This article (2007) argues that any intervention is necessarily a political event and it supports this contention with an examination of assistance in Sudan in general and Darfur in particular. In describing the way in which donating states concentrated on the settlement between Khartoum and South Sudan to the detriment of intervention in Darfur in time to forestall massive human slaughter, the authors are pointing to political failure. Link to publication
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The World Food Programme has been providing humanitarian food assistance to vulnerable communities and groups in Southern Sudan for over twenty years, but circumstances have changed following the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in January 2005. The Feinstein International Center undertook this review of programs in Southern Sudan in 2006 to help WFP Sudan make the needed changes to adapt to these new circumstances. Download
Drawing on research from Southern Sudan, this article (2006) explores how aid organizations construct an official version of events that fabricates clarity whilst maintaining a degree of tactical confusion. This establishes a political morality, a seemingly ethical position that has political and psychological returns. Link to publication
This report discusses the shortfalls in the concepts, practices and programming approaches upon which the international community based its support for the development of the security and justice sector in South Sudan between 1983 and 2013. It is based on the author’s work on justice- and security-related programming in South Sudan from 2010 until 2013 and research carried out in South Sudan in 2014. Download
This report on gender-based violence calls for donor, international policy makers and service delivery organizations to prioritize efforts to tackle gender-based violence within a multi-sectoral, three tiered strategy: need for legal, judicial, police, health response, etc. Download
This case study examines how alternative approaches to rinderpest eradication evolved in the complex emergency context of southern Sudan. The researchers also explore how initial experiences informed the establishment of a large scale community based animal health worker (CAHW) system. Although the case study is limited to experiences in southern Sudan, these findings have implications for UN interventions in other complex emergencies in Africa and elsewhere. Among other findings, the authors report that: The existing…
This article (2005) explores local government structure and practices in SPLM/A held areas in Southern Sudan. Doing this it refers to the challenges of distributing land and foreign aid. The article focusses on the Equatoria region and on ethnic politics in Central Equatoria during the past civil war. Link to publication
The aim of this chapter is to cast an anthropological eye over the issues of local knowledge, famine relief, and development theory, using the case of southern Sudan to reveal structural weaknesses in the ways local people are seen and represented in conventional development discourse. Information produced by anthropologists has often been praised but subsequently ignored by development practitioners (Saleem-Murdock 1990). Anthropologists have done little to resist being pushed aside on matters of policy as…
This memorandum addresses a cross-cutting theme from the World Bank Sudan workshop: the information environment in Sudan. It outlines the need for an improved base of economic and socio-political knowledge, one that would be available to donors and implementing agencies, to governing authorities in north and south Sudan and to the Sudanese public. Download
This case study, one of five, is part of a research project by the Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) on the assessment of humanitarian needs. The focus of the study is the international system, exploring the link between needs assessment and decision-making (by agencies and donors) about response and resource allocation, with a specific focus on the food and health sectors. The underlying concern is with global funding disparities: levels of funding do not seem to…
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