The Government of South Sudan commits by 2027 to Creating enabling conditions for sustainable returns of South Sudanese, enhancing peacebuilding, and provision of basic services through inclusive re/integration and participation of refugees, returnees, IDPs, and host communities, removing access to justice barriers for women and other vulnerable groups.

1. Roll-out of the National Durable Solutions Strategy and Plan of Action 2023 by 2024, capaciting the local governments, engaging the private sector and development actors, and building the resilience capacities of refugees, returnees, IDPs, and host communities. 
2. Improving inclusive housing, land, and property rights and governance policies by 2027- through capacity sharing with formal and customary land administration structures to strengthen inclusive local dispute resolution mechanisms, land restitution, and establishing the Reconstruction Fund with an underpinned by equitable support to returnees and host communities.  
3. Enhancing the integrated refugee-host settlements planning in refugee-hosting areas, building on peaceful coexistence, and resilient capacities among the refugees and hosting communities by 2027–This includes but is not limited to conducting assessments to identify risks (such as protection, environmental, or security, etc.) through community engagement/participation and taking proactive measures/activities to strengthen local resilience capacities.
4. Creating an enabling environment for sustainable integration of the displaced population through improved, equitable, and safe access to basic services including comprehensive health, education, and economic opportunities by 2027.
5. Enhancing Reconciliation and Peace building Activities by 2027–by reinforcing efforts to implement national and local, formal peace building and reconciliation mechanisms for truth-seeking, accountability, and reparations for past and ongoing human rights breaches. This includes specific measures to enhance the safety and ensure the inclusion of victims of internal displacement, refugees, and refugee returnees.  
6. Improving access to justice and the rule of law by 2027- Strengthen formal and customary justice mechanisms at state, county, and/or local levels, including traditional dispute resolution mechanisms, and mobile courts possible, to expand effective access to justice for refugees, refugee returnees and other forcibly displaced and host communities.
7. Enhancing youth engagement through peace building and alternative conflict resolution mechanisms as change agents to achieve sustainable peace by 2027. Support youth to participate in community-led initiatives including community organization, civil society engagement, empowering community leadership on early warning, conflict management, resolution, and mitigation and awareness raising on critical issues affecting communities such as inter communal violence, cattle raiding, GBV, abductions and exclusion.

The Government of South Sudan pledges to increase access to inclusive quality education for refugees and host communities, enhance access to tertiary education, and reduce the out-of-school children rate by 2027

• Improving 300 school infrastructure (construction or rehabilitation)
• Training 1400 teachers in refugee-hosting areas, leading to certification and promoting the psycho-social well-being of students and teachers.
• Strengthening the Education Management Information System (EMIS) to include refugee data in the national system.
• Ensuring enrollment of 700 refugee students to national universities including through scholarships and or subsidized fees.
• Increasing access to digital learning through technological access to refugees and host communities.
• Improving the availability of educational materials including printing and dissemination of education materials and textbooks to all schools.

The Government of South Sudan pledges to expand economic opportunities and equitable economic development in refugee-hosting areas through refugee-friendly policies and empowerment/social protection schemes by 2027

• Enabling certified market-driven vocational skills training for 10,000 refugees and host community (at a 50/50 ratio) youth.
• Including refugees in the Comprehensive Agriculture Master Plan (CAMP) and agricultural TVET development initiatives.
• Expanding access to arable land for refugees from 15,000 to 50,000 acres and promoting the use of improved and climate-smart agriculture techniques.
• Ensuring refugee inclusion in financial services and access to other wide range of services by removing policy barriers that may exist especially on recognition of refugees’ identifications.
• Enhancing connectivity solutions and digital skills development for refugees.
• Providing a conducive environment for private-sector development and employment generation for refugees, returnees, and host communities and create robust market linkages by promoting agricultural value chain development.
• Enabling job opportunities through agricultural value addition and facilitating the establishment and growth of agricultural cooperatives/VSLAs/RPOs/APGs/MSEs that bring together both refugees and host community members.

The Government of South Sudan pledges to enable access to sustainable and green energy solutions for refugees and host communities and strengthen the climate resilience of refugees’ host communities, and other displaced persons by 2027

• By 2025, enhancing the inclusion of refugees, other forcibly displaced and stateless people, and their hosts in early warning systemsi ncluding through:
• Systematic Data collection and risk assessments to identify climatic hazards and vulnerabilities. 
• Building national and community response capabilities to prepare and react to early warnings and climatic conditions.
• Developing hazard monitoring and early warning services covering displacement settings.
• Communicating risk information and early warnings in a way that is clear, usable, and accessible for forcibly displaced, stateless, and host communities.
• By 2027, promoting environmental protection and rehabilitation in refugee hosting areas through agroforestry and afforestation (including planting 100 million trees) in line with national policies.
• By 2027, Creating access to and promoting sustainable and green energy solutions for refugee and host community households with access to improved cooking technologies, renewable energy, and cooking fuels.

The Government of South Sudan pledges by 2027 to adopt into its national laws, policies, and operational practices, all international standards relevant to the prevention of statelessness.

• By 2024, acceding to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.
• By 2025, through legislative amendments, include specific provisions on the prevention of statelessness and protection of stateless people in national legislation, and review/amend the nationality legislation to ensure full compliance with the 1954 & 1961 Conventions.
• By 2026, completing the Civil Registry Legal/Policy framework, and finalize the establishment of a comprehensive Civil Registry and Vital Statistics (CRVS) system, ensuring access to birth registration and other vital events.
• By 2027, improving and accelerating access to nationality documentation services for persons at risk of statelessness.
• By 2027, ensure adequate funding and resources to the Directorate of Civil Registry, Nationality, Passport and Immigration (DCRNPI) in the state budget to enable DCRNPI structures to effectively implement nationality legislation and related procedures in the country.

The Government of South Sudan pledges by 2027 to strengthen the capacity of South Sudan’s National Asylum Processes

• By 2024, fully operationalizing the Appeal Process (Refugee Appeals Board) as provided in the Refugee Act and Regulations.
• By 2025, promoting the consistent accessibility of the national asylum procedures through coordination with the Directorate of Civil Registry, Nationality, Passport and Immigration (DCRNPI) and relevant Law Enforcement agencies to build the capacity of border/immigration officials and infrastructural interventions.
• By 2025, developing interoperability between asylum case management systems and refugee identity card processing systems to enhance the efficiency of document issuance, including the introduction of biometric refugee IDs and Machine-Readable Conventional Travel Documents (MR-CTD).  
• By 2025, increase the funding of the CRA through the national budget, review the human resources policy, and develop a government ‘scheme of service’ for the CRA’s effectiveness and efficiency.
• By 2026, implementing digital solutions in the asylum procedures for reception, identification, registration, and scheduling to allow for more efficient case management and to address the backlog through data gathering to support the triaging and tracking of asylum claims.
• By 2026, initiating the production of data on Displaced and Stateless Persons through its National Statistical Systems (surveys, census, etc.)to be used in national planning and inclusion in service provision by the government and stakeholders as part of a multi stakeholder pledge on statistical inclusion.