Center for Emergency & Development Support

What Center for Emergency & Development Support does

Center for Emergency & Development Support (CEDS) is an independent South Sudanese non-governmental organization founded in 2018, headquartered in Juba with field operations spanning multiple counties including Aweil East, Aweil North, Gogrial East, Twic, Wau, and Bentiu. The organization delivers humanitarian and development programming across eight core verticals: Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP), Child Protection, Education, Food Security & Livelihoods, Health & Nutrition, Peacebuilding, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) response, and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH). Programs are delivered through embedded local field teams, county-level coordination with government authorities, and school- and community-based distribution models — including borehole rehabilitation, latrine construction, Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS), teacher mentorship, and school governance support. The organization's primary beneficiaries are conflict-affected populations, internally displaced persons, women, and children in South Sudan's Bahr el Ghazal region and surrounding areas.

CEDS operates a project-based, grant-funded revenue model and does not sell products or services. Funding flows from institutional humanitarian donors including UNICEF, ECHO, WFP, Education Cannot Wait, UN OCHA, and Take Action, with named flagship projects including the School WASH Rehabilitation in Aweil East (UNICEF-funded) and the Community-Led Total Sanitation Scale-Up (ECHO-funded), plus a Teacher Mentorship and Child-Friendly Learning project supported by Education Cannot Wait. Individual donations are accepted via bank transfer, mobile money (MTN MoMo), and institutional partnership inquiries.

The organization has no proprietary technology platform, relying instead on standard humanitarian program management systems and Strapi CMS for its public-facing website. With roughly 11 staff, CEDS runs a lean operating model that leverages local community leadership structures rather than large international cadres. Go-to-market is community-led, grounded in MEAL systems and accountability mechanisms embedded directly in field projects, with the primary differentiator being locally led humanitarian action as opposed to expat-driven international-NGO intervention models.

Name

Center for Emergency & Development Support

Legal name

Centre for Emergency and Development Support

Website

https://cedss.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

CEDS is an independent South Sudanese NGO, founded 2018 and headquartered in Juba, delivering integrated humanitarian and development programming — including WASH, Education, Health, Child Protection, SGBV, and Food Security — to conflict-affected communities across multiple South Sudanese counties via institutional donor funding.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Humanitarian Aid Services

NAICS

Emergency and Other Relief Services (624230)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Refugee, IDP & Migration Humanitarian Assistance (BPAGAAAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Protection Services (GBV, Child Protection, Safeguarding) (BPADAHAF), Emergency Education / Education in Emergencies (EiE) (BPADADAN)

Keywords

• Humanitarian assistance
• Emergency response
• Water sanitation hygiene
• Child protection services
• Community development programs

Headquarters

HQ city

Juba

HQ country

South Sudan

Offices7 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Institutional Donor Funding: CEDS operates primarily through grants and funding from institutional humanitarian donors including UNICEF, ECHO, WFP, Education Cannot Wait, UN OCHA, and Take Action. Revenue is project-based, tied to specific humanitarian and development programs.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

CEDS delivers integrated humanitarian and development programming across eight core sectors—Accountability (AAP), Child Protection, Education, Food Security & Livelihoods, Health & Nutrition, Peacebuilding, SGBV, and WASH—through embedded field teams in South Sudan. Programs are operationalized as grant-funded field projects (e.g., School WASH Rehabilitation in Aweil East, Community-Led Total Sanitation Scale-Up, Teacher Mentorship and Child-Friendly Learning) targeting conflict-affected populations, internally displaced persons, women, children, and marginalized communities. Service delivery combines direct community mobilization, school-based interventions, infrastructure rehabilitation, and partner coordination under a disciplined assess-deliver-account operating cycle.

Product overview

CEDS operates as a humanitarian and development organization offering an integrated multi-sector program portfolio. The core offering consists of eight humanitarian programs: Accountability (AAP), Child Protection, Education, Food Security & Livelihoods, Health & Nutrition, Peacebuilding, SGBV, and WASH. Specific projects are delivered under these programs, including School WASH Rehabilitation in Aweil East, Community-Led Total Sanitation Scale-Up, and Teacher Mentorship and Child-Friendly Learning. Programs operate across South Sudan with a focus on emergency response, recovery, and resilience building.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Accountability (AAP)

Quantifiable outcome

• Restored reliable water access for pupils and school staff through borehole rehabilitation
• +3 more outcomes

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• SMOGEIminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 14 February 2026County-level education stakeholder that witnessed CRC block handover at Apaping Girls Primary School alongside CEDS, county officials, and UNICEF teams.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves10 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Relief International: Relief International is an international humanitarian NGO with sustained operations in South Sudan delivering WASH, education, health, and livelihoods — a broader peer for the same institutional donor pool and sector mix.
• Mercy Corps: Mercy Corps runs large-scale humanitarian and resilience programming in South Sudan, with overlapping sectors (food security, WASH, peacebuilding) and similar donor relationships to CEDS.
• INTERSOS: INTERSOS is an established international humanitarian NGO actively operating in South Sudan across WASH, protection, and education in emergencies — a broader incumbent peer competing for similar ECHO/UNICEF grants in the same geography.
• Concern Worldwide: Concern Worldwide is an international humanitarian NGO with long-standing South Sudan programming in livelihoods, health, and education — comparable funding relationships (ECHO, Irish Aid) and integrated program design.
• Action Against Hunger: Action Against Hunger operates extensively in South Sudan focused on WASH, food security, and nutrition — directly overlapping with CEDS's food security, WASH, and health/nutrition programs.
• Plan International South Sudan: Plan International operates in South Sudan with a strong focus on education in emergencies and child protection — directly comparable to CEDS's Education and Child Protection programs and donor mix.

Regional players

• South Sudan Red Cross: The South Sudan Red Cross Society is the principal national humanitarian auxiliary delivering community-based emergency response, WASH, and protection across South Sudan — a country-level peer with overlapping field footprint and donor visibility.
• Vétérinaires Sans Frontières Germany (VSF Germany): VSF Germany operates livestock and food security/livelihoods programs in South Sudan, overlapping with CEDS's Food Security & Livelihoods portfolio and drawing from similar ECHO humanitarian funding pools.

Direct peers

• Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO): CEPO is a South Sudanese national NGO focused on peacebuilding, human rights, and community resilience — a near-direct peer in locally led humanitarian action and community accountability programming in South Sudan.
• Nile Hope South Sudan: Nile Hope is a South Sudanese national NGO delivering humanitarian and development programming (WASH, protection, livelihoods) inside South Sudan, with a comparable locally led, multi-sector model serving conflict-affected populations.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Funding overview

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M&A

Investments

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