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CSRF Meta-analysis: International Engagement
Trajectories of International Engagement with State and Local Actors: Evidence from South Sudan
External actors have been engaged in what is now South Sudan from the colonial era through to the present day, providing humanitarian and development assistance and exerting political pressure during and since the second civil war that has helped to protect people, legitimize the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A), broker the peace agreements leading to…
Read MoreSouth Sudan – Western Trade Corridor in Hyperinflation Times: Rapid Market Assessment in Northern Bahr El Ghazal and Warrap
The civil conflict in South Sudan is now entering in its fourth year. Exacerbated by a severe economic crisis, it has resulted in the worst humanitarian situation since independence. The South Sudan Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) technical working group has estimated that at the height of the 2017 lean season almost 5.5 million…
Read MoreHumanitarian Exchange: The Crisis in South Sudan
This collection of articles, brought together by the Humanitarian Practice Network at the Overseas Development Institute, shares information from field workers, managers and policymakers in the humanitarian sector in South Sudan.
Read MoreProspects for Peace and the UN Regional Protection Force in South Sudan
In this briefing, the authors argue that key assumptions underlying the Regional Protection Force mandate and current peace diplomacy do not reflect the political situation on the ground in South Sudan. The authors suggest that the major changes to South Sudan’s political terrain before and after the violence in July 2016 mean that the current…
Read MoreComplexities of service delivery and state-building
This briefing describes the findings from research carried out in several areas of South Sudan in the context of armed conflict and raiding. The findings show that despite state-building efforts, service delivery remained inadequate in remote areas and that the interface between service delivery and people’s perceptions of the state is complex. The authors recommend…
Read MoreKey lessons learned on international engagement
This briefing paper (2016) summarises shifts in international engagement in South Sudan from humanitarian aid to development and institution-building, and then back again to crisis response. This paper analyses why current aid frameworks have been mostly unsuccessful in their efforts to promote sustainable institutions and peace in South Sudan. The central argument is that aid…
Read MoreConflict in South Sudan and the Challenges Ahead
This desk research (2016) evaluates the ongoing armed conflict in terms of its humanitarian impact, human rights violations, the international response, and the future challenges (from a US perspective). Download
Read MoreImproving WASH Service Delivery in Protracted Crises: The Case of South Sudan
This report from 2016 analyses humanitarian and development water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) approaches in South Sudan, and considers how and why siloes have arisen between the two. To improve complementarity, it identifies a need for common principles for WASH in protracted crises. These common principles comprise a short set of pragmatic, mutually agreeable ways…
Read MoreBack to Square One: Fighting Resumes in South Sudan
This comment discusses some of the recent developments in South Sudan, since its civil war reached a new stage in July 2016. It summarizes some of the causes of conflict, and the political and economic challenges that will be faced in order to establish sustainable peace. Download
Read MoreTrajectories of International Engagement with State and Local Actors: Evidence from South Sudan
The paper traces shifts in international engagement and the implications of these shifts for understanding the trends in service provision specifically, and recovery and development more generally, in South Sudan. This analysis is intended to offer some direction for the future of international engagement in fragile and conflict-affected states around the objectives of service delivery…
Read MoreRelief and Rehabilitation Commission Act
South-Sudanes law concerned with relief and rehabilitation activities, defining the legal boundaries of the “Relief and Habilitation Commission”. Download
Read MoreFinal report of the Panel of Experts on South Sudan established pursuant to Security Council resolution 2206
This report from early 2016, composed by the UN Panel of Experts on South Sudan, provides a summary of the Panel’s investigations into the command responsibility within the belligerent parties to the war, details of the actions and policies resulting from command decisions and a description of the linkage to the criteria for sanctions designation…
Read MoreScenarios for South Sudan in 2020
This report about possible developments in South Sudan up to 2020 is based on a study by Jaïr van der Lijn of SIPRI, commissioned by PAX. The report presents different scenarios for South Sudan for 2020. Its purpose is to contribute to the debate on how to stimulate peace, security and development in South Sudan, and…
Read MoreHow the Use of Targeted Sanctions can Undermine Peace in South Sudan
This article argues that the use of targeted sanctions in the case of South Sudan’s current internal conflict (2013-2015) does not support but rather purport or, at worst, present a threat to sustainable peace. Download
Read MoreProtecting Some of the People Some of the Time
This report, the first of a three-part comparative study on peacekeeping across Africa, examines civilian perspectives of peacekeeping forces in South Sudan. It is not an assessment of the operations of UNMISS per se, but an analysis of UNMISS as seen by the civilians they are supposed to protect. Download
Read MoreFields of Control: Oil and (In)security in Sudan and South Sudan
This document reviews the historical linkages between oil and security in Sudan and South Sudan, and provides an overview of the key actors in the sector. After considering the security impact of the political and economic dimensions of oil production, it examines the more direct relationship between oil and violence, assessing the current situation within…
Read MoreWhen Peace is the Exception: Shifting the Donor Narrative in South Sudan
Reflection on past and forthcoming aid practices in South Sudan, as well as on the assumptions and ambitions that underpin them. Download
Read MoreEvaluation of the Common Humanitarian Fund: Global Synthesis Report
This evaluation, commissioned by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA), reviewed the status of the Common Humanitarian Funds (CHFs), including a country level report of South Sudan in 2015 Download
Read MoreQuestions and Challenges Raised by a Large-Scale Humanitarian Operation in South Sudan
This paper (2015) attempts to address the looming question of the unintended consequences of – and questions raised by – a renewed large-scale humanitarian operations in South Sudan.
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