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,…
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CSRF Research Repository
The CSRF Research Repository aims to support greater contextual knowledge for policy makers, programme managers, and implementers by providing a searchable repository of research, analysis, and resources, and providing periodic updates on new research and analysis.
This briefing paper focuses on the politics of violence in South Sudan. It examines the factors that led to the delay of the December 2024 elections among other development in the country. Looking at the role of Tumaini Peace in the Revitalised Agreement on the Resolution of Conflict in South Sudan (R-ARCSS) and the effects of the war in Sudan on politics in Juba and the violence occurring across the country, the paper finds the…
This paper focuses on the political economy of charcoal production in South Sudan, with the focus on its value chain. The paper identified a wide range of actors who dominate the political economy of charcoal, including producers, transporters, the public and defense sector financiers, landlords, brokers and security providers. The report highlights the current debate over the value, commodification and sale of forests, and it provides nuance understanding of the political economy of charcoal making…
This report examines the application of pathway approaches to climate adaptation in conflict-affected and development contexts, such as Lebanon and South Sudan. The report found that the application of pathways for intervention design and implementation is quite limited. This report recommends the use of the decision pathway among humanitarian, security, and development stakeholders to design a long-term response to the challenges of climate, conflict, and displacement. Read more here
This research builds on the hypothesis that individuals working in the “fields” of humanitarian, development and peace engagement have personal attitudes, and hopes, doubts, needs, motivations, fears, concerns, thoughts, and questions with regards to the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus (HDP Nexus), and that understanding and addressing these can assist in a meaningful course of action for the future of the HDP Nexus approach. The thesis then offers an overview of the available literature on the theoretical /…
Using the cases of South Sudan and Myanmar, this brief reflects on the impact of aid cuts on conflict sensitivity, and provides recommendations to donors, implementing organisations, and policymakers. Particularly, the report considers different key elements of conflict sensitive programming, including conflict analysis, implementation, partnership, inter-agency collaboration.
Through the case study of Juba City, this report assesses the perceptions of basic service delivery among displaced persons, returnees, refugees, and host communities. The report found varied perceptions among these groups. While all the groups considered security as their top priority, they differed in other services, with the host and IDPs ranking transportation as their top priorities, and IDPs and returnees opting for parks. The report suggests that humanitarian agencies should collaborate with city…
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…
This article examines the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development’s (GAD’s) mediation in South Sudan. Focusing on the elements of liberal peace and alternative rationalised approaches, the article identifies discrepancies between the two approaches in IGAD’s mediation strategies. It also provides recommendations on how Africa’s regional bodies and mechanisms, such as IGAD, can re-evaluate its peace theory and practice, including considerations on the effectiveness of the declining liberal peace paradigm. Read more here
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