Women's Engagement in South Sudan Peace Process

Results achieved as of the end of the project (January 2020) include: (1) a Senior Gender Advisor was recruited and retained to work at IGAD Special Envoy Office (up from zero in 2017) to facilitate gender mainstream and women’s participation as a part of the transitional and peace making process; (2) three key action points (up from 2 in 2017) related to gender and the empowerment of women were achieved in the Revitalised Agreement on the Resolution of Conflict in South Sudan (R-ARCSS) which included: 35% Affirmative Action one female Vice President and the establishment of a Women Enterprise Development Fund; (3) 1 429 women from across South Sudan (up from 0 in 2017) were mobilized to participate in the peace processes including the High Level Revitalized Forum of the peace agreement; (4) three commitments (up from 0 in 2017) were made from policy makers and the Transnational Government of National Unity on women’s engagement; (5) four guidelines tools and frameworks (up from zero) were developed for gender and conflict analysis mediation and conflict resolution; (6) 360 women and 68 men community champions (there were 400 men community champions in 2017) were directly engaged in preventing and ending sexual harassment and sexual and gender-based violence; and (7) 6 286 women (up from 765 in 2017) at community levels were mobilized to participate in community peace dialogues advocacy initiatives and peace awareness and sensitization events/activities across the country. These results show a positive increase in the impact of the Senior Gender Advisor within the IGAD Special Envoy Office on the peace process in South Sudan.