Evaluering
Interim Evaluation of the project: Securing rural land rights in South Sudan in a context of large-scale acquisitions
The two-year project, funded by NORAD, was launched in March 2011. The present evaluation was carried out in October-November 2012. The project was a response to widespread and growing concerns over the immediate and possible long-term socio-economic and political consequences of large scale land acquisitions in post-CPA/post-independence South Sudan, where the vast majority of the population are directly dependent on land resources for their livelihoods as pastoralists, agro-pastoralists, farmers and in-land fishers. Moreover, questions were being raised about the legality and probity of these transactions. A baseline study commissioned by NPA showed that the acquisitions threatened rural land rights and food and livelihood security. It also came to light that the Land Act, 2009 was not widely disseminated among the people and that the majority of rural South Sudanese were unaware of their rights to land enshrined in the Act. Moreover, there were capacity gaps at different levels of the emerging state to enforce the Land Act of 2009. The overarching purpose of the evaluation is to identify and analyse the results of the actions within the project.