Gender, violence and survival in Juba, Southern Sudan
Ellen Martin
This policy brief looks at the impacts of violence, insecurity and repeated displacement on men and women as a result of rapid urbanisation in Juba, Southern Sudan.
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Planning and budgeting in Southern Sudan: starting from scratch
Fiona Davies and Gregory SmithThis Briefing Paper considers lessons learned from Southern Sudan for planning and budgeting systems in post-conflict settings.
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Achieving policy coherence in challenging environments: risk management and aid culture in Sudan and Afghanistan
This project seeks to delineate the extent to which risk management and enhanced threat awareness among UN agencies and international NGOs challenge their ability to achieve ambitious and transformational policy goals in conflict-affected fragile states. -
Nile Basin Project 2: On integrated rainwater management strategies - technologies, institutions and policies
This project will aim to integrate land and water management, crop component technology, crop management, crop livestock systems, pastoral systems and even agroforestry systems so as to raise productivity and incomes and enhance resilience, while slowing land degradation and reducing downstream siltation.
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Job Creation Interventions in Fragile States
This project is a follow on to the Literature review on job creation in fragile states project-I0433. This project will develop a matrix of interventions and develop an analytical framework for assessing and drawing lessons from private sector interventions in fragile/conflict-affected states.
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Challenging choices: Protection and livelihoods in conflict
For people affected by conflict, livelihoods and protection are intimately linked. People not only face threats to their safety and dignity through violence and displacement, but the destruction of livelihoods is frequently a direct or indirect consequence of war. In response, people are often faced with difficult choices between safety and dignity and economic survival. Yet despite these connections, and despite the increased commitment of many aid actors to protection and livelihoods programming in conflict situations, efforts to link these programmes remain limited.
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Challenging choices: protection and livelihoods in conflict
Susanne Jaspars, Sorcha O'CallaghanThis HPG Policy Brief summarises the findings of research examining the links between protection and livelihoods in conflict. Based on case studies in Chechnya, Darfur, the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) and Sri Lanka, the study explores the inter-connections between protection and livelihoods in terms of the threats people face and their actions in response
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City of Dreams? Harsh realities for Juba's new urban poor
In response to UN World Refugee Day, a new blog by Ellen Martin looks at the implications of rapid urbanisation for displaced, returnee and resident populations in Juba.
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City of Dreams? The harsh reality of daily life for the new urban poor in Juba
Juba – an isolated garrison town during Sudan’s civil war – is now an important political and economic centre as the new capital of South Sudan, and a hub for regional trade. But the throngs of hard-headed investors, the new roads and busy restaurants hide the grim reality for many residents: Juba has seen a dramatic increase in the numbers of urban poor since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in 2005. -
Collaboration between faith-based communities and humanitarian actors when responding to HIV in emergencies
Fiona Samuels, Rena Geibel, Fiona PerryFaith-based communities and humanitarian agencies would be wise to work more closely together on HIV prevention and care during emergencies