Project Title: Integrated Management of the Sudd Wetland

IWMI Theme: Water Management and Environment

Project Description	Sudd Stakeholders Workshop 27 - 29 March 2008, Juba, Southern Sudan
Project Duration
Geographical Focus
Partners
Donors
For more information contact: Yasir A. Mohamed
International Water Management Institute, P.O. Box 5689, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Project Duration: 

January 2008 to August 2008

Geographical Focus: 

The Sudd Wetland: Sudan

The Sudd Wetland, located in Southern Sudan, is one of Africa’s largest wetlands; it supports a diversity of ecosystems services. After the peace agreement of 2005, the area becomes stable and attracting many of the displaced people. Though the Sudd people are poor, the wetland is well endowed with rich natural resources to support the livelihoods of the people, while still maintaining the health of the ecosystems.

The goal of this project is to develop research proposals for knowledge generation, sharing and application activities that will contribute to improvements in the livelihoods of the local inhabitants in the Sudd wetland, while ensuring ecosystem resilience, and efficient water use. The planned project(s) is classified into: short and long term plans, implemented at two levels: small (pilots), and large (entire) Sudd wetland, respectively.

Partners 

• • IWMI (lead)
  • WaterWatch
  • UNESCO-IHE
  • Juba University, Sudan
  • Upper Nile University, Sudan
  
  Partners are working in close collaboration with other stakeholders: local ministries, NGOs, NBI-NTEAP among others.

Donors

This proposal development is carried out with the financial support from Wetlands International under the Seed Funding Facility of the Wetlands and Poverty Reduction Project financed by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Matching funds were also provided from IWMI, UNESCO-IHE and WaterWatch. The Ministry of Water Resources, Southern Sudan provided support to the stakeholders’ workshop.