Since December 2013, brutal conflict in South Sudan has claimed thousands of lives and driven nearly five million people from their homes. While many remain displaced inside the country, more than two million have fled to neighbouring countries in a desperate bid in search for safety. Food insecurity, as well as economic crisis has intensified the protection risks for the affected people. Thousands of children are either missing or separated from their parents. South Sudan’s crisis is characterised by serious violations and abuses against civilians, including widespread sexual and gender-based violence and forced child recruitment. 

Separated and Unaccompanied children are at risk of being exposed to protection concern which includes abduction, trafficked,or sexual abuse or exploitation.  WOCO continuously mobilize the community on prevention of children what to do to ensure children are not separated from their families the mobilization start immediately from the time crisis occurred and it continue till the community settled. WOCO works in collaboration with UNICEF ,Save the children and other

FTR partners to ensure that the identified cases of separated and unaccompanied including children  are registered entered into the CPIMS system and children whose cases are  successfully traced  are reunified  with their parents or  primary caregivers ,cross boarder cases if identified are report  to ICRC. Interim care is provided for separated and unaccompanied children from their families until they are reunited, they are placed under foster carers responsibility, the care arrangement can either long term of short term based on the complexity of the cases.