A/HRC/45/CRP.4 not hesitate to lend explicit support based on its regional mandate to advance transitional justice in South Sudan. V. Supporting Truth, Reconciliation and Healing in South Sudan 43. Chapter V of the R-ARCSS envisages the establishment of a Commission on Truth, Reconciliation, and Healing (CTRH) to inquire into and establish an accurate and impartial historical record of human rights violations and abuses, breaches of the rule of law, and excessive abuses of power committed by State and non-State actors and/or their agents and allies from the date of signing the Agreement to July 2005. The R-ARCSS requires the RTGoNU to promulgate legislation to define the mandate, jurisdiction, operations, and selection of members of the CTRH within three months of its formation. To this end, the Ministry of Justice & Constitutional Affairs, in collaboration with other stakeholders and civil society, is obligated to conduct public consultations at least one month prior to establishment of the CTRH, to ensure that the experiences of all key segments of South Sudan’s population, including women, men, and children, are sufficiently documented and incorporated in the legislation creating the CTRH. National Consultations on Establishment of the CTRH88 44. Mr. Lawrence Kamilo, an officer with the Ministry of Justice and in his presentation, informed participants that, in December 2016, the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs established a Technical Committee, consisting of State and non-State actors, to lead national consultations on the creation of the CTRH. Members of the Technical Committee received training from various partners and experts on ensuring a human-rights based and victim-centred approach to the national consultations, and lessons drawn from comparative truth-seeking experiences in other transitioning/post-conflict countries. The Committee received support from the UNDP to undertake national sensitisation and consultations. The sensitisation programme was rolled out in 2017 to establish rapport with members of the public and provide them with an opportunity to share their views with the Committee. 45. Subsequently, the Committee carried out national consultations between May and June 2018. The table below demonstrates the activities, methodology, and findings of the national consultations of the Technical Committee: Activity Due to the volatile security situation resulting from on-going conflict in some parts of the country, the Technical Committee, with support from UNMISS, conducted a mapping to identify accessible areas. Methodology 28 members of the Committee were divided to conduct consultations across 17 locations, including, Bor, Aweil, Malakal, Kuajok, Rumbek, Renk, Torit, Yambio, Wau, Leer, Bentiu, Mundri, and Yei etc. The Committee consulted a total of 4610 respondents, including 1929 women. Consultations were conducted through targeted and separate meetings to gain insight on the experiences and perspectives of 88 Finding UNMISS confirmed that there were no security concerns reported and the environment was generally open in all the areas where the sensitization and consultations took place. Only one location had NSS presence in the building where the consultations were being conducted. Committee members were not able to visit refugee settlements outside of South Sudan. There is a desire for the creation of a CTRH with a broad mandate; some respondents stated that they would like to see prosecutions for See https://reliefweb.int/report/south-sudan/undp-supports-government-s-public-sensitization-efforts-establishment-commission; https://www.ss.undp.org/content/south_sudan/en/home/presscenter/pressreleases/2017/08/25/technical-committee-for-thecommission-for-truth-reconciliation-and-healing-completes-training-in-conducting-inclusive-consultations.html; and https://www.ss.undp.org/content/south_sudan/en/home/presscenter/pressreleases/2018/ministry-of-justice-and-constitutional-affairslaunches-consulta.html. 36