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Development Programme

NPA covers the following areas in the Development programme:

Vocational Training - The Vocational Skills Training Resource Center, established in 1997, conducts a one year training program and offers courses in Tailoring, Tie & Die (Batik), Building/Construction and Carpentary/Joinery.
Land & Resource Rights - Land Administration, Conflict Resolution & Community-based Resource Management.
Violence Against Women - NPA has identified Violence Against Women (VAW) as a priority area of focus and has a special commitment to combat it, especially in areas of conflict.
Media & Civil Society - Media and Civil society involvment in promoting freedom of expression and liberal media legislation.
Local Governance & Participation - Aims at supporting CSOs and local government structures to ensure local people participate in policy development for good governance, respect the rule of law, advocate social justice, and individual & group rights.

Case study: Restoring women’s positive customary rights

The position of women in Southern Sudan is weak and vulnerable, particularly in the rural areas with regard to access of their legal rights and human rights in the areas of family, marriage, succession and inheritance and land laws

First strategic gender plan ever

In October, last year, Norwegian People's Aid in collaboration with the local authorities in Central Equatoria State, hosted a participatory workshop for the development of the first ever strategic plan for the Department of Gender.

Women Can Do It secured female election victory

The Elections in Sudan are finally over. As results slowly trickle in, there is good news that Madam Nyandeng Malek has succeeded in winning the governors position for Warrap State on an SPLM ticket.

Monitoring the coverage of sudan 2010 elections - preliminary report

The campaign period for the multi-party elections in Sudan was extensively covered by mass media in Sudan. The coverage of electoral candidates and parties increased substantially as the campaign period neared its end.

Fearing Environmental Oil Catastrophe

In Kadeth Payam of Guit County, Unity State, cattle keeping, subsistence farming and fishing are the main economic activities that provide livelihood and food security to the local people. Environmental hazards due to discharge or leakage of contaminants from oil extraction sites into drinking water could have reached catastrophic levels threatening people’s lives as well as their livelihood and food security.

Oil leakage kills 27 in Padeth Payam, Unity State

Chiefs and community leaders in Kadeth Payam, Guit County of Unity State revealed to the media that 27 of their people started to die on the 04th March 2009. This, according to them, was due to oil leakage into drinking water used by people and cattle.

Call for Journalists Training

The Sudan Media and Elections Consortium SMEC is organizing seven workshops in March for journalists on election reporting.

Sudanese journalists in training to cover first elections in 24 years

More than 300 journalists and media houses across Sudan will be trained to cover elections by a consortium of six national and international organisations in the lead-up to Sudan's nationwide elections in April 2010.

Apply for Yei Vocational Training Centre now!

Yei Vocational Training Center (YVTC) run by Norwegian People’s Aid is a boarding Vocational Training Center, established in 1997 in Yei Town, Yei River County, and Central Equatoria State. It’s offering nine months training course objectively to equip the youth with skills and knowledge needed in the Industry.

Sudan is looking for You!

We are looking for independent and neutral monitors to monitor the media prior to the elections and during the elections 2010 on a voluntary basis.

Womens rights project: Call for proposals

In its strategy for 2008-2011, the Norwegian Peoples Aid Southern Sudan Program has identified women’s empowerment as a key area of engagement.

Press statement: Media bills urgent

A press statement from Association for Media Development in Southern Sudan (AMDISS) and partners adressed to President Salva Kiir, urges the president to expedite several new media bills for Southern Sudan through the legislasive assembly to secure freedom of expression and prevent cencorship.

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