The South Sudan Resilience Strategy 2024-2030 reaffirms WFP’s long-term commitment to strengthening the capacity of people, communities and systems to better anticipate, prevent, withstand and recover from crises. This strategy is strongly anchored to WFP’s 13-year vision in South Sudan, which aims to reduce entrenched inequity and isolation by fostering unified, interconnected and peaceful communities. It builds on the renewed partnership between the Government of South Sudan and development partners to tackle the underlying drivers of conflict and fragility and lay the foundations for a more sustained inclusive development trajectory. Building resilience will start in the humanitarian space to save lives, reduce needs sustainably and mitigate costs of delivering assistance. WFP will leverage its comparative strengths in emergency response, human capital development, social safety net, food systems, climate action and supply chain to pursue integrated pathways to strengthen anticipatory, absorptive, adaptive and transformative resilience capacities, ultimately contributing to food security and peace. Wherever appropriate and possible, WFP will deliberately layer, sequence and integrate complementary humanitarian and resilience building investments in areas of recurrent and protracted humanitarian assistance, targeting the same populations over a sustained period of time to achieve lasting impact. WFP will focus on marginalized and hard-to-reach communities, including in Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) level 4 and 5 prevailing areas where it can make the greatest difference and turn the tide of rising needs, bringing to bear its strengths and capabilities. Institutional capacity and system strengthening of the government and local actors as the key stakeholders will be critical for ensuring ownership and sustainability. In doing so, WFP will build on complementarity, colocation and scale with key partners across the humanitarian-development-peace nexus to increase the impact and sustainability of interventions and contribute to changing the country’s narrative of fragility, hunger, and malnutrition. Informed by robust evidence and adaptive learning, WFP’s approach to resilience building will be flexible, pragmatic and progressive, seizing opportunities to reduce needs and supporting lasting change. WFP will work to ensure resilience interventions reflect the voices, needs, experiences and aspirations of the most at risk, in particular women, children, youth, displaced and resident populations, people with disabilities, pastoral communities and other marginalized groups. WFP will continue to play a key role in emergency response and famine prevention, protecting the most vulnerable people when crises occur in line with core humanitarian principles.
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Geographic coverage | South Sudan |
Originally published | 12 Dec 2024 |
Related organisation(s) | WFP - World Food Programme |
Knowledge service | Metadata | Global Food and Nutrition Security | Food security and food crises | Risk managementClimate actionSafety net |
Digital Europa Thesaurus (DET) | resilienceVulnerable groupshumanitarian aidaid systemaid policy |