South Sudan Regional Refugee Response Plan: January 2024 - December 2025 (updated July 2025)

The 2024 and 2025 South Sudan Regional Refugee Response Plan (RRP) is a collective, multisectoral endeavour involving 123 partners, including United Nations agencies, non-governmental organizations, and other civil society actors. In 2025, the Regional RRP is designed to target the needs of 2.53 million refugees and 1.84 million members of the host community in the five main asylum countries, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, and Uganda. While RRP partners had anticipated protracted displacement in 2025, from February, there was a sharp escalation of violence and insecurity in South Sudan, resulting in new displacement. Between March and end of July 2025, approximately 139,000 people2 had sought refuge in neighbouring countries. The conflict continues unresolved and is the humanitarian situation is complicated by climate shock, health and economic challenges all contributing to the likelihood of further displacement. As a result, an estimated 195,000 additional new arrivals are expected between May and October 2025 a surge which underscores the urgent need for emergency preparedness and response3.

As part of the Humanitarian Reset, in response to unprecedented funding shortfalls in 2025, the humanitarian community went through a process resulting in the hyper-prioritized Global Humanitarian Overview 20254. Within this framework, the Hyper-Prioritization Fact Sheets of the South Sudan Regional RRP5 highlight 3 million hyper-prioritized target population of those facing the most severe and immediate threats—who must be urgently targeted with assistance and protection. Reaching them will require $588M. The Hyper-Prioritization does not replace the needs in the Global Humanitarian Overview of the RRP but rather sharpens its focus to save as many lives as possible as the limited resources become available.

In line with the Refugee Coordination Model, the RRP offers a cohesive approach, integrating individual country plans while maintaining a regional outlook on protection risks, vulnerabilities, and critical needs. The strategy is anchored in core national and regional policies, centring on four main objectives for refugees and asylum-seekers: maintaining access to territory and to the right to seek and enjoy asylum and enhancing the protection environment and the realization of the rights; providing quality, efficient and timely protection and other multisectoral assistance; inclusion into national systems and enhancing durable solutions. A commitment to enhancing accountability to affected people and protecting refugees from sexual exploitation, abuse, and other risks is a cornerstone of the RRP.

Covering nine sectors, the plan includes coordinated activities in protection, including gender-based violence (GBV) and child protection, education, food security, public health and nutrition, livelihoods and economic inclusion, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), settlement and shelter/housing and basic needs, and logistics and operational support. Each sector's approach is tailored to the unique context of the respective countries. The regional chapter also outlines the cross-cutting themes of age, gender and diversity, which include disability inclusion and youth, the theme of accountability to affected people, protection from sexual exploitation and abuse, localization, climate action and cash assistance. Given the urgent need for energy and the environmental impact, the related budget implications have been indicated alongside the sectors. The regional chapter provides an overarching summary of the overall protection risks analysis, the strategy and the related sector interventions, underscoring collaborative efforts, coordination, and financial needs. The plan's country-specific responses are further detailed in individual country chapters.

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