Sudan: Sustained Peace for Development: Conflict Prevention and Peace-Building in Sudan
JOINT PROGRAMME QUICK FACTS
Total Budget $6,000,000
Delivery Rate
Participating Agencies IOM, UNDP, UNICEF, FAO, ILO, WHO, UNFPA, UN Women
Main Achievements
- Institutional capacity assessments conducted to identify technical skill gaps/know-how and needed trainings of local partner institutions.
- Conflict sensitivity trainings provided to ministries, women and youth groups.
- Community workshops conducted that brought conflicting sides together to identify and prioritize basic service interventions. Gender-based violence trainings and awareness sessions conducted in Southern Kordofan. Community awareness sessions held on children's rights created greater awareness for human rights and advocated against violence.
Contact Hisashi Izumi, Hisashi.Izumi@undp.org
The programme aims to prevent conflict from relapsing in 4 bordering states of Sudan, by bolstering peace building, rule of law and socioeconomic recovery within -and between- vulnerable communities and local authorities in targeted areas and villages. The contested border area is one of the most complex conflict systems in the country, with increasingly serious tensions building since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in 2005.
In light of this fragile and volatile context, and the crucial need of linking local level conflict management with national priorities, the programme will strengthen conflict resolution mechanisms, better resource management, planning and leadership to reduce the likeliness of inadvertent clashes triggered by local disputes over cattle grazing, water and land use, that can lead to increased instability. It will increase access to justice and generate peace dividends directly tackling the root causes of resource-based conflicts. Private Sector and Development