South Sudan officials attend IGAD training on climate change, GBV response

File photo: James Dak Karlo, National Police Service deputy spokesperson

A team of seven South Sudanese officials, including police officers on Thursday, returned to the country after participating in a three-day regional training.  The training was organized by the regional Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD).

The capacity-building event was held in Nairobi, Kenya from 13-15 March under the theme, "IGAD Drought Desertification Resilient Initiative."

Speaking to reporters upon arrival in Juba, Deputy Spokesman of the South Sudan Police Service Brigadier General James Dak Karlo explained the topics discussed at the three-day workshop in Nairobi.

"The theme of the session talked about drought within the region of IGAD countries, it talked of livestock, and it talked of rural pastoralists, gender-based violence and conflict-related gender-based violence and gender mainstreaming," he explained.

According to Dak, the topics covered during the IGAD training include sustainability, resilience, empowerment, security, education for females and negative cultures like female genital mutilation, earlier child marriage and forced marriage, child soldier and child abduction.