South Sudan’s wildlife conservation sector has only recently come to prominence, with new evidence of species, including the largest mammalian migration on the planet, raising some of the country’s National Parks and Game Reserves to Key Biodiversity Area status. Conservation has been a late starter, due in large part to the country’s more visible needs relating to basic human requirements, political stability and lasting resolution to seven decades of recycling civil wars and armed conflicts….
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Wildlife conservation and land management knowledge and practices are deeply enshrined in the socio-cultural and economic life of South Sudanese communities that live around wildlife areas. Some of these indigenous conservation practices have been eroded by crises, climatic hazards and small arms proliferation, which drive and enable greater reliance on wildlife as a source of food and livelihoods. Yet, communities still retain important knowledge, values and cultures around wildlife that could be crucial resources for…
South Sudan has a diverse private sector, from sole traders and producers working in rural and urban markets to small and large local, national and international companies with different scales of investment. Both the private and aid sectors have shaped, and been shaped by the new national economy that has emerged directly out of the massive state-building projects, extractives industries, and aid investments of the 2000s, as detailed below. There are many challenges for the…
Focusing on Kenya’s Kakuma Refugee Camp, which hosts thousands of South Sudanese refugees, the report explores how refugees adapt their livelihoods amid the dwindling of food rations and limited opportunities for employment. The report found cultivating crops near the seasonal lake as the last resort due to refugees’ structural vulnerabilities and international neglect, and highlights risks associated with such a livelihood adaptation strategy. To address this problem in a more sustainable way, the report recommends…
Using the case study of Northern Bar El Ghazel (NBG) State, this report assesses the extent to which displaced and returnee households are reintegrated and whether the area’s infrastructure and services can accommodate more returnees. The report finds that the area is relatively safe, but it’s marred by isolated security incidents, land disputes, food insecurity, and shortage of shelter, and limited services, including security, health, and education. The report provides some recommendations on how to…
This research report examines Murle women’s methods of self-expression. The report considers how Murle women use song, dance, hairstyles, body marks, and beads to communicate their needs, and priorities in past, present, and future, both in rural and urban areas. These styles of communication seem to also be determined by age set, time evolution, and borrowed from neighboring communities. The report provides insights on how humanitarian agencies, government, and academics should consider learning about the…
Based on assessment conducted in displacement sites in Sobat River corridor in April 2024, this report provides a situation overview in Longochuk, Nasir and Ulang counties. The report found the devastating impact of the airstrikes and violent clashes, resulting in the displacement of 80,000 people in the three counties, with about of a quarter of population fleeing into Gambella, Ethiopia. The trend of displacement has also had a negative impact on disease outbreaks, including diarrhea,…
As donor aid is shrinking, the importance of social protection is growing, with more focus on how the most vulnerable members of communities can survive. The purpose of this research is to analyse how humanitarian aid-based social protection interacts with community-based social protection, and the conflict sensitivity risks involved. The CSRF team conducted focus group discussions (FGDs) and individual key informant interviews (KIIs) with representatives of I/NGOs, community, local authority, church, traders, among others in…
Focusing on the Ethiopia-Sudan borderlands, this article aims at unpacking the dynamics underlying agricultural commodity production in the area. One of the main findings is the reliance on migrant labour and cycle of exploitation, enabled by a number of dynamics: land grabs, landlessness, conflict, climate change, etc. These cycles of exploitation are not only found in migrant or seasonal migrant workers, with families and local communities also subject to it. As this article uncovers the…
The report examines how individuals, communities and public authorities use protection practices during times of conflict. Using the case study of Leer and Bor, the report found some groups’ protection strategies, which are drawn from their long-standing experiences of navigating safety in a challenging context, knowledge of local landscapes, armed actors, norms of restraints and violence and the like. Finally, the report offers entry points on how humanitarian interventions can enhance realistic prospects of positive…
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