By King News
King News 01st October 2024 – The Chairperson of the Special Committee on South Sudan Population and Development, Hon. Majur Babur, says maternal mortality is high in South Sudan. He was speaking during the opening of the four-day training on population Integration on Tuesday in Juba.
“We are losing our women every day. That’s why population is no longer your largest number, rather the Quality that can produce Quality work that’s what we call population.” Hon. Majur said
“We need to be equipped with knowledge every day because of the digitalized world. That’s why we need more training or capacity building so that we can be able to produce or deliver.”
Participants at the four-days training in Juba. (Photo Credit: Supplied)
However, Suzy Albert Yanga, the Director General of Aid Coordination at the Ministry of Finance and Planning, said that population dynamics are critical to shaping policies that address our social, economic, and environmental challenges.
“We gather here to examine the importance of the population and our community’s well-being in the country and plan how to deliver the service. As we embark on this Journey, we must understand how demographic factors affect our plans and outcomes.” Said Suzy
On his part, Dr. Kidan Abraha, the Program Advisor of UNFPA South Sudan, speaking on behalf of the Head of Mission, said it’s enlightening the planners on the importance of population data in their data planning. We are seeing the progress that the country is making in terms of population, population dynamics such as characteristics activities, migrations, age and sex, and distributions, which are led to the developments.
Dr. Kidan Abraha, the Program Advisor of UNFPA South Sudan (Photo Credit: Supplied)
A four-day training on Integrating Population issues into the National sector and subnational planning of South Sudan kicked off in Juba Today (Tuesday). It is being organized by the National Ministry of Finance & Planning with support from the UNFPA South Sudan.
South Sudan is placed just above Chad in terms of the world’s highest maternal mortality rate, 1,150 deaths for every 100,000 live births. Unlike many of the countries on this list, that number has risen steadily over the last few years.
South Sudan has been in crisis ever since it gained independence in 2011 and faces high levels of food insecurity and violence, as well as some of the greatest levels of gender inequality in the world.
All of these factors, combined with the lack of adequate healthcare services in the country and the high amount of internal displacement, make it the worst country for an expecting mother. As Áine Fay, Concern’s former country director for South Sudan, put it: This is a country where simply being a woman demands heroics.