BIOMETRIC REGISTRATION EXERCISE CONTINUES FOR SOUTH SUDANESE REFUGEES IN KHARTOUM – As of 29 May, the Government of Sudan’s Commission for Refugees (COR), with support from UNHCR, have registered over 1,600 South Sudanese refugees living in ‘open area’ settlements. The exercise is ongoing for an estimated 60,000 refugees living across 9 settlements.

ONGOING NATIONAL FUEL SHORTAGE AFFECTING REFUGEE OPERATIONS ACROSS SUDAN – Partners have reported temporary interruptions to clinic and hospital operations across all states, and student enrollment campaigns have been delayed in South and West Kordofan States. WFP also faced challenges to timely pre-positioning of food supplies at refugee settlements that typically become inaccessible during the rainy season. Nearly all water treatment plants servicing refugee and host communities in White Nile State have reduced pumping hours, with people drawing water directly from the White Nile River. WASH partners distributed chlorination tablets and initiated public awareness campaigns on the importance of boiling river water. MSF-Spain established Surface Water Treatment Plant (SWAT) systems at Al Kashafa and Al Waral camps to support emergency water treatment.

HEAVY RAINS DAMAGE SHELTERS AND REFUGEE SCHOOL IN SOUTH KORDOFAN STATE – Heavy rains in May damaged shelters and homes of refugee and host communities in Kadugli, affecting over 120 households. UNHCR, COR and the Sudanese Red Crescent Society (SRCS) are planning for shelter replenishment. In Sirajiya, heavy rains damaged classrooms at a refugee school, and the refugee community has requested UNHCR’s support to build permanent classrooms that withstand the weather conditions.

In DRC, due to lack of shelter over 700 families are still waiting to be transferred to the new site of Mulongwe. Current funding only guarantees the construction of 100 additional shelters.

Nyarugusu, Mtendeli and Nduta in Tanzania carried out a post distribution monitoring assessments on food security and refugee coping mechanisms in May 2018. This assessment is a first step to understand beneficiaries’ food security situation across the three camps.

UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner for Operations, George Okoth-Obbo, visiting Bangladesh to see the agency’s ongoing response to the Rohingya refugee emergency and preparations ahead of the monsoon season.

Jordan Humanitarian Fund JHF/ OCHA Health Sector picked up as one of the priority sector for March call while the sector define its priority under “Projects that support secondary health care for priority cases, such as Basic Emergency Obstetric care and Newborn Care (BEmONC) and Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (CEmONC) including supporting priority medical referrals from the borders and camp”. The indicators were: 1. # of deliveries in presence of skilled attendant 2. # of WGBM referred for secondary and tertiary care 3. # of WGBM received cash assistance to access health services Nutrition Sub Working Group: The nutrition working group has finalized the questionnaire of the planned micronutrient survey, data collection phase going to start on September and report will be finalized toward end of the year. Reproductive Health Sub Working Group (RHSWG): • Reproductive health working group has launched sub sector coordination for Azraq Camp, Monthly meetings scheduled staring from May in order to improve level of RH services being provided through different actors in the camp. Azraq Camp: • In order to improve NCD management and decrease number of referrals outside the camp an NCD physician has been recruited to support Village 3. The physician will also support V3 clinic and V5 until another NCD physician placed. Mental Health: • Mental Health Action Plan 2018-2021 has been launched in collaboration between WHO and MoH, the soft copy available on UNHCR web portal. Berm Situation:  There is a significant increase in the number of patients allowed access to the clinic over last weeks. The average of patients per day currently is around 230. Since opening of the clinic A total of 30,730 visits to Rukban clinic for medical consultation, management and treatment and 942 cases of admission to Jordan.

Shelter Sector: by end of April a total of 2,862 shelters were upgraded and repaired in Azraq and Zaatari camps.

WASH Sector: in April, WASH services were provided to 120,271 Syrian refugees, including 68,000 children, living in Azraq, Zaatari, and King Abdulla camps and host communities.

UNHCR’s Regional Refugee Coordinator (RRC) for the Burundi situation carried out a brief to Ambassadors and Head of delegations on the needs of Burundian refugees on the 4th May 2018 at the invitation of the US Ambassador, H.E. Robert F. Godec.