Financing Food Security: Promises and Pitfalls of the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus in South Sudan

Financing Food Security: Promises and Pitfalls of the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus in South Sudan SIPRI Research Policy Paper January 2023 FINANCING FOOD SECURITY: SUMMARY w This study explores the PROMISES AND PITFALLS OF potential for donor govern ments and institutions to sup THE HUMANITARIAN– port the operationalization of the humanitarian, development DEVELOPMENT–PEACE and peacebuil. [...] since the country’s independ At the same time, the vast amounts of assistance have failed to break the ence in 2011, of which a large vicious circle between food insecurity and violent conflict and there is a proportion has been allocated growing policy consensus on the need to strengthen the synergies between to the food security sector, but humanitarian, development and peacebuilding (HDP) assi. [...] The academy seeks to facilitate joint learning and knowledge exchange to accelerate nexus approaches and promote complementary humanitarian, development and peace activities that tackle the root causes of crises and end need.60 Through cross-institutional learning between crucial actors from all pillars of the nexus and from the headquarters to the country programme level, the academy aims to brid. [...] Local organizations have long worked on problems and issues they see and experience in the context where they are embedded, and often work on humanitarian, development and peace issues in parallel.69 In South Sudan, local CSOs have been working across the nexus for many years, seeking to respond to the interconnected needs of the communities in which they work with a long-term vision and in a peac. [...] It builds on the momentum of global commitments and frameworks to deliver better and more flexible financing across the nexus and enable implementation of more collaborative, coherent and complementary programmes.101 On localization, the RSRTF has introduced processes that address the challenge of insufficient donor capacity to manage the funding of, engagement with and support for small, local or.