Joint Donor Team To Prolong Development Strategies Joint Donor Team, a group of six donors with a shared vision of supporting the fledgling nation of Republic of South Sudan have vowed to prolong their supportive development strategies into longer terms. 28 September 2011 Joint Donor Team To Prolong Development Strategies Michael Elmquist (left) and Honor Flanagan (right) in a hand over ceremony at the Joint Donor Team head office in Juba [©Gurtong]
By Waakhe Simon Wudu JUBA, 28th September 2011 [Gurtong] - Joint Donor Team, a group of six donors with a shared vision of supporting the fledgling nation of Republic of South Sudan have vowed to prolong their supportive development strategies into longer terms. Honor Flanagan, the new head of the Donor Team in Juba after taking over office from her predecessor, Michael Elmquist said that, the new country still needs much support in provision of basic necessities. She also articulated that, building the new nation is a priority and big responsibility to them. The current situations in which the government of South Sudan needs to focus on will also be a key responsibility of the team. “We are looking at what is happening now and we need to move towards long term development goals,” Honor said. While speaking as the new head of the donor team, Honor said her terms of reference in office will be focused on ensuring ‘work is done’ but not spending a lot of time in meetings. “This time round we need to make sure that the things we do are well coordinated. Not spending time in meetings but doing work,” she told Gurtong at the Joint Donor Team office in Juba. “This time round we will also be focused on accountability. We are trying to capacity build the new civil society to have a voice on issues like corruption,” she added. The Joint Donor Team is a group of six countries established in 2006 first by four; Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom later to be joined by Denmark and Canada. Honor said the Team will also maintain support on the three main areas of; public sector and capacity building, economic growth and aid effectiveness, and providing capacity building to the civil society. Posted in: Home -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JFD info" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jfdinfo?hl=en.
