UNFPA South Sudan

South Sudan gained independence in 2011. With less than half the population able to access health facilities and a shortage of skilled birth attendants, the maternal death rate is high. Active since 2006, UNFPA began full-fledged operations in 2012. Current programmes help build the health system and develop capacities for providing reproductive health care, including through training midwives. Other measures seek to prevent gender-based violence, and develop systems to produce and use demographic data for development.

Key results in South Sudan between 2014 and 2017

Select strategic plan results achieved between 2014 and 2017, with the support of UNFPA

Skills-building for girls

Skills-building programmes implemented for adolescent girls at risk of child marriage

Health worker policies

Health-care worker protocols and standards developed on sexual and reproductive health for young people

Coordination of gender-based violence response

South Sudan had a functioning inter-agency gender-based violence coordination body as a result of UNFPA guidance and leadership

Logistics systems

Functional logistics system developed for reproductive health commodities

Accountability for reproductive rights

Civil society organizations implemented accountability mechanisms to address reproductive rights, with the support of UNFPA

Midwifery policies

Midwifery workforce policies developed based on international standards

Men and boys

Civil society organizations supported the engagement of men and boys in programmes on gender equality and reproductive rights, with the support of UNFPA

Fistula

734 fistula repair surgeries supported by UNFPA

Reproductive rights integration

Reproductive rights integrated into gender equality national action plans

Social behaviour change

Social behaviour change communication strategies developed for adolescents and youth

Data capacity

National statistical authorities had the capacity to analyse and use disaggregated data on adolescents and youth, with support from UNFPA

Adolescent sexual and reproductive health

Laws and policies developed that allow adolescents to access sexual and reproductive health services

Minimum Initial Services Package

South Sudan had the capacity to implement the Minimum Initial Service Package at the onset of a crisis

Sexuality education

All national comprehensive sexuality education curricula aligned with international standards

Emergencies Key results

  • People Reached
    People reached with Dignity Kits
    15,500
    UNFPA-assisted safe deliveries
    16,500
    Affected population who directly benefited from all types of emergency RH kits
    426,500
    Women and girls accessing services provided through Service Delivery Points (SDPs) that are equipped with Post-Rape Kits
    56,790
    GBV survivors reached
    24,528
    Affected population reached with Family Planning services
    7,685
  • Services delivered
    Number of mobile clinics
    12
    Functional health facilities supported by UNFPA that provide Emergency Obstetric Care (EmOC)
    17
    Number of safe spaces
    8
    Number of service delivery points supported that provide clinical management of rape
    99
    Maternity health facilities/tents/homes operationalized with UNFPA support
    6
    Dignity Kits distributed
    17,500
  • Capacity building
    Youth facilitators and volunteers trained on sexual and reproductive health
    200
    Personnel trained on Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care
    120
    Personnel trained on Minimum Initial Package (MISP)
    50
    Personnel trained on clinical management of rape
    140
    Personnel trained on psycho-social support
    140
    Health personnel trained on gender-based violence case management
    48

Programme Activities

All Resources
  • All resources
  • Core
  • Non - core
  • Integrated sexual and reproductive health services
  • Adolescents and youth
  • Gender equality
  • Evidence-based policymaking
  • Integrated sexual and reproductive health services
  • Adolescents and youth
  • Gender equality
  • Evidence-based policymaking
  • Organizational effectiveness
  • Integrated sexual and reproductive health services
  • Adolescents and youth
  • Gender equality
  • Evidence-based policymaking
  • Organizational effectiveness
  • Integrated sexual and reproductive health services
  • Adolescents and youth
  • Gender equality
  • Organizational effectiveness
  • Analysis on population dynamics

South Sudan 2017 Programme Activities data

Integrated sexual and reproductive health services
Increased availability and use of integrated sexual and reproductive health services (including family planning, maternal health and HIV) that are gender-responsive and meet human rights standards for quality of care and equity in access
Total Spending:
$19286326
Implemented by:
UNFPA $10785368 (56%)
NGO $7188366 (37%)
Gov $1312592 (7%)
Funded by:
Core Resources (11%)
Non-core Resources (89%)
Sexual and reproductive health
Increased national capacity to deliver integrated sexual and reproductive health services
Total Spending:
$3104517
Implemented by:
UNFPA $3084437 (99%)
NGO $6679 (0%)
Gov $13401 (0%)
Funded by:
Core Resources (10%)
Non-core Resources (90%)
Sexual and reproductive health in emergencies
Increased national capacity to provide sexual and reproductive health services in humanitarian settings
Total Spending:
$2894070
Implemented by:
UNFPA $1518923 (52%)
NGO $1375147 (48%)
Funded by:
Core Resources (36%)
Non-core Resources (64%)
HIV and AIDS
Increased national capacity to deliver HIV programmes that are free of stigma and discrimination, consistent with the UNAIDS unified budget results and accountability framework (UBRAF) commitments
Total Spending:
$50746
Implemented by:
UNFPA $50746 (100%)
Funded by:
Non-core Resources (100%)
Maternal health
Increased national capacity to deliver comprehensive maternal health services
Total Spending:
$10596037
Implemented by:
UNFPA $3755859 (35%)
NGO $5715274 (54%)
Gov $1124905 (11%)
Funded by:
Core Resources (6%)
Non-core Resources (94%)
Family planning
Increased national capacity to strengthen enabling environments, increase demand for and supply of modern contraceptives and improve quality family planning services that are free of coercion, discrimination and violence
Total Spending:
$2640957
Implemented by:
UNFPA $2375404 (90%)
NGO $91266 (3%)
Gov $174287 (7%)
Funded by:
Core Resources (0%)
Non-core Resources (100%)
Adolescents and youth
Increased priority on adolescents, especially on very young adolescent girls, in national development policies and programmes, particularly increased availability of comprehensive sexuality education and sexual and reproductive health
Total Spending:
$267368
Implemented by:
UNFPA $130584 (49%)
NGO $119629 (45%)
Gov $17155 (6%)
Funded by:
Core Resources (84%)
Non-core Resources (16%)
Adolescents and youth
Increased national capacity to conduct evidence-based advocacy for incorporating adolescents and youth and their human rights/needs in national laws, policies, programmes, including in humanitarian settings
Total Spending:
$263570
Implemented by:
UNFPA $130584 (50%)
NGO $115830 (44%)
Gov $17155 (7%)
Funded by:
Core Resources (84%)
Non-core Resources (16%)
Sexuality education
Increased national capacity to design and implement community and school based comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) programmes that promote human rights and gender equality
Total Spending:
$3798
Implemented by:
NGO $3798 (100%)
Funded by:
Core Resources (100%)
Gender equality
Advanced gender equality, women’s and girls’ empowerment, and reproductive rights, including for the most vulnerable and marginalized women, adolescents and youth
Total Spending:
$553676
Implemented by:
UNFPA $208531 (38%)
NGO $345145 (62%)
Funded by:
Core Resources (31%)
Non-core Resources (69%)
Ending harmful practices
Increased capacity to prevent gender-based violence and harmful practices and enable the delivery of multisectoral services, including in humanitarian settings
Total Spending:
$494787
Implemented by:
UNFPA $149642 (30%)
NGO $345145 (70%)
Funded by:
Core Resources (30%)
Non-core Resources (70%)
Protection rights
Strengthened international and national protection systems for advancing reproductive rights, promoting gender equality and non-discrimination and addressing gender-based violence
Total Spending:
$58889
Implemented by:
UNFPA $58889 (100%)
Funded by:
Core Resources (37%)
Non-core Resources (63%)
Organizational effectiveness
Organizational effectiveness and efficiency
Total Spending:
$12520
Implemented by:
Gov $12520 (100%)
Funded by:
Core Resources (100%)
Programme effectiveness
Enhanced programme effectiveness by improving quality assurance, monitoring, and evaluation
Total Spending:
$12520
Implemented by:
Gov $12520 (100%)
Funded by:
Core Resources (100%)
Analysis on population dynamics
development, sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, HIV and gender equality
Total Spending:
$164149
Implemented by:
UNFPA $99575 (61%)
Gov $64574 (39%)
Funded by:
Core Resources (100%)
Population dynamics
Increased availability of evidence through cutting-edge in-depth analysis on population dynamics, sexual and reproductive health, HIV and their linkages to povert
Total Spending:
$165469
Implemented by:
UNFPA $100895 (61%)
Gov $64574 (39%)
Funded by:
Core Resources (100%)
National population data system
Strengthened national capacity for production and dissemination of quality disaggregated data on population and development issues that allows for mapping of demographic
Total Spending:
$-1320
Implemented by:
UNFPA $-1320 (100%)
Funded by:
Core Resources (100%)

Programme Documentation

UNFPA South Sudan Country Programme Document

Cycle:
2019
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2021

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Cycle:
2018

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Cycle:
2016
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2017

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2014
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2016

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Cycle:
2012
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Audit of the UNFPA Country Office in South Sudan

Issue date: 8 December 2016

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Technical notes and sources
  • The results featured here are only a selection of key results in line with strategic plan 2014-17 indicators. The selection does not reflect the full picture of all results achieved during the strategic plan cycle by UNFPA programme countries.
  • The source of data for most country level indicators is the UNFPA country annual reports for 2014-2017, unless stated otherwise
  • Results featured are cumulative - i.e., achieved between the 2014 and 2017 timeframe, and reflect the net situation, true as of the year selected
  • Majority of the results are captured from 127 UNFPA programme countries
  • Indicators that are marked ‘not achieved’ could imply any of the following conditions:
    • The country may have achieved the result without the support of UNFPA
    • The country has not targeted the given indicator during the 2014-2017 period
    • UNFPA is supporting this area of work, but the result has not yet been achieved

Notes for key results

  • Maternal deaths averted: Results reflected for 46 UNFPA Supplies programme countries
  • Unintended pregnancies averted: Results reflected for 46 UNFPA Supplies programme countries
  • Unsafe abortions averted: Results reflected for 46 UNFPA Supplies programme countries
  • Number of countries that developed midwifery workforce policies based on international standards: Baseline data not available
  • Number of fistula repair surgeries supported: Baseline data not available
  • Number of countries that implemented at least 8 out of the UNFPA 10-step strategic-approach to comprehensive condom programming: Results achieved in 2014-2016 only
  • Number of countries that have capacity to implement the Minimum Initial Service Package at the onset of a crisis: UNFPA reflected non-cumulative figures for this indicator; the Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP) is a series of crucial actions required to respond to reproductive health needs at the onset of every humanitarian crisis. View here for more information on MISP
  • Percentage of countries affected by humanitarian crises that have functioning inter-agency gender-based violence coordination body as a result of UNFPA guidance and leadership: Baseline data not available
  • Number of countries that established comprehensive plan to report on UNFPA-supported Sustainable Development Goal indicators: Results achieved in 2017 only; baseline data not available
  • Number of countries that established online national population data platforms that are publicly accessible by users: : Results achieved in 2017 only; baseline data not available
  • Number of countries in which the capacity of national statistical authorities was developed to analyse and use disaggregated data on adolescent and youth: Baseline data not available; UNFPA reflected non-cumulative figures for this indicator
  • Number of countries that generated and used sub-national estimates of population, health and social data: Baseline data not available

The designations employed and the presentation of material on the map do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of UNFPA concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. The dotted line represents approximately the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir agreed upon by India and Pakistan. The final status of Jammu and Kashmir has not yet been agreed upon by the parties.