Since its independence in 2011, South Sudan continues to experience extremely severe and widespread needs across most sectors with 73% of the population (9 million) in need of humanitarian assistance in 2024. Key drivers of humanitarian needs include an ongoing economic crisis, the lack of basic services and heightened exposure to climatic shocks (especially floodings), conflict and violence and disease prevalence. These underlying factors drive South Sudan to be the fourth most neglected displacement crisis globally, with two million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).The outbreak of the Sudan crisis in April 2023 puts an additional pressure on limited resources and access to services as over 700,000 individuals (of which 160,000 refugees) fled to already vulnerable South Sudanese states. The humanitarian situation is likely to further deteriorate in 2024 due to a major flood event anticipated to take place over the second half of the year and affect up to 3.3 million people.  

In South Sudan, IMPACT has been present through its REACH initiative since 2012 to inform humanitarian response strategy, prioritization and planning through the provision of timely, accurate and comparable inter-sectoral data and analysis on needs of affected populations. IMPACT work focusses on three objectives: 1) identifying areas at the highest risk of excess mortality to inform emergency prioritization; 2) informing humanitarian strategic planning and annual prioritization; 3) enabling community-centred resilience and local durable solutions initiatives. In addition, IMPACT has started to deploy its PANDA initiative in 2023 to directly support aid actors in improving the effectiveness, efficiency and efficacy of their programs.  

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