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About

Gender Empowerment for All (GEFASS) is National Non- Government Organization (NNGO) that was founded in March 2023 by a group of young South Sudanese women with a focus on Preventing GBV and Child abuse, Creating Peace and Security for women and disadvantaged youth. The organization is run by a Board of Directors who are the founding young women. The office of GEFASS is located in Rock City behind Imatogas.

To note however for GEFASS to achieve the overall goal of total inclusivity of all regardless of gender and age consideration, we have incorporated intellectual i.e. professionals and lay citizens in our ranks of operation.

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Our Vision

To create a better everyday life for women and children

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Our Mission

To provide tools for a better life for women and their families to live in hope, with opportunities and abilities to control their lives and futures.

Core Values

Equity

We strive to promote and address equity and inclusion of all groups of persons in all our endeavors in pursuing our goals.

Transparency and Integrity

We value and promote honesty, transparency, integrity and efficiency in our work and responsibilities to our beneficiaries.

Team Work

We are committed to equality and broad participation and collaboration with other like-minded individuals and organizations as well as colludes in responsibility.

Dignity and Rights of others

We attach value to the dignity and rights of every human without regard to age, gender, religion, ethnicity, race etc.

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Specific Objectives

Create/ improve the enabling environment for development of vulnerable women, out of school girls, young mothers and generally the youth by eradicating the negatively inclined gender-based barriers such as preferring boy to go to school while the girl child stays at home.
To build a national and regional capacity to develop sexual and reproductive health policies, programs and strategies through legislative lobbing in order to effectively advocate for the rights of the women and the youth.
Combat GBV through prevention and response interventions.
Promote basic education for the girl child.
Support the women and the youth to spear head environmental protection and conservation.
Support the communities to improve their nutrition, WASH and Health through grassroots intervention by utilizing the women and the youth capacity building initiatives.

Board of Directors

GEFASS is governed by the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors is the key policy making and governance body of organization and it’s drawn from the Assembly of Members. It is responsible for the policy making and ensuring strategic and organizational direction set by the assembly. The Current Board is consists of five (5) members. The Executive Director of GEFASS serves as the General Secretary of the Board of Directors. The Board operates in the guide lines of the organization policy manuals.

The Executive Body

GEFASS’s technical team is led by Executive Director who is the general secretary and advisor to the Board of Directors of the organization. The technical team consists of highly professional staff that provides the necessary expertise for the implementation of the planned activities. The Executive Director is reporting to chairperson of board of Directors and responsible for overall head of the organization. The Executive Director is assisted by the Program Development Director, project managers and jointly forms the management structure of the organization. Being a civil society organization with activists and the highly professional staff, the different coordination and the management relations between the Executive Director and the two interrelated sphere of the executive body is best presented in the form of a well-coordinated network of relations rather than a hierarchal structure though the hierarch does exist as is exhibited by the table of the Organogram below. .

Geographical Area of intervention/ where we work

We touch and positively influence the lives of young people, women, survivors, youth and vulnerable population in the areas outlined below:

Juba
Twic Mayardit
Tambura-

Membership in Network

Protection Working group in Twic Mayardit
South Sudan Land Alliance Coalition
Women Led Organization in Juba
Member of CCORPs.

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GEFASS ORGANOGRAM