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With the prospect of peace in the horizon, the Government of Sudan (GoS) and the Sudanese Peoples Liberation Movement (SPLM) are gearing up to recovery and reconstruction, in which infrastructure and capacity building are expected to feature prominently. During the years of conflicts, local communities carried out emergency infrastructure rehabilitation activities, with support from among others the World Food Programme through a “Food for Work” approach. The prospects for peace have improved the feasibility of more developmental approach to infrastructure rehabilitation and rehabilitation, which, by using local labour including internally displaced persons (IDPs), will also contribute to peace building. A key priority is the capacity building up of government institutions. ASIST, at the request of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Sudan Southern Sector, Secretariat for Physical Infrastructure, has carried out an assessment of labour-based training programme for county-based road supervisers.

Labour-based Road Project South Darfur State

In 1997, ILO provided technical assistance to the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)/United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) funded labour-based road project South Darfur State. The project, valued at US$ 5.5 million over three years sought to construct 86 km of roads and develop a viable local labour-based road contracting capacity within the private sector, allied with a parallel development of the State Ministry of Engineering Affairs (SMEA) technical staff. Seven small sized contracting firms underwent a 20-week comprehensive training programme and were involved in the execution of trial contracts. The project was implemented by the SMEA whilst a local consulting company did the management and supervision.

Más información

• Report on a joint ILO/UNICEF mission to evaluate progress and planning
  Project SUD/97/C01 & 007 construction of the Nyala - Id El Fursan road South Darfur State, Sudan. Charles Williams, ILO/UNICEF, 1999.
• Labour-intensive special public works programmes El Obeid district - Kordofan region, El Fasher district - Darfur region
  Consultancy for appropriate building technology, J. Eijgelaar, 1989.
• Interim report on water conservation, harvesting and flood control
  Special public works programme El Fasher District, Darfur region. R.F. Camacho, International Labour Office (ILO), 1990.