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Crisis
Prevention and Recovery
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Sudan
has been devastated by continuous
conflict and frequent natural disasters.
As a result of the 22 years of civil
war an estimated 2 million people
have died and 4 million others have
been displaced. As Africa’s
longest war was coming to an end with
the signing of the 2005 Comprehensive
Peace Agreement, another conflict
that had erupted in 2003 during a
drought crisis had already engulfed
the three Darfur states killing over
200,000 people and forcing more than
two million persons to flee their
homes.
Over the past two years, displaced
populations have been returning home,
especially to the southern and central
parts of the country where prolonged
conflict has disrupted the socio-economic
fabric and livelihood of the inhabitants,
and deprived them of development opportunities.
A significant number of returnees
have difficulty meeting the most fundamental
day-to-day needs, such as food, water
and health. However, the major obstacle
remains the lack of a fully-secured
environment, due to the widespread
presence of landmines and explosives,
small weapons, armed ex-combatants,
and the constant fear of new outbreaks
of violence.
To help the country build, recover
and cope with its vulnerability to
conflicts and natural disasters, UNDP
Sudan’s Crisis Prevention and
Recovery Programme has adopted a conflict
sensitive approach to recovery and
development. This vision inextricably
links conflict prevention and peace-building
with the need to address economic
recovery; institutional and capacity
gaps; environmental threats; gender
inequalities; and human security challenges.
UNDP’s conflict prevention approach
culminated in two flagship programmes.
The first addresses the major root-causes
of conflict in rural Sudan by focusing
on reducing competition over natural
resources in three conflict-prone
areas, namely Abyei, Blue Nile State,
and Southern Kordofan State The second
programme is based on a geo-referenced
state-by-state mapping and analysis
of the key security threats and socio-economic
risks in the country. This tool makes
it easy to identify the inter-relationship
between these threats and risks, while
prioritizing responses and interventions
in a conflict-sensitive manner.
UNDP provides comprehensive management
and technical advice to the relevant
national Disarmament, Demobilization
and Reintegration (DDR) and Mine Action
authorities within the Government
of National Unity and the Government
of Southern Sudan to assist in developing
their national programme. UNDP’s
intervention in the field of human
security also targets the reduction
of the number of weapons in circulation
in Southern Sudan.
On the recovery side, UNDP manages
the 54.3 million Euro Recovery and
Rehabilitation Programme (RRP),
the largest community-based initiative
in the country that serves up to 800,000
people across rural Sudan. Additional
area-based recovery programmes in
Abyei and Southern Kordofan are being
run in parallel to the RRP, and a
livelihoods support programme in Darfur
is in the initial stage of implementation.
The following list provides detailed
information on the crisis prevention
and recovery activities across the
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