEWSNET - ’South Sudan Food Security Update’, (May 2009)

 - WFP South Sudan, VAM Unit, ’South Sudan Annual Needs and Livelihoods Assessment, 2008-2009’, (March 2009).

- Food Security Technical Secretariat, GoSS - ’Southern Sudan Food Security Update’, (August 2008)

 

Sectoral Coordination - Logistics / Supply Chain 

The United Nations Joint Logistics Centre (UNJLC) is an inter-agency facility reporting to the Humanitarian Co-ordinator within complex Humanitarian crisis, and overall to the Inter-Agency Standing Committee. Its mandate is to co-ordinate and optimise the logistics capabilities of humanitarian organisations in large-scale emergencies. UNJLC operates under the custodianship of WFP which is responsible for the administrative and financial management of the Centre. UNJLC is funded from voluntary contributions channeled through WFP. In Southern Sudan the office is located inside the OCHA compound, Juba. To contact UNJLC please email sudan.juba@unjlc.org. 
 

UNJLC focuses on the following key coordination activities:
• Logistics
• NFIs Coordination / Supply Chain
• Transport
• Infrastructure
• Suppliers
• GIS / Maps Centre
• Fuel
• Customs

UNJLC produces regular bulletins on logistics related activities and issues relating to South Sudan operations, in addition to a South Sudan Logistics mailing list. If you would like to join the mailing list, please send an email to southsudan.logs-subscribe@unjlc.org to subscribe. Additionally, there are regular monthly NFI meetings and Logistics Coordination meetings which NGOs are invited to attend.

- UNJLC - Southern Sudan Road Distance Matrix (kms), (July 2009) 

- UNJLC Map - ’Anticipated Road Closures - South Sudan Rainy Season 2009’.

For further information - please go to the UNJLC website

  

Sectoral Coordination – Emergency Preparedness and Response
 
OCHA - Emergency Preparedness and Response Unit (EP&R)
 
 
Historical Perspective
  • EP&R unit - established by OLS Consortium in 2000 to address need for coordinated response to emergencies
  • Unit operated under the leadership of Oxfam with participation of other agencies
  • After signing of CPA, the Unit relocated to OCHA, which established a presence in Southern Sudan - initially with Oxfam leadership, which was taken over by OCHA
 What we do
  • The EP&R Unit promotes prompt, effective and concerted country-level response in man-made and natural disasters in Southern Sudan.
  • The Unit is focusing focus primarily on:
–         strengthening emergency preparedness and response capacities of the GOSS and local institutions;
–         monitoring and response to inter-communal conflicts;
–         promoting coordinated response to epidemic disease outbreaks;
–         supporting humanitarian financing and;
–         facilitating information management processes (with IMU).
–         The coordination of emergency response
 
Linkages – UN/NGO
  • To strengthen EP&R support the government and UN/NGO sector leads in inter- and intra-sectoral coordination in key sectors:
  • UN and NGO seconded staff to EP&R Unit – a crucial component
  • Seconding institutions include:
–         Oxfam - emergency preparedness + watsan
–         MedAir - health/epidemics
–         UNJLC – logistics, particularly flood response
 
The EP+R Unit is located at the OCHA compound, Juba.