Management Response

Recommendation:

a). Provide adequate financial and technical support for consolidating the gender mainstreaming in the security sector reform processes of South Sudan (High). b). Provide a tailored and customized support program for females in security forces, PwDs, survivors of violence and the vulnerable in the community (Urgent). c). Design and implement strategic (long-term, focused and with adequate resources) projects to realize GM in SSR in South Sudan (High). d). Enhance follow up and tracking results and documenting changes of their interventions at grassroots levels (High).

Management Response:

Accepted

Key Actions Responsible Deadline Status Comments The CO will continue to mobilise resources to mainstream gender in the security sector and support women participation in the security sector- clear results frameworks to be developed to track implementations of interventions related to SSR. Inclusion of gender mainistreaming in SSR indicators for tracking during the AWP and SN development stages. This allows for clear monitoring of progress and creates a basis for measures gaps for which the CO can mobilise funding for. M&E and Reporting Specialist 2024/06 Not Initiated

Recommendation:

a). institutionalize collaboration among implementing partners, women groups/organizations and SSIs and relevant government ministries to lobby to promote the inclusion of women and PwDs in the leadership and decision-making positions of the SSIs after the SSR (Urgent). b). support state and non-state actors work to end SGBV, in all its forms and at all levels, offline and online (Medium). c). institute fund to keep girls in school and work to create a safer environment for girls by building the capacity of schools (High). d). build institutional and system level capacity of SSIs to respond to GBV and continuously mainstream gender in SSR in SS (urgent).

Management Response:

Partially accepted

Key Actions Responsible Deadline Status Comments Continued collaborations with key stakeholders (including Women organizations, government ministries) to ensure the inclusion on women in leadership and decision making. Identify a cohort of women for training in leadership and decision making. Program specialist-WPS 2023/12 Overdue-Not Initiated

Recommendation:	Assess exhaustive challenges (risks) and include mitigation measures to be taken by IPs in their future projects of gender mainstreaming in SSRs of SSIs
Management Response:	Accepted

Key Actions Responsible Deadline Status Comments The country office will assess challenges and risks while developing a new gender mainstreaming in SSR project and include mitigation measures in the project design. Project Manager 2024/01 Overdue-Not Initiated

Recommendation:	Design separate and long-term programs and funding to implement customized and tailored capacity building interventions to gate-keepers of social norms such as church, community and traditional leaders to implement GM and SSRs in SSIs in South Sudan.
Management Response:	partially accepted

Key Actions Responsible Deadline Status Comments The country office will design a long-term project which includes capacity buidling for gate keepers of social norms to implement gender mainstreaming in SSR and SSIs Head of the Programme 2024/01 Overdue-Not Initiated

Recommendation:	Design projects that ensure the participation of women in the drafting of SSRs, the Constitutional and laws Amendments of South Sudan.
Management Response:

Key Actions Responsible Deadline Status Comments The country office will design projects that promote women's participation in the constitutional and laws amendment. Head of programme 2024/01 Overdue-Not Initiated