Procurement Notices

1. BACKGROUND

South Sudan is emerging out of a brutal conflict that killed thousands and displaced millions of its citizens since the civil war broke out in 2013, barely two years after its independence. In 2018, after months of negotiations following the collapse of the 2015 agreement, various political and armed groups signed the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan (R-ARCSS). Civilians have been subjected to widespread human rights violations and abuses, including killing, injury, abduction, sexual violence, and destruction of properties. Women and youths in South Sudan from the age of 15-40-year-old found themselves stuck in unimaginable generation-threatening challenges. Further, Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) also suffer the most in post-war and post-conflict situations like these, experiencing the highest levels of violence, abject poverty, stigmatization, and exclusion.

The Revitalized Transitional Government of National Unity (R-TGONU) has taken steps towards rebuilding South Sudan in line with the Chapter 5 of the R-ARCSS including the crucial role of truth, reconciliation, and healing. The Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs has developed Bills on establishing a Commission on Truth, Reconciliation, and Healing (CTRH) and the Compensation and Reparation Authority (CRA). The Bills have since been approved by the council of Ministers and now tabled before parliament for consideration. By its very nature, the CTRH will enable the country to acknowledge its past violence; help the truth to be known publicly by hearing from both victims and perpetrators; enable justice to be done; and support victims and the society to move beyond the painful past into a united and peaceful future. In turn, it will signal the way forward to ensure grave violations of human rights never happen again.

Inclusive participation of Women, Youth, Men, and PWDs in all aspects of transitional justice processes to respond to massive human rights violations through judicial redress, political reforms, and other measures. Through the transitional justice process, we will be able to prevent the recurrence of human rights abuse. Transitional justice processes include truth-seeking, prosecution initiatives, reparation, and measures to prevent the recurrence of new violations. These measures can include constitutional, legal, and institutional reform, strengthening of civil society, memorialization efforts, cultural initiatives, preservation of archives, and reform of history education, foster local ownership and perceptions of legitimacy but also as an opportunity to empower women, youth and PWD and challenge a range of exclusions and power relations at local, national and international levels.

This call for proposal invites competent and reputable registered Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and registered Faith Based Institutions in Western Equatoria (Nagero and Tambura) and Eastern Equatoria (Kapota North, Kapoeta South, Kapoeta East, and Ikotos) in South Sudan to submit proposals for a six-month grant aimed at breaking any barrier preventing women, youth and PWD from meaningfully participating in the CTRH process, conduct awareness-raising on transitional justice process, specifically the design of the legal framework of CTRH.

NB: THE APPLICATION MUST CLEARLY SPECIFY THE TARGET LOCATION. 

1. OBJECTIVE

The objective of the grant is to build on and expand on the network of survivors and other stakeholders to enable them to discuss issues in relation to the conflict violence, trauma healing, and non-violent means to achieve justice and peace, legal and institutional framework of CTRH. 

1. EXPECTED OUTPUTS

The organizations are encouraged to develop their own expected results based on their respective assessment of needs, issues, and challenges of survivors and victims in the transitional justice processes. Expected outputs will include the following:

1. Build capacity of existing survivors’ networks as distributed in Western Equatoria (Nagero, 8 and Tambura, 7) and Eastern Equatoria (Kapota North, 5, Kapoeta South, 5, Kapoeta East, 5, and Ikotos, 5), religious leaders, faith-based formations, community informal leaders, chief and members of public to spearhead peace dialogues, participating on awareness raising on peace and transitional justice messages within their communities.
2. Build capacity of 2,100   members (700 per cluster) of survivors’ networks to prevent violent, deal with conflict and related trauma to enable their views to be heard especially on the design of the legal and institutional framework of CTRH and prepare them to participate meaningfully in the transitional justice process.
3. Mobilize and support 1,200 people (400 per cluster) or survivors identified from survivors’ networks, CSOs, Chief and members of political parties and religious leaders to participate in training programs, radio talk shows and round table discussions on transitional Justice processes. 
4. Support 300 stakeholders (100 per cluster) from survivors’ networks, CSOs, religious leaders, Chiefs, political party representatives and other relevant stakeholders to receive key guiding principles and approaches on transitional justice and processes for the establishment of Commission on Truth, Reconciliation and Healing.
5. Carry out trainings for 1200 members (400 per cluster) of the victims’ and survivors’ network, CSOs, religious leaders, chiefs, and members of political parties on women, PWDs and children’s rights, gender equality, leadership, advocacy skills, public speaking and peacebuilding.

1. Expected results

The organizations are encouraged to develop their own expected results based on their respective assessment of needs, issues, and challenges of survivors and victims in the transitional justice processes. 

Expected results will include the following:

1. 20 existing survivors’ networks initiatives are strengthened and more directly engaged with religious leaders, CSOs, chief and members of political parties to spearhead peace dialogues, participating on awareness raising on peace and transitional justice messages within their communities.
2. Support and increase youth, women and PWDs programming that builds their capacities in peace building, reconciliation and nations building processes so that youth can become active citizens and civically engaged especially in building peace and development in the rural areas. 
3. Establish 6 more youth, women and PWDs peace networks at subnational levels to build a critical mass for policy influence, promote collaboration and joint programming.
4. Establish specific programs that further amplify the voices of women, PWDs and youths in peacebuilding processes. 
5. Support the existing women, youth and PWDs groups and also promote the establishment of new ones including building their capacities in leadership skills, governance, confidence building training including public speaking.
6. Strengthen peaceful coexistence and address immediate peace issues; grazing land, water resources, pastoralists and agricultural communities. 
7. Develop context specific peace messages, translated and disseminated at grassroots levels using peace building strategies such as arts, sport, dances, wrestling and radio distribution.
8. Set up capacity building of young people on positive use of social media for social change. This ensures young people become champions of peace through the use of social media. Support to social media advocacy and campaigns will be instrumental in raising voices of youth in the peace process.