Head officeJuba
Central Equatoria
Naota Hub, Gudele 2
Ideal Africa Initiative South Sudan (IAISS) is a women-led, women- and youth-focused national organization advancing safety, rights and resilience. We protect dignity and reduce vulnerability through integrated protection, education and livelihood pathways — working with communities, not for them.
Protection and safeguarding are our institutional core, shaping how we assess risk, select participants and measure change.
100% women-governed, with women making up 80% of our Senior Management Team.
Headquartered in Juba with field representatives across four states and the Abyei Administrative Area.
IAISS runs three integrated pathways that reinforce one another. Protection and safeguarding form the foundation; education builds knowledge, confidence and opportunity; and resilient livelihoods strengthen economic security and reduce exposure to exploitation and harmful coping.
We prevent and respond to violence, abuse, exploitation and rights violations; strengthen safe referral pathways; promote psychosocial wellbeing; and embed safeguarding, PSEA and conflict sensitivity across every intervention.
Safe, inclusive learning; life skills and rights awareness; civic and media literacy; pathways for excluded adolescents and youth; and capacity strengthening for duty bearers and community structures.
Market-relevant skills, enterprise strengthening, savings and financial capability, productive inputs and value-chain support that reduce harmful coping, dependency, exploitation and exclusion.
From our Juba headquarters, we maintain field presence across Eastern Equatoria, Western Equatoria, Northern Bahr el Ghazal, Lakes State and the Abyei Administrative Area. Our representatives hold the relationships with communities, civil society and authorities that let us build programmes with people rather than for them.
Head officeCentral Equatoria
Naota Hub, Gudele 2
Active implementationEastern Equatoria
PaCC III delivery
Field representationWestern Equatoria
Community engagement
Field representationNorthern Bahr el Ghazal
Protection outreach
Field representationLakes State
Protection outreach
Field representationAbyei Administrative Area
Protection outreach
IAISS combines grassroots implementation with independently audited grant delivery. Two reviewed UNDP projects reported zero ineligible expenditure — evidence of the fiduciary standards partners can rely on.
We are always open to collaboration, partnerships, and conversations about how we can better serve communities across South Sudan.