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This is an archived USAID document retained on this web site as a matter of public record.
USAID Assistance to Sudan
U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
FACT SHEET
WASHINGTON, DC 20523
PRESS OFFICE
http://www.usaid.gov
(202) 712-4320
2000-39FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Gabrielle Bushman
Tuesday, February 29, 2000
BUDGET FY 1998 FY 1999 FY 2000 Development Assistance $3.0 million $2.17 million $3.0 million Humanitarian Food Aid $65.7 million $202.9 million $35.0 million (est) Humanitarian Assistance $38.0 million $25.5 million $20.0 million (est) Total 106.7 million $231.1 million $58.0 million
OBJECTIVE:
The objective of the U.S. Agency for International Development's (USAID) program in Sudan is to reduce conflict and strengthen capacities for peace while assisting the war-affected Sudanese to meet their food security and health needs by promoting greater reliance on local resources and capacities.PROGRAM AREAS:
Recovery from Famine. USAID contributed significantly to the recovery of 1.2 million southern Sudanese affected by the 1998 Bahr el Ghazal famine through the largest emergency food aid air drop in the World Food Program's history. As a result, there has been a dramatic improvement in nutritional levels of Sudanese at risk and therapeutic feeding programs have been phased out.Consolidating Recovery in Stable Areas. Innovative USAID-supported activities in stable areas of southern Sudan are encouraging a transition from relief to development. Rehabilitation of roads, agricultural rehabilitation, and small scale economic recovery activities have helped restore people's coping mechanisms and provided them with the ability to restart normal economic recovery activities.
People to People Reconciliation. USAID is supporting an extraordinary and so far successful grassroots, people-to-people reconciliation process between the Nuer and Dinka ethnic groups in southern Sudan, and more recently between the different Nuer factions. Further USAID support will consolidate the gains from these processes and address relations between other ethnic groups in southern Sudan to reduce conflicts and strengthen capacities for peace. USAID is also supporting the Sudan Peace Process under the auspices of the six-member Inter-Governmental Authority on Development based in Djibouti.
Strengthening Governance. USAID has targeted development assistance funds to opposition-controlled areas of southern Sudan to (a) provide governance training to the new civil administrators in transparency, accountability, public finance, respect for human rights; and (b) strengthen grassroots Sudanese organizations working to reduce their heavy reliance on relief and strengthen self-reliance. Additional training for opposition groups in the Nuba Mountains and Eastern Sudan in promoting good governance is planned.
This is an archived USAID document retained on this web site as a matter of public record.
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