About Us

The acronym SPEDP stands for “Support for Peace and Education Development Programme”. SPEDP was founded in 2007 by professional and social development workers. The organisation was first registered as a national non-governmental organisation in May 2009 in the National Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs and later in the Relief and Rehabilitation Commission (RRC) in April 2011. SPEDP is currently operating in eight of
the ten States of South Sudan namely:

  1. Northern Bahr el Ghazal
  2. Western Bahr el Ghazal
  3. Central Equatoria
  4. Eastern Equatoria
  5. Western Equatoria
  6. Jonglei
  7. Unity
  8. Upper Nile.
  9. The organisation has also been registered in Uganda and is operating in Koboko, Yumbe and Arua Districts that host mostly South Sudanese refugees who fled the country following the December 2013 and the July 2016 conflicts which erupted in Juba.

Values:

  • Professionalism,
  • Respect for diversity,
  • Upholding human rights,
  • Transparency and Accountability,
  • Integrity, and
  • Gender sensitivity and inclusiveness

Vision:

“An inclusive and transforming society that lives in peace and dignity”

Mission:

“To build resilience and empower communities towards durable solutions to their civic and socioeconomic challenges”

Thematic Areas:

Revised themes, 2021- 2025

A. Humanitarian Response.

i. Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH)
ii. Shelter & Non Food Items (S&NFI);
iii. Protection, Gender Based Violence (P&GBV)
iv. Climate Change and Environmental Conservation

B. Resilience Building
i. Education 
ii. Food Security and Livelihood
iii. Human Rights, Peacebuilding and Governance

C. Health and Nutrition
i. Health
ii. Nutrition

D. Research and Innovation (Cross-cutting)
i. Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning;
ii. Documentation and Communication; and
iii. Resource Mobilisation

Strategic Goals.

To build peaceful, just and inclusive societies in which the needs of the most vulnerable are met.

Strategic Objectives:
1. To enhance community mechanisms to deliver quality non-formal and formal education for lifelong learning
2. To promote sustainable livelihoods with access to improved incomes, food and nutrition security
3. To strengthen community mechanisms to human rights, peacebuilding, sub-national governance and conflict mitigation
4. To ensure sustainable access to safe drinking water, basic sanitation, waste management and hygiene
5. To ensure access to quality health care and wellbeing for vulnerable communities
6. To strengthen the resilience of vulnerable communities affected by climate change to better respond to and cope with climate change
7. To establish robust M&E system, document results for decision making, learning and dissemination among stakeholders.

Strategic Objectives

  1. To enhance community mechanisms to deliver quality non-formal and formal education for lifelong learning
  2. To promote sustainable livelihoods with access to improved incomes, food and nutrition security
  3. To strengthen community mechanisms to human rights, peacebuilding, sub-national governance and conflict mitigation
  4. To ensure sustainable access to safe drinking water, basic sanitation, waste management and hygiene
  5. To ensure access to quality health care and wellbeing for vulnerable communities.
  6. To strengthen the resilience of vulnerable communities affected by climate change to better respond to and cope with climate change
  7. To establish robust M&E system, document results for decision making, learning and dissemination among stakeholders.