Key and Vulnerable Population Empowerment and Advocacy Network (KEANet) was formed in 2021 as the official national representative body for KPs in South Sudan. It advocates for issues of common concern including shrinking resources and other spaces for KP-led organizations. Its membership comprises national KP-led CSOs. KEANet partners with CSOs, CBOs, SSAC, Parliamentarians, Ministry officials, County health officers, legal and finance bodies, research and training institutes, and other community groups—to advance gains in health and HIV response within the KP community.
KEANet also engages with regional and global health and human rights organizations in its work. It sees itself as an advocacy platform coordinating strategic actions for the KP community in South Sudan. It works to ensure that the KP community is socially, politically, legally and economically included in the society. This, it hopes to achieve through voice amplification, reaching to the most at risk and through better coordination and communication of the consortium. Through KP-TNC, KEANet has benefitted through widening its networking at regional levels, strengthened its advocacy capacities and basks in the warmth of regional solidarity.
