The Communications Unit at SUDIA officially launched their Communications Strategy by gathering all staff, including people from the field offices in Al Damazin and Al Fashir, to conduct a brainstorming about how to collectively put the Strategy into action. The workshop was a team-building experience and contributed to a positive atmosphere within SUDIA

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Our interactive, visual leadership trainings have been successfully conducted and 72 attendees in four different workshops have been trained on how to make use of their creative potential.

The participants expressed their deep interest in the content of the course and showed great enthusiasm. As the energy filled the training room, it was clear to SUDIA's staff that a lot of buried talents have emerged while Martine Vanremoortele was igniting those timed bombs. Receiving many requests, SUDIA is now considering another round of creativity training programs and Martine seems happy about the idea of coming back sometime and work with brilliant minds and creative potentials.

The initial launching of the Media Monitoring Center at SUDIA was on the 14^th of February 2010, within the Media and Elections in Sudan- project funded by the UNDP.

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From the 16^th to the 19^th of January, SUDIA hosted an inspiring workshop at the HQ. The research manager of SUDIA’s international partner Media Monitoring Africa (MMA), Samuel Wellington Radu, came to share his knowledge and tailor their methodology for the Sudanese context. Journalists, civil society activists and media monitors spent four days discussing the best way to incorporate the gender related issues of Sudan into the MMA framework.

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The Alexandria Business men Association (ABA) is arranging a workshop for NGOs and MFIs active in the field of microfinance, in Alexandria from the 22^nd to the 24^th of November. 25 participants from different Arabic speaking countries are invited to attend a three day training course...

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The Social Reintegration Project targeting ex-combatants in the two Blue Nile State villages is now coming to its end. Several successful social mobilization activities have been carried out recently, among others sports and theater events and a concert from which you can catch a glimpse if you click on 'more' and scroll down the SUDIA blog. Due to recent outbreak of violence and increased military presence on the ground Zariba village in Kurmuk locality had to be cut out of the program. The images presented here are from Zindia Village, Roseiris.

SUDIA, the Sudanese Development Initiative, invites you to design its new logo.

As the country forges ahead into a new future, SUDIA is also moving on, with new projects and partners, and a more established niche in civil society.

The winner will be awarded SDG1000 as an ex gratia prize, and the prestige of seeing their logo being used on all of SUDIA’s materials.

SUDIA’s plans to visit Blue Nile State to continue preparatory work and ongoing activities on the following projects have been put on hold until further notice:

-          Outreach and Radio Project

-          Peace Building for Development Project

-          Social Reintegration of Ex-combatants

Two SUDIA representatives attended a DDR-related workshop in the Burgh al-Fateh Wednesday the 17th of August. The idea behind this UNDP led initiative was for Implementation Partners (IPs) to share their experience and the lessons learned so far in the field of DDR in the Sudan (and elsewhere).

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Micro-credit activities represent a major part of our work in combatting poverty and unemployment amongst under-served communities in the places where we work. To this end we are constantly expanding our network of partner organizations which can act as 'lending outlets' and increasing our loan capital through partnerships with Banks and the Private Sector.

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