Institutions, laws and services

Exploring justice sector reform in South Sudan

For the new South Sudanese state, security and justice service delivery are key tasks to establish stability, development and sustainable human security. This report analyses the justice sector in South Sudan and focuses on the following issues:

• a review of the current status of the justice sector and access to justice in South Sudan
• an assessment of the intervention efforts in the sector that takes into account the international and national efforts to reform the justice sector since 2005
• the identification of priorities and programming requirements for improved support to the justice sector.

This report serves to inform the process of developing a clear and comprehensive agenda for judicial reform in South Sudan.