TECHNICAL DOCUMENTS

There shall be established Abyei Area Security Committee, chaired by the Chief Administrator, and shall comprise of the Deputy Chief Administrator, the Army Commander, the Police Chief, and the representative of the Security Organ.

Without prejudice to the Agreement on Security Arrangements, the two Parties shall, through the Interim Period form and deploy one joint battalion in the Area.

International monitors, as shall be agreed in the comprehensive Cease-fire Agreement shall also be deployed in the Area through the Interim Period.

International monitors shall be deployed to Abyei to ensure full implementation of these Agreements.

Table 1: Vision and Sectoral Strategic Objectives

• Sustainable repatriation and return of 155,000 IDPs and refugees and provision of essential basic services, social protection and legal aid.

• Meeting the resettlement and reconstruction needs of the returnees.

• Promotion of peace building and reconciliation in Abyei area.

• Capacity building and institutional development of the civil administration.

• Implementation of Abyei Protocol, particularly the Abyei Boundaries Commission report

• Establishment of governance institutions and strengthening their capacities, including aligning their practices according to the norms of transparent and law abiding governance.

• Implementation of Abyei Protocol, particularly the implementation of Abyei Boundaries Commission (ABC) report and Abyei Referendum Commission, conducting a census and elections and monitoring implementation of Abyei Protocol.

• Establishment of efficient and transparent security, law enforcement and correctional institutions.

• Creation of public information institutions for accessing and disseminating information as well as promoting civic education through training programmes and setting up services such as FM radios, TV stations, and mobile cinema.

• Promotion of indigenous cultures.

• Civilian Protection and Promotion of Human Rights.

• Restructuring civil society so as to result in an economically viable and socially cohesive community.  

• Reviving, restructuring and strengthening traditional institutions and mechanisms for conflict prevention, management and resolution.

• Convening intra-community meetings for cohesion and unity amongst the Ngok Dinka.

• Convening inter-community grassroots peace and reconciliation conferences for peaceful co-existence with Missiriya Arabs and other neighbouring communities.

• Tracing, rehabilitating and counselling enslaved or abducted children and women and

• Disarmament of civilian population through special Demobilization, Disarmament and Reintegration (DDR) programmes in Abyei Area.

• Establishing electrical and appropriate solar power systems to meet the needs of 270,000 residents of Abyei area.

• Establishing managed urban systems to provide safe drinking water and sanitation for about 270,000 persons.

• Establishing functioning telecommunications services (telephone, fax, internet and e-mail communications) that are reliable and predictable.

• Rehabilitating 2 airstrips, constructing another two airstrips and supporting 270,000 persons with public means of land and river transport. 

• Setting up Abyei Alternative Housing Scheme with initial provision of 600 houses in the first year as start-up and revolving capital.

• Increased crop production through provision of agricultural tools and implements for the returnees.

• Increased livestock production by converting rural livelihood from one of subsistence animal husbandry to commercial farming based largely on increasing the productivity of small animal husbandry.

• Sustainable exploitation of fishery resources through provision of fishing equipment for the returnees.

• Ensuring environmental sustainability through increased forest production and sustainable protection of the environment and wildlife.

• Promotion and support of private sector to create job opportunities.  

• Creating an appropriate economic policy environment to combat poverty and ensure proper management of natural resources.

• Establishment of financial management and audit systems.

• Establishment of effective fiscal management and budget control system.

• Setting up an effective public sector procurement system.

• Setting up statistical system to collect the necessary baseline information for planning, poverty eradication strategy and monitoring of MDGs.

• Creating a conducive and legal environment for financial sector and insurance industry based on clear international prudential regulations.

• Establishment and management of Abyei Resettlement, Construction and Development Fund (ARCDF).

• Initiating urban and rural physical planning for long-term safety and environmental friendly urban settlements.

• Empowering community and encouraging participatory development and community-based planning.       

• Establishment of pre-primary education by building and supporting 90 pre-primary schools.

• Establishment of effective primary education by constructing and operating 125 primary schools.

• Setting-up functioning secondary and technical schools by building and sustaining 8 secondary schools.

• Constructing and operating 4 multiple-purpose vocational training centres.

• Raising awareness and advocacy for the girl – child education, gender and social change.

• Promoting and supporting accelerated learning programmes and adults literacy education for the out – of – school, over – aged children and ex – child combatants and illiterate adults.

• Strengthening existing non-formal education programmes e.g. distance learning programme.

• Intensifying teacher and educational officer’s training to cover about 1,400 teachers and education officers.

• Establishing effective primary health care programme by building and operating 30 primary health care units (PHCU) and 10 primary health care centres (PHCCs).

• Establishing effective secondary health programme by building and operating three (3) referral hospitals.

• Establishing effective sanitation and public health programme.

• Establishing affordable and sustainable community-based rural water supply system by digging, rehabilitating and maintaining 39 deep boreholes, 10 shallow boreholes and 14 water reservoirs.

• Intensifying training of 120 health personnel and 265 community health workers.

• The total financial requirement for full implementation of the AASAP over the three year period (2005-2007) is estimated at US$ 175 million, of which US$ 82 million is allocated for 2005, US$ 52 million for 2006 and US$ 41 million is allocated  for 2007. These estimates do not include the humanitarian needs such as food aid and protection.

• These financial figures show the best estimates and judgment on the capacity of local institutions to implement the AASAP, particularly absorption and management of resources. Some critical assumptions were made and considered regarding the practicable implementation of the AASP. These assumptions include the pace and patterns of return of IDPs and refugees, logistical capacity for procuring and distributing all necessary inputs and the expected timeframe for establishing simple and adequate systems for financial management and accounting. Besides these assumptions, a set of common socio-economic baseline indicators were used to assess different sectoral needs.

• Given lack of accurate data, it is worth mentioning that the estimates of the financial requirements for AASAP probably do not reflect the entire needs of the area, but they provide the general trend of the needs that can be realistically met during the first three years of the peace agreement.

• Given the current situation in the area, it is unlikely that significant public revenues can be generated over the next three years. Given the limited capacity of the local administration to increase its revenue stream, the total financial requirements for the vast majority of identified needs are likely to require external donor assistance. Yet, it is most likely that, given the development of oil resources in the area, a revenue stream for local government will substantially increase, particularly in the third year, after the peace agreement.

• The successful of the AASAP will demand the establishment of effective local coordination mechanisms to manage the new resources that will be made available to Abyei area from internal and external sources. These resources are to be managed within the overall budget-based plan so as to provide the necessary financial discipline and effective management of resources to realize the specified outcomes of AASAP. It is apparent that there is urgent need to establish effective financial management and budgetary mechanisms as soon as possible.

• Given high expectations and the challenges ahead, the need for a strong and concerted effort to mobilize and meet the financial requirements for AASAP is real and urgent so as to maintain security and give a real meaning to peace.