The complexity
and the breadth of Sudan’s security,
political and socio-economic situation
poses immense challenges to recovery
and development. This calls for the
deployment of effective strategic
planning tools that assist actors
in identifying and prioritizing interventions
that can enhance peace and stability.
Coordination is a key aspects of crisis
and recovery responses, and UNDP,
as a lead agency for early recovery
and host of the RCO, has a key role
to play in assuring effective coordination
support.
The Crisis and Recovery Mapping and
Analysis (CRMA) project responds to
this urgent need by working with key
international actors, government and
community actors across Sudan’s
conflict-affected areas with a view
to enhance coordination and prioritsation
through three interconnected mechanisms:
1. Establishment of an Information
Management Working Group (IMWG);
2. State and community-level participatory
mapping and analysis;
3. Establishment of an information
management platform.
The project was launched in December
2007 by UNDP in partnership with the
UK's Department for International
Development (DFID). Phase I was completed
in 2010 and Phase II is planned for
2011 - 2012. The project’s core
donors are DFID and the Bureau for
Crisis Prevention and Recovery (BCPR)
of UNDP.
The CRMA project takes a state-by-state
approach, and works collaboratively
with all UN agencies, (I)NGOs and
National counterparts to systematically
identify, geo-reference, digitize
and consolidate existing baseline
information relevant for recovery
and development activities. This way,
it helps provide a common platform
for information management, that facilitates
the identification of critical data
correlations and the display of potential
inter-linkages among cross-cutting
threats and risks.
CRMA also supports the development
of a State Government-led needs and
risks assessment framework to help
prioritize targeted programmatic responses
and interventions, based on context-specific
evidence.
Objectives
• National level Sudan Conflict
Management Advisory Group (SCMAG)
established and providing inputs into
national policy for conflict management
and support for the implementation
of CPA, ESPA and Darfur peace process;
• Gender sensitive security
threat and socio-economic risk mapping
completed in key States in Northern
and Southern Sudan and results incorporated
into State level development planning;
• National capacities conflict
management, analysis and mapping of
security threats and socio-economic
risks enhanced;
• UNDP capacity for crisis sensitive
recovery and development programming
enhanced and sustainably supported.
Snapshots of the project's major achievements
in Phase I
• The Information Management
Working Group (IMWG), of the UNCT,
was established in Khartoum, Darfur
and Juba –the first of its kind
at country level. This group developed
a formal information-sharing platform
and provides all recovery and development
actors with a common basic package
of available and relevant information
for their individual analysis, planning
and programming efforts.
• Participatory workshops to
map local development needs for conflict
sensitive programming have taken place
in almost each locality throughout
the six most conflict affected states
of North Sudan. A total of 44 workshops
were held in South Kordofan, Blue
Nile, Abyei, Gedaref, Kassala and
Red Sea States and attracting 1240
participants. Similarly in South Sudan,
7 states have been covered at state
level and 3 at county level. Attendees
were mainly from the local and state
level administration, religious leadership
and civil society. Through these workshops
participants were given the opportunity
to discuss issues that they perceive
as key challenges to the sustainable
recovery of their communities from
crisis and to prioritize target areas
for intervention. As a result of this
information gathering and consultative
process, over 10 000 data inputs were
collected and approximately 1500 new
villages were mapped;
• Key findings of the project's
mapping and analysis process with
the state governments constitute the
foundation for the development of
an integrated recovery and development
programming framework for the UNDP,
state government and other development
partners, through the production of
State Situation Analyses and related
reviews of State Strategic Plans;
• DB/GIS network support tools
developed and rolled-out to all IMWG
members, as well as East and Three
Areas state focal points;
• Support to RCSO with roll-out
of 4Ws tool with at least 150 people
trained, from state governments, UN
agencies and (I)NGOs in Kassala, Red
Sea, Blue Nile and Southern Kordofan
States;
• Support to recovery and development
planning processes and project developments
through regional programming frameworks,
donor conferences, government initiatives
and UN agencies;
• State Information and Knowledge
Management system diagnosis and enhancement
plan completed for Southern Kordofan
and Kassala states on which capacity
development efforts of Phase II will
be based.
Objectives
for Phase II
Component 1: Information and Knowledge
Management Capacity Enhancement Plan
• National knowledge management
capacities to support conflict sensitive
and evidence-based strategic planning
enhanced;
• National level Information
Management Working Group established
amongst UN missions, agencies, INGOs,
NNGOs and government actors and inputs
into national, regional and state
level policy and planning processes;
• UNDP capacity for crisis sensitive
recovery and development programming
enhanced and sustainably supported;
• Replication of CRMA toolkits
and methodologies supported.
Component 2: CRMA in Darfur
• National level Sudan Conflict
Management Advisory Group (SCMAG)
established and providing inputs into
national policy for conflict management
and support for the implementation
of peace processes and agreements;
• Crisis and Recovery risks
GIS mapping and analysis of key states
and results processed for incorporation
into state level development planning
when/if feasible;
• National capacities for conflict
management, analysis and mapping of
security threats and socioeconomic
risks enhanced;
• UNDP capacity for crisis sensitive
recovery and development programming
enhanced;
• Regional and State level Information
Management Working Groups established
amongst UN missions, agencies, INGOs,
NNGOs and government actors and inputs
into regional and state level policy
and planning processes provided.
Component 3: CRMA strategy in
Southern Sudan
• National capacities for information
management, analysis and mapping of
socioeconomic risks enhanced;
• Gender and age sensitive socioeconomic
risk mapping completed in all 10 states
and results incorporated into State
and GOSS level development planning;
• GOSS and UNDP capacities for
crisis sensitive recovery and development
programming enhanced and sustainably
supported.
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