This project is an opportunity for South Sudan to transform its security sector into a gender-responsiveone that protects and promotes the rights of women and girls across the country. The conflict in South Sudan has disproportionally impacted women and girls leaving them vulnerable to all forms of attack. Gender inequality and discrimination committed by security forces prevents meaningful participation and inclusion in peace processes across communities, ethnic groups and generations. Patriarchal viewsthat consider security as a man's issue and the male-dominated nature of the security sector has left gender and minorities' needs, concerns and priorities largely absent from the security sector, threateninglong term sustainable peace because the security sector is not representative of the population it serves