NCRC Teams Deployed to States; Officials Urge Government Support
By Kidega Livingstone
Members of the National Constitutional Review Commission (NCRC) have arrived in several states to conduct civic education and consultations on the constitutional-making process.
The team, which departed Juba on Monday, 6 October 2025, has already met state authorities in Eastern Equatoria, Western Equatoria, Lakes, and Northern Bahr el Ghazal, according to Commission officials.
At a press conference on Tuesday, Secretary-General of the NCRC, John Natana Abraham, called on both state and national governments to offer strong support by working closely with the Commission to ensure that the civic education and consultation phases succeed.
Natana described the constitutional-making effort as “people‑driven,” emphasizing that the final document must reflect the will of the people of South Sudan, and that this requires substantial backing from the government and development partners.
“We are confident that the work is proceeding well, and we are appealing to the authorities to work closely with our teams in the states,” said Natana.
“We expect another team to go to the remaining states once this stage of civic education and consultation is completed, but we appeal to the government to support us,” he added.
Patrick Oyet Charles, Head of Civic Education with the NCRC, said the team is prepared to engage authorities at the grassroots level following meetings already held with governors and other state officials.
He said: “We will meet all groups in the states—including members of parliament, youth and women’s groups, and persons with disabilities—to collect their views. Later, those views will be aggregated in Juba after data from counties and bomas in the respective states have been collected. This is a nationwide civic education and consultation process, and we will leave no group behind.”
The primary mandate of the NCRC is to facilitate and guide the drafting of a permanent national constitution. Established in 2012 and reconstituted under the Constitution‑Making Process Act of 2022, the Commission is tasked with helping produce a “people‑led and people‑owned” constitution, in line with the Revitalised Peace Agreement.
One of its key responsibilities is to review the Transitional Constitution of the Republic of South Sudan, 2011, identifying areas that require amendment or improvement
