SOCIAL CHANGE STRATEGIES IN GENDER EQUALITY AND GENDER TRANSFORMATION

CAD recognizes that changing deeply held beliefs about gender roles, and gender relations requires comprehensive and multifaceted strategies. To effect sustained change and to promote effective partnerships, CAD uses the Spectrum of Change as a planning and programme tool. Our Spectrum of Change identifies 8 interlinking social change strategies that move beyond reliance on individual or small groups to promote change at the individual level but also in the social, civil, political and economic aspects of people’s lives. These strategies are mutually reinforcing and generate important synergies. They are used to promote multi-sectoral approaches that bring together communities’ activists with varied skills and connections.
Networking and coalition work nationally, in country and internationally.
Capacity building and trainings within communities
Communications over radio for social change
Community education
Individual skills building
Partnering with government at national, sub national and grass root levels to promote policy development and effective implementation.
Research, monitoring and evaluation
Advocacy, activism and community mobilisation.

SURIVIVAL & COMMUNITY LED RESPONSES / COMMUNITY BASED PROTECTION

CAD South Sudan recognizes crisis-affected people and communities as first responders and ownership holders and seeks to empower and strengthen communities based groups, committees, self-help formations/ associations, networks and community based organizations through the provision of demand-led skills training, group micro grants (e.g. VSLAs, quick impact projects with startup capital), financial management, sensitizations, transferable knowledge building outreach campaigns and activities within communities, as well as linking, connecting, and networking local actors and community groups. This approach directly supports and operationalizes CAD’s commitment to its values where local ownership, national ownership and sustainability, which all seek to enhance local leadership, empower and promote local actors and perspectives, and overcome gender, fragility and economic stability imbalances within development and humanitarian relief.

CAD’S COMMITMENTS TO CHILD PROTECTION, CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND CHILD PARTICIPATION

South Sudan is reported to be one of the world’s least protective environments for children. Christian Agenda for Development (CAD) is committed to protecting children from abuse, neglect, exploitation and other forms of violence through a systems approach to strengthen the protective environment around children. To achieve this, we at CAD have shifted from the traditional stand-alone programming focus on particular groups of children in need of protection, to the achievement of more sustainable, comprehensive and long-term responses to child protection issues in an integrated manner. This approach addresses child protection more holistically and brings greater focus on prevention, while still strengthening the critical roles and assets of the key actors responsible for child protection.
CAD South Sudan is applying a mix of project models including Education, Learning Through Play, MHPSS, GBV prevention programming, Peace building, TVET, Inclusion, School feeding, Child protection & advocacy (CP&A), Community Engagement, Communication for Development (Social Behaviour Change) and Cases referrals in all our areas of programmatic of intervention. CAD’s key partners include the South Sudanese governmental institutions and authorities at national, sub national and grass root levels, civil society, existing co-ordination mechanisms such as the child protection sub cluster, education cluster, parents, caregivers, families and other community structures.