Project Description:

Building on the UNDP Community Security and Small Arms Control (CSAC) project, which has successfully been implemented in South Sudan over the last 5 years, this project aims to strengthen the gender-responsiveness of the CSAC project at the invitation of UNDP. Mainly through consultations, women’s priorities for preventing and resolving conflict will be identified and responded to through micro-projects with the aim of contributing to the Secretary General’s 7 point action plan and promoting peaceful co-existence in South Sudan.

PBF Priority Area(s) and Outcomes:

Area 2: Promote Coexistence and Peaceful Resolution of Conflict, Outcome 5:  National reconciliation processes that promote culture of inclusion and peaceful resolution of conflicts are strengthened and the most urgent human rights legacies of the conflict addressed, including responsible media

Outputs and Key Activities:

The project will deliver the following outputs:

Output 1.1:  Gender-responsiveness of community driven conflict resolution mechanism improved

Output 1.2:  Women’s grassroots peacebuilding efforts are supported and reinforced in one state

The project will reinforce women’s key role in mitigating local conflicts in three counties in one state in South Sudan. Drawing from the effective, consultative, community-driven process used by the CSAC project, women’s priorities for preventing and resolving conflicts will be identified and supported through micro-project that will enhance the gender-responsiveness of the CSAC programme.