The Role of United Nations Development Programme in Capacity Building in Southern Sudan Case Study of Juba, Central Equotoria State

ABSTRACT As for the capacity Building and Development, UNDP building the capacity of people in the institutions at the community, state, and GoSS level to bring about sustainable change in capacity development. The Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning is one of those institutions benefitting from this kind of support. The Annual Report also calls attention to TJNDP’s geographical reach in southern Sudan. Their projects in the areas of governance, rule of law, crisis prevention, recovery, and poverty reduction are operational in all of Southern Sudan’s ten states. As the State Performance Reports presented at the 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 Governors’ Forum highlighted, this presence is vital because many state-level institutions continue to lack the skills and resources needed to be able to serve their communities effectively. The methodology of this case study covered the population of 840,000 people in their respective five counties namely Morobo, Yei, Lainya, Tekeke and Juba. The questionnaires were self-administered both in ministries, UNDP and at the counties level. Transport and changes of weather was a problematic factor affecting the researcher. Cost was even involved on transport fare and fuel for self-driving and sometimes on Boda boda during collection and distribution of questionnaires for collecting quality of data. If IJNDP continue to support and strengthening government structures in capacity building programme, I would have recommended giving the full scholarship for Master, Bachelor and even PHD studies on national citizens who are read to the serve the government. Both public and private institutions at the neighbouring countries are ready to assist by admitting them to the institution if they are qualify at minimum criteria for further studies at the specific field of specialisation than spending a lot of donor’s fund on off-job training. Workshops, touring to some countries, and conferences does not help in deep.