Sounding
Good: Musical Performances in Darfur Make the
Difference
EL Fasher, Darfur, 6 July 2011
- They’ve launched and produced newspapers,
radios programmes in local unwritten languages,
street theatre performances, and have entertained
and informed thousands of children in IDP camps
with their puppet shows. Now, on 7th July, 2011,
Afia Sudan is returning to Darfur, this time in
El Fasher, to organize extensive community outreach
activities.
The day will start with workshops at 2pm at the
National Union Hall, followed by a big march through
the town at 6pm and leading up to an evening concert
at Al-Shaheed Al Ziber Stadium featuring Igd Elgalad
Vocal Group and Shorhabel Ahmed. Such activities
are part of a partnership with the Sudan Disarmament,
Demobilization and Reintegration Commission (NSDDRC)
and UNDP to increase and enhance the level of
information and public awareness about the community
security and small arms control (CSAC) and DDR
programmes in the Darfur region. .. .. |
“Public
Participation Key to New Constitution Making”
Khartoum, 24 May 2011 With the
opening of the Constitution Making Forum, the
Government of Sudan initiated a broad-based consultative
process for drafting a permanent constitution,
here today. The Forum, an initiative of the Advisory
Council for Human Rights (ACHR) and is supported
by the United Nations, notably the United Nations
Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) and the United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP).
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Mixing
(small) Business and Pleasure: a UNV story in
Sudan
1 May 2011 - On a dusty side
road in Damazine in Blue Nile State, near a sparkling
but empty Chinese hospital, Amir Muhamad Babiker
tends his shop. It’s not big, but it’s
his and this Tuesday morning it seems the whole
town is looking for sugar.
A girl not more than five or six steps forward
and shyly hands Babiker a crumpled one Sudanese
pound note. He measures out the appropriate amount
of sugar and dutifully hands it back before she
quickly scurries off. ....
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Mission
Statement
Established in Sudan in 1965, UNDP is the lead
development agency in the country. We are empowering
people across Sudan to achieve sustainable peace
and development. All our development efforts support
the implementation of the peace agreements across
the country. Whether in Khartoum, Juba, El-Fasher
or Kassala, our strategic interventions aim to
develop the capacity of institutions, civil society,
and communities to help them consolidate peace,
prevent more conflicts, and build a better life.
In partnership with national and international
development partners, we are promoting an environment
that fosters democratic governance, enhances human
security, reduces poverty and diseases, empowers
women, ensures environmental sustainability, and
contributes to achieving the Millennium Development
Goals by 2015.
UNDP is the UN's global development network, an
organization advocating for change and connecting
countries to knowledge, experience and resources
to help people build a better life. We are on
the ground in 166 countries, working with them
on their own solutions to global and national
development challenges. As they develop local
capacity, they draw on the people of UNDP and
our wide range of partners.
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