The National Transformational Leadership Institute (NTLI) is a semi-autonomous institution at the University of Juba that was officially launched in February 2016. The Institute was tripartitely-instituted by the Ministry of Gender Child and Social Welfare, University of Juba and UN Women.  The idea of establishing the institute was conceived in 2013 following the realization of continuous exclusion and under-representation of women in decision-making structures. There was also a realization that South Sudan requires not just leaders, but transformational leaders in order to have fundamental change in governance system of the young nation. Thus, the NTLI vision is to serve as a center of excellence and knowledge hub for training, mentoring and experiential learning programmes for South Sudan leaders at the national and sub-national level of government in order to facilitate accelerated, equitable and sustainable progress in development. It is currently the only institution in South Sudan that provides opportunity for South Sudanese aspiring and existing female and male leaders from all sectors, including political leaders, corporate, civil society and the academia, to acquire skills and expertise on transformational leadership to enable them influence policy decisions for nation building. The phase one of establishment and roll out training was financially and technically supported by the UNWOMEN.