Resource information
The aim of the rapid assessment is to
support the transition from emergency post conflict recovery
to a development approach. The completion of the water,
sanitation, and hygiene, or WASH strategic framework in 2011
was intended to mark the beginning of this transition in the
water resources sector. Among other things, the transition
involved the adjustment of policy and strategy and possibly
a rethinking of approaches as the government shifts from
primarily supply-driven emergency and recovery assistance to
sustainable development. This assessment is based on a
review of the typology of water uses in South Sudan (chapter
three) including rain-fed and irrigated agriculture,
livestock, fisheries, hydropower energy production, urban
and rural domestic water supply and the environment; the
government's water sector program priorities (chapter
four); water sector institutional and policy environment
(chapter five); and issues and lessons learned from the
completed and ongoing activities since 2007. This assessment
framework has provided useful insights and findings and
outcomes that enabled the identification of programmatic
priorities and related activities that the water sector
agencies may undertake with the assistance from development
partners in the short and medium term. Chapters six, seven,
and eight present these findings in detail.
