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BACKGROUND INFORMATION AND RATIONALE, PROJECT DESCRIPTION

sexual violence (CRSV) remains one of the most urgent and deeply rooted challenges in South Sudan’s humanitarian and peacebuilding landscape. Despite commitments under the Revitalized Peace Agreement, incidences of CRSV continue to escalate, with women and girls facing disproportionate risks in conflict-affected areas such as Unity State and Central Equatoria. Survivors endure multiple and intersecting vulnerabilities, including severe social stigma, family rejection, disrupted livelihoods, chronic poverty, and limited access to justice, healthcare, and psychosocial services.

Internally displaced persons (IDP) settlements in Bentiu and Juba represent critical areas of intervention, as survivors in these locations are coping simultaneously with the trauma of violence and the vulnerabilities of displacement. Survivors often experience marginalization and exclusion from community and economic life, leaving them highly dependent on humanitarian assistance and exposed to exploitation or negative coping mechanisms.

To address these challenges, UNDP, through its Gender Mainstreaming and Women’s Empowerment Project, in collaboration with the Access to Justice, Human Rights and Rule of Law Project and the Peace and Community Cohesion Project, is implementing a holistic, survivor-centered response. In line with the Government of South Sudan’s priorities, the project will be implemented in close partnership with the Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Welfare (MoGCSW). Technical support will also be sought from UNFPA and UNMISS to ensure comprehensive, rights-based, and aligned interventions.

UNDP recognizes that specialized technical expertise is required to ensure the successful design and implementation of survivor-centered economic empowerment initiatives. The engagement of a qualified consultancy firm/organization is critical for technical specialization, capacity building, community reintegration, quality assurance, and sustainability.

The purpose of the consultancy to design and implement a project that empowers 100 survivors of CRSV in IDP settlements in Bentiu and Juba by creating sustainable economic opportunities, enhancing financial literacy, and improving access to justice and legal support. Additionally, the consultancy will develop strategies to reduce stigma and foster positive community attitudes toward survivors to promote their dignity, agency, and social reintegration.

1. OBJECTIVES:

The aim of this call is: to identify two national NGOs/CSOs with operational presence and capacities and working in the selected locations in Juba and Bentiu, to empower 100 survivors of CRSV with sustainable economic opportunities and improve their access to justice and protection.

(80% women, 15% men and 5% persons with disabilities)

Specific objectives are to:

a)    Improve the economic self-reliance among 100 CRSV survivors through basic economic empowerment/vocational training, provision of start-up kits, and financial literacy education.

b)    Enhance survivors' knowledge of GBV prevention, peacebuilding, and legal rights and protection mechanisms.

c)     Promote positive community attitudes toward survivor reintegration and gender equality.

d)    Enhance justice actors' understanding of survivors' needs, local referral mechanisms, and survivor support networks in IDP areas, including identifying entry points for effective survivor protection.

1. GEOGRAPHICAL FOCUS OF THE PROJECT:

The project activities will be implemented in Juba (Central Equatoria State), and Bentiu (Unity State), South Sudan.