South Sudan Widows and Orphans Charitable Organization has conducted a training to project staff in Kodok Fashoda on gender and disability inclusion in programs.

The two days training focuses on how women and persons with disability can meaningfully participate in project planning, implementation, management, monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning. In most settings, women with disability are largely excluded from design of project and in making decisions in matters that affect them during humanitarian operations.

Currently SSWOCO responds to nearly for 200,000 people bearing the impacts of climate shocks and intercommunal conflicts largely affecting people in Malakal and Fashoda counties, Upper Nile state.

SSWOCO has last week sent a team of its program staff from the headquarters in Juba to field locations to conduct trainings and coaching to the field staff to increase their knowledge and skills on humanitarian work in Malakal and Fashoda Counties. 

According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, UNOCHA, over 800,000 people were reported as affected by flooding in areas along the Nile and Lol rivers, and in Sudd marshlands since May 2022.