Content_paragraphs: At a meeting with UNISFA on 14 September 2021, the Paramount Chief 
  
  commended the mission for its collaboration with community-based organizations 
  
  and civil society organizations on gender issues and pledged his support to ensure 
  
  that women were incorporated into all the structures of the local traditional 
  
  leadership. The chieftaincy is in the process of revising the traditional laws of the 
  
  Ngok Dinka and has pledged to outlaw harmful practices such as early marriages and 
  
  gender-based violence. The Deputy Chief Administrator and Head of the Department 
  
  of Local Government and Law Enforcement Agencies for the Abyei Area, who was 
  
  appointed in August, is receptive to participating in the mission’s planned activities 
  
  on women and peace and security.