Highlights
On 9-10 March 2006, the first ever Sudan Consortium, organized jointly by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the United Nations, was held in Paris, France. The aim of the Consortium was to increase domestic and international resources for development, encourage mutual accountability, work towards good economic governance and increase transparency of government budgets, spending and resource flows.
The Sudanese delegation was led by the First Vice President Salva Kiir Mayardit and included 12 ministers and state ministers from the Government of National Unity (GNU) and the Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS). About 130 partners from the international communityand civil society participated, including eight ministers of international development.
In addition to some new pledges being made at the Consortium, important gains were made in building confidence and trust among the partners. A consensus was reached between the GNU and the GoSS on a number of contentious issues such as the amount of oil revenues that had been transferred to the South.
The broad conclusion reached at the Consortium was that progress was being made in implementation of the CPA,but that commitments on pro-poor development needed to be implemented in order to ensure tangible results on the ground. Actual reconstruction has yet to start in the South and overall progress in the Three Areas (Abyei, Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile States) has been limited.
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