About

About Us

Greater Upper Nile Organization (GUNO) is a registered NNGO in South Sudan by RRC in March 2017. GUNO’s registration number is 619. GUNO is a non-confessional, not-for-profit, non-governmental, non-political, non-partisan, non-discriminatory South Sudanese agency.

GUNO focuses on humanitarian, peace-building, and development sectors. We have been operating across Unity having a strong operational, workforce, and programmatic presence. The GUNO takes a family–based and community-based approach while addressing child needs.

We do a multi-sectoral and integrated approach to ensure that children receive sustainable quality services. We build a favorable environment for a child to live safely, learn safely, and develop safely, recognizing the importance of family unity and the community where a child lives, we include children’s communities and child families are also included recognizing the need in & role of a protective environment.

History

(GUNO), an actor integrated programming focuses on areas pillars: Saving lives; Promoting Early Recovery, Promoting Community Resilience, Peace, and Contributing to Development. respond to disasters, humanitarian, interventions and engagement with communities in a enable transitioning – building community absorptive, adaptive, and transformative capacities in South Sudan, or elsewhere particularly to children, women Men and youth, Elderly people.

Mission

Transformation of youth hatred attitudes to harmony, to adopt an improved and upgraded peaceful South Sudan communities in both urban and rural communities

Vision

GUNO envisions seeing South Sudanese people living empowered, friendly, respecting the right of children, having proper health system, have knowledge on how to preserve their environment and
sanitation, access to basic education and are fully aware of conflict tearing their social fabrics.

Goal

Our goal is to deliver high impact, cost effective, and culturally competent capacity building programs to people of South Sudan, particularly to children, women and youth

Organizational values

We believe in mutual respect and thereby recognize the innate worth of all people and the value of their unique experiences;

We believe in equity and we will work to ensure equal opportunity to everyone, irrespective of race, age, gender, sexual orientation,
class, ethnicity, disability, location and religion.

We believe in honesty and transparency and we will be held accountable for the effectiveness of our actions and open in our
communication.

We believe in solidarity with the powerless and the excluded.

We believe in the courage of conviction encourage creativity, boldness, and innovation without the fear of failure as we work to
make the greatest possible impact in the lives of the people.

We believe in humility and recognize that we belong to a larger movement fighting for the rights and welfare of citizens

Our strategic objectives

ENVIRONMENT

Environment as a thematic/strategic area for GUNO the advocacy for environmental conservation is one of the prominent and crucial. The save the environment is an ideal engagement for GUNO/activities. Such as avoid deforestation by planting too many trees, protection environment from pollution by using proper disposals.

PROTECTION & CHILD PROTECTION (PC)

in South Sudan and Africa at large Children are subject to abuse, harassments, ignored, rights refrainment, GBV, Child soldiering/forceful recruitments and child marriages. Parent acts in accordance with culture, illiteracy, lack of information on child protection.

EDUCATION & PEACEBUILDING

South Sudan is the country which has been in war since its independence in 2011. Several war broke outs with peace after peace, the country remained one of the places which is dangerous for living in all areas of needs and provision for human. This shows that areas like education, peace and other resilience cannot be simply met by inhabitants. Through humanitarian agencies bodies, international organization, local/national non-governmental organizations are trying their best to help mitigate the risks in levels education, peacebuilding, food security and health. there for GUNO/HAD isn’t absence from this greater needs for awareness caused by wars.