Women’s organizations in South Sudan embrace ‘bottom-up’ approach (Annuka, 2015), to peace building, while also pushing for minimum 25% percent quota (Itto, 2006: 58) and later 30% quota (Aweil james Ajith, 2013; Case, 2016) at the decision making levels as stipulated in the constitution of the country. Many of these organizations are off-shoots of women’s movements during the decades of war and after the independence of South Sudan in July 2011, many were formally registered by the government in order to help in peace-building in a post-conflict zone like this. But formal registration in itself without full support coming from the government in terms of funding, inclusion, supportive policies, and laws that deal with marginalization and discrimination against women and so on, will not work.
The goal of this work therefore is to showcase/bring into focus the works of selected women’s organizations in their peace-building efforts at the grass root, achievements, challenges, the way forward on the bottom up approach employed by this organizations and to also critique and complement an earlier study carried out on this issue by Ringera (2007).