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| Fast Facts: |
| Project
document and reports available
upon request |
| Location: |
Executed
at the national level with staff
based in Khartoum and Juba |
| Duration: |
January
2006 – June 2008 |
| Focus
area: |
Crisis
Prevention and Recovery |
| Donors: |
The
European Commission, Japan and
Canada |
| Total
Funds Available: |
US$
17,034,279.00 |
| Partners: |
North
Sudan DDR Commission
South Sudan DDR Commission
UNMIS
UNICEF
NGOs |
| Delivery
for 2007:
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US$
6,896,577.75 |
| Contact
person in UNDP: |
Musa
Ibrahim, Program Officer,
Musa.ibrahim@undp.org
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Background
The Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA)
calls for the Demobilization, Disarmament
and Reintegration (DDR) of former combatants
and special groups, and the promotion
of community security and arms control.
The objective of the DDR process as
a whole is to contribute to creating
an enabling environment for human security,
and to support post-peace-agreement
social stabilization across the Sudan,
particularly in war affected areas.
The UN Security Council Resolution 1590
(2005) defined in these terms the UN
Mission in Sudan’s (UNMIS)
mandate in support of the DDR process:
“To assist in the establishment
of the disarmament, demobilization and
reintegration programme as called for
in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement,
with particular attention to the special
needs of women and child combatants,
and its implementation through voluntary
disarmament and weapons collection and
destruction.”
To support the northern and southern
DDR commissions that are responsible
for implementing the DDR process in
the country, an Interim DDR Programme
(IDDRP) was launched in January 2006,
with the support of the European Commission,
the Government of Japan and the Government
of Canada. Carried out by UNMIS,
UNICEF
and UNDP, this interagency programme
takes place within a comprehensive process
of national reconciliation throughout
the country, as part of the peace and
confidence building measures.
Since the signing of the CPA, the
UNDP-implemented portion of the Interim
Demobilization Disarmament and Reintegration
Programme, which was designed initially
to support the preliminary process,
was extended to further build the
capacity of the National Interim DDR
Authorities (north and south), establish
offices and support various DDR planning
processes.
Objectives
The main objective is to establish and
build the capacity of the DDR institutions
and civil society, while initiating
basic DDR processes for selected priority
target groups.
The IDDRP has the following specific
objectives:
•To establish and build the capacities
of institutions.
• To develop the Reintegration
Programme for Special Needs Groups
and other target groups.
• Demobilize, reinsert and reintegrate
special needs groups, Women Associated
with Armed Forces and Groups (WAAFG),
Children Affected with Armed Forces
Groups (CAAFG) and soldiers with physical
and psychological disabilities.
• Preparations for formal (multi-year)
DDR and Security Sector Reform (SSR).
• Develop and link policies
for SSR.
• Support pre-registration and
development of screening mechanisms.
• Develop formal (multi-year)
DDR Programme – DDR Phase I.
Snapshots of the project's major achievements
• UNDP supported the establishment
of Northern and Southern Sudan DDR Commissions
by providing technical advice and assisting
with the recruitment and hiring of the
Commissions’ staff.
• Recruited consultants to provide
technical support to the Commissions
in the areas of Community Security Arms
Reduction and Control, Security Sector
Reform, Disability Eligibility Criteria
and Socio-Economic Profiling and Opportunity
Mapping.
• Provided technical and policy
support to the Commissions, including
the formalization of the Disarmament
and Demobilization standard procedures,
preparation of Joint Operational Plans,
drafting of the DDR national strategy,
development of WAAFG eligibility criteria
and HIV awareness.
• Supported UNICEF and the Commissions
for the release, reunification and reintegration
of nearly 1,500 children affected by
armed forces by providing funds received
through donor contributions.
• Supported and funded the North
Sudan DDR Commission to carry out a
pilot project in which 102 WAAFG and
women with disabilities were registered,
provided with reinsertion support and
commenced reintegration.
• Assisted the pre-registration
of Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the
Sudan People’s Liberation Army
(SPLA) through technical advice and
financial contributions to the Northern
and Southern Sudan DDR Commissions.
SAF has pre-registered 25,870 combatants
and associated groups in the north and
the SPLA has presented a list of 25,021
combatants and associated groups to
be pre-registered.
• Conducted three workshops for
potential DDR implementing partners
on gender, sexual and gender-based violence
amongst WAAFG and female combatants
in Southern Sudan.
• Funded community security mapping
carried out by the North Sudan DDR Commission
in Khartoum, Blue Nile, South Kordofan
and Kassala.
• Funded community security projects
in Jonglei, Lakes and Warrap States
and provided logistical support to civilian
disarmament initiatives which to date
have managed to collect and destroy
2,406 weapons.
• As part of support to security
reforms and demobilization needs, a
reintegration opportunities mapping
exercise was conducted in February 2008,
in which livelihood opportunities were
assessed and costed in order to inform
reintegration planning and budgeting.
• WAAFG and disabled ex-combatants
participating in reintegration pilot
projects in Khartoum State began receiving
reintegration training and packages
in February 2008. The projects focus
on vocational training and micro-enterprise.
• The Ru’ya project identified
and verified WAAFG in Southern Kordofan
state and was completed in February
with the release of 150 forms that were
being held in Julud locality.
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