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Fast
Facts: |
• Project
Document |
Location: |
South
Kordofan State |
Duration: |
January
2008 – December 2009 |
Focus
area: |
Democratic
Governance |
Contributions(USD): |
UNICEF:
213,597 |
Partners: |
The
State Ministry of Local Government
and Civil Service
Ministry of Economy and Investment
South Kordofan Civil Society Forum
Civil Society Forum |
Delivery(USD):
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2009: 72,155
2008: 85,715 |
Contact
person in UNDP: |
Maha
Elshafie, Senior Governance Associate
maha.elshafie@undp.org |
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Background
Sudan’s over
two decades’ long civil war
led to the destruction of most of
the physical infrastructure, and the
disruption of social services in South
Kordofan State, which was perhaps
the war’s most contested battleground.
People were forced to flee to local
urban areas into the mountains for
safety. With the signing of the Comprehensive
Peace Agreement between the Government
of Sudan (GoS) and the Sudan People’s
Liberation Movement (SPLM) (CPA) on
9 January 2005, peace-building efforts
have began but the road to recovery
and development will be long and arduous.
The prolonged civil strife has disrupted
the socio-economic fabric and livelihood
of the inhabitants of South Kordofan
State leading to a situation where
most villages have been abandoned
for years. Although a large number
of families have returned to their
villages, most of them are still facing
difficulties meeting the most fundamental
day-to-day needs, such as food, water
and health.
To help South Kordodan build and recover,
the UN family launched this year the
Integrated Community-based Recovery
and Development (ICRD) project in
South Kordofan (ICRD). The ICRD initiative
supports community-led socio-economic
development and local governance structures
that are conflict sensitive, transparent,
accountable, accessible, efficient,
representative and sustainable. These
goals are to be achieved through partnership
between local stakeholders, including
communities, NGOs, community-based
organizations, and supported by the
locality administration, state and
federal government institutions as
well as UN agencies.
The ICRD project is based on activities
identified by local communities and
developed through a consultative and
participatory planning process. It
builds on the comparative advantage
of the following UN agencies partnering
through this project: UNICEF, World
Health Organization, Food and Agriculture
Organization, International Fund for
Agricultural Development and UNDP
region.
Objectives
The main development objectives of
the ICRD programme are to meet the
basic social and economic needs, to
enhance participatory and community-based
conflict transformation and peace
building and to strengthen human and
institutional capacity at locality
and community levels for an estimated
110,000 populations in 45 most vulnerable
communities in South Kordofan. An
integrated sectoral and cross-sectoral
development packages that would take
environmental, biophysical, socio
economic and political factors into
account will be provided with technical
support and assistance by government
authorities and sister UN agencies.
In contribution to achieving the ICRD’s
goal, UNDP is tasked with the following:
• To enhance participatory and
community-based conflict transformation
and peace building
• To promote human rights and
rule of law awareness
• Develop/strengthen human and
institutional capacity governance
institutions at locality and community
levels
Snapshots of the project's major achievements
• Organized orientation and
consultative forums in partnership
with the Ministry of Local Government,
CSOs;
• Identified and activated 15
Peace Promotion committees and trained
116 community peace promoters.
• Conducted conflict management
and rule of law awareness workshop
for 16 participants;
• Capacity in resource mobilization/fundraising,
networking, lobbying and advocacy
and strategic planning for CSOs enhanced
through training workshops supported
by onsite mentoring and a course based
reference guide;
• Leadership and community management
skills of 38 Native administrators
enhanced; and
• Dialogue and planning with
the government, CSOs and folk media
groups to support peace promotion
through drama initiated.
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