Pact Sudan Country Programme

Pact believes that increasing the capability of local communities and organisations to manage peacebuilding activities at the grassroots level will be a more effective road towards sustainable peace.

Overview

Pact is a networked global organisation that builds the capacity of local leaders and organisations to meet pressing social needs in dozens of countries around the world. Its work is firmly rooted in the belief that local communities must be the driving force in ending poverty and injustice.

From its work, the organisation has drawn three important conclusions:

• people-to-people peacebuilding is only fully effective within a defined accountable governance environment;
• the scope and level of engagement in peacebuilding must be at a sufficient scale to have an impact;
• the hierarchy of interventions of people-to-people peacebuilding must be implemented strategically, so that each intervention creates the space for the next phase of activities to allow the process to root and grow.

What Services Are Provided?

• capacity building on conflict transformation;
• organisational development;
• technical accompaniment by peace practitioners;
• small grants to implement activities;
• in-kind grants to support communication infrastructure and rapid response capacities.

Geographical area of operation

PACT Sudan works in five focus areas around Central and Southern Sudan: Wunlit cluster, Pankar cluster, Kiir cluster, Central and Pibor clusters, and Kidepo cluster. For a map giving precise locations, see Pact Sudan

Associated Organisations

USAID/Office for Transition Initiatives (OTI); USAID/Office for Food and Agriculture (OFDA); USAID/Sudan Peace Fund (SPF); USAID/Conflict Management and Mitigation (CMM); DFID; Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs; UN High Commissioner for Refugees; UN Development Programme for Local Government.