The Pooled Funds’ Impact in South Sudan (2023 - 2024) As of 21 October 2024

South Sudan is facing an increasingly deep humanitarian crisis driven by long-term vulnerabilities and compounded by new challenges. The ongoing violence, primarily between government forces and opposition groups, has caused widespread displacement. With the 2.2 million IDPs, South Sudan is experiencing a severely neglected displacement crisis. Since April 2023, the situation has escalated further as over 800,000 Sudanese refugees and South Sudanese returnees have arrived in the country. South Sudan also grapples with widespread reports of sexual violence, gender-based violence (GBV), and rising child protection concerns. Compounding these challenges is the extremely high climate vulnerability of South Sudan. The impacts of climate change, particularly flooding, ALLOCATION TIMELINE combined with chronic vulnerability, economic shocks and conflict between government forces and opposition groups, have severely disrupted livelihoods and agriculture. As a result, half of the population is food insecure. In response to this humanitarian crisis, the OCHA-managed Pooled Funds – the South Sudan Humanitarian Fund and the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) - have allocated $140.6 million since 2023 to enable timely and critical assistance to address the impacts of flooding, food insecurity, and the urgent humanitarian needs of long-term IDPs and newly arriving refugees and returnees.