JUBA, South Sudan — While humanitarian actors in South Sudan are stretched ever thinner, some development agencies are focusing on improving access to education, specifically for remote and displaced communities.
About 4 million South Sudanese people have been displaced since the country’s civil war erupted four years ago. Some 2 million have fled to neighboring countries while the other 2 million have become internally displaced, with over 200,000 currently sheltered in United Nations-protected camps across the country.
Providing education for displaced and remote communities is especially challenging, but development organizations such as the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization advocate that any gains made through pastoralist livelihood support are at risk of failing without accompanying education.