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| Fast Facts: |
• Project
Document
• Annex |
| Location: |
Khartoum |
| Duration: |
January 2005 - December 2008 |
| Focus
area: |
Addressing
the MDGs and Reducing Human Poverty
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| Donors: |
Netherlands,
UK’s Department for International
Development, The European Commission,
UNDP. |
| Total
Funds Available: |
US
$ 1,600,480.07 |
| Partners: |
Ministry
of International Cooperation,
Ministry of Finance,
Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs are
the key partner with other 23
line ministries |
| Delivery
for 2007:
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US
$ 473,521.01 |
| Contact
person in UNDP: |
Musa
Ibrahim, Programme Officer,
Musa.ibrahim@undp.org
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Background
Sudan, the largest country in Africa,
is endowed with vast natural resources
with enormous development potential.
Between 1995 and 2004 the economic growth
averaged 7%, double the sub-Saharan
Africa average. However, in addition
to the widespread human suffering, and
the heavy financial cost, over two-decades
of war have worsened the deep-seated
structural and geographical disparities,
limited the governance capacities and
isolated the country, depriving it of
development assistance.
The signing of the Comprehensive Peace
Agreement (CPA) offered the opportunity
for an important structural change in
Sudan, with increased democratic governance,
wealth sharing and decentralization,
and greater social inclusion, ensuring
a participatory recovery process and
equitable distribution of benefits.
It also brought about a renewed engagement
between Sudan and the international
community, leading to a substantial
inflow of funds to be utilized strategically,
efficiently and equitably to help lay
the foundations for sustainable growth
and recovery.
In January 2005, with the support of
the European Commission, the Netherlands,
and the UK’s Department for International
Development (DFID), UNDP launched the
Capacity Development for Aid Management
and Co-ordination project involving
all national and foreign aid partners.
The project aims to foster a strong
partnership among all partners by linking
the government, UN agencies, and donor
countries through aid alignment and
reporting strategies. The project is
based in the Ministry of International
Cooperation. Other key partners include
the Ministry of Finance and National
Economy, Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs,
and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
(MFA). Relationships are also developed
with several other Ministries through
the establishment of focal points.
This project centrally supports the
Ministry of International Cooperation
(MIC) in its mandate to coordinate external
assistance and to facilitate aid planning,
monitoring and evaluation mechanisms
in line with the Joint Assessment Mission
(JAM), Results Framework for Sudan and
localized Millennium Development Goals.
The Aid Management and Coordination
Unit (AMCU) in MIC is supported through
the project with technical assistance
and resource provisions. The Unit reports
directly to the Undersecretary, and
is tasked with implementing aid management
activities in line with the Paris Declaration
on Aid Effectiveness, to which Sudan
became a signatory in 2006. To establish
the effective reporting of aid flows,
support has been provided to AMCU to
establish and enhance the Sudan Information
Aid Database (SAID) as well as links
with key donors and stakeholders in
Sudan.
Objectives
The main objective of the project is
to lay the foundation of a Government-led
and results-based aid management system
that handles external humanitarian and
development resources in a transparent
and accountable manner, in line with
agreed national priorities. In a broader
sense, the project aims is to ensure
that Official Development Assistance
(ODA) contributes effectively and efficiently
to national reconstruction, poverty
eradication and conflict prevention
in the Sudan.
The specific objectives are as follows:
• To enhance the aid planning
and management and
co- ordination
capacity of Sudanese authorities
• To build the government-donor
aid information and communication
system.
• To integrate aid planning and
decision making processes within
a sound resource management system.
The project supports the existing initiatives
of UNDP and Multi Donor Trust Funds
(MDTF) aiming at developing pro-poor
strategic planning, implementation,
monitoring and evaluation capacities
in public administration at all levels.
Snapshots of the project's major achievements
• Completed assessment of the
Ministry of International Cooperation’s
(MIC) training needs in English language
and computer literacy for grades 4,
5, 7, 8, and 9.
• 65 MIC staff received Basic
Computer training courses and 28 MIC
staff received Intermediate Computer
training course.
• 53 Government staff attended
short training courses on Project Cycle
Management and Project Monitoring and
Evaluation.
• Developed the Sudan Aid Information
Database (SAID) and tested with sample
data from development partners and donors
countries.
• Established a Task Force with
Ministry of International Cooperation,
Ministry of Finance and National Economy,
and the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs
to agree on aid coordination responsibilities
in Sudan.
•Prepared assessments of the aid
management system in Khartoum State,
North and South Kordofan.
• In support of improving Aid
coordination and management, the project
team enhanced the reporting capabilities
of Sudan Aid Information Database (SAID)
by starting work on the system de-bugging
to improve its storage capacity and
presentation of the results of the 2008
Paris Declaration survey .Geo-maps were
also added to enable the system to report
ODA distribution by States.
• The Paris Declaration Survey
2008 was jointly implemented in Sudan
by the Aid Management and Coordination
Units of the Ministry of International
Cooperation (MIC), the Ministry of Finance
and National Economy (MoFNE) of the
GoSS with support from UNDP at the National
level and the Donor Coordination Office
in Southern Sudan. As a result,a total
of 12 bi-lateral donors, 4 UN Agencies,
1 IFI, 1 regional donor (EC) and 2 other
organisations participated in Sudan’s
survey.
• The draft results were formulated
and submitted to the OECD on 31st March
2008 for further analysis and preparation
of a draft chapter covering the country
for inclusion in the report to the High
Level Forum meeting on Aid Effectiveness
to be held in Accra, Ghana during September
2008.
• In developing “The draft
Aid Strategy” for GoNU to improve
aid effectiveness in Sudan in line with
the Paris Declaration Indicators and
benchmarks; the project developed data
collection tools and shared it with
development partners in Sudan who were
formally approached and requested to
provide ODA data for 2005-2007 and their
planned assistance for 2008-2009 for
Sudan.
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