CORWADO is a women-led national non-governmental organization (NNGO) founded in 2022 and registered with the South Sudan Relief and Rehabilitation Commission (RRC) under Registration Number 5164.
CORWADO — the Consortium of Rural Women for Agribusiness Development Organization — operates across multiple states in South Sudan with a clear mandate to empower rural communities, particularly women, girls, and youth, to achieve sustainable livelihoods, food security, and long-term resilience.
CORWADO's programmatic approach focuses on strengthening localized, climate-resilient food systems and inclusive market systems that enhance productivity, incomes, social cohesion, and economic participation for marginalized populations. Grounded in a Humanitarian-Development-Peace (HDP) Nexus framework, the organization integrates agribusiness and value chain development, Market Systems Development (MSD), financial inclusion, climate-smart practices, gender-transformative programming, and community-led institutional strengthening.
CORWADO empowers rural women, youth, and vulnerable communities to achieve food security, economic self-reliance, and long-term resilience through integrated, locally led, and gender-transformative humanitarian and development approaches that strengthen livelihoods, markets, institutions, and social cohesion.
A world free from poverty, where resilient and inclusive rural economies enable women, men, and youth to equitably access opportunities, essential services, and sustainable markets — allowing communities to thrive with dignity, security, and peace.
To strengthen the socio-economic well-being and resilience of rural women, youth, and communities by promoting inclusive agribusiness, gender-transformative empowerment, and community-led peacebuilding — enabling sustainable livelihoods, social stability, and equitable rural development in fragile and crisis-affected contexts.
CORWADO's programming is organized around eleven core strategic objectives that together address the interlinked humanitarian, development, and resilience challenges facing rural women, youth, and communities.
Strengthen rural women and smallholder farmers in climate-resilient food systems to improve food security, nutrition, and household self-reliance through climate-smart agriculture, agroecology, quality inputs, and post-harvest management.
Promote inclusive local markets enabling women and youth to participate in value chains, entrepreneurship, and employment. CORWADO strengthens producer organizations, cooperatives, MSMEs, and private-sector linkages.
Enhance the economic, social, and leadership capacities of women and girls through gender-transformative approaches that challenge harmful norms, increase access to productive resources, and strengthen women's voice and agency.
Improve equitable access to safe water, sanitation, hygiene, and climate-resilient basic services to enhance public health, dignity, productivity, and resilience — particularly for women, children, and vulnerable groups.
Build resilient, socially cohesive communities capable of preventing, managing, and recovering from conflict and shocks. CORWADO supports women- and youth-led peace initiatives, inclusive dialogue, trauma healing, and conflict resolution.
Promote protection, dignity, and well-being of women, girls, and vulnerable populations through GBV prevention and response, psychosocial support, and strengthened referral pathways using survivor-centered, rights-based approaches.
Strengthen community capacity to adapt to climate change and environmental shocks by integrating climate-smart practices, renewable energy solutions, ecosystem-based approaches, and disaster risk reduction into all programming.
Expand access to education, vocational skills, entrepreneurship, leadership development, and life-skills training for women and youth to improve employability, economic opportunities, and long-term self-reliance.
Enhance preparedness and response capacity to humanitarian crises by delivering timely, lifesaving assistance through emergency food security, livelihoods, WASH, and cash and voucher assistance, while protecting development gains.
Engage in evidence-based advocacy to influence national and local policies on food systems transformation, gender equality, climate resilience, peacebuilding, and inclusive economic development — amplifying the voices of women and youth.
Strengthen CORWADO's governance, MEAL, safeguarding, resource mobilization, and partnerships with government, donors, UN agencies, civil society, and the private sector to ensure accountability, sustainability, and scalable long-term impact.
