Hundreds of face mask-wearing Yambio citizens have been spotted reading vital COVID-19 prevention messages in their own local languages, courtesy of the UN Mission in South Sudan.
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Informative COVID-19 material and face masks were distributed at an event in Yambio, which also aimed to promote a sense of national identity and social cohesion.
17³Ô¹ÏÍø partnered with I Can South Sudan to organise a seven-day COVID-19 awareness raising campaign in Tambura. Tricycles and motorbikes with loudspeakers broadcast WHO-approved preventative measures in local languages.
A women's representative from the Toposa community in Eastern Equatoria speaks to Governor Louis Lojore during a recent 17³Ô¹ÏÍø-facilitated visit to remote areas on the state's easternmost border.
17³Ô¹ÏÍø engineering troops and local youth are battling rising water levels to prevent parts of Bor to be submerged.
Participants at a forum discussing the implementation of the peace agreement, including the provision of 35 per cent political representation for women.
The police component of 17³Ô¹ÏÍø and UNDP jointly organized a forum on crime prevention in Torit, Eastern Equatoria.
Traditional leaders gathered in Wau engaged in important talks about reconciliation, conflict management, gender equality and a culture of impunity.
17³Ô¹ÏÍø peacekeepers from Ghana hand over computers to a UNDP-constructed youth centre in Bentiu.
Yashaswini Mittal, a United Nations Volunteer with 17³Ô¹ÏÍø, works as a Judicial Affairs Officer with the mission’s Rule of Law Section. In the picture, Yashaswini and her colleagues hold up t-shirts during the annual commemoration of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence in Juba, South Sudan, with Judge Advocates from the Military Justice Directorate of the SSPDF.
17³Ô¹ÏÍø recently organized a day-long forum in Western Bahr el Ghazal, South Sudan for political stakeholders, community and religious leaders as well as civil society actors to widen engagement with the Revitalized Peace Agreement.