This report examines the policies for protection against sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA) in South Sudan. Focusing on the effectiveness, relevance, coherence, efficiency, impact, and sustainability of the existing PSEA mechanisms and programmes, the report finds that several practices violate international protocols on prohibiting human trafficking, child marriage and sexual exploitation and abuse. The report provides insights on how country teams can explore ways of preventing potential violations, through advocacy and awareness raising campaigns to…
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This article explores assumptions that humanitarian actors carry in their response to violent conflict. As such, it identifies challenges that humanitarians encounter that undermine an effective reduction of violence, and the assumptions that undermine civilian protection. This reflection is accompanied by implications and recommendations for practice and policy for humanitarian actors to address the threat of violence. Read more here
This report explores the impact of economic shocks on household income and expenditure, as well as identifies the coping strategies that South Sudanese implement in face of the worsening economic conditions. A real impact of these economic shocks is identified for South Sudanese mental health and well-being, food insecurity and reduced incomes. Several coping strategies implemented by affected households are also considered, among which a common implementation of violent means. Read more here
Based on research conducted over a two-year period (2022-2024), this report examines how communities directly and indirectly engage with armed actors in a context marred with conflict and violence. The report finds that engagement with armed actors is influenced by many conditions, challenges, opportunities and risks. Finally, the report provides insights on how to leverage such engagement in a way that can reduce violence and contribute to greater complementarity between humanitarian, protection, and peacebuilding interventions….
Using case studies of six countries, including South Sudan, this report explores the intersection between child trafficking and armed conflict. The report finds that child trafficking intersects with armed conflict through six grave violations, with gender playing a key role, and it identifies challenges with the legal and policy responses. Finally, the report provides suggestions on how to prevent and uphold accountability for perpetrators of child trafficking crimes. Read more here
This report discusses community engagement with armed actors, and identifies factors, actions, and actors can influence such engagement. The report finds that community engagement with armed actors presents both opportunities and challenges. Finally, the report provides suggestions on how national, and international peace, protection and humanitarian actors can effectively engage with armed actors through enhancing complementarity between humanitarian, especially protection, and peacebuilding actors. Read more here
This report focuses on the protection needs and risks faced by returnees and host communities in South Sudan. The needs of the 7,457 Sudanese refugees (and almost 4000 others nonSudanese or South Sudanese nationality) who have so far arrived in South Sudan remain critical. Though many of the needs of and risks faced by these populations are similar, it is critical to also consider the specific challenges and vulnerabilities experienced by South Sudanese nationals (both…
There are numerous issues that continue to undermine the full realisation of HLP rights for the people of South Sudan and HLP is recognized as a growing key protection concern across the country. The HLP Technical Working Group (HLP TWG) strives to ensure the integration of HLP rights and concerns in humanitarian responses, and to ensure that key affected populations are supported. This note summarizes the key HLP challenges in South Sudan and provides recommendations…
Recognising the value of localisation and building on the World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) commitments, the Global Protection Cluster (GPC) and its four Areas of Responsibilities (AoRs) are seeking to meet the commitments made with regards to localisation and ensure that protection response strategies and coordination mechanisms are guided by the principle – “as local as possible, as international as necessary.” The GPC Localisation of Protection initiative is therefore an approach that supports, when appropriate, local…
The principle of the Protection of Civilians (PoC) in armed conflict has ethical repercussions in various actions undertaken by states and international organisations, from humanitarian relief, development aid, and peacekeeping, to warfare and military intervention. While the ethics of humanitarian intervention are instructive in this regard, most PoC practices should be conceived rather as modes of humanitarian governance across borders—from interventionist to resilience‐oriented kinds. The consequences of this for the ethics of PoC are explored…
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