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Adroit Consult International was commissioned by the UNDP South Sudan program to evaluate the impact of its Access to Justice, Security, and Human Rights Strengthening initiative (2020-2025). This program aims to enhance access to justice, promote community security, and advance accountability for human rights violations in South Sudan. The program works with governments and civil society organizations and collaborates with other UN agencies and development partners to make the rule of law and respect for human rights a national reference point for achieving the national development strategy at national, state and community level depending on the intervention. Launched in 2020, the programme is guided by international human rights standards and principles and adopts a sector-wide approach to achieve five interrelated outputs in six main locations.
Our evaluation focused on assessing whether UNDP’s interventions have: Improved vulnerable groups’ access to justice and the confidence of rule of law actors in providing services; Increased awareness of laws, rights, and security among vulnerable groups in six target states; Enhanced the experiences and perceptions of vulnerable groups regarding UNDP’s access to justice and security interventions.
To achieve these objectives, we employed the OECD/DAC criteria, a widely recognized framework for evaluating development programs. The assignment covered six (6) states including Greater Equatoria (Central-Juba, Western-Yambio and Eastern-Torit), Jonglei-Bor, Western-Wau and Northern Bahr El Ghazal-Aweil States. Responses were captured from United Nations Development Programme Project staff, UN Women, Victim Support Group, Constitution Drafting Committee, Justice and Confidence Centre, Judiciary of South Sudan, Judicial Reform Committee, Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, National Constitution Review Commission, National Prisons Services of South Sudan, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Police Community Relations Committee, Special Protection Unit, South Sudan Human Rights Commission, South Sudan National Police Service, civil society organizations, GBV/Juvenile court in Juba, police, beneficiary and non-beneficiary (women, men boys and girls) among others. Our evaluation also documented successes, challenges, and lessons learned, and provided recommendations for future program improvements.