This report is based on field research on acceptance as an approach to NGO security management in South Sudan. The research team explored three areas of an acceptance approach to security management: (1) how organizations gain and maintain acceptance, (2) how organizations assess and monitor the presence and degree of acceptance, and (3) how organizations determine whether acceptance is effective. Download
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This chapter summarizes the findings of the 2011 Fragile States Principles Monitoring Survey and the 2011 Survey on Monitoring the Paris Declaration in South Sudan, which are supported by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Download
The politicisation of aid has made helping others increasingly dangerous. The fortified aid compound is now ubiquitous throughout the global borderland. It has become the signature architecture, for example, of the UN integrated mission. In examining these developments, the paper first looks at the potential for UN field-security training to normalise risk-aversion and the necessity, even desirability, of defensive living. Using the example of Sudan, the wider implications of aid bunkering, including its overlaps with…
This report examines the international community’s efforts to support conflict mitigation and peacebuilding from 2005 to 1010. The evaluation throws light on the ways in which donors’ policies, funding strategies, and structures have been motivated and shaped by the challenges posed by the political and operational environment in Southern Sudan. Download
Starting from a discussion of the development programmes for South Sudan of the regional Government of South Sudan (GOSS) and the international aid agencies, this book chapter looks into the roles of the two parties in the governance of the services and development-related sectors in South Sudan. A historical approach is applied in order to assess changes in the relationship between aid agencies and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) in the liberated areas, on…
Case-study of the NGO cooperative efforts in Sudan, in particular after the CPA. Download
In this opinion piece Sara Pantuliano critically reflects on lessons from Southern Sudan on international engagement in fragile states. Download
During Southern Sudan’s second period of civil war, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) provided almost all of the region’s public services and greatly influenced local administration. Refugee movements, inadequate infrastructures, food shortages, accountability issues, disputes and other difficulties overwhelmed both the agencies and newly developed civil authorities. Blurred distinctions between political and humanitarian activities resulted, as demonstrated in a controversy surrounding a 2004 distribution of relief food in Central Equatoria State. Based on analysis of documents, correspondence…
The report (2009) examines three interconnected issues: reintegration, the role of food assistance in supporting reintegration and concerns about dependency on food aid in Southern Sudan.
Based on interviews conducted with policy designers, practitioners, local people and chiefs at three sites in Southern Sudan in 2007, this article calls for a rethinking of donor-supported justice and police development and advocates an approach that recognizes the importance of local justice. Link to publication
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