This report investigates the 1998 food crisis in Sudan and reveals how the fault lies primarily with Sudanese government and militias and opposition forces that precipitated the famine and deliberately diverted or looted food from the starving or blocked relief deliveries. Download
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Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS) seeks to integrate humanitarian principles and the protection of civilians within its mandate and operations. This paper details the ways in which these laws and principles were promoted through negotiation, advocacy, dissemination and training and the monitoring and follow-up of violations and abuses. It seeks to distil specific lessons from working with armed opposition movements, as distinct from sovereign governments, in particular the concern of humanitarian agencies that they may provide…
The author’s experience of information collection and analysis in the Bahr-el-Ghazal region of south Sudan is reflected on here. The paper suggests that existing strategies of needs assessment are often based on misunderstandings about the cultural, social and economic conditions of war-affected communities. Furthermore, the needs assessment process has taken on a life of its own: for the intended beneficiaries it is often a wearying experience, but one which can yield benefits if the ‘correct’…
This report reviews Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS), with a particular focus on the relationship between OLS’s creation of humanitarian space, and the flow of assistance to war-affected populations. It sets out to assess and analyse the effectiveness of the OLS modus operandi in meeting the needs of war-affected civilians. Download
This report reviews Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS), with a particular focus on the relationship between OLS’s creation of humanitarian space, and the flow of assistance to war-affected populations. It sets out to assess and analyse the effectiveness of the OLS modus operandi in meeting the needs of war-affected civilians.
In March 1989, the international community launched a major relief effort to help civilians suffering needlessly from food deprivation in the Sudan’s bloody civil war. It was an uphill battle from the start: against the rains, against political sabotage, against recurrent ward and famine. Operation Lifeline Sudan was a massive international relief effort which helped stave off disaster. Its success was due in large part to the agreement of the warring parties, the determination of…
Most of the people who start to work for relief agencies in Africa have not bad previous experience of knowingly contributing to the suffering and death of a large number of people. Relief agencies do not tend to attract people who have this sort of experience, and they do not include it in their job descriptions when recruiting. Yet the disturbing activity of voluntarily being unpleasant to strangers is one of the most frequent activities…
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