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A Milestone in Public Financial Management

Planning and financial management is a critical core governance function that provides a system to prioritize development needs, allocate resources efficiently and strategize for the future. To strengthen the planning and financial management systems it is necessary to assess fiduciary and oth more

Raising Awareness, Decreasing Stigma

During her last pregnancy, Alice[1] became ill and visited her local hospital for testing where she found out that she had both HIV and tuberculosis (TB). Her husband had recently died and left her to care for their four young children on her own. While her father took care of the child more

Empowering Communities, Building Resilience

Building and sustaining peace goes beyond simply negotiating a ceasefire between communities in conflict. Creating an enabling environment for lasting peace and security requires input from local communities, a contextual understanding of the political economy and long-term planning. UN more

Supporting Local Government in delivering services to the community

Since 2006, UNDP South Sudan has been working with local governments to strengthen the institutional and human resource capacities in order to enable them to deliver services to their communities. This support included: 1) Policy support through developing legal framewo more

Land management supporting sustainable development

“In order to ensure better service delivery, it is crucial to sensitize our people on their rights, responsibilities and limitations in regards to land administration, as well as clarify and interpret the clauses in the Land Act” stated the Honourable Kuot Mawien Kuot, State Minister of Physi more

UNDP South Sudan: A year of Independence

UNDP’s programme over the last year has supported the development priorities that were detailed in the South Sudan Development Plan in the areas of governance, economic growth, social and human development, conflict prevention and security as well as rule of law. Although the challenges more

South Sudan: One year after independence

Over the past two years, 5 states in South Sudan with support from UNDP, have set up functioning state revenue authorities with the capacity to collect, plan, monitor and report revenue, in an effort to put in place a more effective and efficient tax system to boost non-oil revenue. As a resul more

Paralegals bring justice to South Sudan

Alice Adye witnessed how breakdowns within State institutions, including police as well as statutory and customary courts, undermined and victimized women in rural areas of her community. After participating in paralegal training, Alice formed the Women Empowerment for Prosperity (WEP), a comm more

Jie haffir brings peace to the Toposa Communities

Inter-communal violence over access to water has been a fatal risk for the Toposa communities in Eastern Equatoria state. However, 2012 has been hopeful for the Toposa people in Jie, Kapoeta East County. For the first time in their living memory, they did not migrate in search of water. more

Fighting HIV/AIDS through awareness and treatment

Virginia Kamonji arrived in Rumbek in July as a UN Volunteer to help the Government in fighting HIV and Tuberculosis. With support through the Global Fund to Fight AIDs, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM), she has been working hard on multiple fronts to raise awareness, reduce stigma and improve more

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