Consultant Livelihoods and Markets Assessment Juba, South Sudan
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE
Since December 2013, South Sudan has experience protracted crisis caused by conflict and insecurity and deteriorating economic situations which limit availability and affordability of food in markets and livelihood opportunities. The situation is further exacerbated by localized climate shocks occurring as flooding, heavy rains or drought damaging property and causing more displacements. Protracted conflict has disrupted farming and livelihoods, caused loss of livestock and lives, and led to a very low household resilience capacity index. Poverty is endemic with at least 80% of the population defined as income-poor and living on the equivalent of less than US$1 per day and in dire need of humanitarian assistance and protection. According to the November 2021IPC analysis, an estimated 5.82 million people (48.3% of the population) are classified in crisis (IPC Phase 3) or worse acute food insecurity, with 1.8 million in emergency and some 11,000 people in catastrophe. The situation is projected to worsen as the lean season progress, with some 7.24 million people (60% of population) projected to need urgent humanitarian food assistance by July 2021. Most of the population in Panyijiar county relies on livestock rearing, subsistence farming, and fishing as their primary source of livelihoods. The flooding which...
South Sudan : Juba
2021-10-08
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