Gender Equality and women empowerment

This program is dedicated to the promotion and improvement of the socio-economic welfare of women in South Sudan. Activities include;

• Improving socio-economic welfare of the women through capacity building and promoting voluntary saving towards the formation of grassroots savings and credit cooperative societies. This includes grant-making for start-ups in small and medium businesses. Income generating activities increase their responsiveness and effectiveness in addressing their health concerns. Support includes improving the welfare of vulnerable and orphaned children, some of whom receive educational support, vocational training and psychosocial support.

• Education and knowledge sharing; build women’s capacity to claim their rights through increasing their access to information on different issues including human and legal rights as well as facilitation of formal, informal and vocational training.

• Improve GBV prevention and response through activism to reflection and critical thinking on gender relations and power, awareness raising on human rights and existing legistration, providing psychosocial support and safe spaces for victims and survivors along with referral services.

• Empower women and vulnerable groups to take up leadership roles and actively participate in governance and policy making through creating spaces for policy dialogue and leadership skills training.