Outcome SSD_D_4.2

Humanitarian actors promote gender responsive humanitarian/crisis response planning frameworks and programmes in South Sudan

The CO played a key role in filling critical gender gaps in humanitarian action. Through the GIHA trainings the humanitarian actors have now acquired skills and knowledge to conduct gender analysis to identify gender gaps to inform Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO) and Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) and related programming. Some have capacity to share the knowledge with their colleagues and other stakeholders UN As a member of the National Plat form for Disaster Risk Reduction (NPDRR) the CO reviewed the South Sudanese Durable Solutions Strategy for Refugees, Returnees, IDP’s and host communities as well as a community-based disaster risk management Doc -A people centered approach for disaster risk-informed community development, developed by IOM for the Ministry of Humanitarian affairs to ensure gender integration. The CO effectively lead, coordinated, and promoted accountability for the implementation of gender mainstreaming in humanitarian response through gender analysis; for example, a Gender Equality Situation Analysis for IDPs, Returnees and Host Communities in South Sudan was finalized edited, and publishing of the report is underway which will inform the HRP and other program plans. Through the cluster meetings discussions influenced the need for coordination and collaboration across humanitarian actors and the UN Country Team to ensure that joint efforts take women and girls fully into account. UN Women CO played a key role in the Grantee Selection Committee (GSC) of Education Cannot Wait selection of grantees / multi-year resilience programme. The CO was invited by the education cluster coordinator to ensure the partners selected to implement the project integrated gender in their proposals.

Humanitarian actors promote gender responsive humanitarian/crisis response planning frameworks and programmes in South Sudan

More gendered analyses and sex and age disaggregated data are available for humanitarian actors in South Sudan that enabled the humanitarian actors to highlight specific needs of women, girls, boys and men at the same time with the analyses highlighting the specific needs and capacity of women and girls, which in turn informs processes of how to leverage women and girls’ strengths to influence peace and resilience building. Some of the gender analyses that was conducted by UN Women in 2021 includes the gender analysis on experiences of IDP’s, returnees, refugees and host communities, the gender analysis to inform the Common Country analysis. The different gender analysis processes strengthened capacity of the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management (MHADM) in gender integration. A staff from the MHADM spoke of how they now see things differently. They were able to wear a gender lens to see the current humanitarian situation and needs. The analysis processes also provided a platform for practical training from the learning facilitated during the Gender in Humanitarian training. The MHADM conduced and led its own Gender Analysis on the Impact of Conflict in the 7 states of South Sudan through the strengthened partnership with UN Women. UN Women team trained data collectors appointed by the MHADM to carry out the Gender Analysis. UN Women team and the MHADM conducted a validation workshop that hosted colleagues from line ministries, NGOs including women led organisation. After the validation workshop, the input provided within this process was included. The report from the exercise is out and UN Women is working with the Ministry to produce a policy brief from the findings that is to inform the Ministries work. The MHADM also provided technical oversight and support to UN Women on key data collection processes including the Gender Analysis on experiences of IDP’s, returnees, refugees and host communities, the Barrier Analysis of COVID-19 testing and vaccination. A number of processes of different cluster meetings had a gendered input from UN Women. UN Women was able to put the engendered spin on things that might have otherwise been forgotten. The UN Women’s technical inputs are as follows; UN Women has been part to a number of surveys administered by the Education Cluster that was looking to improve the Education policy and the work of the Education Cluster. In addition, the UNCT joint programme on Disaster Risk Reduction highlighted gender aspects of the programme with UN Women’s technical inputs. The team was able to include some of the initial findings from the Gender Analysis on the Impacts of Floods within the document.