About Us

STEWARDWOMEN is a women-led organization founded in March 2009 by some South Sudanese women lawyers and their friends. It was registered with South Sudan Relief and Rehabilitation commission (RRC) of Magwi county in Eastern Equatoria state in 2009, as a community based, not-for-profit non-governmental organization, and registered in April 2014 with the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs of the Republic of South Sudan, and finally with the Relief and Rehabilitation Commission of the Ministry of Relief and Humanitarian Affairs (Vide reg. no. 037).

Our History

Governance structure

The key issues addressed by STEWARDWOMEN are the problems of sexual and gender based violence, including conflict related sexual violence, communal violence and insecurity, lack of access to food security and livelihood opportunities by vulnerable groups of people, lack of access to sexual and reproductive health services, trafficking in person (PIT), and lack of access to critical lifesaving support during emergencies