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Economic Growth
Program Goals
- Delivery of market support services to entrepreneurs (credit, business skills, improved agricultural practices, export promotion, market information, and road rehabilitation).
- Establishment of market support institutions that deliver market support services, including a microfinance institution, agribusiness training centers, business associations, a statistical analysis center, and local road maintenance departments.
- Technical assistance to the southern Sudanese regional government to formulate improved economic policies.
- Repair and demine critical roads and dikes, with the goal of opening road access to Uganda and Kenya, between northern and southern Sudan, and to routes of return for internally displaced persons.
Highlights of Achievements
- Eight Southern Sudanese market support institutions have begun operations: the microfinance institution, the New Sudan Center for Statistics and Evaluation (NSCSE), and the six agribusiness training centers. The microfinance institution and NSCSE are currently delivering services.
- Emergency road repair along the Kaya-Rumbek road has improved trade in beneficiary towns, like Yei, and produced important data on road surveys and mine assessments for future civil works projects. Fifteen thousand kilometers of road have been surveyed.
- The analytical studies carried out by southern Sudanese researchers have provided a good base for the policy work now underway.
- A number of targeted training activities have helped to push forward the new Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) institutions, like training the staff of the future Bank of Southern Sudan and helping the future GOSS Department of Roads to deliver county road supervisor training.
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