About Us - GREDO Grassroots Empowerment and Development Organization

About GREDO

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GREDO

Grassroots Empowerment and Development Organization (GREDO) is a nonprofit dedicated to empowering vulnerable communities in South Sudan. We focus on child protection, education, health, nutrition, livelihoods, peacebuilding, and access to clean water and sanitation. Through strategic partnerships, we work to create sustainable solutions that improve lives.

Our Mission

To empower communities at the grass root level as the pillar in achieving sustainable development in South Sudan.

Our Vission

To see community with a people empowered with knowledge and skills, with access to basic needs and with capacity to self-sustainability

Our Journey

Grassroots Empowerment and Development Organization (GREDO) is a nonprofit organization established and registered in 2014 in South Sudan to address critical humanitarian gaps, particularly in hard-to-reach areas. With a mission to serve the most vulnerable communities, GREDO focuses on six key thematic areas: child protection, education, food security and livelihoods, peacebuilding, health, nutrition, and WASH.

Despite the overwhelming challenges facing South Sudan, humanitarian efforts have often been concentrated in more accessible areas with better infrastructure. GREDO seeks to bridge this gap by delivering life-changing interventions in remote and underserved regions.

GREDO operates a national office in Juba, the capital city, alongside field offices in Jonglei, Lakes, and Eastern Equatoria states:

Jonglei State: Offices in Bor South County (serving Makuach, Baidit, Anyidi, Jiel, and Kolnyang Payams) and Pibor County (serving Pibor Centre, Verteth, Gumuruk, and Lekuangule Payams).
Lakes State: Office in Rumbek Town, coordinating activities across the region.
Eastern Equatoria State: Offices in Kapoeta Town (Kapoeta South County) and Ngauro (Budi County).
Central Equatoria State: Two offices in Juba – Hai Amarat (opposite Logali House) and Shirikat, overseeing projects across Juba County.

Over the past five years, GREDO has built strong partnerships with leading humanitarian organizations, including WHO, UNICEF, WFP, IOM, Internews, VISTAS, INTERSOS, Save the Children International (SCI), Live Well, Titi Foundation, THESO, War Child Holland (WCH), and others. Through these collaborations, GREDO continues to empower communities by fostering a society where children and women live in security, health, and dignity, with access to education, economic opportunities, and a supportive environment for their development.

➢ To increases provision of basic and holistic development services that strengthens resilience aiming
at reducing extreme poverty, illiteracy and injustice among vulnerable communities (women, girls
and the disabled).
➢ To improve access to inclusive learning, protection, mental health and psychosocial support
services (MHPSS), health & Nutrition services among the vulnerable communities by providing
timely life-saving assistance and enhancing community ownership and sustainability.
➢ To elevate the capacity of women/girls and youth through trainings, employment, encourage equal
participation in decision-making; enhance enterprises scheme and inter- cultural mutual bond that
build tranquility between communities.
➢ To coordinate and collaborate with local, national, regional, international, charitable institutions,
foundations, individuals, donors and UN agencies to share skills, knowledge and information
pertaining to achieving holistic transformational development and community welfare

i. Transparency and Accountability

GREDO employs best standards in management and utilization of resources in order to make a difference
through learning, sharing and practicing new ideas and information. GREDO believes that citizens have a
right to hold governments and institutions accountable, to expect them to respect their rights and do what
they say they will do. Likewise, we believe that non-governmental organizations should be accountable to
the communities in which they work, to partner organizations, and to those from whom they receive
support.
ii. Humanity
GREDO takes and considers with high esteem the set humanitarian principles of humanity; the mandated
principles to respond to situations based on need with the most vulnerable prioritize with full aim of aiding.
Human suffering must be addressed wherever and whenever it is found. The purpose of humanitarian action
is to protect life and ensure respect for human beings.
iii. People and Safety
GREDO acknowledge and recognize the skills and abilities of our co- workers and would like to draw
strengths from our diversity and commitment to equal opportunity. We work and live safely! We protect
human life, preserve property, and put employees’ safety before production.
iv. Excellence Service
We are committed to provision of quality services, in all sectors that we intend to work in. We are leaders
and managers that solve issues; we intend to provide support to our partners both relief, emergency
interventions and development and to satisfy the communities that we serve, we love them and work with
them with a do-no-harm concept and attitude we work together and with others to respond effectively to
their needs.
v. Integrity and Respect
We are honest and responsible in all that we do and hold ourselves to the highest moral and ethical
standards. We respect others, and we always act with courage and humility.

vi. Community Empowerment
GREDO believes that given timely and appropriate support, communities have an inherent ability to pull
themselves out of poverty. Therefore, the approach adopted when implementing our programs is fully
participatory; in which ideas from the affected communities form the foundation of our planning, design,
implementation, monitoring and evaluation of all initiatives. We also expect full commitment to these
values from our staffs, partners and targeted beneficiaries.
vii. Non-Allied (Social Inclusiveness)
GREDO is not a political or a commercial organization; we are a charity organization committed to
alleviating human beings from all f suffering We are therefore fully committed on providing emergencies
relief, humanitarian, early recovery and development support to all communities irrespective of religion,
gender, creed, political affiliation, tribe etc.