Project profile — Protecting Child Soldiers in South Sudan

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) improved capacity of security sector actors to prevent the recruitment and use of girls and boys as soldiers; (2) increased effective dialogue about the recruitment and use of girls and boys as soldiers in the overall peacemaking process in South Sudan; and (3) strengthened application of child protection strategies by civil society organizations and communities to protect at-risk girls and boys from recruitment to child soldiery.

Results achieved as of March 2019 include: (1) trained participants from the security sector indicated increased knowledge on how to prevent the recruitment of child soldiers (of which 97% of men reported increased knowledge, and 94% of women reported increased knowledge); (2) 11 meetings were held with key decision-makers across government, civil society, and the UN to increase their prioritization of child soldier recruitment prevention work; (3) Roméo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative basic training was provided to 56 security sector actors; and (4) 19 briefings and meetings were held with national security sector actors to assist with policy development on preventing the recruitment and use of child soldiers.