World Bank: Southern Sudan Must Involve Citizens Early in Devising Development Strategies
ADDIS ABABA, 14th February, 2011: Following an historic referendum (folkeafstemning) in Southern Sudan, the World Bank offered advice to the leaders of the world’s soon-to-be newest independent nation to involve their citizens early on in devising (udstikke/udarbejde) development strategies.
– There is no silver bullet (patentløsning) for building a newly-independent nation like Southern Sudan, said World Bank Vice President for the Africa Region Obiageli Ezekwesili in an interview with the BBC at the African Union summit earlier this month.
– However, leaders or just the elite cannot determine the vision of the nation all on their own. They need to involve their citizens early on in devising any development strategy, she added.
Ezekwesili spoke ahead of her planned visit to Sudans capital, Khartoum, and Juba, the main city of Southern Sudan, which was soon after postponed to an unnamed later date.
– There needs to be a clear and shared sense of joint investment in the future of a prosperous nation. There needs to be an analysis of the opportunities and weaknesses within society and a definition of roles for all actors, including the government, private sector and citizens, Ezekwesili added.
She stressed the need to seek and take into consideration the contributions of every stakeholder (aktør):
* the relatively small private sector,
* the budding civil society,
* the academia,
* media organizations,
* faith-based organizations,
* the opposition groups that may emerge, and
* community organizations such as those representing the interests of the most vulnerable groups including
* youth, women, the elderly, the physically challenged, Sudanese returnees or internally displaced and victims of war.
Southern Sudan is expected to achieve independence in July 2011 when the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement, the agreement that ended decades of armed conflict, expires.
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