Civil Rights Defenders South Sudan Civil Rights Defenders South Sudan Civil Rights Defenders (CRD) is implementing a project called Deter Impunity and Promote Peace Through Accountability, Capacity and Security: Supporting Human Rights Defenders in South Sudan. The agreement with Sida was signed 28/09/2020 and the implementation period ends in December 2024.The overall objective of the Project is to deter the pervasive impunity in South Sudan and promote a peaceful and inclusive development, as envisioned in Agenda 2020 - SDG 16, through ensuring accountability for human rights violation. The proposal was a result of a Sida-funded preparatory phase July 2019-February 2020. 

The Project comprises 4 components:

1. Organisational Assessments and Financial and Administrative Capacity Strengthening of 15 CSOs in total throughout the project period;

2. Defending the Defenders, Security Interventions - physical and psychosocial security training, a digital Training of Trainer programme, expansion of the Natalia Project (a protection project), and emergency grants to HRDs;

3. Fighting Impunity through Legal Accountability - implementation of the Defenders Database, grants to CSOs who are successfully taking part in the defenders Database training, legal action sub-granting and capacity support to HRDs and lawyers, networking with regional and international organisations;

4. Accountability Advocacy and Networks Expansion - advocacy visits to the African Court of Human Rights and to the EU, participation of HRDs at Defenders Day, joint campaigns and publication of reports.

The total budget of the project is SEK 23,710,000. 5,5 MSEK (23% of the total budget) will be transferred to local partners mainly in the form of grants to build local capacity. Civil Rights Defenders genomför projektet  "Deter Impunity and Promote Peace Through Accountability, Capacity and Security: Supporting Human Rights Defenders in South Sudan". Avtalet undertecknades 29.9.2020 och aktivitetsperioden pågår till december 2024. Projektets övergripande syfte är att avskräcka från den rådande straffriheten i Sydsudan och främja en fredlig och inkluderande utveckling, i samstämmighet med Agenda 2030 - SDG 16, genom  att säkerställa ansvarsutkrävande för människorättsbrott.

Projektet består av fyra komponenter:

1. Organisationsbedömning och finansiellt och administrativt kapacitetsstärkande av totalt 15 sydsudanska civilsamhällesorganisationer ;

2. Försvara männiksorättsförsvararna, säkerhetsinterventioner - fysisk och psykosocial säkerhetsutbildning, ett digitalt Training-of-Trainer-program, utvidgning av Natalia-projektet (ett projekt för skydd) och bidrag till människorättsförsvarare vid krissituationer (emergency grants);

3. Bekämpa straffrihet genom rättsliga åtgärder (legal accountability) - användande av Defenders Database, bidrag till civilsamhällesorganisationer som framgångsrikt deltagit i utbildning i databasen, bidrag till rättsligt arbete och kapacitetsutveckling av människorättsförsvarare och advokater, nätverkande med regionala och internationella organisationer;

4. Påverkansarbete och utvidgning av nätverk - påverkan gentemot Afrikanska MR-domstolen och EU, deltagande av männiksorättsförsvarare vid internationella Defenders Day, gemensamma kampanjer och publicering av rapporter.

Insatsens totala budget är SEK 23 710 000. 5,5 MSEK (23 % av den totala budgeten) kommer att vidarebefordras till nationella organisationer och aktörer i Sydsudan i huvudsak i form av bidrag för kapacitetsstärkande åtgärder. The overall objective of the Programme is to deter the pervasive impunity in South Sudan and promote a peaceful and inclusive development, as envisioned in Agenda 2020 - SDG 16, through ensuring accountability for human rights violation. Furthermore, through a strong and persistent gender perspective, the project will contribute to the fulfilment of SDG 5 on gender equality.
The overall objective will be achieved through implementation of activities grouped under four components: 1) organisational asessments and financial and administrative capacity strengthening of partner CSOs; 2) defending the defenders through security interventions; 3) fighting impunity through legal accountability; and 4) accountability advocacy and networks expansion at sub-regional and global level.
Each component is linked to the Theory of Change: Component 1 will contribute to the basic capacity of the human rights movement to exist and grow and thus to make it possible to seek accountability for human rights violations; similarly Component 2 will build security structures for HRDs and hence enable them to continue their crucial work to hold actors in power accountable for human rights violations; Component 3 will lead to an increase in the number of legal cases that will make an example for power holders who abuse human rights that impunity will no longer hold in South Sudan, and hence will lead to increased accountability; Component 4 will bring much needed domestic, sub-regional and international attention to human rights violations in South Sudan, to which the power holders need to respond.