Pact Sudan's Water for Recovery and Peace Program (WRAPP) is one of the most comprehensive water projects operating in Southern Sudan. WRAPP implementation is closely linked to Pact Sudan peace building and conflict prevention initiatives aimed at supporting the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA).

Bringing Accessible Water and Achievable Peace

The lingering effects of war in Sudan have hindered the ability of communities to improve their access to water. Competition over water access further aggravates
political and social tensions, increasing conflict between neighboring populations. To address this problem, Pact is helping to improve access to sustainable, safe water for rural communities.

WRAPP focuses on all three regions of Southern Sudan: Bahr el Ghazal, Equatoria, and Greater Upper Nile, and the areas of Nuba Mountains/South Kordofan, and Abyei, where returning populations are placing increasing pressure on already limited resources.
WRAPP's extensive construction and rehabilitation projects include:

Community Based Approach

WRAPP works with private sector drillersand contactors, NGOs, Government, Peace Commitees and Community Based Organizations (CBOs) to provide improved water supply to the population
of Southern Sudan.

Our community-based approach uses conflict analysis and a critical needs assessment to prioritize and respond to potable water needs. Activities include:

Cross Cutting Issues

Building on Pact's in-depth country knowledge and respected reputation within local communities, WRAPP programs tackle comprehensive issues affected by water access, such as conflict resolution, gender empowerment, livelihoods and health.

Taking advantage of Pact’s long experience in peace-building to ensure that our work in water supports our work in peace and conflict resolution.  The Pact peace strategy incorporates peace-building into service delivery at the community level, through support and training by local CBOs providing community leaders with conflict management skills. A key focus for WRAPP is the inclusion of women in the design, planning and implementation of community projects, as a means to promote increased community ownership of water points, sustainability and justice.

Economic development and improved livelihoods in Southern Sudan is closely linked with improved access to potable water for humans and increased water access for livestock.   Pact Sudan targets small market towns for semi-urban water distribution systems to spur localized economic development and to increased water system ownership by encouraging small business representation on community water committees.  For increased water access for livestock, WRAPP has been constructing water pans (hafirs) to collect and store seasonal water runoff in order to improve livelihood opportunities for pastoralist communities and to reduce migrations associated with local conflicts.  

The WRAPP approach emphasizes water, hygiene, and sanitation awareness and training so that households and communities begin to take responsibility for improving their own public health environments.  Pact addresses environmental health problems by training communities on safe and sanitary practices, which promote behaviors like hand washing before preparing meals and restricting water collection from only safe and disinfected water sites.  WRAPP is currently piloting a household latrine program and a Market Clean-up Sanitation program.  WRAPP is collaborating and coordinating it programming with partners to facilitate the advancements of guinea worm eradication and cholera prevention in Southern Sudan.

Partners in this Project:

WRAPP is supported by USAID (United States Agency for International Development), CHF, and the Government of Southern Sudan's Ministry of Cooperatives and Rural Development through a grant from the Multi-Donor Trust Fund.

Points of Contact:

Mengistu Teklemariam
Program Manager
Email:mteklemariam@pactsudan.org

Sam Huston
Program Coordinator
Email:shuston@pactsudan.org