Economic and Social Development
Sudan Crisis: In-depth Gender Assessment Report
This Gender Assessment aims to provide an in-depth gender analysis. It provides data that is sex and age disaggregated to understand the gender-differentiated needs priorities coping strategies risks insecurities and vulnerabilities of the conflict considering different gender roles and responsibilities as well as the intersectionality factors to inform an equitable and effective humanitarian response and give recommendations for gender-sensitive humanitarian programmes that promote justice and equality to women men girls and boys of all ages statuses and vulnerabilities.
Executive summary
As the conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) continues civilian displacement and humanitarian needs steadily increase. About 4.8 million people have been displaced inside and outside the country due to the conflict that erupted on 15 April. More than 3.8 million people have been displaced internally. People have been displaced across all 18 states. Most are in River Nile East Darfur Northern South Darfur Sennar and White Nile states. 72.3 per cent of internally displaced people (IDPs) are originally from Khartoum. In addition about 963000 people have crossed the border into neighbouring countries the Central African Republic (18545) Chad (418126) Egypt (317230) Ethiopia (35623) and South Sudan (260653).
Conflict context and impact
Gender equality framework
Acknowledgements
How to make sense of producing a Human Development Report at a time of war? Not only of wars between and within countries but also with our planet with ourselves and with our future? These questions weighed heavily on our minds. But over time they strengthen the resolve of the team fuelled by the conviction that the recurring messages of successive Human Development Reports are more relevant than ever. They bear repeating and reaffirming because even though they may have been said many times before they seem to be pushed more and more into the background. The primacy of people as the purpose and agents of development. The crucial importance of enabling people to live free from want fear and indignity still relevant 30 years after the introduction of the concept of human security in the 1994 Human Development Report. Redressing inequalities in human development.
Foreword
We live in a tightly knit world. Yet shared interlinked global challenges such as runaway climate change are outpacing our institutions capacities to respond to them. We face “a global gridlock” exacerbated by growing polarization within our countries which translates into barriers to international cooperation.
Breaking the gridlock: A snapshot of the 2023/2024 human development report
We can do better than this. Better than runaway climate change and pandemics. Better than a spate of unconstitutional transfers of power amid a rising globalizing tide of populism. Better than cascading human rights violations and unconscionable massacres of people in their homes and civic venues in hospitals schools and shelters.
Human development suffers when interdependence is mismanaged
Divergence between the very high and the low human development index groups of countries after decades of convergence is going up. The path of improvement in the global average human development index has shifted downwards.
Global interdependence persists—but is being reshaped
People continue to live in globally interdependent societies. Despite a slowdown in economic globalization interdependence—rather than fraying—is being reconfigured by drivers that will persist well into the future.
Providing global public goods to manage interdependence
Mismanaged interdependence imposes costs or even setbacks to human development. But managing it can be enhanced by framing it as providing global public goods such as global peace and climate change mitigation as explicit goals.
Expanding agency for collective action
Enhancing human development—including agency—expands possibilities for people to act as “agents who can do effective things.” So how best to expand agency to foster collective action to address global challenges?
Breaking the gridlock to enhance collective action
Polarization divides societies into belligerent and opposing camps poisoning domestic and international cooperation.