The study was about the contributions of United Nations High Commission for Refugees in ensuring refugee right to food in Bidi-Bidi Refugee in Yumbe District. The study was guided by the following objectives; to identify the ways in which the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in ensures South Sudanese Refugees’ access to food aid in Bidi-Bidi Refugee in Yumbe District, to establish the mechanisms for delivery and rationing of food by United Nations High Commission for Refugees in to South Sudanese Refugees in Bidi-Bidi Refugee in Yumbe District and to analyse the challenges facing United Nations High Commission for Refugees in her delivery of food aid to South Sudanese Refugees in Bidi-Bidi Refugee in Yumbe District. The researcher obtained data from 56 respondents, and according to the study, the ways in which United Nations High Commission for Refugees ensure nutrition interventions. They avail therapeutic foods for children which enhances the health of the benefiting children. There is trainings for refugees in skills for developing primary agriculture which enables them to cultivate cassava, maize and millet. They organize refugee teams for agricultural prosperity by equipping them with relevant skills for ensuring that they develop agriculture. The study noted that United Nations High Commission for Refugees delivers food stocks to refugees in the camp. The food given to refugees is raw and they are required to prepare it using firewood they have fetched from the forests and bushes. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees in supporting the South Sudan refugees with food in the camp there is some feeding support from the International Federation of the Red Cross who help in the case of the rampant occurrence of epidemics and fighting. The study found out that the continued occurrence of internal conflicts in the camp among the South Sudan refugees hamper efforts to adequately provide food for them. There is delayed food distribution to the refugees in the case of fighting and bickering because they are no secure and organized as this could put the lives of the officers involved in distribution at peril for their own life, and some refugees do not get food at all because the infighting often leads to delayed deliveries and lack of access to the distribution site and even if they reach there, there would nothing being distributed. The study revealed that United Nations High Commission for Refugees can improve delivery of food aid to the South Sudan refugees by generating clear records on refugee status which helps to determine status of the refugees, expanding teams to monitor refugee activities, and giving out rations in time and on agreed schedule. The study recommended that there should be introduction of Nutrition Education and Counseling initiative in the refugee camp, there should be regular spreading nutrition messages in camps: Nutrition animators in the camps are the driving force to mobilize mothers in refugee camps to attend parents’ evening meetings where nutrition messages are delivered and there should be provision of safety net interventions such as blanket supplementary feeding.

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