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46474849505152535455565758596061626364656667686970717273See, for example, the American Refugee Committee‟s program in Northern Bahr-el-Ghazal,which provides an integrated package of services to survivors of gender-based violence.See Jill Shankleman, 'Oil and State Building in South Sudan: New Country, Old Industry'(United States Institute of Peace, July 2011).Annual Needs and Livelihoods Analysis Technical Group, above n 6, x- xi.Interview with man in Nanziri village, Western Equatoria, June 2011; see also Annual Needsand Livelihoods Analysis Technical Group, above n 6, x.World Food Program, 'Emergency Food Security Assessment for Returnees in South Sudan'(February 2011) 5.Ibid 5.See Bennett et al, above n 8, 81 and South Sudan Protection Cluster, above n 34, 10. TheSouth Sudan Development Plan also recognises that „in a development strategy which seeks toenable the small scale agriculture sector, clarification of property rights and land tenure,including for women farmers, is crucial‟: GoSS, „Economic Development Pillar‟ in South SudanDevelopment Plan (Draft, April 2011) 7.See Famine Early Warning Systems Network, 'Sudan: Referendum Impacts on Market Flowsand Livelihoods' (May 2011).Interview with community member, Nanziri, Yambio county, Western Equatoria, June 2011.Interview with YAFA, Yambio county, Western Equatoria, June 2011.Language taken from the provisions on border issues (unpublished), agreed between theGovernment of Sudan and the Sudan People‟s Liberation Movement in negotiations facilitatedby the African Union High Level Implementation Panel in July 2011. For a summary of thenegotiations see African Union High Level Implementation Panel for Sudan, Preparing for TwoSudans, A Future of Peace and Cooperation: Statement on the Status of Negotiations betweenthe Government of the Republic of Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (AddisAbaba, 8 July 2011).Transitional Constitution of South Sudan 2011, art 168(8).Local Government Act 2009 (South Sudan), Appendix II, Schedule I(1).See GoSS, „Fragile States Survey‟, above n 11, 8; Bennett et al, above n 8, 67.GoSS, „Medium Term Capacity Building Strategy‟ in South Sudan Development Plan (Draft 2,May 2011) 15.Interviews with government officials and UN staff, Juba, Upper Nile and Western Equatoria,May-June 2011. See also Southern Sudan NGO Forum, 'Governance Capacity Building atCounty Level' (May 2011) (paper based on a desk-based study of 62 county governmentinstitutions, across 42 counties across all 10 states, December – March 2011).See Southern Sudan NGO Forum, 'Governance Capacity Building at County Level' (May2011).Interviews with government officials and UN staff, Juba, Upper Nile and Western Equatoria,May-June 2011.Email correspondence from NGO staff, Juba, June 2011.GoSS, Draft Aid Strategy for the Government of South Sudan (March 2011) 14-5.For a detailed critique of the MDTF see Wendy Fenton, 'Funding Mechanisms in SouthernSudan: NGO Perspectives' (February 2008) at 18-19.Terri Morris, „A Massive Humanitarian Emergency‟ on Medecins Sans Frontieres, Voices fromthe Field (7 July 2011).GoSS, „Fragile States Survey‟, above n 11, 8.Bennett et al, above n 8, 132.See also the The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (adopted at the 1 st High Level Forumon Aid Effectiveness, Paris, 28 February - 2 March 2005) („Paris Declaration’) principle 17,which provides that „using a country‟s own institutions and systems, where these provideassurance that aid will be used for agreed purposes, increases aid effectiveness…‟On this point see DFID, „Managing Fiduciary Risk when Providing Financial Aid‟ (DFID PracticePaper, December 2009).See Paris Declaration art 26; Principles and Good Practice of Humanitarian Donorship(Stockholm, 17 June 2003) art 5; Fragile States Principles art 9.See Fenton, above n 66; Southern Sudan NGO Forum, 'Pooled Funds and ManagementAgents' (March 2011); Bennett et al, above n 8, 72.37