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| Fast
Facts: |
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• Project
Document |
| Location: |
All
the 10 Sates capital towns except
Juba and including Yei |
| Duration: |
July
2007 - June 2008 |
| Focus
area: |
Crisis
Prevention and Recovery |
| Donors: |
Multi
Donor Trust Fund,
Government of Southern Sudan |
| Total
budget: |
US$
11,620,200 |
| Partners: |
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| Delivery
for 2007:
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US$
330,000 |
| Contact
person in UNDP: |
Fitsum
Abraha, Head of Crisis Prevention
and Recovery Unit
fitsum.abraha@undp.org
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Background
On January 9th, 2005, the Comprehensive
Peace Agreement (CPA) was signed between
the Government of Sudan (GoS) and the
Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army
(SPLM/A). The civil war has had a devastating
toll in terms of loss of human life,
displacement, and destruction of infrastructure
and social fabric. Now the people’s
expectations for better lives are high
and there is an historic opportunity
to overcome the devastation of war and
the neglect of human development in
policies and programmes, and on this
basis address the potential for renewed
tensions throughout the country. This
opportunity comes with substantial domestically-generated
oil revenues as well as the expectation
of increased donors’ assistance
and international support.
The Joint Needs Assessment carried
out by the World Bank and the UN led
to the formulation of a Framework
for Sustained Peace and Development
and Poverty Eradication and identified
many challenges that required support
by domestic efforts and the resources
of development partners.
The overall financing needs amounted
to US$ 7.9 billion (US$ 4.3 billion
for the north and US$ 3.6 billion
for the south). Two Multi-Donor Trust
Funds (MDTF) were established, one
each to support the reconstruction,
capacity building, and policy framework
activities for the Government of National
Unity (GoNU) and Government of Southern
Sudan (GoSS). A Technical Secretariat,
managed by the World Bank, has been
established to provide technical support
and assume fiduciary responsibilities
for each MDTF.
As part of this initiative, UNDP
commenced activities on the Rapid
Impact Emergency in Southern Sudan
project in Southern.
Objectives
The project’s main objective is
to increase the quality of basic services
in Southern Sudan and build the capacity
of local organizations as well as communities.
Outputs:
• Provide basic services to urban
populations, while generating temporary
employment for the communities in the
10 states in Southern Sudan over the
next 12 months.
• Increase community awareness
on the issue of the provision of basic
services.
Priorities for 2007
• UN Resident Coordinator Offices
(RCO) to form various stakeholders committees,
such as Local Steering Committee (LSU),
Local Implementation Unit (LIU) and
Technical review units in each state.
• Select the project implementation
agency or consortium for each of the
10 states.
• State committees, in collaboration
with communities, to select various
labour-intensive basic services projects.
• The selected project implementation
agency to sign sub-contracts and to
begin the project implementation.
• Disbursement of funds to the
project implementation agencies for
timely initiation of the project activities.
• The selected project implementation
agency to develop and disseminate materials
for increasing community awareness on
the issue of the provision of basic
services.
• Monitoring and evaluation of
project activities to be undertaken.
Priorities for 2008
• To monitor
the progress of project implementation
to ensure its timely completion in all
the states.
• Continue monitoring and evaluation
of the project.
• Disbursement of funds to the
project implementation agencies for
timely completion of the project.
• Continue dissemination of materials
for increasing community awareness on
the issue of the provision of basic
services.
• To organize mid-term and final
evaluation of the project by independent
evaluation consulting teams or firms.
• Activities of implementing partners
to be audited as per UNDP audit rules
and regulations.
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