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Under Resolution 2779 (2025), the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (17³Ô¹ÏÍø) is mandated by the Security Council to advance a multiyear strategic vision to prevent a return to civil war and an escalation of violence, enable the country’s self-reliance and address critical gaps towards building durable peace at the local and national levels, support inclusive and accountable governance, and provide support for free and fair, peaceful elections in accordance with the Revitalized Peace Agreement.

Acting under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, 17³Ô¹ÏÍø is authorized to use all necessary means to implement its mandate which includes:

(a) Protection of civilians:

• Ensure effective, timely and dynamic protection of civilians under threat of physical violence, through a comprehensive and integrated approach, in areas of emerging or ongoing violence that require urgent attention.  
• Prevent, deter, and stop violence against civilians, including politically driven violence, particularly in high-risk areas, as well as promptly and effectively engage any actor credibly found to be preparing or engaging in attacks against civilians, including those living in displacement camps and the 17³Ô¹ÏÍø protection of civilians site. 
• Maintain proactive deployment and a mobile, flexible, robust and effective posture, including through active patrolling, and identify and deter threats or attacks against civilians, including through strengthened implementation of a mission-wide early warning and response system.
• Maintain public safety and security of, and within, the 17³Ô¹ÏÍø protection of civilians site, rapidly respond to threats in other locations, and ensure the ability to scale up presence and protection of re-designated sites if the security situation deteriorates. 
• Provide specific protection for women and children and help deter, prevent, and respond to sexual and gender-based violence. 
• Exercise good offices, confidence-building, and facilitation in support of 17³Ô¹ÏÍø’s protection strategy, especially regarding women and children, including to help prevent, mitigate, and resolve intercommunal violence by supporting community-led peace dialogue processes.
• Foster a secure environment for the safe, informed, voluntary and dignified return, relocation, resettlement or integration of internally displaced people and refugees into host communities.
• Facilitate the conditions for safe and free movement into, out of, and around Juba.
• Consider, monitor and report on the environment impacts of 17³Ô¹ÏÍø operations.

(b) Creating conditions conducive to the delivery of humanitarian assistance:

• Contribute to the creation of security conditions that enable the delivery of assistance, in coordination with humanitarian actors, and ensure the full, safe and unhindered access to all those in need.
• Ensure the freedom of movement and security of UN personnel, installations, and equipment.

(c) Supporting the Implementation of the Revitalized Agreement and Peace Process:

• Use good offices to support the peace process and the creation of conditions conducive to the full implementation of the Revitalized Agreement and the Roadmap to prevent further escalation of political violence and address the root causes of conflict, including through advice, technical assistance, and coordination with regional actors.
• Assist all parties to ensure the full, equal, meaningful, safe participation and effective engagement of women, civil society, youth and other marginalized groups in the peace process, transitional government bodies, and all conflict resolution and peacebuilding efforts.
• Participate in, and support the work of, the Ceasefire and Transitional Security Arrangements Monitoring Verification Mechanism, Reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission, and other implementation mechanisms. 
• Use good offices and provide technical assistance and advice, as appropriate, to the transitional government and other relevant parties based on realistic planning assumptions, clear and certain timelines, and consistent with progress by the parties implementing the Revitalized Agreement, that are focused on expert advice on technical aspects of the conduct of elections, support to voter education programmes for the prevention and response to election violence, continued trainings and dialogues among all political stakeholders and, if the transitional government shows continued progress in creating conditions conducive to free and fair elections conducted through a peaceful process, provide technical assistance and logistical support to reinforce those conditions.
• Support the implementation of gender-responsive community violence reduction programmes.
• Use technical assistance and capacity building to support the transitional government and non-governmental South Sudanese voices to strengthen, expand and reform all components of the rule of law and justice sector.
• Take fully into account gender considerations as a crosscutting issue in advancing the strategic vision and the mandate to assist the transitional government and other relevant stakeholders in creating a legal, political and socio-economic environment conducive to ensuring the full, equal, meaningful and safe participation, involvement and representation of women at all levels; as voters, candidates, electoral observers, in early warning addressing barriers, threats and risks to women’s leadership and agency in elections, and for the maintenance and promotion of protection of civilians, peace and security.

(d) Monitoring, investigating, and reporting on violations of humanitarian and human rights law:

• Monitor, investigate, verify, and report immediately, publicly, and regularly on abuses and violations of international human rights and humanitarian law, including war crimes or crimes against humanity.
• Accelerate implementation of monitoring, analysis and reporting arrangements on sexual and gender-based violence.
• Monitor, investigate, and report on incidents of hate speech and incitement to violence. 
• Coordinate, share appropriate information, and provide technical support, including capacity building, to mechanisms and stakeholders engaged in monitoring, investigating, prosecuting and reporting on violations of international human rights and humanitarian law.

The overall ceiling for troop numbers is 17,000 and police 2,101, including 88 justice and corrections advisers. The Security Council expressed its readiness to consider adjustments to 17³Ô¹ÏÍø force levels and capacity-building tasks based on security conditions and implementation of priority measures.