Since its independence in 2011, South Sudan continues to experience extremely severe and widespread needs across most sectors. Renewed armed conflict since March 2025 – particularly intense in Upper Nile, the Equatorias, and Jonglei – was compounded by the third consecutive year of widespread flooding, continued economic collapse, and the sustained pressure of more than 1.3 million Sudanese refugees and South Sudanese returnees entering the country since April 2023.

The result is a crisis of compounding system failures in which food insecurity, acute malnutrition, epidemic disease, and health system collapse are co-occurring at scale – and in which the populations most exposed are systematically those with the least capacity to cope. In 2026, over two-third of the population is in need of humanitarian assistance and 55% of the population will be experiencing high level of acute food insecurity between April and June 2026.

IMPACT has been present in South Sudan through its REACH initiative since 2012 to inform humanitarian response strategy, prioritization and planning. Our work is centered around three main objectives:

1) Informing prioritization, response design, and monitoring of shocks and needs severity via high quality data collection with a focus on cash and public health;
2) Providing strategic Information Management and technical support to key decision-makers and coordination platforms such as the Needs Analysis Working Group;
3) Improving evidence on climate shocks, displacement and durable solutions to support pathways towards resilience and development.

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