The African Christian Ecumenical Alliance became legalized in 2019 with the registration No: 2,453 under Chapter 3, section 10 of NGO act under South Sudan Relief and Rehabilitation Commission (RRC). ACEA was founded by a professional group of Christians, medical doctors, gender specialists, social workers, nurses and community relay agents and agronomists who were concerned with the plight of war, inter-communal violence and poverty, especially those in hard-to-reach areas and those rendered vulnerable. These include, but are not limited to minority groups such as widows, displaced women and their families, school drop-outs, orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) as well as HIV and AIDS infected and affected persons who are all main beneficiaries of African Christian Ecumenical Alliance’s interventions.

The African Christian Ecumenical Alliance was born in response to the wide-spread of conflict in the Republic of South Sudan, particularly among rural communities which were left unattended. The pioneer group of Christians, and other professional groups including social workers, agricultural experts, doctors and nurses and other well-wishers decided to focus on serving the rural populations with services, information sharing and capacity building.

We quickly became interested on not only serving those rendered vulnerable, but advocating for them and raised our voices to denounce the injustices for people being denied for their rights and suffering in South Sudan and East Africa Countries. We’ve never stopped advocating since then. Experiencing that the injustice was unevenly affecting women and girls with other specific challenges such as gender-based violence, gender inequality, child marriage, no access to education and sexual reproductive health services, property expropriation and little access to leadership positions, the African Christian Ecumenical Alliance broadened its focus and included aspects of Gender, human rights and governance.

In the course of carrying out interventions in Sexual Reproductive Health and Gender Inequality, Food security and Climate Change, Inclusive and Quality Education, Governance, Peace-building and Trauma Healing, we realized that our sensitization and capacity building efforts required a third leg for the economic empowerment of the most marginalized groups especially women and youth. Thus, the Economic Security Section was born to take care of the economic empowerment of women, youth and underprivileged groups.

Our Mission: One humanity, United in faith and mission to transforming lives

Our Vision: Holistic transformation of lives for inclusive, resilient and sustainable Society

Human Dignity: As human beings, each of us is inherently valuable and deserving of respect.

Accountability:To serve others to the best of our ability, we will hold one another accountable by setting program and employee-specific goals and working together in a spirit of unity.

Integrity: Trust is the key to any relationship and we will build this trust each day by choosing to walk in truth, understanding and wisdom.

Stewardship: We treat our resources as gifts God has entrusted to us, including our earth, environment, facilities and finances.

Professionalism: We expect our team is collection of traits that put together, makes up an exceptional employee, and in turn, a successful organization.

Partnership: We are committed to a partnering with like-minded organizations, Governments and Donors.

Glory to God :As we trust God to guide and direct us we will give all we are to Him- our strengths and our weaknesses, the challenges and the glory for all good things come from His hand.

ACEA holistically strengthens its capabilities and structures, and enhances the organizational capacity and competencies of its members, ACEA will contribute to the creation of inclusive, resilient and sustainable society for transformed lives.

ACEA South Sudan works in collaboration with the national and sub national government, UN agencies, INGOs, NNGO, learning institutions and communities. Moreover, we collaborate with local governance, private professional groups, frontlines workers, young professional organization and corporate sectors for the effective implementation of our programmes. Our current practices of implementing projects and activities include getting approval from the concerned government agencies. After the approval, induction meeting is conducted with all relevant stakeholders and partners to inform and communicate about the project. Likewise, communication and coordination are done with local level stakeholders and local partners. Only after approval and coordination with all stakeholders, the project/activities are implemented in the concerned areas. After the project implementation, project evaluation and feedback are collected. Necessary reporting is conducted to the concerned agencies and the project comes to the end in the closure phase.