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Sudan, UN sign 1.4 bln USD worth assistance framework

Xinhua, April 26, 2017 Adjust font size:

Sudan Government and the UN on Wednesday signed the UN Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) for 2018-2021, which worth 1.4 billion dollars.

The framework, signed by Osman Ahmed Fadul Wash, Sudan's Minister of International Cooperation, and Marta Ruedas, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, constitutes the planning framework for UN development collaboration in Sudan over the next four years.

Sudan and the UN vowed during the signing ceremony to foster cooperation, coordination and partnership to implement the UNDAF as the UN's contribution towards national development plans and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

"This framework helps in addressing challenges facing sustainable development and social work in Sudan such as displacement, migration, refuge, and the social and economic effects of these issues as well," said Sudan's Minister of International Cooperation Osman Ahmed Fadul Wash.

Marta Ruedas, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, for her part, said that "the new UNDAF is an exceptional opportunity for the UN system to enable an early take-off of the SDGs in Sudan and closely align its support behind the essential ambitions of Sudan's national development plans."

"The SDGs are extraordinarily ambitious and complex, and require everyone, including the UN, to approach development innovatively. We will need to work across sectors in an all-of-society effort for these ambitions," she noted.

The formulation of the UNDAF, which was based on extensive consultations with different national stakeholders, including government partners and civil society, was overseen by a government-UN task force, coordinated by the Ministry of International Cooperation, established in June 2015. Endit