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  1. “In conclusion, I want to leave one very clear message with the Council. Within communities and local NGOs in South Sudan, there is a wealth of untapped potential. The key to unlocking that potential is finding better ways to work together. As local NGOs, we stand ready to work with the soon-to-be established transitional Government of national unity, with UNMISS, with the international humanitarian community and with donors. I look forward to building those partnerships and working with men and women across the country to build a peaceful South Sudan.”

    2019-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8480 (2019) · source

  2. “To me, that kind of partnership between local NGOs, donors, UNMISS and the international humanitarian community has been one of the critical missing pieces in South Sudan. 1 think that partnership will work better if we have a clearer understanding of the challenges women and girls face and what their needs are. That brings me to my final recommendation and another key element missing in South Sudan - effective engagement with South Sudanese communities. We need not just to be consulted, but to be heard. When we raise concerns about tensions mounting or the need for services, we speak from an informed position of local knowledge. Those are our communities. We understand the complexities of what troubles our communities, whether they are historical tribal grievances or more recent disputes over land or cattle, because we live there.”

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  3. “By that, I mean a place where a woman can come for medical and legal services and to develop skills so she can earn an income. Being able to do all that in one place works. In the UNMISS mandate renewal next week, I urge the Security Council to make a direct request to international donors and humanitarian actors to work with South Sudanese local NGOs. We need the Mission and international NGOs to support us in taking on a much greater share of the humanitarian work. It is critical that we scale up the work local NGOs do to help resolve disputes in and between our own communities in ways that do not involve violence, raiding each other's cattle or abducting women and girls. Those grassroots efforts are critical if we are to build safer communities and sustain peace across the country.”

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  4. “It is about women being central players in all aspects of peace and security, including at the onset of an emergency, throughout the crisis and when rebuilding their communities after conflict has ended. To truly make a difference and address the scale and severity of the needs across South Sudan, local NGOs, particularly those led by women, need greater financial support to operate on a more sustainable basis and to scale up their work. There are no short-cut fixes if one is serious about ending violence against women and girls. We need long-term funding, and we must be able to provide services where they are most needed. As Council members know, most people are not in protection of civilians sites. We know that one-stop centres work in South Sudan. We need to be able to offer more of them to our communities.”

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  5. “There ought to be urgent recognition that we cannot meet humanitarian needs, rebuild institutions or craft a new Government without addressing the deep-rooted gender inequality in South Sudanese society. Women must be involved in discussions about our country's future. We have talented, determined, visionary women in South Sudan. We are ready to fill the 35 per cent quota in the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan, but in order to do so we need the backing of the international community and the Council. The women and peace and security agenda is much more than just getting women to the table.”

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  6. “It is also encouraging that Mark Lowcock, the Head of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, recently announced that he will review the United Nations pooled funds to make sure that more money is allocated to women-led local organizations. That shows that more leaders across the United Nations system value the work that we do - that is, filling some of the biggest gaps in humanitarian response and doing so with cost-effective programmes that are making a real difference in our communities. We are the best value operators in town. So, what does that mean for the Security Council as members consider next steps in South Sudan and the renewal of the UNMlSS mandate? First, it means including South Sudanese local NGOs, especially women-led organizations, in the UNMISS mandate. We are not there, and that needs to change.”

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  7. “We started providing medical and psychosocial support services, which most of those women had never had access to. For me, that was our goal - helping our community heal. But then, in early 2019 we lost our funding. One can imagine what it was like for our staff to have to tell those women in Leer that the space would close on 1 March, just six months after opening. How does one tell someone who has been subjected to horrific acts of violence that one can no longer help them? It is very disheartening, but we cannot afford to give up hope. We cannot because we know those women depend on us to keep fighting for them. I take heart that this year's humanitarian response plan has prioritized gender-based violence programming. That should give local women-led organizations, such as mine, more resources to provide essential services.”

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  8. “We cannot build a strong and vibrant civil society in South Sudan with those constraints, and without us our community's hopes for a lasting peace will fade. In September 2018, my own organization, Hope Restoration, received a grant from the South Sudan Humanitarian Fund to open a woman- and girl-friendly space in Leer, where we provided programmes for survivors of gender-based violence. Within months of opening, we were surprised by the number of women who began visiting that space. As they started building relationships of trust with our case workers and counsellors, many of them began to open up about their own stories. We were even more surprised when we found that nearly half of these women were survivors of gender-based violence; some had suffered multiple rapes.”

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  9. “We work throughout the rainy season. We stay and deliver to our communities even when the fighting is going on around us, and we will still be there when the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has left. However, we struggle to operate when we lack the necessary resources to carry out our work and to continue to provide these life-saving services to our communities, which have suffered from decades of conflict. In South Sudan today, there is intense competition between international and national non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for humanitarian resources. The bulk of the funding goes to United Nations agencies and international NGOs, and the smallest portion to national NGOs. Within national civil society, by far the smallest portion of funding goes to women-led organizations.”

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  10. “I want to focus my remarks today on civil society in South Sudan, particularly women-led organizations, which I believe play a crucial role in building peace and security in our country. The mass rape in Bentiu last November was a symptom of a much deeper problem affecting women and girls in South Sudan, which suffers from some of the highest rates of gender- based violence in the world. It is in that context that civil society and women-led organizations across South Sudan work tirelessly to deliver some of the most critical life-saving services. They respond to gender- based violence, protect people with special needs and create women-friendly spaces that offer services like psychosocial support and income-generating activities. Because we employ local staff, we can operate in the parts of the country that are hardest to reach.”

    2019-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8480 (2019) · source

  11. “Ms. Jial: It is a particular honour to be invited to brief the Security Council on International Women's Day. I want to dedicate my remarks today to the women all around the world who continue to fight for the rights of women and girls and who work daily to restore peace in their communities. I speak to the Council today as the founder and Executive Director of Hope Restoration South Sudan, an organization that works for the protection of people with special needs and provides much-needed services for women and girls who have suffered gender-based Violence. I also represent a broader community of humanitarians in South Sudan and am a member of the South Sudan Women's Coalition, which was a representative at the peace talks in 2015 and 2018.”

    2019-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8480 (2019) · source