UN Darfur Fund (UNDF) Foundational and Short-Term (FaST) Activities Achievements At a Glance

UN Darfur Fund

Logos are placed in alphabetical order

UN Darfur Fund

UNDF Partners

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Locations

Projects

Budget

Total FaST Projects per Locality

1,246,000 61 322,956,95577

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Prepared by UNDF Tech.SecretariatAs per February 2017

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To reduce dependency on humanitarian aid

To create real alternatives for young men and women through educationand livelihoods to prevent the return to violent con ict

Governance,Justice,and Reconciliation

Reconstruction

Economic Recovery

After a decade of con ict, the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD)was signed in Doha in July 2011. The Darfur Development Strategy(DDS) was endorsed in April 2013 by Government partners and theinternational community led by the State of Qatar. The DDS offers asequenced, coordinated and holistic plan for equitable, sustainable andparticipatory development. The Foundational and Short-Term (FaST) activities are the initial and immediate actions that have kicked started the longer term objectives of the three pillars of the DDS. The FaST activities of the DDS, supported by the Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) through the UnitedNation Darfur Fund (UNDF), have three immediate objectives:

The Foundational and Short-Term (FaST )Activities Snapshot:

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million

23-41

6-14

1-6

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14-23

Percentage of total budget utilised

Projects’ implementation progress

Projects’ implementation progres

Percentage of total budget utilised

Projects’ implementation progress

Percentage of total budget utilised

To build con dence in a future based on peace and stability

Pillar

IGovernance, Justice, and Reconciliation

Objective

6 Improved Access to Justice

Objective

9

3,321 bene ciaries have bene ted from

peacebuilding/reconciliation workshops/community forums for native

administration and women leaders

3600

Reconciliation and con ict managementProcess and mechanisms established

4

591

rural courts constructedand equipped and handed over

to bene ciaries

11 operational Peace, Justice and Reconciliation Centres and 4

under construction

Justice sector personnel have increased knowledge on women’s

access to justice

Objective

7 Successful social and economic reintegrationof male and female demobilized armed forces (including special needs groups) ) while addressing local insecurities and building trustof communities in security sector institutions

3,000 ex-combatants (10% F/90% M)

provided with support to economic re-integration

9community stabilisation projects

ongoing

14,981 community members have increased

awareness through drama on mediation, reconciliation, con ict resolution and

peace-building skills

1,505 people have bene ted from community

improvement/livelihood activities which are supporting the process of

reconciliation

840 disputes/cases have been settled through traditional alternative

approaches

Improved land registration/property systemand related con ict resolution mechanisms

people have attended 47 Community consultation workshops on legal

and customary laws

6 813

43government staff from ve Darfur

States trained in the Social Tenure Domain Model to lead the village mapping

and pro ling exercise

nomadic routes have monitoring committees/systems in place

community members have been trained in Voluntary Guidlines on the

Responsible Governance of Tenure (VGGT)

Objective

Objective

10

Objective

45Villages have undertaken

village sketch mapping and pro ling

Um Labasa Hospital is busy again. Patients are queuing to see the doctor. They are waiting under the iconic arches of one of the buildings. Nurses are running around the court. The office of the Director is full hosting a meeting. Someone from the State Ministry of Health came to check how everything is going. From outside the fence we can see a group of people unloading what seems to be furniture. And a van is delivering goods. They must be medicines. The pharmacy is open, and a mother is trying to calm down her little son while the pharmacist looks for the prescribed medicines. These scenes are once again the routine at Um Labasa Rural Hospital.

The hospital is in a beautiful compound with four buildings built around a big courtyard. Since it´s renovation it looks even nicer. And most important it is extremely useful. The state capital of Nyala, is between 3 to 4 hours away and during the rainy season most of the time it cannot be reached due to the state of the roads.

That´s why the hospital is essential as Adam Abdel-Rahman reminds us, a farmer from Um Labasa who speaks proudly about the hospital:

“Um Labasa Rural Hospital is functional after having been rehabilitated. They have done a very good job. Currently there is a good number of medical staff assigned by the SMoH including one medical doctor and this can save our lives. We suffered a lot during the time when the hospital was closed. Even for simple illnesses, we had to travel either to Nyala or to Kubum. Travelling to Nyala is not easy for us, especially during the rainy season when theroad is blocked. Now the hospital also has an ambulance service to transport the complicated cases to Nyala Regional Hospital. Um Labasa is a big town and was in need for these services. As a citizen, I’m very thankful to all the partners who helped in improving the hospital in including WHO, UN- Habitat, SMoH, Medical Insurance Fund.”

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442,064

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1,576

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14health facilities'rehabilitation ongoing

health practitioners have beentrained/received refresher trainingin various health topics

state level health facilities wereprovided with equipment foroperation theatres and wards

721

Increased access to electricity services

7272

Pillar

II

Improved physical access to goods, markets andadministrative and social services

Reconstruction

72

bene ciaries have improved all-weather access to basic services through construction of road drainage structures

80,000

unemployed youth trained inStabilized Soil Block (SSB)production and construction trades

240

Increased access to improved water sourcesand sanitation

5water quality laboratoriesconstructed in state capitals

198,353

26

4,207 community members trained invarious WASH topics

people in Darfur states have access to improved water

communities declared as open defecation free (ODF)community

19,353

30

people reached with hygienepromotion interventions

health centres provided withimproved water supply

19,592 children in 44 basic schoolsgained access to improved andsustainable drinking water supply

18,202 children in 50 basic schools gainedaccess to improved and sustainable sanitation and handwashing facilities

15stream gauges and evaporationpans were installed in 15 sites serving a population of 87,086

Enhanced access to and utilisation ofcomprehensive health and nutrition services

Objective

1

Objective

2

Objective

3

Objective

4

public facilities comprising of 1 police station, 1 persecutors office, 1 education office operational

people have bene ted from solar PV systems installed in 22 villages

1 training curriculum for solar PV systems in vocational schools approved

health facilities rehabilitated and handed over to the State Ministry of Health

Pillar

IIReconstruction

Improved access to quality education

31,472previously out of school childrenregistered under the AcceleratedLearning Programme (ALP)

655

591

49,400ALP textbooks were procured anddistributed to the target statesand localities

ALP facilitators have been trained

students are bene ting from 4 schools constructed andfurnished

42ALP units constructed and an additional 12 in progress

Successful social and economic reintegration ofreturnees (including special groups)

4police posts completed and equipedcontributing to the safety and security of 113,500 people

545Community Policing Volunteers(CPVs) trained and providedwith equipment

2

220people participating in savingsgroups

360

3,600

350

48,305recreational kits and life skills materials for students procuredand delivered to the states

Objective

5

Objective

6

community policing and safety centres constructed and bene ting 1,000 people

transitional shelters constructed bene tting a total of 1,800 people

people have bene ted from the development of community assets

police officers trained in areas human rights, investigation techniques, family and child protection, sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), and community policing

“Education is the key to success and development. You see me sitting in my wheelchair and you may think I need help but no, I am educated! I speak Arabic and English and now I speak sign language! I can help others.” says a determined Said Omer. In his early 30’s, Omer, a resident of Geneina, West Darfur, decided to learn sign language as part of the training provided by the Accelerated Learning Programme (ALP). Omer continues on his motivation to learn sign language “I decided that I want to learn sign language because there are many children who are hearing impaired as of which they are deprived from attending school”. A report jointly prepared by UNICEF and the Sudanese Ministry of Education estimates that %49 of out of school children in Sudan are children with disabilities.

Similar to Omer, Fatehya also attended the training as she wants to become a sign language teacher. She emphasizes on the importance of inclusive education: “It’s very important to include everyone in the community to ensure the whole development of Darfur”. She also believes that the ALP activ

ities improve livelihoods opportunities for the youth which contributes to reducing the risk of con ict.

The Accelerated Learning Programme and Improved Access to Employment Opportunities for Out of School Children and Youth (ALP) FaST Activity led by UNDP in collaboration with UNICEF, and a local partner, Believe in Humanitarian Action, have conducted vocational trainings at Geneina Vocational School. In there, 200 young boys and girls obtained literacy and numeracy while learning a set of vocational skills according to their choice such as tailoring, masonry, general electricity, blacksmithing, automotive maintenance and repairing or sign language.

After the training on basic sign language skills, the programme is considering a second more advance training; taking participants to Khartoum and learning more complex skills.

Pillar

III

Increased crop and livestock production andproductivity

Economic Recovery

sub-surface dams constructed 3

36,000

290,000

1,250

36,000

120

hectares of degraded pasturelands rehabilitated

households trained in improved milk production and fattening

(BDC) have been constructed in state capitals

3

1,088

Increased access to employment opportunities

257

8,865

269

120

355

100

Improved value chains in livestock, agriculture,livelihoods development

2,264

Increased access to Financial Services

Objective

2

Objective

3

Objective

5

Objective

6people have opportunities for improved vegetable and legume production through the rehabilitation of 20 shallow wells

people have access to water through the rehabilitation of ve ha rs

animals vaccinated and treated against endemic and epidemic diseases

bene ciaries have been trained in entrepreneurial potential and technical skills

private veterinary service providers have been supported with drug and equipment kits

out of school, out of school drop-outs and youth have completed vocational trainings in different disciplines

school drop-outs received small business development and entrepreneurship trainings

people attended training for Micro nance providers

people have attended public awareness activities on Micro nance nance and client services and products

Village Savings and Loans Associations, with 6,431 members, have been established and supported with seed grants.

groups awarded grants through competitive process, bene ting over 2,000 individual clients

The Babanousa embankment in El Geneina, capital of West Darfur, is one of the agship projects of the Darfur Community Based Reintegration and Stabilisation FaST Activity. Nearly 300 unemployed youth and vulnerable women were trained in construction skills and bene tted from a short-term employment opportunity. Babanousa is an area of the city that used to get ooded every year when the heavy rains started to fall. During the second quarter of 2018, the second phase of the construction started. It aimed to strengthen the south embankment, so the seasonal wadi does not ood the south side of the Babanousa neighborhood. Phase I reinforced the north bank. Thanks to the construction of the embankment, now over 2,000 vulnerable families will be protected from the annual oods and the loss of lives and property.

This embankment is part of the community stabilization interventions of the project that are so far directly bene ting more than 20,000 local residents all over Darfur with already completed infrastructure projects. Some examples include the construction of 10km of roads from El Geneina to Morni village, West Darfur; a Women’s Training Centre constructed in El Daein, East Darfur; a Girls

High School in Tura, East Darfur; and a safe drinking water supply system provided in Bulbul, South Darfur.

Ahmed Ali Adam Nurien, community leader of the Babanousa neighbourhood in El Geneina was involved in the identi cation of neighbours to participate in the intensive seasonal work in both the

rst and second phases and assures selected workers were amongst the most disadvantaged families. He welcomes this type of initiatives because they help the community in many different ways. “It teaches skills to workers, it helps family economies, improves infrastructures in the neighbourhood and specially resolves a very serious problem: avoiding the waters of the wadi to ood, letting them follow it´s course.”

This report was produced by theUNDF Technical Secretariat

Photo credits: UNDF Technical Secretariat; Idreesy Mohammed, Photographer;Alaaeldin Shuta UNDP

The UNDF Technical Secretariat wishes tothank partner UN organisations for theircontributions to this report

For more information please contact theUNDF Technical Secretariat, UNDP,Khartoum, Sudan