Community voices: South Sudan

All too often, people in South Sudan are unable to have their voices heard outside their communities; there’s often a significant disconnect between local communities and national and international level policymakers.

These case studies from two of our programming locations in Western Bahr el Ghazal and Warrap states help to give voice to community members who are affected by differing forms of insecurity in South Sudan.

Atoch, Chris, Matilda, Patrick and Chief Pasquele tell us about a number of the local security issues their communities are facing – including criminality, robbery, gang activity, lack of access to basic services and violence against women – and the work they’re undertaking in challenging circumstances to address these. 

These case studies from two of our programming locations help to give voice to community members who are affected by differing forms of insecurity in South Sudan. Too often their voices are not heard outside of their communities; there’s often a significant disconnect between local communities in South Sudan and national and international level policymakers. These case studies illustrate a number of the security issues their communities are facing – including criminality, robbery, gang activity, lack of access to basic services and violence against women – and the work they’re undertaking in challenging circumstances to address these jointly, supported by Saferworld and our partner civil society organisations through our community security programme.

Find out more about our work in South Sudan.

Photograph: Marcus Perkins/Saferworld