(South Sudan): Shejeh Salam is USAID's flagship activity working to mitigate sub-national violence and help civil society engage the transitional government in a restricted political space. The project aims to achieve US Government-integrated country strategy goals on subnational violence reduction and peace agreement implementation. The project targets challenges faced by citizens in the 13 target counties promoting dialogue and trauma awareness and expanding access to information through mass media. With FY 2022 funding, Shejeh Salam will award grants, support capacity building, and provide technical assistance to local actors, empowering them to foster stability and peace. Approximately 20 percent of annual funding will go directly to local organizations as grants under contract, contributing towards the USAID Localization approach. Shejeh Salam will also help communities benefiting from community reconciliation by funding activities to promote local economic development resulting from local peace dialogues. Some of the activities will include the construction of shared community assets, and livelihood promotion grants to support women and youth groups participating in peace dialogues. The project will continue to build on lessons learned from over eight years of USAID programming on conflict mitigation and peacebuilding since the outbreak of civil war in 2013. The project will seek out and leverage opinion leaders such as traditional authorities, religious leaders, civil society actors, and media to increase resilience and reduce local communities' manipulation by political elites. Hence, peacebuilding and conflict mitigation cover several volatile intercommunal relationships, predominantly surrounding cattle raiding and revenge killing. The type of conflict dynamic here has political and military support from elite actors in Juba through the provision of arms. ..