An integrated, protection-led approach

IAISS does not run its thematic areas as disconnected sectors. Our protection-centred model uses education and livelihoods to reinforce safety, dignity, recovery and resilience — one integrated approach rather than three separate programmes.

Our institutional core
Three integrated pathways

Protection & safeguarding

We prevent and respond to violence, abuse, exploitation, exclusion and rights violations; strengthen safe referral pathways; promote psychosocial wellbeing; support access to justice; build community protection capacity; and embed safeguarding, PSEA, accountability and conflict sensitivity across every intervention.

Education as protection

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.

Livelihoods as protection

Market-relevant skills, enterprise strengthening, savings and financial capability, productive inputs and value-chain support that reduce harmful coping, dependency, exploitation and exclusion.

Cross-cutting commitments

Applied across every intervention

Women & girls

Gender-transformative participation and leadership.

Youth

Meaningful roles in solutions, civic life and enterprise.

Disability inclusion

Accessible participation, communication and referral.

Accountability to Affected Populations

Safe feedback, complaints and response mechanisms.

PSEA

Prevention, reporting and survivor-centred response.

Conflict sensitivity

Context analysis and Do No Harm in every activity.

Who we work with

Women and girls; young women and men; survivors and people at heightened risk of violence; ex-combatants and returnees requiring safe community-based reintegration; internally displaced persons; persons with disabilities; vulnerable households; and micro and small enterprises, women’s groups, cooperatives and community structures with viable resilience potential.

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Let's work together

We are always open to collaboration, partnerships, and conversations about how we can better serve communities across South Sudan.