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USAID Assistance to Sudan

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U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
FACT SHEET

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WASHINGTON, DC 20523
PRESS OFFICE
http://www.usaid.gov
(202) 712-4320

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 19, 2001

Contact: Novia Plummer

*An additional $43,500,000 in food was provided by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture.

BUDGET as of 07/19/01	FY2000 ACTUAL FUNDING PROVIDED
Development Assistance	$ 4,250,000
Food Aid (Food for Peace)	$36,500,000 *
Humanitarian Assistance (OFDA)	$ 22,388,688
TOTAL ASSISTANCE	$63,138,688

BACKGROUND

For the past 18 years, Sudan has been embroiled in a complicated civil war that has directly and indirectly caused massive destruction and loss of life. An estimated two million Sudanese have died of war-related injuries, disease or starvation; over four million are estimated to be internally displaced. Compounded by frequent droughts, the war has created a long-term humanitarian crisis. The United States alone has provided $1.2 billion in humanitarian assistance over the past twelve years.

OBJECTIVE

The goal of the U.S. Agency for International Development's assistance to Sudan is to help Sudanese become less vulnerable and more self-reliant so that they are able to participate in a transition to peace, when it comes. Humanitarian (food and non-food) and development assistance is coordinated under a single strategy, focused on conflict reduction, enhanced food security, and local provision of primary health care.

All of the development assistance is provided in areas outside of GOS control; the development assistance portion of USAID's efforts in southern Sudan are known collectively as the Sudan Transitional Assistance for Rehabilitation (STAR) activity, although over time it has become several activities with a number of implementing partners. The specific goal of the STAR program is to contribute to reducing conflict and strengthening capacities for peace by encouraging the independent Sudanese civil society that has begun to arise in stable areas of southern Sudan.

PROGRAM AREA ACTIVITIES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Conflict Reduction: Activities aim to: strengthen grassroots-level and broader southern Sudanese peace-building systems; build good governance capacities by promoting civilian participation in civil administration to address local priorities; facilitate resettlement of displaced communities; promote social and economic rehabilitation in stable areas; and increase access to information, education and communication in support of peace-building activities. To date, civil society-civil authority partnerships have been established in southern Sudan with STAR support. People-to-people reconciliations, also funded by STAR, have been paired with humanitarian (food and non-food) assistance to encourage internally displaced people to resettle in their home areas.

Food Security: Activities meet the emergency and short-term food needs in drought- and conflict-affected areas of Sudan while improving Sudanese capacities to meet their own food needs by restoring and increasing traditional food production, increasing market demand and access for local sources of food, and providing access to start-up capital, thereby increasing economic growth and incomes. Extensive deliveries of emergency food aid have been made to the most vulnerable Sudanese affected by drought and conflict. Local food production and access to markets have been increased. Incomes have been increased through STAR-funded economic rehabilitation and capacity-building assistance to local organizations and cooperatives in southern counties.

Health: Primary health care is expanding through greater reliance on local capacities and encouraging a transfer of responsibility for service-provision and coordination from the international community to Sudanese individuals and organizations. Health care delivery to date has been largely humanitarian in nature, e.g., vaccination campaigns, which have saved thousands of lives, and humanitarian food deliveries, which have decreased malnutrition rates. With STAR funding, USAID is increasingly addressing more developmental aspects of health care delivery as well, e.g., the rehabilitation of permanent health clinics and the privatization of health services in stable areas.

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