To accelerate solutions for an equitable and flourishing society, stable climate, sustainable environmental resources, and recoveries, and fair economies by sharing the love of Jesus Christ, and building a strong foundation of life skills for the neediest at the grassroots level.
Our Vision
A holistically transformed society where people and the environment thrive.
OUR GOAL
To have a Christ-centred society in which people are forever committed to caring for and valuing one another, and the environment for the long term benefit of humanity.
OUR REACH
Guided by needs and South Sudanese humanitarian cluster and sub cluster coordination, CAD has been operating in South Sudan. We apply a hybrid approach of direct and collaborating in consortium operations .
People:
Our primary focus is improving the lives of people and communities, fostering a more equitable and sustainable world.
Planet:
We are committed to supporting the healthy ecosystems and biodiversity that underpin all thriving communities.
Excellence:
We produce work of the highest quality, and our sustainability, inclusion, local and national ownership are backed by community engagement.
Collaboration:
We believe diverse partnerships produce better and more resilient outcomes.
Capacity building:
We build vulnerable individuals ‘knowledge and confidence to exercise their rights and strengthen the ability of local governmental agencies to protect them.
Open access to information:
Christian Agenda for Development (CAD) makes information, tools, resources, and support widely available to villages, communities ‘based committees and groups, and government agencies to push sustainable change.
Amplification of local voices:
We strive to increase South Sudanese citizens ‘involvement in policy making by supporting village –level decision-making and advocating for national policy reforms to benefit local communities.
Impact:
We aim for creative, bold solutions with significant impact. We create the knowledge to act.
CAD South Sudan conceptualizes its theory of change as the linkage needed for one to enjoy the right to development. This is articulated in a form of a triangle that links Service Delivery to Capacity Building and Advocacy.
Service delivery: This is an approach to community development that addresses actions directly related to immediate causes of mal-development, providing a structured set of services to defined beneficiaries through its five portfolios, not as a goal in itself but as a means of attaining a more sustainable goal of true development and a means to spur the growth and development of the CSOs towards self-sustainability.
Capacity Building: Raises people's knowledge, awareness and skills to strengthen and use their own capacity and available support systems to resolve the more underlying causes of mal-development. Capacity building helps them better understand the decision-making process; to communicate more effectively at different levels; and to take decisions, eventually instilling in them a sense of confidence to manage their own destinies. Capacity building strengthens the Assessment-Analysis-Action process in the community and, therefore, leads to more sustainability.
Advocacy: Sets in motion the dynamic process of developing consensus and a mandate for taking action, engaging duty bearers and influence policy to deliver on their responsibilities. Advocacy is following the CAD South Sudan Advocacy Policy and the Strategy and yearly advocacy plans that have been laid out to guide staff and partners. CAD South Sudan works on several levels with Advocacy – on the grassroots level, supporting CBOs in their Advocacy plans, on the local regional levels by training local leaders in Advocacy and supporting them in making their own plans and on the national level by working together with others in advocating for issues that can be challenged on policy or law levels by the national government.
We believe in mutual respect and thereby recognize the innate worth of all people and the value of their unique experiences;
We believe in equity and we will work to ensure equal opportunity to everyone, irrespective of race, age, gender, sexual orientation, class, ethnicity, disability, location and religion.
We believe in honesty and transparency and we will be held accountable for the effectiveness of our actions and open in our communication.
We believe in solidarity with the powerless and the excluded.
We believe in the courage of conviction encourage creativity, boldness, and innovation without the fear of failure as we work to make the greatest possible impact in the lives of the people.
We believe in non-discrimination, inclusion, and equity and recognize that these are core preconditions for sustainable peace, development for the rights and welfare of citizens.
CAD will contribute to the improvement, sustained wellbeing and transformation of vulnerable communities, individuals and civil societies in South Sudan with a particular focus on the most vulnerable and disadvantaged people – both children, youth and adults and geographical areas in South Sudan throughout the period of 2024 year.
Christian Agenda for Development (CAD) utilizes a Rights-based Approach in its development strategy. This Strategy involves a programmatic shift from an emphasis on direct implementation and service delivery to a focus on building the capacity of Community Based Groups, Community based Organizations, Grassroots Women’s Groups and Activists, Community based faith organizations, Community based Youth’s Groups and Organizations, Community based Committees (self-formed on socio economic matters of concern to grass root communities), and be a facilitator of the process of these groups/organizations own ownership of the development they identify and decide to go for. CAD works directly and with all stakeholders and counterparts at grass root, local, sub national and national levels and other partners and brings lessons from CAD Network and its membership to networking to promote the most appropriate solutions and sharing of distilled knowledge to maximize impact and engender sustainability. In terms of approach, CAD South Sudan has been working closely with the local leaders, youth leaders, women leaders, activists in child protection, education promotion, climate change activists, gender activists, having them become part of our activities that are nurturing and monitoring the development of the communities’ engagement and its empowerment for reconciliation, reintegration and recovery.
This has been crucial to the sustainability of the development work that CAD has facilitated. CAD South Sudan has been particularly effective in working for women empowerment, child protection, education, peacebuilding, WASH, FSL, Climate change action and Communication for Development (Social Behaviour Change) in promoting and engaging communities on integrated positive lifesaving practices in Health, Nutrition, WASH, Education and Child Protection that that can lead to a better well-being of the population, especially the children and their families. Community-based networks, groups, committees, faith-based organizations, community-based organizations include a broad and complex myriad of link forming a crucial link between the state, market and the public. The primary focus of these entities is to represent and express group interests. These CAD supports and seeks to strengthen the role of them in Food Security, Livelihoods, Education, WASH, HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Sexual Reproductive Health, Climate Change and Advocacy activities. This includes for CAD building their capacity to mobilize people and capacitate them, make them engage in our activities as project participants, train individuals, monitor activities, and network and collaborate with service providers and other stakeholders. We also seek to strengthen their capacity to dynamically engage in evidence-based advocacy, lobbying, collaboration and networking with other relevant organizations to address the social, economic and political issues that affect the targeted communities.
CAD South Sudan aligns all development activities to national priorities that contribute to the cross sectoral and multidisciplinary activities for sustainable development in frames of UN SDGs. In order to guarantee ownership of activities, CAD South Sudan uses participatory approaches when designing development projects and programs. The projects are designed with the involvement of the local communities, stakeholders, and local authorities, to ensure sustainability. CAD South Sudan’s strategic approach, we work extensively with civil society actors and community-based groups, utilizing participatory tools such as communication for social change. We confer with and engage people actively as agents of their own change, equip them to voice their concerns, and facilitate and support dialogue between them and duty.
In South Sudan, CAD provides life-saving assistance to conflict and natural disaster-affected communities through crosscutting programming. When disaster strikes, CAD supports communities to meet their basic needs for food, water and shelter. To accelerate recovery, CAD supports agricultural production, natural resource regeneration, health and nutrition. Once stabilized, CAD co-invests with communities to build long-term resilience, market opportunities and skills to improve livelihoods security.
We strengthen grassroots / local interventions and link these to national.
We enhance local communities’ capabilities.
Ensure are programmatic interventions are safe, dignified, participatory, community-owned and socially and culturally acceptable.
We emphasize local actions and solutions.
We focus on women and girls.
We monitor, evaluate and measure program impact.
We are efficient and accountable stewards of donor resources.
Our programs in South Sudan address education in emergency; Sexual and Reproductive Health for Adolescents and Youth; food security and livelihoods; climate change action and ecosystem health, peacebuilding, GBV prevention and response, water, sanitation and hygiene; health and nutrition; microfinance and adult literacy; trauma awareness and social cohesion; disaster risk reduction; and emergency response. We aspire to save lives and alleviate suffering.
We work to accelerate the end of poverty, gender discrimination, hunger and preventable disease. And, we seek to cultivate just and peaceful societies.
Our goals are interrelated and mutually reinforced, always placing the dignity of the human person at the centre.
Ecosystem Based Adaptation (Agro-ecology, Regenerative Agriculture and Integrated Watershed Management)
Human Right based approach.
Gender responsive approach
Community Managed Disaster Risk Reduction (CMDRR)
Community Based Targeting (CBT) and Asset Based Community Development
Value Chain Development approach (VCD)
Media approach
Social inclusion approach.
CAD is a signatory of and holds itself accountable to accepted international humanitarian principles, standards and codes of conduct, including the Red Cross/Crescent & NGO code of conduct, the Sphere standards, and the Core Humanitarian standards.
CAD adheres to the principle of impartiality so that we provide assistance on the basis of need regardless of race, creed, ethnicity, linguistic group, religion, political opinion, social-economic status. CAD is committed to addressing the rights of
vulnerable groups, particularly women and children, IDPs, returnees, and persons with disabilities.
CAD upholds the principle of working independently of political, commercial, military, or religious objectives and promotes the protection of humanitarian space and non-discrimination.
CAD South Sudan: How We Work
CAD South Sudan has almost two decades of experience which demonstrates that turmoil and tragedy often create opportunities for lasting positive change. We support these opportunities with community led action. To endure, such change requires communities, government and civil society entities to solve challenges in a spirit of accountability and full participation. We help key players cooperate to create secure, productive and just communities.
CAD South Sudan: Portfolio
CAD South Sudan has almost two decades of experience which demonstrates that turmoil and tragedy often create opportunities for lasting positive change. We support these opportunities with community led action. To endure, such change requires communities, government and civil society entities to solve challenges in a spirit of accountability and full participation. We help key players cooperate to create secure, productive and just communities.
