Project Launch – RDAA South Sudan

Activity: Project Launch and Induction

Venue: Jur River County, Western Bahr-el-Ghazel, South Sudan

Number of Participants: 200

Date: 03/07/2025

Partner: Japanese Embassy in South Sudan, UNDP

Brief Story Write up

With funding from Japanese Embassy in South Sudan in partnership with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Rural Development Action Aid Continues to play a major role in struggle to victims of conflict in South Sudan. We are implementing a project entitle : Promote Capacity Strengthening and empowerment for community led inclusive socio-economic interventions geared towards collaborative inter-dependence and peaceful coexistence between communities. This project is being implemented in Jur River County, Western Bahr-el-Ghazel State 20 beneficiaries in following categories; returnees ex-combatants, internally displaced people people with impairment disabilities and Refugees, and in terms of gender specifically women.

The project will focus on how reducing tension between the above mentioned categories of people through carrying out community dialogues, establishing peace committees and conducting inter cultural dance competitions not forgetting peace football matches all geared towards encouraging peaceful coexistence and community cohesion.

Objectives of the Activity

- - To support community-led peace initiatives to prevent and resolve conflicts aimed at addressing communal tensions and conflicts, reducing tensions, preventing, and resolving conflicts between host communities and returnees/refugees/internally displaced persons.
  - To provide psychosocial support and trauma awareness to communities, including host communities and returnees/refugees/internally displaced persons, affected conflict.
  - To facilitate community economic empowerment aimed at enhancing community resilience as part of conflict prevention approach.
  - Sensitize local stakeholders on stigmatization (security forces, civil society, and communities) to support victims of Human Right Abuse and work towards true reconciliation
  - Mitigation of violence as well as organize various and tailored dialogues for only survivors of conflict-related sexual violence, children born out of rape, conflict-related disability, internally displaced people (IDPs), returnees and ex-combatants on truth-telling.
  - To participating in reconciliation and healing and seeking compensation and reparations

Results/Issues discussed and outcome of the Activity

Results.

1. Identification, mobilization and orientation of 250 victims of human Right abuse in Raja County strengthened.
2. At least 5 Victim Support Groups (VSG) for 120 beneficiaries are established and operationalized in different areas
3. 250 survivors of conflict related sexual violence, children born out of rape, conflict related disability, internally displaced people, returnees and ex-combatants in Raja Center benefited from victim-centric tailored dialogues
4. 1000000 people in Raja County of Western Barh El Ghazal State are reached through community campaigns to create awareness of the CTRH, CRA and truth-telling, reconciliation, healing, compensation and reparations.

Outcomes:

Results/Issues Discussed and Outcome of the Activity

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