Rise Initiative for Women’s Right Advocacy (RiWA)

Rise Initiative for Women’s Right Advocacy (RiWA South Sudan) is womxn feminists led
organization that was founded in Feb 2019, that aims at increasing the capacity of womxn and
marginalized groups and it’s dedicated to meeting their needs in South Sudan. RiWA was born
out of the need to bridge the missing link of the untapped potential, comparative advantage
& strategic resourcefulness of grassroots & peri-urban based young women in the struggle to
work towards realizing a supportive policy and social environment that enables healthy and
productive lives.
At RiWA, we believe in the resilience and capacity of women and most at risk groups to
rebuild their lives in spite of many scarce resources and a lack of visibility, to support a
community of women in South Sudan to self-organize so they can provide for their families,
become self-sufficient, and integrate in their local community. The initiative was founded in
Juba, South Sudan and hopes to expand and grow its mandate throughout the whole of South
Sudan.