Learning Papers

The final report of a research process over several months, using a narrative-based methodology (Sensemaker®) to engage over 550 respondents in cattle camp.

It explored the values and drivers of the cattle camp culture, to inform the design of POF activities.

Following the emergence of illegal logging as a key community concern, POF conducted research across affected communities, collaborating with the South Sudan Council of Churches to publish this report and support their advocacy moving forward.

Learning towards a national agenda for reconciliation: Review of key national-level peace and reconciliation initiatives, 2012-2020 – recurring patterns and themes

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With high turnover in national roles around peacebuilding, this review was based on interviews with key actors in the different national level processes since 2012, providing insights that could be applied moving forward into the relevant aspects of the R-ARCISS implementation.

Following the initial review paper, and a positive response from stakeholders, including the National Ministry of Peacebuilding, a second follow-up paper explored tensions that need to be managed moving forward with the national agenda for reconciliation.

With POF’s progress around armed youth leadership in Rumbek, and the similarity of related issues as the work scaled up in Jonglei, the team began iterating a paper that captured the unfolding narrative and the principles of engagement that could be distilled.

This case study sets out learning from the Otuho people of Eastern Equatoria State. The programme promoted a cultural engagement process aimed to strengthen women’s peace and security at a time when Otuho society undergoes a 22-year cycle of generational change when leadership structures are renewed.

This learning paper revisits POF’s knowledge foundation in relation to South Sudanese cultural institutions by contrasting what we knew ‘then’ (during the inception phase) with what we know ‘now’. POF engagement with cultural institutions has opened new opportunities for peace in a number of communities, particularly in Greater Jonglei.