This report examines drivers of conflict in the North- South border areas of Sudan and current initiatives aimed at managing them. Download
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Renewing the pledge is a publication by a coalition of 26 NGOs including Global Witness from Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the US. The report calls for urgent action from the African heads of state who met shortly after publishing this document at a major summit of the African Union in Uganda from 19-27 July 2010. Ahead of the summit, international Sudan envoys met in Khartoum on 17 July 2010. Download
This report analyzes and estimates the revenue potential for state and local governments in Southern Sudan by surveying two of the ten states (Central Equatoria and Lakes) and selected counties in each state. Download
This report (2010) makes a capacity analysis of the Government of South Sudan based on reviewing several capacity building providers, including universities and implementers and based on a literature review and interviews with GoSS officials. Download
This report takes a critical look at the first, ongoing phase of the DDR process in Southern Sudan, and specifically at the reintegration component. It also looks at the feasibility of social and economic reintegration, considering both the socio-economic context and the specific social composition of the first group of ex-combatants to be reintegrated. Download
In the light of the upcoming referendum, this report (2010) looks at the political interests of regional states and how they ould/should respond to the possibility of South Sudan’s independence. Download
Although the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) of January 2005 formally ended the war between the Government of Sudan (GoS) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A), internal security has remained a major problem for the fledgling southern government. Indeed, internal conflict, rather than the prospect of a return to war between the north and south, poses the biggest threat to the holding of the CPA-stipulated national election in April 2010, the referendum on southern self-determination…
A guide to Sudan’s electoral system – one of the most complex in the world – and its effects on the distribution of power. The report analyses government documents to reveal errors and ambiguities in the demarcation of electoral districts, and warns of the challenge these pose to the conduct of elections in April 2010.
This report asserts that the Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) emerged after the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) with an unprecedented amount of revenue, derived from oil, for a young government after a 20 year civil war. GoSS faced the challenge associated with dependence on natural resource revenue/rents along with little financial management or service delivery experience. Download
This report from 2010 provides a contextual background and discusses some of the challenges of the post-referendum period. Download
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