Institute for Promotion of Civil Society (IPCS)

Country: Sudan
Address: Yei, Central Equatoria State
Telephone: +249 914 792 259/+256 477 100 855/+256 477 104 976/+249 955 024 685
Fax:
Email: ipcs_sudan@yahoo.co.uk/oscamike@yahoo.com
www:
Contact person: Oliver Michael, executive director

Theme: Building Local Democracy

Institute for Promotion of Civil Society (IPCS) is a non-governmental, non-profit making and non-political organisation founded in 1999. IPCS aims at supporting and strengthening civil society and improve livelihood in Southern Sudan.

IPCS’ programmes have overt time advanced from short-term pilot projects to long-term projects. IPCS has great experience in both providing technical support to civil society organisations and working in areas with low literacy levels and poor social infrastructure. The mission of IPCS is “to build capacity of and work with civil society organisations and community structures in Southern Sudan to facilitate equitable access to means of livelihood and basic social rights”.

Objectives

• Enhance communities’ possibility to receive and use information and education in their efforts to access basic rights
• Strengthen capacity of civil society organisations and improve the networking and advocacy capacity of organisations and other structures
• Empower the  local structures to facilitate development and peaceful coexistence of communities
• Lobby and advocate for the rights of vulnerable groups

Activities

• Capacity building of civil society organisations and local authorities
• Organisational assessments of civil society organisations
• Capacity building of newly graduated students with no work experience

IPCS operates in Maridi, Mundri, Yei, Ibba, Western Juba, Morobo, Lainya and
Kajo-Keji.