Progress Report on Implementation of the JAM

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Progress Report on Implementation of the JAM

• Government of National Unity and Government of
  Southern Sudan
  
• Paris, March 9, 2006

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Overview

• SC preparations and monitoring process
• Progress and next steps on policy and programs
• Government of National Unity
• Three Areas
• Government of Southern Sudan
• Role of Development Assistance

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SC preparations and monitoring process

• JNTT mandated to coordinate and monitor progress
  against the JAM
  
• GNU and GOSS undertook roundtable discussions
  with respective line agencies to review progress
  
  
• Consultations with development partners and NGOs
  in Khartoum
  
• Joint sessions of GNU and GOSS to coordinate
• Review and clearance by the Presidency and
  Council of Ministers
  
• ? Arrangements now being strengthened to ensure
  regular processes of review and dialogue, and
  monitoring

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Government of National Unity

• Major achievements since the signing of the CPA
  -- as highlighted already
  
• The JAM framework is an important reference point
  for the GNUs development agenda
  
• Road map for The Six Year National Strategic
  Plan
  
• Endorsed by the Presidency, Council of Ministers
  line ministries
  
• JNTT operationalized and mandated to track
  progress
  
• At the same time, we recognise the need to
  accelerate progress on JAM implementation,
  alongside the restoration of peace throughout the
  country
• International support technical, financial and
  more generally, is critical to meeting the goals
  laid out

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Policy and Program Development Priorities

• Making unity attractive - an overriding strategic
  objective for all levels of the government
  
• Enabling consolidation of the peace, including
  implementing the CPA, from the national level
  down to local reconciliation
  
• Improving governance, especially institutional
  capacity and public accountability
  
• Broad-based growth of income-earning
  opportunities, with a focus on smallholders,
  pastoralists and private sector development and
  
• Expanding access to basic services in the
  Northern States basic health care, primary
  education and safe water and sanitation to get
  efforts toward meeting the MDGs on track.
• ? Scaled up progress in the Three Areas is a key
  cross-cutting objective

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GNU Capacity Building and Institutional
Development

• Progress in 2005 included reformed institutions
  at national level and in (all but one of)
  Northern states and establishing such key
  institutions as the Joint National Transition
  Team and the FFAMC
• Priorities for 2006
• Civil service establish National Civil Service
  Commission, initiate affirmative action to meet
  targets and implement plan for right-sizing and
  revising the pay structure
• Effective decentralisation
• Operationalize the FFAMC and establish a
  transparent and equitable intergovernmental
  system with predictable fiscal transfers
  
• Develop capacity and accountability at lower
  levels
  
• Improved fiscal transparency and accountability
• Review public financial management and draft
  appropriate laws
  
• Initiate more transparent budgeting and reporting
  along GFS lines

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GNU Governance and Rule of Law

• Significant progress in laying the basis for
  democratic governance and sustained peace and
  development
  
• Many milestones related to CPA implementation.
• Priorities for 2006
• Establish National Land Commission, and State
  Land Commissions in Blue Nile and Southern
  Kordofan States
  
• Operationalize commissions and independent
  institutions, especially the National
  Constitutional Review Commission and Human Rights
  Commission.
• Review regulatory framework for media and launch
  campaign to promote a culture of peace and to
  disseminate the CPA

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GNU Economic and Fiscal Policy

• Progress in 2005
• Restructuring of the Central Bank of Sudan is
  well advanced preparations for issuing a new
  currency underway
  
• Multi-Donor Trust Fund (MDTF) operational
• Public expenditure review launched jointly with
  partners
  
• Debt strategy and external borrowing policy
  developed
  
• Priorities for 2006
• Maintain macro-economic stability
• Apply functional classifications for the budget,
  and publish monthly expenditure reports in GFS
  format
  
• Deeper review of public expenditure, with focus
  on regional and pro-poor allocations
  
• Work on the Poverty Eradication Strategy jointly
  with the GOSS
  
• Review oil sector legislation, establish joint
  committees per CPA, ensure that revenue
  information is public and transparent
  
• Issue new currency and replace old currencies in
  Southern Sudan
  
• Implement customs and tariff reforms

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GNU Productive Sectors

• Progress in 2005
• Draft agricultural policy prepared by MOAF, to
  improve rain-fed farming
  
• Discussions on business climate development of
  survey instrument
  
• Community driven and rural development projects
  initiated.
  
• Priorities for 2006
• Implement reforms to Gum Arabic export policy,
  trade policy, irrigated agriculture and
  semi-mechanized farming
  
• Review existing policies, and formulate reforms
  for rain-fed farming
  
• Assess investment climate and privatization
  program, remove administrative obstacles to the
  informal sector, and develop a national
  competition policy
• Develop a national framework for micro-finance,
  and enact micro-finance legislation and
  regulations
  
• Review environmental and social impacts of
  existing oil contracts
  

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GNU Basic Social Services

• Progress in 2005
• Finalized framework for health and developed
  national HIV/AIDS strategic plan
  
• Increased government budget allocations to states
  and localities
  
• New curriculum for primary and secondary schools
  is operational
  
• Priorities in 2006
• Review national policies and budgetary
  allocations
  
• Education
• Adopt strategies to increase enrolment in
  alternative learning
  
• Construct/rehabilitate classrooms, water sources,
  and sanitary facilities
  
• Expand health services, especially maternal
  child, and nutrition
  
• Invest in human resources for service delivery
• Create mechanisms for NGO engagement in service
  delivery

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GNU Infrastructure

• Progress in 2005
• Work on developing an overall policy and legal
  framework
  
• Draft National Transport master plan prepared
• Rehabilitation plans rail (Babanusa-Wau) river
  (Kosti and Juba)
  
• Priorities for 2006
• Increased budget for infrastructure, in
  particular for power and electricity,
  
• Review legal and regulatory frameworks
• Develop National Transport Master Plans
• maritime, river, road and air sectors
  electricity supply and pricing
  
• Road, rail and river development
• Roads in Darfur and other war-affected areas
• Babanusa-Wau rail network
• River transport between Kosti and Juba
• Preparation and implementation of a rural roads
  program
  

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GNU Livelihoods

• Progress in 2005
• Progress in establishing the IDP centre for
  strategic policies
  
• Surveys of IDPs
• Training on protection
• Construction of way stations, monitoring of
  spontaneous returns
  
• Mine Action Centers established
• Priorities for 2006
• Support sustainable returns through enabling
  adequate security, food and water
  
• Establish community-based programs for IDPs and
  host communities
  
• Sensitize authorities about protection issues
• Increase HIV/AIDS awareness

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GNU Information and statistics

• Progress in 2005
• Preparations for the population census
  questionnaire, manuals, plans and budget
  finalized
  
• National Population Council established
• MDG Progress Report for Sudan released
• Preparations for Sudan Household Health Survey
• Priorities for 2006
• Implementation of the Population Census Project
• Completion of the Sudan Family Health Survey

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Three Areas special focus

• Progress so far, in governance reforms
• Southern Kordofan State Interim Constitution
  and Council of Ministers
  
• Abyei Protocol establishment of Abyei
  Administration and Abyei Resettlement,
  Reconstruction and Development Fund initiation
  of reconciliation and peace building
• Commitment to accelerate progress, including
  through
  
• Execution of 2006 budget plans, to support the
  full functioning of government and provision of
  basic services
  
• Scale up the delivery of recovery assistance
  (EC/UNDP Recovery Project and Community Recovery
  Fund) and develop a locally led recovery strategy
  (Community Empowerment Fund)
• Media development, including for communication
  channels to enable safe return of IDPs
  

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GOSS overall

• Considerable progress in implementation of the
  CPA, including
  
• Government of Southern Sudan established
• Establishment of the Southern Sudan Legislative
  Assembly, Southern Sudan Council of Ministers,
  the Judiciary of Southern Sudan (Supreme Court
  and Courts of Appeal) and Southern Sudan State
  legislative assemblies and councils of ministers
• Enactment of the Interim Constitution of Southern
  Sudan (ICSS)
  
• Preparations of model interim state
  constitutions
  
• Significant gains at the cluster level, as will
  be highlighted now.
  
• But, delays in both establishing and
  operationalizing the CPA and insecurity on the
  ground means that implementation is behind
  schedule
• ?Need for accelerated efforts, and the enabling
  donor assistance, to effectively address the
  daunting challenges of peace and development
  

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GOSS Capacity Building and Institutional
Development

• Progress in 2005
• Creation of a caretaker administration at the
  GOSS and state levels
  
• Mission statements, goals, and objectives
  developed by most Ministries, with strong
  pro-development focus
  
• Decision taken to contract-in capacity for all
  GOSS procurement
  
• Priorities for 2006
• Finalize legislation and policies for the civil
  service
  
• Initiate the implementation of a decentralized
  administrative system and the intergovernmental
  fiscal system/framework
  

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GOSS Governance and Rule of Law

• Progress to date, as noted above
• Priorities for 2006
• Adopt State Constitutions
• Establish key independent institutions and
  commissions
  
• Review statutory law and practices for gender
  bias pass appropriate laws and regulations
  
• Establish judiciary of Southern Sudan
• Finalize regulatory framework for media

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GOSS Productive Sectors

• Progress in 2005
• Ministries formed, and visions and structures
  laid out
  
• One-year action plan for private sector
  development being developed
  
• Formation of Southern Sudan Chamber of Commerce.
• Priorities for 2006
• Build capacity of the new ministries, and improve
  coordination
  
• Develop a regulatory framework, assisted by
  findings from key assessments (investment climate
  assessment, value chain analysis)
  
• Construct market centers in ten localities
• Operationalize agricultural extension and
  veterinary services
  
• Launch micro-enterprise development and
  micro-finance schemes
  
• Conduct environmental impact assessments in key
  sectors
  
• Accelerate public-private sector dialogue on the
  business climate

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GOSS Basic Social Services

• Progress so far
• New strategy adopted by the Ministry of
  Education, Science and Technology
  
• Review of health policy framework is underway
• Sectoral programs for education and health
  developed and approved for MDTF co-financing
  
• Priorities for 2006
• Education review and revise policies in light
  of the CPA, INC, ICSS
  
• Expand basic education and infrastructure,
  improve gender equity, build local capacity to
  manage education, and strengthen secondary and
  tertiary education
• Health
• Plan for and invest in human resource
  development
  
• Increase coverage of selected high-impact
  interventions (i.e. immunization and insecticidal
  nets for malaria prevention)
  
• Scale up sustainable water and sanitation service
  delivery

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GOSS Infrastructure

• Progress so far
• Intensive work on the foundations for an
  accelerated infrastructure program
  
• Grant agreement signed (MDTF) in December for
  200 million for infrastructure development in
  2006
  
• Priorities for 2006
• Rehabilitation projects
• Basic urban infrastructure and services in Juba
  and 10 state capitals
  
• Emergency roads
• Manage civil aviation activities in Southern
  Sudan
  
• Conduct feasibility studies (cement factory at
  Kapoeta and hydro-electric dam at Fulla Falls
  trunk road construction)
  
• Provide basic electricity to at least 75 percent
  of towns and larger villages
  

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GOSS Livelihoods

• In 2005, considerable number of IDPs returned in
  2005
  
• Priorities in 2006 as returns accelerate
• Putting community-driven recovery programs in
  place both basic social services and income
  generating opportunities as well as protection,
  reconciliation, and capacity strengthening of
  local authorities and communities
• Food security programs
• Implement emergency DDR program focusing on child
  soldiers and women accompanying combatants
  
• Formulate policies and programs for sale and
  control of small arms and light weapons, and
  establish an arms-control program

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GOSS Information and statistics

• Progress in 2005
• Strategic plans for the Southern Sudan Centre for
  Census, Statistics and Evaluation (SSCCSE) within
  the Population Census Plan
  
• Prepared and finalized population census tools
  and Full Project Proposal for MDTF support
  
• Priorities for 2006
• Technical review of the Statistical Act and
  establish the SSCCSE
  
• Conduct the Sudan Household Health Survey in all
  states of Southern Sudan
  
• Produce and disseminate MDG summary report
• Produce basic economic statistics (e.g. consumer
  prices)
  
• Develop Southern Sudan Statistical Master Plan

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2.Role of development assistance

• In Oslo, the international community pledged to a
  fruitful partnership with the Sudanese people in
  reconstruction and development.
  
• The GNU and GOSS welcome the ongoing increases in
  development assistance in recent years, and
  recognise the continuing need for life-saving
  humanitarian activities, especially in Darfur.
• There is a range of delivery mechanisms for
  external support, from externally contracted and
  managed activities, to the pooled funding of the
  MDTF which implements programs jointly with the
  GNU and GOSS with active country ownership.

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Financing requests, 2006

• National budget projects external support for
  pro-poor programs of US 386 million, to
  complement own planned spending on pro-poor
  development, of 836 million, plus significant
  increases in current transfers to the northern
  states.
• of which 173.2 million to be channeled through
  MDTF-N
  
• GOSS request of US 300 million for development
  activities, supporting the strong pro-poor focus
  of the GOSS budget in 2006, wherein about 75
  percent of total spending is being directed to
  pro-poor activities.
• Donor disbursements constrained in 2005 by the
  slow start in establishing GOSS structures and
  systems, but are now expected to accelerate
  

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Conclusions

• Significant progress in 2005, despite the
  challenges
  
• Progress set to accelerate in 2006 and beyond
• Financing requests are large, but justified given
  the substantial increases in our own pro-poor
  spending to meet the commitments laid out in the
  JAM and the CPA
• Subsequent SC sessions aim to deepen
  understanding and dialogue in key areas
  especially budget and pro-poor spending,
  decentralisation, infrastructure and rural
  development