Africa - East and Central
South Sudan ranks 185 out of 189 on the Human Development Index (HDI). CARE International’s work in South Sudan has broadened to include health, nutrition, food security, peacebuilding, and gender-based violence protection.
CARE International has been working in the now independent South Sudan since the 1970s. In 1993, we responded to famine by providing humanitarian relief to internally displaced people in Western Equatoria.
The signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in 2005 allowed CARE South Sudan to expand into Jonglei and Upper Nile States to support returnees from the refugee camps, and we have since broadened operations to include health, nutrition, food security and livelihoods, peacebuilding, and gender-based violence prevention.
More than a decade into independence, South Sudan faces multiple crises including extreme food insecurity, flooding, and armed conflict. Through a combination of long-term staff and our established partnerships we adapt and scale up our humanitarian work when needed.
Since 2020, CARE South Sudan has been responding to COVID-19. Response efforts include raising awareness about prevention methods and supporting the government with transporting vaccines.
South Sudan's hunger crisis has reached critical levels, with over 7.1 million facing acute food insecurity amid floods, conflict, and economic hardship. Women and girls are most affected, facing increased risks as they search for food in conflict zones.
Building Capital in Crisis: CARE’s VSLA in Emergencies increase savings and solidarity
In a confluence of humanitarian crises, South Sudan is being pushed to the brink of starvation, worsened by low humanitarain aid fund for the country.
To help reduce the high numbers of maternal and child mortality in South Sudan, CARE and partners are supporting health units to amplify and improve their capacities
After five miscarriages, Rebecca Nyayuol was able to carry on her pregnancy thanks to a surgical procedure conducted in a CARE-supported health facility
Since gaining its independence in 2011, South Sudan experienced renewed conflicts in 2013 and 2016 which have significantly undermined the development gains achieved post-independence and contributed to a worsened humanitarian situation. Gender relations in South Sudan are shaped by the social and economic realities of being one of the world’s poorest countries and by decades of conflict.
Learn about CARE's activities in South Sudan, where a six-year conflict has displaced 4 million people from their homes.
This report found that while women and girls were often subject to sexual violence by armed actors, they also felt the impact of conflict in a number of other ways. Experiences of displacement, the breakdown of rule of law, increases in crime and the normalisation of violence also affect violence against women and girls (VAWG).
In FY2024, CARE worked around the world, contributing to saving lives, fighting poverty, and increasing social justice.
