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South Sudan Hub
The South Sudan Hub comprises local, national, and international NGOs, advocating for a humanitarian architecture characterised by dependable, flexible, adequate, and needs-based funding, with responses shaped by affected communities.
Through the 10 local and national NGOs, the hub has developed a clear vision, mission, and priority areas of focus. These include innovative programming, flexible financing for local actors, advocacy, influencing, and anticipatory action.
Vision:
A localised, community centric hub responding to needs defined by the affected community.
Mission:
To offer inclusive humanitarian response defined by the needs of the community.
Focus Areas:
- Community Led Innovation Programme (CLIP)
- Organisational strengthening efforts targeting local members
- Hub governance strengthening including developing policies and systems to guide hub operations, and refining the hub systems change agenda and strategy development
At South Sudan, we pledged to work on our structure, and we want to do this intentionally and we want to do this immediately.Josephine Chandiru Drama, Director of Stewardwomen, Member South Sudan Hub
Programmes and Initiatives:
Within the Humanitarian sector:
- Increase in complexity and multi-dimensional nature of disasters
- Shrinking humanitarian landscape
- Risk and accountability on donor resources
- Low appetite for risk sharing
- Competition among national and international organisations (funding LNNGOs)
Within the South Sudan Hub:
- Lack of coordination and information sharing
- Organisational capacity (e.g., HR, Logistics, Funds, Systems, Assets)
Within the Humanitarian sector:
- Strategic investment for national organisations
- Accessibility to areas of greater need
- Limited commitment and implementation of localisation agenda in communities
- The long-term humanitarian response (overcoming dependency syndrome)
Within the South Sudan Hub:
- Good communication
- Limited funding within the hub and the global sector
- Anticipatory action
- Functional government structures in some areas
- Limited involvement of the community from the onset and ownership of the project
Within the Humanitarian sector:
- Existence of structures, e.g., local clusters, local traditional structures
- Localisation (entrusting local organisations)
Within the South Sudan Hub:
- Commitment by members (coordination, global hub network)
- Fund manager/host
- Completed due diligence for the LNNGOs
- Set up of the Hub Governance system
Within the Humanitarian sector:
- Local leadership from LNGOs
- Capacity of local and national organisations
- Global commitment on localisation agenda
Within the South Sudan Hub:
- Vibrant and responsive Start Hub in South Sudan
- Willingness to work together
- Vibrant local hub
- Scaling up innovation projects
Josephine Chandiru Drama
Josephine Chandiru Drama, Director of Stewardwomen, a women led organisation and a member of the South Sudan Hub shares her insights from Hub Connect 2024 and outlines her plans for enhancing the hub’s structure.
South Sudan HubStart Fund Alerts in South Sudan
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