The workshop, supported by the regional bloc IGAD and the Japanese government, aimed to finalize key documents for the NCRC’s work on drafting a permanent constitution.
“This workshop follows the induction workshop organised in January, to revise and adopt basic documents of the commission to render the commission functional, present the constitution-making process act 2022 to members and identify critical constitutional issues and principles that would guide our discussion in the future,” said Riang Yer Zuor, Chairperson of NCRC.
Samuel Tilahun, legal advisor to IGAD’s special envoy for South Sudan, emphasized the importance of active citizen participation in the process of drafting the constitution.
“People of South Sudan are expected to be actively and meaningfully involved in constitution making process and just symbolically associated with it, the constitution-making process in South Sudan should thereof not only be inclusive but also engendered health between segments of the community, between their leaders and between leaders and their people,” said Tilahun.
President Salva Kiir Mayardit reconstituted the NCRC, along with the National Elections Commissions and the Political Party Council, on November 3, 2024.