100+ projects across South Sudan

Women Agency for Progress Organization

We work towards ensuring a life free of equality and diginity for every woman.

Background

Helping women Realise their Values & Rights

South Sudan remained under protection crises, lack of durable peace and limited investment in essential services are holding people back from stability. In 2020, the communities were hit hard by triple intensified conflict and subnational violence, a second consecutive year of significant flooding and the impact of Covid-19. Some 1.6 million people remained internally displaced, and another 2.2 million refugees in the region. Insecurity, lack of essential services and unresolved housing, land and property issues prevented people from returning home in large numbers.

The overall food security worsened, and some communities were facing catastrophic needs; many children are malnourished than in the past three years. People’s coping mechanisms have been weakened due to the cumulative shock leading families to adopt harmful practices such as forced labour and child marriage. Women and girls continue to meet extreme gender-based violence and psychosocial distress levels.
The economy continued to spiral downwards, pushing people to brinks, especially in urban areas.
Access to essential services, including health care, education, water and sanitation, and protection and legal services, was limited. Much of the services infrastructure was already damaged, destroyed, or closed in 2020. This increased violence against aid workers and asset and operational interference prevented hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people from predictably accessing the support they needed.

The current global landscape is at distressing levels of gender inequality. Globally, indeed, one
in three women experiences gender-based violence, and beyond fearing for their physical safety,
women must shoulder most of the burden of financial hardships. The UNDP has found that
women own only one per cent of the world's wealth. Three out of four women worldwide do not
have access to loans due to the precarious nature of their economic situations, which shows that
there is minimal opportunity for women to escape cycles of poverty. These issues add a gendered
component to the reasons why women migrate. Unfortunately, migration often creates other
problems for women, leaving them vulnerable to physical, economic, and social uncertainty.
Against this backdrop, WAPO came into existence to advocate for gender equality and justice.

The organization aims to promote social justice, economic security and peaceful co-existence
amongst communities towards achieving empowerment for Women and Girls in the Eastern
Equatoria of South Sudan.
WAPOs envision a South Sudan where women and girls are free from violence and human rights
abuse. The organization collaborates with women-led organizations, local groups, and other
organizations to raise awareness of sexual and gender-based violence issues and improve
people's livelihood. Currently,

WAPO is implementing a women's voice Leadership (WVL) programme in Eastern Equatoria,
the Republic of South Sudan. The following three main objectives underpin WAPOs work.
i. Increased access to live-saving protection interventions for conflict-affected women and
girls,
ii. Increase food production among women and girls to promote peace and conflict
resolution amongst the communities and
iii. Increase support to school girls through a menstrual hygiene programme.

Come join us

We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.

During the formation of state level union cooperative that the chairman, membersof civil society, Director general of ministry cooperative, acting area manager of CARE and senior project officer for women voice in leadership (WVL) and program manager WAO officiated.

Together we can make WAPO a better arm for South Sudan

WAPO's Impact

GBV and general protection, prevention and respond

Through advocacy initiative and awareness on harmful cultural practices

Food Security and Livelyhood

Provision of revolving fund to 30 VSLAs groups.
Empowerment of women and youth in business skills.
Engaging stake holders to promote economic right for women and girls.
Support or promote women in economicsector.

Peace and Security

Enlighting women and peace actors on conflict management mitigation approach
Engaging women in security sectorto participate in sector reform in South Sudan.