The territory of what is now the Republic of South Sudan was eligible for Peacebuilding Fund resources under Sudan’s general eligibility declared in February 2010. After the referendum held in early 2011, the PBF financed two Immediate Response Facility activities prepared in collaboration with the South Sudanese authorities. Without waiting for formal independence, these initial activities aimed to support rapidly the ability of the state to respond to two of its key priorities, food security and the reintegration of southerners returning spontaneously from the north.
The PBF financed a kick-starting contribution of $2 million to a WFP programme (20 April 2011) to support the development of a Strategic Grain Reserve system with the Government. WFP aims to mobilize significantly more funding based on this initial investment.
A second $2 million allocation to UNDP, ILO and IOM (20 April 2011) aimed to demonstrate the responsiveness of the state to the needs of returning southerners, focused in particular on the highly impacted states of Warrap, Northern Bahr El Ghazal and Western Bahr El Ghazal.
Quarterly reports for each project are available on the MPTF-O Gateway site
