Report on the Advocacy Mission to assess the situation of children in South Sudan of grave violations against children, Data Management and referral for SGBV cases, Child protection systems strengthening: Identifying and strengthening Community Based Child Protection Networks (CBCPN). Nutrition 26. The crisis around nutrition and food insecurity was readily apparent on the Committee’s mission. The conflict has increased the already above emergency threshold of malnutrition level in South Sudan. As the consequence of the conflict, the effect of Severe Acute Malnutrition has aggravated. UNICEF estimates that four million people (34 per cent of an estimated 11.6 million total population) will experience acute and emergency levels of food insecurity between June and August 2014; this means that 840,000 children under-fives and 328,000 pregnant and lactating women are exposed to unacceptably high levels of food insecurity. In the three conflict-affected states, 462,000 children under 5 years and 180,400 pregnant and lactating women are exposed to unacceptably high levels of food insecurity. The delegation was informed that treatments are in short supply and mothers pleaded for the delegation to advocate for food for their starving children. 17