Assessment from Southern Sudan Trip 2009

Abek Community Development Program

Draft Assessment from Southern Sudan Trip 2009

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Table of Contents1. Photo exhibit of trip pp. 3-82. Tentative Plan pp. 93. Optimization Chart pp. 104. Report pp. 11-165. End Notes pp. 16-176. Exhibits pp. 18-20

1. A- Student Concerns2. B- Student Enrollment3. C- Interviewee List

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A Community ReturningReturnees traveling north from Juba back to their home communities

Housing for new residents as well as for primary school teachers in Wernyol

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Preparations in Abek

Healthcare facility set to open in 2010

Wernyol Primary’s one permanent building, constructed by Care Intl in 2007

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Despite Existing ChallengesSeveral of the classes at Wernyol Primary take place under the trees. Students lack not only facilities, but also supplies and teachers.

And many children in Wernyol do not even make it to school(photo taken while school in session)

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In Paloi: No Option for Children

Above, fishing for food. Below, minding cattle.

None of these children, all within earshot on a weekday in Paloi, attend school

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ACDP: Surveying the Situation and Engaging the Community

Meeting with chiefs of Abek Connecting with community members at a town hall meeting 7

Identifying Best Practices and Thinking Through Innovation

New Gates Foundation-funded school in Wungelai

New construction funded by XXXX at a well run school in XXXX

Testing out computers with 8th grade students at Wernyol Primary

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What’s Next?• Analyze findings of visit to Wernyol• Develop short-term strategy• Begin implementing short-term strategy:

focus on education• Build organization in USA and in Southern

Sudan for the purposes of long-term development of Abek

• Move forward with long-term plans across development projects in coordination with stakeholders and private sector

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ACDP’s Current and Future Resources &

Capabilities

Greatest Needs of the Abek

Community

Skills & Resources of Existing Collaborators

Optimization2 year

10 year Reasonable,

accessible, and fundraise-able

NGO’s (LWF, NPA, CARE); ACYU;

Chiefs; Teachers

1. Tragedy recovery

2. Immediately deployable solutions

3. Long term development

post-2011

ACDP Planning Methodology

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