SALF PROGRAM PILLARS

Peace and Human Security

This program is an approach that supports more comprehensive and preventive responses, which cutting across sectors, developing contextually relevant solutions, including preventing and countering violence extremism, conflict resolution, which establishes and strengthen the existing traditional security and peace entities at local levels, risk reduction, crisis response and recovery through adopting and working in partnerships with others to help in realization of a society free from fear, want and indignity. Application of this program advances comprehensive responses that address the multidimensional causes and consequences of complex challenges. It also calls for integrated actions among a network of stakeholders to ensure lasting responses to the most difficult deficits in peace and development through ensuring and promoting an inclusive security, peace and political processes, including and not limited to socio-economic initiatives, HIV/AIDs, elderly, children and women empowerment issues, public safety and audits.

The program shall be drawing together the expertise and resources of a wide range of actors from UN system, Government levels, private sector, civil society and local communities in dialogues and fora to promotes strategic networking, collaboration and partnership, including working with national and local government, police and non-governmental organizations to helps design, implement, and manage integrated community development strategies aimed at preventing corruption and its forms. Additionally, provide livelihood opportunities for women and the youth as part of the efforts of addressing and preventing the drivers of violence, all forms of crimes and immoralities, including working on Countering Trafficking in Persons (C-TIP), child abduction and others form of slavery in urban and rural settings. And to cooperation among the partners to provides synergies, and to capitalize on the comparative advantages of various stakeholders in pushing for the course of actions. Acknowledging that the root causes and manifestations of challenges vary significantly across states and the communities of South Sudan. Therefore, the program will provide responses that are grounded and based in local realities to helps localize international and national agendas to ensure that no one is left behind in fostering equity, security and peace, preventing and mitigates conflict. In an effort of addressing the root causes of vulnerabilities that focus attention on emerging risks and emphasizes timely action. It strengthens local capacities to build resilience, and promotes solutions that enhance social cohesion and advance respect for human rights and dignity.

Human Rights

This program envisions of where all people have the freedom to enjoy equally their entire human rights and the fundamental rights under the Constitution. Its advances and protects human rights and the peoples’ civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights and responsibilities as prescribed in national laws, United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), and the growing body of public international law. The program is intended to build the capacities of existing human rights architectures, and working with them to improve human rights conditions with special attention and the support that is given to vulnerable and marginalized groups, including women and girls, children and the young people, voters, ethnic and the religious groups, people with disabilities, and the minorities with aims of confronting the current practical, conceptual and contextualize challenges of human rights discourses in this program by stimulating new ways of thinking; developing new strategies of activism and engagement incubating and nurturing human rights.

Consequently, some of the activities will includes promoting public awareness and education, monitoring compliance, documentation and reporting the human rights violations and abuses, provides and integrate litigation services to increase access to justice. Besides, the program will provides multi-sectoral and integrated humanitarian assistance and protection support to victims and survivors of torture, rapes, including and not limited to victims of armed violence conflict and other violations on international humanitarian law, including survivors of Trafficking In Person (TIP), also victims of natural hazards in course of protecting and advancing human rights and dignity, gender equity and equality, transitional justice, and peace to increases and strengthen citizens’ involvement, participation and engagement in public affairs, law reforms, transparencies initiatives, justice, and accountability, social reconciliation and healing intended to reduce vulnerabilities and recurrence of violence conflict, promote human rights and the rule of law that produce results, public policy and sustained change at all the times and commit everyone to work in protecting and advancing the cherished values, justice, liberty and prosperity of South Sudan.

Democracy and Governance

The core of this program is to promote democratic, responsive and accountable governance, delivery of essential services, equitable economic growth, inclusive development, constitutional rights protection, and citizen security. The program shall tailor assistance to strengthen individual skills, organizational capacity, and overall systems and mechanisms that help hold the government institutions accountable and increase their responsiveness to citizens in decision-making and building financial and management systems and procedures, which help eliminate and fights the corruptions, improve public service delivery, and strengthen mechanisms for broad citizen engagement, inclusion and participation. These, including enhancing oversight capacity to ensure effective public policies and assure that resources are allocated and used where they are needed most. The program will also be focusing on civic education, supporting development of internal administration and management systems, parliamentary procedures refinement, legislation drafting and enactment, executive branch oversight, budget analysis and monitoring, constituency relations, and mechanisms for public participation in the lawmaking processes.

SALF work to equips women and girls with the skills and knowledge necessary to develop improved economic and social opportunities and become change makers in their communities. Build programs that support networks and enabling environments that prioritize women’s legal and economic empowerment, public participation, decision-making, and representation in institutions and local economies. Support reforms to legal frameworks that are biased against women; provide educational opportunities on economic rights to help break down legal and cultural barriers traditionally faced by women. It is very vital for supporting improvement of financial planning and self-sufficiency, service delivery, transparency, accountability (including audit), financial institutional strengthening, and capacity development. Some of the activities shall include, promotion of public awareness, education and engagement on matters of constitutional development, democratic governance, rule of law, economic, social cultural, political and peace process. This counting and not limited to monitoring of elections, public finances management, accountability and transparencies.

SALF practices also do support women political participation, business Infrastructure strengthening, marketing skills, information communication and technology support to women and the youth, including empowering them in economic and the other necessary fields. In this program SALF envisioned of civil society facilities and infrastructure support and other recommendations to improve innovation, accountability and learning, institutional response that facilitate and support vibrant civil society and independence media in a journey of hope in nurturing and entrenching culture of peace, law and order toward achieving democracy and political maturity in bid of building open, responsive, and accountable governance institutions that make sense and the political processes that serve the needs and preferences of the people of South Sudan.

Livelihoods, Environment and Natural Resources Management

South Sudan has significant oil reserves, with estimated proved reserves of 3.5 billion barrels. Furthermore, the country blessed with rich natural resources, including gas, minerals, forestry and water resource. Despite abundant natural resources, the local population continues to live in extreme poverty, unable to meet even their most basic needs and facing environmental threats. This includes adequate access to food, potable water, health facilities, educational opportunities, housing, and time for participation and social integration. In this regard, the program is seeking to support communities’ resilience, inclusive growth and environmental health to reduce risk from natural and man-made disasters for boosting the management, protection and restoration of ecosystems. These as methods of building and promoting resilience, sustainable livelihoods, economic wealth and recovery designed to help them all, especially, women, youth and the vulnerable Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), returnees, refugees and the host communities to rebuild lives, livelihoods security and leadership, including enhancing environment protection and conservation, and also work to drive extractive industries, land rights and public education on natural resource to ensure communities engagement, involvement and participation at all levels of their economic advancement, socio-cultural and politics, including the poor and vulnerable people to access to affordable livelihoods, housing, and enjoys property rights and investment in natural resource assets utilization like everyone in the society.

SALF approach is to help address root causes of poverty emanate from droughts, periodic floods, and influx of returnees. Therefore, this mean to help the affected populations to generate sustainable income, improving their existing livelihoods means and adopting development alternatives in order to reduce hunger, diseases and poverty. Investing in an inclusive and integrated sustainable environmental and livelihoods, water, sanitation and hygiene and natural resource management, this program designated to help in ending gender equality, hunger and extreme poverty, ensuring economic gains, food security and nutrition, sustainable farming and combating the climate change impacts. The task includes promotion of rigorous advocacy in support for attainment of better laws and policies that protect natural resources, livelihoods of the communities and the environment from degradation and fulfil environmental and human rights obligations through working in partnerships with the local government and the communities in their localities to reduce industrial risks, engages communities in natural and hazard-prone areas, helping them prepare for and mitigate the environmental risks of industrial accidents, SALF approach and emphasis shall be on building the natural, social and human capital and organizational models that are community owned, promote platform for strengthening communities ecosystem-based to reinforce communities and stakeholders’ efforts in improvement of the living conditions and livelihoods of the target population while contributing to the long- term efforts on sustainable utilization and conservation of the environment and other communal historical assets.

Research, and Policy Advocacy

SALF entrenches this program to help in pursuing, nurturing and conducting objectively public opinion polls research and baseline surveys as well leading the public policy engagement, participatory analysis of context, partnership building and advocacy that supporting learning evidenced and citizen driven action in addressing citizens wants in politics, economic, social-cultural, technological, legal, and environmental and the re-constructed socio-economic fabric, political and repaired religious effects to enable the facilitation and attainment the favorable conditions for the people to enjoys their human rights, fundamental freedoms and dignity without discriminations. The aspect of this program offers a full range of methods in data generation, analytical research services to be used in strategic planning and sustainability programming. In this association, it is essential for incessant assessments, surveys, and evaluations to political context and analyses should be done and use for developing qualitative and quantitative methods to improve understanding functions of democracy and governance, identify critical policy issues, and provide an analytical basis for the design of actionable solutions to social and economic issues, human rights, justice and security sector. These, includes working to apply our tools in assessing public financial, governance response, systems, transparent and verse resources utilization. Provide creation of deliberative spaces where citizens and public officials interact, debate and negotiate solutions to problems. In addition, the program provides extensive organizational capacity-building to CSOs and other actors with aimed of increasing their effectiveness and engagement in program sustainability in the society.

Policy advocacy drive an important part of this program, which attempts to fulfil and contributing to processes, which directly or indirectly help in formulation and the implementation of policies and programs by the state’s relevant agencies. The program goal of SALF is designed for garnering support from relevant stakeholders including the state as well as general public and the international partners. The policy advocacy tools and techniques to be used are more public focused and collaborative, consisting of activities including information sharing, and generation, synthesis, development of approaches and methods such as imbedding dialogues with policy makers and policy influencing groups as mean to ensure everyone’s ability to participate in our programs without discrimination. Under each programmatic area of SALF mentioned above, SALF undertakes policy research, with the aim to suggest appropriate policy reforms. Different research tools are applied and research products are widely disseminated. These include policy briefs, assessments, white papers, surveys, citizens’ report card, and situation reports. The research findings feed into advocacy efforts for policy forms. Policy dialogue, seminars, roundtables, consultations, and workshops are organized for policy advocacy under the thematic areas. The findings of these events are widely disseminated through direct engagement, or through electronic and print media.