GEPA South Sudan since 2016 has been engaging with local authorities advocating them to make pro-environmental protection policy aimed at achieving sustainable management and control of timber harvesting in Magwi and to ensure that the communities and especially women are involved and are not further disenfranchised in the natural resource attractive industry.

Over 500 women from Magwi county were proactively engaged in collaborative advocacy, demanding for an increment on the license fees for loggers and charcoal business operators with the sole aim of reducing mass enrolment of the population into the logging business.

https://www.openglobalrights.org/Illegal-logging-fuels-conflict-and-violence-against-women-in-south-Sudan/