SOCIO ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT

The Sudan Household Health Survey of 2010 (SSHHS) shows that 41% of households in South Sudan are headed by women, only 2.1 percent of South Sudanese households have water on their premises; on average, 33 percent of household members, mostly young women, travel at least 30 minutes to get to the nearest site with safe drinking water. Most or 99 percent of households in South Sudan use solid fuels for cooking. 16 percent of households are extremely food insecure.

This has drastically deteriorated since the December 2013 conflict. The high levels of insecurity, massive displacement of women and the severe loss of livelihood had an adverse effect on the socio-economic status of women leading to poverty, reliance on humanitarian relief aid and a continuous psychosocial trauma on women.

Under this program, Eve organization works with women groups in Central Equatoria and in the refugee camps in Uganda to enhance their income generation through provision of seed funds as well as trainings on small enterprise management.

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