Building Resilience and Working Towards Durable Solutions in Darfur
The present intervention will work to create an enabling environment for displacement-affected communities in Darfur to find lasting solutions to their situation of displacement. In view of the multifacetted barriers to durable solutions (DS) the project will adopt a triple Nexus approach involving humanitarian, development and peacebuilding activities while ensuring a strong community-led engagement.
| Country/region | Topic | Period | Budget |
|---|---|---|---|
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Sudan |
Migration Conflict & fragility Employment & economic development nothemedefined
Forced displacement (refugees, IDP, human trafficking)
Conflict prevention Rural development |
01.10.2022
- 31.12.2025 |
CHF 4’300’000
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- Improved access to sustainable livelihoods
- Increased equitable access to services
- Improved protective environment (incl. promoting protection of civilians)
- Increased community-based peacebuilding capacity
- Improved efficacy of community-level natural resource management and early warning systems
- Increased access to financial service providers
- Increased physical access to markets
- Sustainable income generation activities supported
- Value chain development supported
- Barriers to access to service are identified and used to inform programming and advocacy
- Infrastructure developed to reduce service gaps (e.g. water, health)
- Increased access to civil documentation
- Ongoing monitoring and evidence building on protection risks and threats
- Create and capacitate local peacebuilding structures
- Engage participation of key marginalized groups e.g. women, youth
- Community projects are designed to prevent and mitigate conflict over natural resources
- Other international or foreign NGO North
- Danish Refugee Council (DRC) - The project is being implemented through the Durable Solution Consortium of which the DRC is the lead agency and signatory partner of SDC. The other members of the consortium are Save the Children International (SCI) and Mercy Corps (MC)
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Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation GOVERNMENT AND CIVIL SOCIETY
GOVERNMENT AND CIVIL SOCIETY
OTHER MULTISECTOR
Sub-Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation Facilitation of orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility
Civilian peace-building, conflict prevention and resolution
Rural development
Cross-cutting topics Conflict reduction
Aid Type Project and programme contribution
Project number 7F11032
| Background | There are 3.04 million internally displaced people (IDPs) in Sudan of which over 80% live in Darfur. Ongoing violence and cycles of conflicts are the main drivers of displacement. The present political crisis following the military takeover in October 2021 has been negatively impacting the stability of the country and the economic crisis including high inflation, resulted in elevated levels of food insecurity across the country. An estimated 66% of IDPs live in (peri-) urban locations (camps), of which many have become de facto neighborhoods with a population of around 60% under the age of 24. The lack of a political solution in the present context, alongside the lack of solutions for the IDP population affect national and local level stability, both in regard to ongoing conflict and competition over natural resources, as well as rising rates of criminality and food insecurity. In the short-term, displacement will remain both a driver and a result of vulnerability. IDPs seeking solutions are likely to continue having immediate, temporary humanitarian needs, such as shelter and food that will need to be addressed to support longer-term processes of achieving durable solutions. |
| Objectives | Durable Solutions are facilitated for displacement-affected communities through community-led resilience-building. |
| Target groups |
Direct beneficiaries of the intervention are displacement affected communities (3 localities in Central and South Darfur). The project aims to address the needs of the most left behind including IDPs, refugees, returnees, women and youth. The exact breakdown of the number of targeted beneficiaries will be identified as part of the participatory community action plans development process. |
| Medium-term outcomes |
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| Results |
Expected results: Outcome 1: Outcome 2: Outcome 3: Outcome 4: Outcome 5: |
| Directorate/federal office responsible |
SDC |
| Project partners |
Contract partner International or foreign NGO |
| Coordination with other projects and actors |
In line with the EP 7F-11032, SDC is currently developing a project with the UN RC office to complement this project at institutional (DS coordination architecture) and normative level (dissemination and integration of DS principles). The DS consortium will contract the Mixed Migration Centre (MMC) for technical support on evidence based learning as well as the Conflict Sensitivity Facility (CSF) for technical backstopping in the area of conflict sensitive program management (CSPM). Furthermore the consortium will coordinate its activities through the existing DS coordination architecture and engage on a needs-basis with Government representatives of the Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC) and the Commission for Refugees Sudan (COR). The project fully aligns with outcome 3 of the Swiss Cooperation Programme Sudan 2022-25. |
| Budget | Current phase Swiss budget CHF 4’300’000 Swiss disbursement to date CHF 1’400’000 |
| Project phases | Phase 1 01.10.2022 - 31.12.2025 (Current phase) |
