The activities proposed hereafter are still subject to the adoption of the financing decision ECHO/WWD/BUD/2014/01000 AMOUNT: EUR 80000000
CONTEXT
Given the strong interdependence between the crisis dynamics in Sudan and South Sudan, DG ECHO considers that one regional HIP covering the two countries will help to ensure that interventions in both countries are relevant and consistent.
DG ECHO's Integrated Analysis Framework for 2013-14 identified extreme humanitarian needs in South Sudan and high humanitarian needs in Sudan. The vulnerability of the population affected by the crisis is assessed to be very high and high in the two countries.
Insecurity and multiple localised conflicts prevail in both countries. The mandate for the three peace-keeping operations has been extended throughout 2013. UNMISS is in place in South Sudan; UNIFSA in the Abyei area and UNAMID in Darfur.
The lack of substantial progress in finding solutions to a number of outstanding issues (many inherited from the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA)) has contributed to further misunderstandings and conflicts.
These successive animosities led to the UN Security Council issuing Resolution (2046), which strongly called on both States to resume negotiations leaving the possibility open to sanctions should this not be achieved. In September 2012, this resulted in Sudan and South Sudan signing cooperation agreements, later referred to as the Addis Ababa Agreements, which in principle laid the basis for two viable states living side by side in peaceful co-existence. The meeting between the presidents held in Khartoum in September 2013 resulted in commitments to resolve the outstanding issues over border demarcation, Abyei, and oil flow.
The precarious economic situation of both countries remained a major concern in 2013, and it is likely to be so as well throughout 2014 and beyond. The shutdown of the oil production in South Sudan in 2012 seriously affected the economies of both Sudan and South Sudan that have not recovered yet despite the partial resumption of the oil flow between the two countries.