7:      GOVERNMENTAL AND NON-GOVERNMENTAL RELIEF AGENCIES DEALING WITH SUDAN AND INFORMATION SOURCES ON RELIEF ISSUES


African Centre for Human Advocacy, The
"With limited resources... ACHA's employees are daily working around the clock to help people of southern Sudan". A Christian oriented pro-rebel group.
http://www.theacha.org

African Rights
"Working for Justice - Africa's problems seen from an African perspective". Has produced the reports "Facing Genocide: The Nuba of Sudan", July 1995 and  "Food and Power in Sudan: A Critique of Humanitarianism", May 1997
http://www.unimondo.org/AfricanRights

Al Mahgoub Foundation
"The main mission of Al Mahgoub Foundation is to bring together a national and international team of professionals whose main concern is the well being and good future of Sudan."
http://www.sudan.com/mahgoub

Brookings Institution-CUNY Graduate Center Project on Internal Displacement
http://www.brookings.edu/dybdocroot/projects/idp/idp.htm

Catholic Relief Services
http://www.catholicrelief.org
http://www.catholicrelief.org/where_we_work/africa/sudan/index.cfm
Statement of Paul Townsend, Country Representative Sudan Programme, Catholic Relief Services to Senate Foreign Relations Committee Subcommittee on African Affairs - "Implementing US Policy in Sudan"
http://www.catholicrelief.org/where_we_work/africa/sudan/index.cfm

Christian Aid
http://www.christian-aid.org.uk/index.htm
http://www.christian-aid.org.uk/world/where/eagl/sudanp.htm
Account of its work in Sudan
http://www.christian-aid.org.uk/indepth/0103suda/sudanoil.htm
The Scorched Earth: Oil and War in Sudan - A Report

And see also:
Arrogant, Misleading and Prejudiced: Christian Aid on Sudan
http://www.espac.org/oil_pages/arrogant.html

Dr. Curtis F. Doebbler - "Sudan, Human Rights, War and Humanitarian Assistance"
http://dcregistry.com/users/Sudan

GDIN.org
"[A] voluntary, independent, self-sustaining, non-profit association of nations, organisations, and professionals, from all sectors of society including NGO's, Industry, Academia, Governments, and International Organisations with an interest in sharing disaster information. The aim of GDIN is to provide the right information, in the right format, to the right people, in time to make the right decisions."  Use their search engine to locate material on Sudan.
http://www.gdin-international.org

Global IDP Project of the Norwegian Refugee Council, The
"Raising awareness on the plight of people internally displaced by conflict".
http://www.db.idpproject.org

Sudan Information Menu
http://www.db.idpproject.org/Sites/idpSurvey.nsf/wCountries/Sudan

International Crisis Group, The
"A private, multinational organisation committed to strengthening the capacity of the international community to anticipate, understand and act to prevent and contain conflict". The ICG has recently come to focus on Sudan. Sadly, their Sudan project is headed by John Prendergast, the architect of the Clinton Administration's farcical and failed Sudanese policy. His continuing bias is obvious.
http://www.intl-crisis.group.org

And also see:
"No Lesson Learned: A Review of John Prendergast's 'God, Oil and Country: Changing the Logic of War in Sudan'"
http://www.espac.org/oil_pages/no_lesson_learned.html

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent  Societies - Appeals and Situation Reports
http://www.ifrc.org/
http://www.ifrc.org/news/sitreps/

International Red Cross Committee
http://www.icrc.org
http://www.icrc.org/icrceng.nsf/CountryDetails?Readform&Country=Sudan
For a summary of ICRC activities in Sudan

Integrated Regional Information Networks - IRIN News.org
"[P]art of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs... Its reporting focuses on strengthening universal access to timely, strategic and non-partisan information so as to enhance the capacity of the humanitarian community to understand, respond to and avert emergencies. IRIN further supports efforts at conflict resolution and reconciliation by countering misinformation and propaganda... IRIN... takes an increasingly broad view of what comprises 'humanitarianism' and seeks to cover the full range of humanitarian issues from the abuse of rights to the environment".
Use their search engine to locate material on Sudan.
http://www.irinnews.org/homepage.asp

Mundri Relief and Development (MRDA)
"[A]n indigenous Sudanese non-governmental organisation with a primary objective of helping people in need where and when possible... Providing humanitarian assistance to the suffering People of South Sudan... It has several offices... in the United Kingdom (London), Spain (Barcelona), Kenya (Nairobi) and the main office in the Sudan (Mundri)". Appears to be related to the rebel SPLA.
http://www.newsudanweb.com/mrda_doc.html

Norwegian Peoples Aid
http://www.npaid.org

And see also:
Perpetuating Conflict and Sustaining Repression:NPA and the Militarisation of Aid in Sudan
http://www/espac.org/norwegian_pages/norwegian_aid.html

OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database - Natural Disaster Profile
http://www.cred.be/
http://www.cred.be/emdat/profiles/natural/sudan.htm

OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database - Technological Disaster Profile
http://www.cred.be/
http://www.cred.be/emdat/profiles/techno/sudan.htm

OXFAM Community Aid Abroad
http://www.caa.org.au/world/africa/sudan/index.html

Pageri Organisation
"The mission of Pageri Organisation is to address some problems faced by Southern Sudanese, and are affected by the civil war who have villages around Pageri and are currently in Uganda's Adjumani Camp".
http://www.pageri.org

Refugees Commission
"[A] central official organ tasked with refugees' affairs [it] discharges its duties from Khartoum through its branch offices in the states which host great numbers of refugees, the Eastern, Central Southern States of Sudan and some other Western parts of the country".
http://www.sudanembkenya.or.ke/refugeescommission.htm

Refugees International
"[A] Washington-based advocacy organisation... founded... in 1979... is a non-governmental organisation serving refugees, displaced persons, and other dispossessed people around the world." Use their search engine to locate material about Sudan..
http://www.refintl.org             

ReliefWeb
"A project of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), and is acknowledged as the premier online source of information on natural disasters and complex emergencies". Provides an ongoing selection of press coverage on relief and related topics, as well as background details on Sudan. Go to the country index to locate the Sudan pages.
http://reliefweb.int
http://reliefweb.int/ South Sudan Development and Relief Association

South Sudanese Community
"[B]egun in 1994 to assist the growing number of Sudanese refugees arriving each year to the Rochester/Buffalo areas".
http://www.sscrochester.org

Sudan-American Foundation For Education
[S]eeks to improve education in Sudan, particularly at the university level... by delivering donated books, equipment, and other educational materials needed by colleges and universities in Sudan".
http://www.sudan.com/safe

Sudan Care Foundation
"A non-profit organisation incorporated on July 20, 1999 in the State of Maryland, dedicated to relieving poverty and distress and to rehabilitating displaced persons in the Sudan and its neighbouring countries",
http://www.sudancare.org/

UNDP - ERD - Disaster Profiles of the Least Developed Countries
http://www.undp.org
http://www.undp.org/erd/documents/10789_PNUD.pdf
 
United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCR) - Sudan Emergency
"Through ACT (Action by Churches Together, the relief and development arm of the World Council of Churches), The UMCR is responding to the suffering of the p[eople of Sudan through famine relief, development projects, and work with refugees".
http://gbgm-umc.org/umcor/emergency/sudan.stm

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - UNICEF Country Indicators
http://www.unicef.org
http://www.unicef.org/statis/Country_1Page163.html

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) -
http://www.unhcr.ch/world/world.htm
Public Information Section Country Profile
http://www.unhcr.ch/world/afri/sudan.htm
Refworld Background Paper on Refugees and Asylum Seekers
http://www.unhcr.ch/refworld/country/cdr/cdrsdn.htm

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) - Country Programmes
http://www.unfpa.org/
http://www.unfpa.org/regions/dase/countries/sudan/2sud9701.pdf

UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator's Office for Sudan/UN Sudan Transition and Recovery Database (STARBASE)
" [T]he UN Sudan Transition and Recovery Database (STARBASE) ... presents, for the first time, a comprehensive summary of available socio-economic information on Sudan, arranged by geographical location... STARBASE will act as a central depository of information (reports and statistical tables), made available in stages, online, at the UN Sudan website. STARBASE is primarily intended to serve as an
information, planning and monitoring tool. It provides a baseline against which progress towards the achievement of humanitarian, recovery and development objectives ..."
A Sudan Assistance Bulletin is also issued by email the Coordinator.
http://www.unsudanig.org/Country/regions.jsp?index=welcome

United States Committee for Refugees
"USCR was founded in 1958 to coordinate the US' participation in the UN's International Refugee Year... [it] defends the rights of all uprooted people regardless of their nationality, race, religion, ideology, or social group". The USCR has in fact taken a very partisan and anti-government stance on Sudan.
http://www.refugees.org
http://www.refugees.org/world/countryindex/sudan.htm

United States Department of State - South Sudan Online Project
"[A] experiment that has been running with success since 1997 in cooperation with ReliefWeb and GDIN. It posts maps, imager and weblinks on remote relief camps in South Sudan... This effort is being developed by the US Department of State as a benefit to the UNDHA ReliefWeb project for the consideration of DHA and NGO's, private corporations, International Organisations and other governments interested in
humanitarian relief."
http://www.state.gov/www/issues/relief/sudanproject.html

World Relief
"Since 1944, World Relief has been helping churches help suffering people worldwide in the name of Jesus". Use their search engine to locate material on Sudan.
http://www.worldrelief.org

World Vision International
"[T]he largest privately funded Christian relief and development organisation in the world". Use their search engine to locate material on Sudan.
http://www.wvi.org/home.shtml