This report provides insights into the food security situation of South Sudan in 2014 and 2015. It also helps to project future trends in food security. Download
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This article explains political events in South Sudan since 2011 through the lens of a political marketplace. Link to publication
This paper evaluates the extent to which the environmental provisions of the South Sudanese Petroleum Act (2012) have been enforced, and attempts to identify the gaps and challenges facing the implementation. To determine the level of enforcement, the Sudd Institute conducted structured interviews with key officials from the ministries of Environment and Petroleum and Mining and Nile Petroleum Corporation.
Reports from the “Making Sense of Turbulent Contexts” workshop, Making Sense of Turbulent Contexts is a World Vision developed set of tools to assist participants from across a national community to conduct a macro level analysis of their own context. South Sudan is one case study. Download
This paper is based on a preliminary exploration of local representation in the Bor County Land Authority (CLA) in South Sudan. CLAs were set up with the mandate to represent rural communities and incorporate local concerns in land matters. The study explored the means of CLA authorization, communicative interactions, and the extent of downward accountability. Download
This report looks forward from January 2015 to quantify the economic costs that would be incurred by South Sudan, other countries in the neighbouring region, and the wider international community, should the conflict continue. Download
As South Sudan emerges from the immediate aftermath of conflict, the task of strengthening government capability, particularly in the core civil service, will be essential to facilitating economic development and ensuring the basic social services the population needs to construct the new country’s future. This note brings an outside perspective to those challenges. It identifies key short-and medium- term bottlenecks to building civil service capacity and, drawing on experience with similar problems elsewhere, raises policy…
A remarkably comprehensive examination of the politics, history and economic development of contemporary South Sudan. In 2011, South Sudan became independent following a long war of liberation, that gradually became marked by looting, raids and massacres pitting ethnic communities against each other. In this remarkably comprehensive work, Edward Thomas provides a multi-layered examination of what is happening in the country today. Writing from the perspective of South Sudan’s most mutinous hinterland, Jonglei state, the book…
This meeting report is the record of an event on South Sudan: Beyond the ceasefire held on 27 February 2015 by the Rift Valley Institute Nairobi Forum. It refers to different key conflict dynamics such as power struggles, lack of accountability and patronage.
This report includes a summary of bilateral discussions with South Sudanese officials on economic developments and policies. The discussions were conducted in a context affected by different challenges including armed conflict, fractured politics, feeble institutions and capacity, underdevelopment, corruption, and an economic crisis. The report also includes a number of recommendations. Download
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