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Teachers are essential to upholding the right to quality education for children in crisis and displacement contexts, yet they often experience delayed, irregular, or insufficient compensation, leading to demotivation, absenteeism, and destabilization of educational systems.

Challenges for paying teachers arise due to resource shortages, inadequate management structures and payroll systems, bureaucratic and logistical complications, and the devaluation of the teaching profession.

To understand how these challenges manifest in South Sudan, this qualitative study examined the current state of teacher compensation among primary education teachers. Drawing on interviews with donors, policymakers, practitioners, and teachers, it identified the challenges and opportunities for improving teacher payments and providing adequate and timely compensation. The study also examined how different and often overlapping and persistent humanitarian crises affect teacher compensation practices and the ability of the education sector to move across the humanitarian development nexus.