Support Women AID
Our Mission
To empower women to lead, thrive, and drive change through leadership training and mentorship, advocacy, and economic opportunity, while championing their rights to create an equitable world where every woman and girl thrives.
Our Vision
“A vibrant society where women and girls thrive with equal opportunities, unleashing their full potential and innovation to drive transformative change and prosperity”.
About Us
Support Women Aid (SWA) is a National women-led organization transforming the lives of women and girls affected by violence in South Sudan through delivering an integrated, survivor-centered approach that shifts them from vulnerability to resilience. SWA was founded in 2018 to address deep-seated gender inequalities, widespread sexual violence, extreme protection risks, and acute hunger driven by conflict spillover, climate shocks, and to empower women to lead community development in a context characterized by conflict and traditional, often restrictive, social norms in South Sudan. SWA is currently working to address the worsening humanitarian crisis in South Sudan, where approximately 5 million people need assistance, and roughly 104 people are displaced every hour due to conflict, extreme poverty, and acute food insecurity. Over 65% experience gender-based violence (GBV), with high rates of child marriage, lack of education, and limited healthcare, creating one of the lowest gender equality levels globally. SWA is legally registered as a non-profit organization with the Relief and Rehabilitation Commission (RRC)of the Republic of South Sudan (Registration Number:1728)
Our Approach
Support Women Aid (SWA) champions Community-Led Gender Transformative Action, empowering displaced women, refugees, and returnees as agents of change to dismantle structural inequality and lead in resilience, economic recovery, and local peacebuilding. By integrating gender-responsive solutions, SWA shifts the humanitarian narrative from vulnerability to change agents, positioning women as the primary architects of their own safety, food security, and community-driven development.
Core Pillars of Approach:
- Community-Led Gender Transformative Action: Centering women to dismantle structural inequalities and tackle severe protection risks like GBV.
- Resilience & Economic Recovery: Investing in women-led solutions to foster long-term stability and economic empowerment.
- Local Peacebuilding: Transforming beneficiaries into active leaders of their own recovery and community development
The Plight of Displaced Women, Refugees, Returnees and Children in South Sudan
South Sudan is facing a complex, multi-layered convergence of humanitarian, economic, political, security, health, and environmental crises. Civilians are caught in relentless cycles of violence and neglect, as the emergency intensifies with extreme levels of acute food insecurity, climate shocks, disease outbreaks, mass displacement, and cross-border pressures from the Sudan crisis. The humanitarian crisis, with over 10 million people in need, representing two-thirds of South Sudan’s population, is inseparable from the country’s unresolved political turmoil. Over 7.5 million people (53 per cent of the analysed population) are projected to face crisis or worse levels of hunger (IPC Phase 3 or above) during the 2026 lean season from April to July. Malnutrition remains critically high and continues as a persistent challenge. Read More
Impact of Our Work
Women and Girls Received Protection and Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Response Services
Crisis-affected individuals, including IDPs, refugees, returnees, the elderly, and persons with disabilities supported with life-saving emergency relief
Women and girls’ capacity built on leadership and peacebuilding skills
Women and female youth benefited from Economic Empowerment and Livelihoods Support
Women and community members reached through Human Rights Advocacy and Legal Awareness Campaigns
Household food security and nutrition of pregnant women, lactating women, and children's nutrition improved.
RESEARCH AND ADVOCACY
Our research focuses on the advancement of women’s rights and supports women’s digital and technological empowerment. The Key thematic areas under research and advocacy include;
- Renewable energy: Focus on women-led innovations in renewable energy, particularly clean cooking stoves, which serve as a critical catalyst for sustainable development, climate resilience, and gender equality, simultaneously combating energy poverty, reducing deforestation, and fostering sustainable economic development. In addressing climate-smart technology, we (SWA) aim to launch eco-friendly initiatives of the Eco Stove system, which offers a climate-smart cooking solution by utilizing reusable volcanic rocks to retain heat, effectively reducing reliance on traditional biomass. This new idea is doing very well in Uganda. It uses solar-powered systems that use forced air to make cooking more efficient. Adopting the system in South Sudan will replace charcoal and wood with volcanic rocks; this technology will provide significant environmental, health, and economic benefits for off-grid households and institutions in South Sudan. The initiative will be manufactured and assembled locally by the local South Sudanese youths, and it will create jobs and offer a sustainable alternative to traditional cooking methods, hence curbing deforestation. Read More
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