Hope Africa South Sudan

Hope Africa South Sudan is a humanitarian National NGO registered by the Relief and Rehabilitation Commission (RRC) under Chapter 3, Section 10 of the NGOs Act 2016 with Reg. No 2341. It was established by South Sudanese, who felt the effects of the ongoing conflicts, which resulted in dire humanitarian needs for the vulnerable communities in South Sudan.

Hope Africa South Sudan is a humanitarian National NGO registered by the Relief and Rehabilitation Commission (RRC) under Chapter 3, Section 10 of the NGOs Act 2016 with Reg. No 2341. It was established by South Sudanese who felt the effects of the ongoing conflicts, which resulted in dire humanitarian needs for the vulnerable communities in South Sudan.

Hope Africa is striving for resilience and impacting lives through:

• Fighting Poverty
• Creating stronger communities with full focus on hunger free societies with the use of improved agricultural inputs and encourage modern farming
• Empowering children through the WASH programmes and SWASH
• Provision of scholastic materials, training of SMC, PTAs and teacher Education and development
• Creating awareness on Health related issues including STDs and HIV/AIDS
• Offering entrepreneurship skills to youth and young women through TVET
• Providing general awareness and advocacy on child protection and GBV
• Promoting peace building and social cohesion initiatives in the communities that results into conflict mitigations and conflicts resolutions in their own stable communities
• Creating platforms that enable young people to interact peacefully in societies through the debates competitions, Public Lectures, football competitions, panel discussions and marathons
• Promoting General Education, Girl child Education advocacy campaigns
• Ending GBV and child rights abuses through community learning support campaigns and advocacy

MANDATE

To contribute towards empowering communities for sustainable development through closely working with the people for resilient communities in Education, Protection, Peacebuilding, Food Security & Livelihoods and WASH programming.

VISION

Enabling the vulnerable population to become resilient in their communities for Sustainable Development.

MISSION

Save the lives of the people by improving community resilience by making them realize full potentials of building their communities for Sustainable Development in South Sudan.
TEL: +211927663730 / +211916159411
EMAIL: hopeafricas.sudan@gmail.com

OBJECTIVES

• To create a nexus between Humanitarian Response and Resilience among communities in South Sudan.
• To facilitate faster transition of the vulnerable communities into a more stable and sustainable environment in the fields of Health and Nutrition, General & Specific Protection, Food Security and Livelihoods, Peace building & Community Cohesion, WASH, Education, Environmental Conservation and Management.
• To advocate for more funding to Developmental projects and Humanitarian Response in South Sudan in the global arena through networking, Information sharing, Learning, coordination and good practices.
• To enable communities achieve peaceful resolutions through dialogues, debates, public lectures and panel discussions that would contribute to their peace and community cohesion.

THEMATIC AREAS

❖ Food Security and Livelihoods
❖ Education &Technical Vocational Education & Training (TVET)
❖ Protection (Child Protection and Prevention of Sexual and Gender Based Violence)
❖ Peace building & Community Cohesion
❖ Water, Hygiene and Sanitation (WASH)
❖ Health and Nutrition

PREVIOUS ACTIVITIES AND PARTNERS

Current partners;

• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• United Nations Entity for Gender Equity and Women Empowerment (UN Women)
• Government of South Sudan
• United Nations Human Rights office of the High Commissioner
• United Nations Peace Building Fund
  

Past Experiences in South Sudan;

Hope Africa South Sudan in partnership with Democracy International through support from USAID conducted community sensitization meeting on the importance of Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the conflict in the Republic of South Sudan and importance of sustainable peace in South Sudan in Juba County of Central Equatoria State.
Hope Africa South Sudan (HASS) in Partnership with UNDP with support from KOICA is implementing a Peace and Community Cohesion (PaCC) project in Aweil East and Aweil Centre Counties of Northern Bahr el Ghazel State running from 1st September 2020 to 31st December 2021. This project aims at Strengthening community social cohesion through social, cultural and economic initiatives.

Hope Africa South Sudan (HASS) in partnership with UN Women with support from the government of Netherlands is implementing a transitional justice project in Mangateen PoC, Gudele and Juba Urban areas of Juba County of Central Equatoria state running from 1st August 2021 to 31st October 2021. This project aims at promoting women peace and security, access to justice by the survivors of SGBV, and women’s economic empowerment.

Educational activities;

Hope Africa South Sudan with support from Well wishers (Business companies) VAD Foundation conducted Inter-Universities competitions on the importance of Education and its related issues such as go back to schools.

Renovation of Madhol primary school toilets in Madhol, Aweil East County was conducted by HASS in partnership with RACBO.

Hope Africa South Sudan conducted go back to learning campaigns to the local communities in Northern & Western Bahr El Ghazal through radio talkshows.
Hope Africa South Sudan continues to conduct emergencies learning in all areas in South Sudan with different donors.

HASS planned Projects in future with donors;

Informal education (Life skill education, manual work skill and rural sport)
TEL: +211927663730 / +211916159411
EMAIL: hopeafricas.sudan@gmail.com

Formal education (provision of inputs and services to primary and secondary schools, including infrastructures development)

Vocational training (provision of inputs and infrastructures, awareness and training to youth and women)

Girl Child Education Advocacy

We have our Head Office in Aweil Town (Aweil Centre County), Northern Bahr El Ghazal County. Our Coordination Office is in Nimra Talata Residential Area, Juba of Central Equatoria State and in Leer County of Unity State. We have implemented several projects for the last four years in the Peace-building, Education, Protection, Nutrition, Food Security and Livelihoods sectors in our field locations in Western Equatoria (Maridi), Northern Bahr El Ghazal, (Aweil East, Centre, North, West &South), Central Equatoria, (Juba), Eastern Equatoria (Torit, Kapoeta,), Lakes State (Yirol & Rumbek), Warrap State (Tonj South & North, Kuach) and Unity State (Leer County and Mayendit).

South Sudan Context

For about five decades, Southern Sudan had been undergoing protracted wars and conflicts with Sudan’s government that caused prevalent and persistent violence, population displacement and severe poverty in the region.

On the ninth of July 2011, South Sudan got her independence from Sudan following the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement between the Sudanese government and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army on 9th January 2005, which granted the Right of Self-determination for the people of Southern Sudan. As such, the country experienced a short period of independence, peace, stability and progress, but unfortunately, civil wars and tribal and sectional conflicts continued to be part of the country following the eruption of a devastating war at the Nation’s Capital on 15 December 2013.

The situation has worsened with the July 2016 conflict in Juba that caused humanitarian catastrophes and displacements of 2.4 million people as refugees in the neighbouring countries of Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya, among others. An estimated 1.7 million people are internally displaced, and 5.5 million people are subjected to severe food insecurity. The Country is severely subjected to hyperinflation and skyrocketing market prices.

According to the 2008 census, South Sudan had a population of 8.26 million people, and the current projection indicates that the population clocks 12 million. 83% of this population lives in rural areas, and 51% live below the poverty line. 55% of the poor population lives in rural areas, compared to 24% of the poor live in urban areas. The Country has a vast area of land with 644,329 sq. kilometres. 75% of the land area is suitable for agriculture, but only 4% of this total land area is cultivated.

Based on the information and challenges highlighted above, Hope Africa South Sudan has designed the following thematic areas.

Geographical Areas of Operations

Jonglei State, (Bor, Twic East), Western Bahr El Ghazal State (Wau, Raja & Jur River counties), Western Equatoria (Maridi), Northern Bahr El Ghazal, (Aweil East, Centre, North, West & South), Central Equatoria, (Juba, Yei), Eastern Equatoria (Torit, Kapoeta,), Lakes State (Yirol & Rumbek), Warrap state (Tonj South & North, Kuacjok), Upper Nile (Malakal)