Year of Publication
2010
NGO associated?
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Summary
South Sudan already has a long relationship with aid – Sudan is ranked as the thirteenth largest recipient of official development assistance (ODA) (excluding debt relief) allocable to countries between 2000 and 2009. A large proportion of that aid – 60.6% between 2005 and 2009 - is humanitarian aid.
Around a third of the humanitarian funds tracked within the United Nations (UN) humanitarian work-plan (consolidated appeal) are channelled to South Sudan each year.
Aid will continue to be an important resource flow to underwrite the provision of basic services and to meet humanitarian needs in a country where the state, still only six years old, lacks capacity, where the economy is overwhelmingly dependent on a single commodity and where humanitarian crisis thresholds are still frequently exceeded.
But since becoming a nation state in its own right, the way in which the international donor community engages with the new Republic of South Sudan (RoSS) is changing fast. In this briefing paper, we summarise some of the immediate aid data and aid management changes that are underway.
Around a third of the humanitarian funds tracked within the United Nations (UN) humanitarian work-plan (consolidated appeal) are channelled to South Sudan each year.
Aid will continue to be an important resource flow to underwrite the provision of basic services and to meet humanitarian needs in a country where the state, still only six years old, lacks capacity, where the economy is overwhelmingly dependent on a single commodity and where humanitarian crisis thresholds are still frequently exceeded.
But since becoming a nation state in its own right, the way in which the international donor community engages with the new Republic of South Sudan (RoSS) is changing fast. In this briefing paper, we summarise some of the immediate aid data and aid management changes that are underway.