This paper aims to shed light on opportunities and challenges of the implementation of the humanitarian, development, and peace (HDP) nexus in South Sudan, and particularly investigating how localisation can be embedded in the HDP nexus in line with a decolonial perspective. This is achieved by identifying the origins of the HDP nexus in South Sudan as a top-down and largely state-centric effort, moving onto a problematisation of the localisation agenda both within UN-led implementations of the HDP nexus as well as within programmes led by international, national, and local organisations. In so doing, the paper finds that localisation remains rather limited in South Sudan, and often translates only to a transfer of funds which reproduce power imbalances and prevents equal partnerships and distribution of funds among international, national, and local efforts.

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