Project:                        Three Areas Peace Fund (TAPF)
Project Life:                 January2009-March 2012
Areas of Operation:      Abyei, South Kordofan and Blue Nile states 
Donors:                        British Foreign and Common Wealth Office (FCO)

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 covers the period January 2009 until March 2012. The overall goal of TAPF is 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 involves 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 work 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 will enable the local partners to respond to emerging conflicts as they arise.

TAPF is also tasked with coordinating the development of an “Enabling Conditions Barometer” – a tool for identifying and measuring the key criteria for the “enabling environment” for peace in the Three Areas, and monitoring these criteria in order to provide timely input to on-going programming.

Success Stories

Meeting for the first time-Youth Exchange Visits in Kadugli

For more information on our TAPF projects, please contact;

Mauro Tadiwe /Program's Director/MTadiwe@pactworld.org