Content_paragraphs:  From 9 to 13 November, the Community of Sant’Egidio convened a workshop 
  
  in Rome on integrating the South Sudan Opposition Movements Alliance into the 
  
  
  
   
  S/2020/1180 
  
   
  
  3/19 20-16135 
  
   
  
  Ceasefire and Transitional Security Arrangements Monitoring and Verification 
  
  Mechanism. The workshop was focused on reaching a common understanding of the 
  
  obligations of the signatories to the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement and the 
  
  modalities of working as part of the Mechanism. In accordance with the Rome 
  
  Declaration on the Peace Process in South Sudan of 12 January 2020, the armed 
  
  groups within the South Sudan Opposition Movements Alliance – the National 
  
  Salvation Front, the South Sudan National Movement for Change and the United 
  
  Democratic Revolutionary Movement – will be represented equally in all Mechanism 
  
  structures from January 2021 onwards. In the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement, 
  
  sexual and gender-based violence, inter alia, are prohibited and the parties are called 
  
  upon to take specific measures to protect vulnerable persons.