SSPC/Pact Sudan People to People Peacebuilding

This program, which ran from October 2008 to October 2009, supported the Southern Sudan Peace Commission (SSPC) in implementing its 2008-2011 Strategic Plan in order to build unity in cooperation with partners through south-south dialogue and people-to-people peace processes and pursue national healing and reconciliation among communities. The project created synergies between local government and grassroots structures.

The program’s three main objectives were to build:

1. The capacity of local actors to mitigate conflict and prevent escalation of violence.
2. Tolerance and understanding between conflicting communities in Southern Sudan by training traditional leaders, youth, and women in peacebuilding and conflict mitigation.
3. The capacity of the SSPC in monitoring, evaluation, and reporting by providing technical training through targeted workshops for SSPC, as well as through mentoring of SSPC staff through the first two objectives.