Aid is encouraging dependency – FVP Emmanuel Akile | September 25, 2017 | 8:22 am FVP Taban Deng Gai addresses the 72nd UNGA in New York on Sept 23, 2017 | Photo | Larco Lomayat
The First Vice President has urged the international community to shift its focus on South Sudan from humanitarian assistance to development. Taban Deng Gai, who was addressing the 72nd Session of the UN General Assembly in New York over the weekend, suggested that the humanitarian intervention is not helping the country as expected. He believes that it is encouraging dependency among the citizens. “The old paradigm that humanitarian intervention first and development later is not a viable policy in the case of South Sudan,” he stated. “Stabilization and Recovery initiatives are essential, and emergency support needs to be effectively complemented with some level of economic dynamism that provides new platform for social cohesion and resilience-building.” However, several political analysts and have argued that silencing the guns is the best approach to stabilizing the country. Read full text here. -- To post to this group, send email to southsudankob@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to southsudankob+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/southsudankob View this message at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/southsudankob/topic-id/message-id For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to southsudankob+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to SouthSudanKob@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14or2vgaZzHFmd1pk%3DtHTsERd3fjM9fTthKNVVY97ak2%2BMQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
