This case study provides an overview of research actors, knowledge producers and consumers in South Sudan. It provides entry points for research funders to strengthen the research sector in South Sudan and the exchange between science and policy for sustainable development. In order for the South Sudan knowledge ecosystem to turn into a more enabling environment, structural and financial inputs are needed: Predictable and long-term funding hubs or start-up grants could be created, which target…
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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 article analyses the teaching and learning of South Sudan history from 1955–2005 in secondary schools in South Sudan with a specific focus on national unity. The article argues that the national narrative of South Sudan is still closely tied to enemy images of the former enemy of Sudan in the north, while internal ethnic tensions are suppressed and excluded from the official national narrative taught in the classroom. Download
This report provides data around education in South Sudan and describes some of the major challenges and opportunities for education sector strategies. Download
Victims of warfare, famine, slavery, and isolation, the Southern Sudanese are one of the most undereducated populations in the world. Since the inception of formal education in southern Sudan a century ago, schooling has largely consisted of island-like entities surrounded by oceans of educational emptiness. Islands of Education is the first book to comprehensively examine this harrowing educational reality. The most recent civil war in southern Sudan raged unrelentingly for 21 years and left approximately…
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