Profile Statement
ChildBride Solidarity is a women-led South Sudanese national NGO that is dedicated to ending child marriage and gender-based violence by empowering girls and young women to fulfill their true potentials through full participation in, and positive contribution to, the socioeconomic and political arenas of South Sudan.
Mission Statement
To end child marriage, early marriage, forced marriage and gender-based violence in the Greater Jonglei region that violates adolescent girls and young women’s rights to health, education, protection and prosperous lives by exposing them to violence and trapping them in a cycle of abject poverty.
Vision Statement
A Greater Jonglei region that is free of child marriage, early marriage, forced marriage and gender-based violence, where girls and women relish equal socioeconomic opportunities and political status with boys and men and are able to fulfill their true and full potential in all aspects of their societal lives and sociopolitical ambitions.
Core values
In dealing with our partners, donors and the general public, ChildBride Solidarity (CBS) is guided by the following core values and principles: (1) Team spirit, open and frank communication; (2) Honesty, transparency and accountability; (3) Integrity, innovation, and professionalism, and (4) High quality services and unfailing reliability.
Areas of operation
Presently, ChildBride Solidarity (CBS) is focused on addressing child marriages, forced marriages and gender-based violence in the following towns and areas of the Greater Jonglei region: Bor, Panyagor and Duk (Dinka areas); Akobo, Ayod and Fangak (Nuer areas), Pibor and Buma (Murle areas), and Pochalla (Anyuak area). Plans are in place to cover Rumbek, Yirol and Awerial counties of the Greater Lakes region.
ChildBride Solidarity (CBS) is a women-led South Sudanese national NGO that is dedicated to ending child marriage, early marriage, forced marriage and gender-based violence by empowering girls and young women to fulfill their true potentials through full participation in, and positive contribution to, the socioeconomic lives and political arenas of South Sudan.
We empower girls and young women by creating awareness and providing skills and knowledge through workshop training, academic scholarships, leadership outreach and mentorship programs that address child marriage, early marriages, forced marriage and gender-based violence among the Dinka, Nuer and Murle cattle-keeping communities of the Greater Jonglei region of South Sudan.
Among these pastoral communities, young girls fetch a lot of cattle in bride wealth. Thus, the high demand of cattle for payment of bride price, for prestige and for economic enrichment are the root causes of child, early and forced marriages in the Greater Jonglei region. Moreover, rampant cases of biased cultural norms, abject poverty, lack of quality education and pervading insecurity due to localized and national conflicts fuel and sustain bad practices of child, early and forced marriage in the Greater Jonglei region.
On the other hand, biased norms and discriminatory customs and chronic trauma from local and national conflicts contribute to rampant and enduring cases of gender-based violence against adolescent girls and young women among the Dinka, Nuer and Murle pastoral communities.
Therefore, our strategy to addressing child/early/forced marriages and gender-based violence in the Greater Jonglei region is by (1) empowering girls and young women to know their rights and become agents of positive change in their communities; (2) mobilizing families and engaging communities to change bad attitudes and biased traditions that fuel and perpetuate child/early/forced marriages and gender-based violence; (3) providing services that enable access to better education, health, trauma awareness, gender protection and legal services, and (4) advocating for the development and implementation of women-friendly strong laws and policies to address child/early/forced marriages and gender-based violence in South Sudan.
More importantly, ChildBride Solidarity (CBS) strongly advocates and campaigns for women empowerment and gender mainstreaming in decision-making processes by creating awareness among communities, opinion shapers, stakeholders and policymakers on gender issues and the importance of political participation and representation of women, both at the state and national levels.
Empowering adolescent girls and young women
Empowering adolescent girls and young women with skills and knowledge to become agents of change by helping them to envisage and forge their own pathways in life and thus realize their full potentials.
Mobilizing families and engaging communities
Providing access to better education, quality healthcare, trauma awareness, adequate gender protection and robust legal aid services to break down the economic and structural drivers that act as barriers to ending child marriage and gender-based violence.
