South Sudan

ALWS support of the Magwi county project began in January 2021. Planned activities include:

Access to education for 2,200 returnee and receiving community children:

• Rehabilitation of three primary schools.
• Training 80 members of Parents Teachers Association/PTAs and School Management Committees/SMCs on roles and responsibilities.
• 2-year in-service Certified Teachers Training for 40 untrained teachers in partnership with the Ministry of Education and teacher induction training for 20 untrained teachers.
• Provide learning supplies for 1200 learners once and dignity kits for 1,100 girls twice a year
• Support students in three schools to establish school clubs (environment, hygiene, and peacebuilding)
• Facilitate 79 PTAs/ SMC and 46 teachers with training on IGA. The group will be introduced to the concept of Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLA), to stabilize their family livelihoods and reduce their absenteeism from school activities in search of other income opportunities.

WASH and livelihood improvement:

Access to water for 7,400 community members:

• Conduct a hydrogeological survey and drilling of boreholes; installation of a solar-powered pump
• Install a water supply network to two schools, two community clinics, two irrigation farms, two tree nurseries, and at least eight community watering points serving up to 4,200 people
• Provide start-up tools/spare parts and establish a community-led water management committees
• Renovate four boreholes and renovate two health facilities that will get a water supply.

Access to vocational training and farming skills for 600 returnees and host community members:

• Conduct skills survey in Magwi and in Palabek refugee camp in northern Uganda to prioritize vocational training needs.
• Establish a vocational training centre in partnership with the Catholic Church in Magwi county; engage technical trainers to conduct a training of trainers (ToT) for future trainers
• Renovate and equip the existing youth centre for meetings and training for at least 600 youth.
• Train 120 farmers and support them to engage in livestock farming, climate-friendly irrigation agriculture and agroforestry, formation of IGA groups and later on the VSLA concept.

Human Rights, Social Cohesion and Community based Psychosocial Support:

To facilitate the smooth reintegration of returnees in the receiving community, the project will engage local authorities, the elderly, youth, and women groups on human rights-related matters, land rights, and climate change issues. There will also be a linkage with the BfdW-supported UPR project to facilitate local-level human rights initiatives.

• Facilitate peacebuilding sessions for a group of 160 people (returnees and host communities)
• Support youth leadership structures to organize sports activities for peace and social cohesion targeting 3,600 (50% female) youth
• Conduct awareness sessions for climate change advocacy targeting 80 (50% female) influencers
• Facilitate training on land rights, enforcement, and arbitration for 40 people
• Conduct information campaigns on peace, land rights, climate change, GBV, and child protection through radio programs reaching app. 117,000 people in Magwi county and Palabek refugee settlement
• Facilitate cross-border information sharing between refugees in northern Uganda and local communities in Magwi communities
• Capacitate community-based child protection structures
• Train LWF staff, schoolteachers, and local authorities in Community based Psychosocial Support
• Support the prevention, containment, and response to Covid-19 among the project beneficiaries and reaching up to 117,000 indirectly through multiple awareness campaign schemes. LWF has other COVID-19 interventions that also reach Magwi, including the BftW funded project A-SSD-2020-0160.

Your support goes towards promoting and scaling up farming for food production.

This includes individual extension methods (individual farm visits for technical support) and group extension methods (demonstrations and field days), provision of early maturing and agro-ecologically appropriate crop and vegetable types and support for flood mitigation structures. 

Fishing is one of the key food sources for communities in the project areas.  Your support will help train fishing groups on fish production, preservation, and marketing.  The fishing groups will also be supported to form cooperatives to support the fish value chain.

Your support will help the community to identify and select locally viable productive engagements. 

Trainings on business management and saving and loaning plus start-up capital will be provided to facilitate youth (especially ex-child soldiers) and women effectively engage in identified business opportunities. 

Additionally, 200 women will be trained in poultry production and management and each provided with money to buy 3 hens and 1 rooster.

The ongoing conflict in South Sudan has resulted in very poor education services. 

Your support will help in the expansion of a primary school through the construction of 4 additional classrooms, renovation of another primary school, purchase of teaching and learning supplies, purchase of school desks and furniture, training of teachers and school management committees and purchase of menstrual cups and reusable pads for adolescent school-going girls.

The project in Jonglei took advantage of the extra water from the floods in May and June 2020 to initiate additional activities.

• Fishing kits for 550 flood-affected households
• Providing vegetable seeds for 300 households to use the extra water stored in ponds to grow vegetables in the dry season.

Food production, income generating activities, education and peacebuilding initiatives in Jonglei State, strengthened the resilience of communities affected by conflicts and natural disasters.