GEPA secured funding to implement a one-year project under the Economic Security and Justice thematic program for AWDF titled “Advocating against sexual harassment and labour right exploitation on women employed in the natural resource extraction industry of South Sudan-AWDF/GEPA/AWDF/2262/21”-the initiative targeted 500 women and girls from the two counties of Magwi and Kapoeta respectively in Eastern Equatoria state. The project had the following objectives:

• To advocate for improved women employees’ occupational safety and working conditions in the natural resource extractive sector and to educate industry players on issues of equal pay and ending compensation discrimination.
• To advocate against sexual violence in these sectors and establish pro-bono legal support service for sexual assault survivors and train pro-women workers’ union/ movements for sustained advocacy.