This article offers a qualitative approach that gives central attention to the dynamics of peace organisations and the way conflict is experienced in the everyday life of local people. It analyses the case of one local women’s peace organisation: the ‘Sudanese Women’s Voice for Peace’. Link to publication
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This municipal assessment of Juba of 2005 examines greater Juba’s planning priorities, options, and opportunities, conducted an analysis of the current municipal administrative structure and existing records pertaining to land transactions and town planning, and examined existing governmental capacity to manage land, housing, building, and planning in a period of rapid change. Download
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
Draft transcript of presentation by John Ryle held in Neuchatel, Switzerland, April 14-16, 2005.
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
The Sudan Joint Assessment Mission (JAM) (2005) was carried out jointly by the World Bank and the United Nations, with the full endorsement, guidance and participation of the Government of Sudan (GOS) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM). Through a joint process with Sudanese counterparts, the JAM has looked at eight thematic areas (institutional development; rule of law; economic policy; productive sectors; basic social services; infrastructure; livelihoods and social protection; and information and media),…
The Sudan Joint Assessment Mission (JAM) (2005) was carried out jointly by the World Bank and the United Nations, with the full endorsement, guidance and participation of the Government of Sudan (GOS) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM). Through a joint process with Sudanese counterparts, the JAM has looked at eight thematic areas (institutional development; rule of law; economic policy; productive sectors; basic social services; infrastructure; livelihoods and social protection; and information and media),…
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…
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
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