By Hilde F. Johnson
In July 2011, South Sudan used to be granted independence and have become the world's most up-to-date state. but simply two-and-a-half years after this momentous choice, the rustic used to be within the grips of renewed civil conflict and political strife. Hilde F. Johnson served as exact consultant of the Secretary-General and Head of the United international locations venture within the Republic of South Sudan from July 2011 until eventually July 2014. As such, she used to be witness to the numerous demanding situations which the rustic confronted because it struggled to regulate to its new self reliant nation. during this ebook, she presents an exceptional insider's account of South Sudan's descent from the ecstatic celebrations of July 2011 to the outbreak of the disastrous clash in December 2013 and the early, bloody section of the battling. Johnson's common own and personal contacts on the optimum degrees of presidency, observed by means of her deep wisdom of the rustic and its historical past, make this a distinct eyewitness account of the turbulent first 3 years of the world's newest―and but such a lot fragile― state.
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It was important to get it right from the outset. Aware of the challenges, I had proposed establishment – several months before the signing of the CPA – of a trust fund. The Capacity Building Trust Fund (CBTF) was meant to assist in transforming the SPLM/A into a civilian administration, establishing the nascent government of Southern Sudan, assisting with some recurrent costs in the ‘pre-interim’ period, and funding early peace dividends. The CBTF would thus be an interim financing mechanism until the MultiDonor Trust Fund (MDTF) administered by the World Bank started to disburse funds.
Lessons learned by other liberation movements were not applied. John Garang’s vision of ‘bringing the towns to the people’ (in ideological opposition to Khartoum’s centralization) was never realized. 51 Although capacity was built in a number of areas, much more would have been achieved if a strategic, systematic approach had been adopted and resources had been controlled and wisely spent. Both donors and liberators must account for the absence of comprehensive development of the core functions of the state during the interim period.
Corruption must be fought […] some years back the Chairman in a meeting informed us that Cdr. Deng Alor brought some money from Nigeria, but how that money was spent had never been explained to us again. ’38 Dr John did not dispute some of these charges in his conversations with me. He agreed that it was very important to establish robust systems of financial control, particularly for the petroleum sector, contracts and financial transfers. I proposed a series of measures, based on best practice internationally, to combat the problem.