Outcome SSD_D_4.1

Government of South Sudan budgets for and fully implements its Women Peace and Security commitments

The government does not allocate sufficient funding to implement its WPS efforts and this hinders the actual implementation of policies. However, in spite of the limited resources, the CO was able to provide support to the development of the second-generation National Action Plan on the UNSCR on Women, Peace and Security, a matrix attributing budget allocations to outcome areas has been developed. Supporting the efforts of CSOs to review the constitution making process bill from a gender perspective of members of the national legislative assembly on gender considerations in the CMP bill which led to the enactment of a gender responsive CMP Act 2022. The gender responsive provision in the adopted CPM act include the following: a) at least 35% women representation in each of the constitutional making mechanisms/institutions; b) the chairperson and deputy chairperson of the R-NCRC shall be of opposite gender; and c) the CMP must be guided by, inter alia, principles of gender equity and affirmative action.

Government of South Sudan budgets for and fully implements its Women Peace and Security commitments

The country continuous lack of budgetary allocation towards commitments for Women Peace and Security (WPS) hinders actual implementations of policies. It also affects data collection of gaps of the commitments and implementation of the WPS Agenda for monitoring on regular basis. However, there has been a significant increase in women representation in recognised leadership and decision-making positions in the government as well as women’s participation in building peace. Nine out of the 35 members of the cabinet are women, which amounts to 26%. Also, there is one woman deputy minister, and 1 out of the 5 vice presidents is a woman. Out of the 10 governor positions, only one (10%) is held by a woman, and out of 10 deputy governor positions, three (30%) are held by women. The positions include advisers, ministers, chairpersons of independent commissions, deputy chairpersons of independent commissions, and county commissioners. 29% of parliamentary seats are held by women with the Rt speaker of the Revitalized Transitional National Legislative Assembly (R-TNLA) and Chief Whips at the National Level and the deputy speaker of the Council of states. At the state level, women from political parties and civil society were effectively engaged in championing the efforts of peacebuilding, as evidenced by the example of women constituting 16% of officials appointed to positions in the 10 states. Fifteen women political leaders have been appointed to conflict resolution peace commissions at 10 states. The women are from parties that are signatories to the Peace Agreement and drive the agenda of peacebuilding at state levels. Moreover, over 260 women leaders across the country from the 10 states and 3 administrative areas were engaged in establishing the structures of 13 South Sudan Women Leadership Forums to act as government women leaders’ structures for influencing government decisions and space for amplifying women leader’s voices for claiming meaningful participation in public life. All the established 13 structures of South Sudan Women Leadership Forums are headed by Ministers of Gender and Social Development state and administrative areas with the participation of women leaders from the government institutions, civil society, media, private sector and faith-based leaders. At the community level, women’s participation in peacebuilding and implementation of the Revitalised Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (R-ARCSS) has been increased. For example, more than 100 women in Maridi organized themselves and established six (6) women’s groups to promote women’s leadership and disseminate peace at the local level. In Awerail, communities also organized themselves and established one (1) community women mediators’ network consisting of 50 women members to facilitate community mediation activities and to monitor the implementation of the R-ARCSS.