South Sudan Widows and Orphans Charitable Organization SSWOCO, uses community-based dialogue to cultivate connection and deep learning through exploration of critical and contentious issues such as Child Protection, sexual and Gender-Based Violence and better parenting.

This approach is used by the SSWOCO to improve mutual understanding, appreciation, and respect among individuals and groups, often for the purpose of facilitating a collaboration or decision-making process in protection concerns. Here, participants share experiences and perspectives on matters of mutual concerns. In most cases the dialogue is targeted to addressing community’s behaviors and attitudes towards protection issues during humanitarian crises. This is an interactive participatory communication process of sharing information between people or groups of people aimed at reaching a common understanding and workable solutions.