Closed Projects

Three Areas Peace Fund

In January 2008, DFID (the UK’s Department for International Development) commissioned a Stability and Development Assessment to examine the role of aid in relation to stability in the Three Areas of Abyei, Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile, and advise on suitable intervention approaches and strategies.

The overarching recommendation of the report was that future programming in the Three Areas should include a high level of accountability, local decision-making and representation in order to create a better environment for the election and ‘popular consultation’ process. TAPF was designed with this key recommendation in mind. Other consultations and previous Pact Sudan initiatives in the Three Areas also influenced the design of the TAPF.

In early 2009, Pact Sudan was awarded funding by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to develop and implement the Three Areas Peace Fund. The project was supposed to cover the period January 2009 until March 2012 but was cut short by insecurity in the project area. The overall goal of TAPF was to support sustainable peace and reconciliation as a foundation for recovery and development in the Three Areas. Its purpose is to help create an “enabling environment” for the implementation of the CPA in the Three Areas.

This project involved working with local partners and communities to identify “stability enhancing” activities that will be supported through a sub-granting mechanism managed by Pact Sudan. We worked with local peace actors; including Peace Committees, Traditional leaders, and Women and Youth groups to build their capacity in order to manage funding mechanism that would enable the local partners to respond to emerging conflicts as they arose.

BRIDGE

Bridge Project, lead by Winrock International in collaboration with its partners (RTI International, ACDI/VOCA, GOAL, NCA and Pact, was initiated in March 2009 with the goal of strengthening Sudanese capacity to fulfill the promise of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in the states of Northern Bahr el Ghazal, Warrap and Unity. Pact Sudan implemented Component 4 of the program: Increase access to safe water and sanitation in a Sustainable Manner.

Through this project, we drilled over 100 new boreholes, rehabilitated over 400 broken boreholes, constructed school and household latrines, as well as conducted hygiene and sanitation trainings for thousands of people throughout the three States.

Cross Border Trade and Stability

Pact’s Cross-Border Trade and Stability Project “Promoting Stability at the Sudan-Ethiopia Border through Enhancing Conflict-Sensitive Cross-Border Trade” was a project undertaken from 2005-2008. It used trade and business activities as an opportunity to build and strengthen community relationships and stability in the border area between South Sudan (Jonglei and Upper Nile States) and Ethiopia (the Gambella region).

This project aimed at increasing stability and development in the border area by increasing the capacity of border communities in conflict mitigation and resolution, improving the access to business and markets, strengthening and establishing inter- and intra-ethnic trade committees, cooperatives and associations.

The Cross-Border Trade and Stability project involved and empowered a wide range of stakeholders in the border region, including local traders and producers, associations and cooperatives, service providers, community based organizations such as peace committees, women’s organizations or youth groups, as well as local and regional authorities. Whenever possible, the project brought together stakeholders from different communities, the government, and from across the border to participate in joint activities and events. We trained communities on basic business and management skills, Income generating activities, bee keeping and the production of lulu oil. We also rehabilitated markets, constructed store facilities and cleared trade routes.

Community Water Points (CWP)

Pact worked with Sudan Production Aid (Supraid), a local Sudanese NGO, to dig 20 boreholes serving an estimated 20,000 people in the Bahr el Ghazal region of southern Sudan. The goal of this project was to increase water accessibility, in an environmentally responsible way, at the community level and to strengthen the community's ability to manage public water sources in a just and transparent manner.
In the interest of ensuring community investment and sustainability of the project, Supraid provided assistance to locally selected Community Management Committees that took up the management of the newly constructed/revitalized water facilities, helping them to:

Community Security Project (CSP)

This project worked to promote community security and build the capacity of Sudanese organizations across Jonglei, Lakes and Warrap States in Southern Sudan. These projects supported women, peace committees and youth groups, among others, in efforts to increase stability and security in Southern Sudanese communities. CSP and its partners worked to bring rival groups together to study the underlying reasons for the conflict and explore potential steps to peace.

Where the prevalence of small arms threatened to limit individuals’ and communities’ abilities to resolve conflicts among themselves and their neighbors, Pact’s interventions at the local level aimed to promote increased security and stability. Pact and its Sudanese partners facilitated regular communication between local and international groups on community security and arms control through open dialogue.

Enhancing Peace and Community Stability I (EPACS I)

Enhancing Peace and Community Stability (EPACS) was a nine - month project undertaken Jonglei, Eastern, Western and Central States of Southern Sudan. The project supported community based organizations, government agencies, and peace committees working to address tribal conflicts over cattle raiding and child abduction in Eastern and Central Equatoria through people to people dialogue engaging the local authorities. This included grassroot dialogues about the Lord’s Resistance Army peace talks that were being held. 

EPACS' community dialogue projects worked to fill communication gaps between tribes, and to promote peaceful solutions to ongoing conflicts. Projects supported by EPACS included various women's conferences on the CPA, management team meetings to facilitate returnee populations, and youth conferences discussing the CPA, future peace, and intercommunity dialogue. We also constructed 3 community peace centres in Ikotos, Chukudum and Kapoeta.

Enhancing Peace and Community Stability II

This program was aimed at supporting grass root communities to find enduring local solutions that contribute to the successful implementation of the CPA. Its objectives were addressed through community identified needs by which sub grants and sub contracts were awarded to CBOs in Jonglei and Eastern Equatorial states.

Its objective was to promote increased security and stability through civic education, conflict resolution, reconciliation initiatives and community-led peace building, as well as support to civilian arms reduction and arms control. It also aimed at promoting sustainable resource management and assessing corporate accountability and sustainable economic development in areas at risk of conflicts related to individual, corporate and group natural-resource (mis)management.

EPACS involved the provision of sub-grants for community-led initiatives aimed at civic education, conflict resolution, reconciliation initiatives and community-led peace building, as well as support to civilian arms reduction and arms control such as trainings, workshops, peace dialogues, stakeholder meetings, livelihood initiatives, joint awareness-raising initiatives. It also involved participatory identification and dialogue with key stakeholders groups, and through the provision of sub-grants for community-led natural resource management initiatives.

Enhancing People to People Indigenous Capacities (EPPIC)

EPPIC targeted and mitigated conflict threats in Southern Sudan's main urban centers (Juba, Malakal and Aweil) and key locations in the Three Areas (South Kordofan, Blue Nile and Abyei) by building viable indigenous conflict resolution capacities at the local level.  Through this project, multiple workshops were conducted throughout the region which helped gauge the capacity and level of commitment of local organizations and representatives. These workshops encouraged and facilitated the formulation of work-plans to target one or more of the identified threats to peace.

Early Warning and Posts (EWP)

This project built on the work of Pact's Community Security Project by workingto improve security in rural areas of Greater Upper Nile Regions where the major pastoralist communities hail from. EWP made important contributions to improving security by establishing early warning monitoring posts. These early warning posts were located between communities in the ethnic border areas, and strengthened local civil-society capacity-building on public institution oversight and engagement, so that communities became able to work with and contact local authorities when banditry or tribal conflict occured. The project was focused on establishing six early warning posts in the following three zones of Jonglei and Upper Nile States: Nasir-Akobo; Akobo-Pibor; and Duk-Ayod.

Local Government Recovery Project (LGRP)

LGRP was designed to assist local government authorities in Southern Sudan to establish the systems and structures to begin functioning as credible institutions of the state. This project worked in support of the Local Government Board, the state ministries of local government and the county authorities across Southern Sudan through capacity building and the rehabilitation of government institutions.

Supporting Transition to Enduring Peace in Sudan (STEPS)

Funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), the project focused on overarching goal for Sudan during the Pre-Interim Period: to lay the foundation for a stable, peaceful and democratic southern Sudan established through inclusion and participation of an empowered citizenry.

The key objectives of the project were;Reduction of conflict, Promotion of social cohesion, and Creation of an improved environment for peace through support to Sudanese-designed Cluster Plans.

Support to Sustainable Returns (SSR)

Pact used a community-based approach working through accountable local organizations to provide mosquito nets to the most vulnerable households. Local authorities, community leaders, IDP representatives, and Pact laid out a plan for effective distribution, which was carried out by a Sudanese implementing partner.

Thirty-six thousand small mesh Long-Lasting Insecticide-Treated Nets (LLINs) mosquito bed nets (which repel both mosquitoes and sand flies) were procured and given to 13 Sudanese partner NGOs and community-based organizations in 18 counties in south Sudan. The project benefited an estimated five (5) persons per household receiving a bed net.

South Sudan Transition Initiative (SSTI)

This two-year USAID-funded small grants project focused on promoting and supporting good governance, local-level peace initiatives, and the development of civil society. The program supported the transition from a culture of war to one of peace and good governance.

The primary objectives of the project were: To restore peace among communities through support for local dialogue , to support the emergence of an accountable and transparent civil authority , to assist in the development of an empowered and active civil society, to increase access to quality and independent information.

Roads for Youth and Peace (RYP)

This project was designed to engage youth in contributing to peace and stability in Jonglei and Eastern Equatoria by working to consolidate community peace agreements – with a focus on supporting governance at ethnic borders. RYP and its partners increased involvement of marginalized, disarmed youth in multi-ethnic and inter-communal recovery projects.

RYP worked with local partners and contractors to complete its construction projects. RYP also funded six grants in Eastern Equatoria, which represented a wide range of strategies for improving the transport infrastructure and developing livelihood options for youth.