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Lessons for a System Under Pressure: What ten years of conflict sensitivity work tells us about the future of aid in South Sudan

The Conflict Sensitivity Resource Facility (CSRF) is celebrating 10 years since its establishment in 2016 - at a moment when the aid sector in South Sudan is facing unprecedented challenges to its funding, principles, credibility and vision. This paper argues that, in this moment, radical changes are possible for transformation and reinvention of the aid sector.

CSRF Analysis: Sudan-South Sudan Frontier - Navigating Conflict Impacts on Communities and Aid

This report examines how the war in Sudan, and especially the RSF consolidation in Kordofan, is reshaping South Sudan’s borderlands. While cross-border conflict may be reduced for the time being, recent developments have impoverished communities, deepened militarisation, and strengthened elite control over trade and land. These dynamics are driving greater everyday insecurity, including sexual and gender-based violence, fuelling conflict over internal borders, and laying the foundations for future local and strategic confrontation.

CSRF Research: Lessons from South Sudanese mutual aid

This research piece examines South Sudanese mutual aid against the backdrop of shrinking international funding for humanitarian aid to the country and its communities. This report reveals a robust, deeply rooted ecosystem of community-led responses, with women and youth playing prominent roles. Moreover, it recommends the adoption a national policy that recognises these mutual aid initiatives, as well as provides policy guidance to formal aid actors to forge supportive partnerships with mutual aid groups.

CSRF Analysis: Youth and Green Transition in South Sudan

This analysis was a collaboration between the Likikiri Collective and the Conflict Sensitivity Resource Facility (CSRF), and was accompanied by a creative methods workshop with 25 youth in Juba. It explores how young people understand and engage with the green transition in the country. The analysis highlights the need for inclusive, youth-centered, and culturally rooted approaches to advancing the green transition in South Sudan.

Supporting the use of conflict sensitivity in donor strategies and programmes in South Sudan. SINCE 2016

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From humanitarian response to conservation investment: whose conservation, whose development in South Sudan?

Bird view over Juba looking southward onto Juba Bypass

Juba must plant trees or continue to sweat! A conflict sensitivity lens to Juba’s heat crisis

Wani James Henry

Localisation in Conflict: Untangling Misconceptions and Reclaiming Local Leadership in South Sudan