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Project Summary

Project/Activity Title:  Sensitization Project in South Kordofan State and Khartoum

Target Group:  All

Sector:  Civilian peace-building, conflict prevention and resolution, Reintegration and SALW control, Communications

Date:  June 2012 - September 2012

Budget:  SDG 306,031

Where the money goes:

Project/Activity brief and purpose:  This project aims at implementing a multidimensional public sensitization campaign to raise awareness of the urgent need for peace in South Kordofan and to promote action for peaceful coexistence. It also seeks to put people from South Kordofan in direct contact with those in Khartoum; reflect public messages supporting peace from both locations, and sensitize people in South Kordofan and Khartoum to Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR), Community Security and Small Arms Control (CSAC) and women’s rights. Main activities include a multi-media outreach campaign, a large free concert to be held in Khartoum on 30th August and community outreach comprising theatre, community radio and public events in five places in South Kordofan. The project hopes to contribute to a more vibrant, outward-looking, informed and peaceful cultural scene in Sudan.

Key activities:  Specifically SUDIA will; arrange a Project inception workshop, organize and deliver a ‘Mobilize for Peace’ concert/festival in Khartoum, design and implement an outreach campaign in South Kordofan, and continuously conduct monitoring and reporting.

Client/Donor: UNDP DDR

Partners:  SDDRP, JCRP, Beshaish Theatre Group, Vanguard Co.

Location:  Khartoum: Kharṭoum, South Kordofan: Kadugli

Ref: 12_06.UNDP/DDR .41_04

Press Releases

Project News

Mobilize for Peace - Press Conference - Wednesday, July 11, 2012
The press conference signalling the start of the campaign of the Peace sensitization project under the slogan Mobilize for Peace was held at the offices of the SDDRC – Central Sector in Khartoum. The press conference was attended by the Commissioner General of the SDDR, Dr. Sulafeldin Salih, the head of the UNDP-DDR Program, Kumar and Abdelatie Eid, Vice President of SUDIA.

Some 17 representatives from TV, radio and newspapers were present at the event and the event was well covered in both the TV and the Press the following day.
 
The Mobilize for Peace campaign aims to raise awareness to the urgent need for peace in South Kordofan and to generate action for peaceful coexistence, community security and women’s rights. The project is an SDDRC and UNDP DDR Unit, and is being implemented by national NGO SUDIA (the Sudanese Development Initiative) in partnership with media production house Vanguard Services Co Ltd and Beshaish Group for Performing Arts, based in El-Obeid, North Kordofan State. 

See www.mobilizeforpeace.com or check out the Facebook page.