The humanitarian community in Sudan is committed to addressing the vulnerabilities and diverse needs of all people, regardless of their gender, disability, or other specific characteristics. This holistic approach seeks to ensure that the priorities of affected people are at the forefront of decision-making. Key commitments in 2024 are:
- Strengthening collective feedback mechanisms and complaint-handling capacities, making it easier and real-time for people to report complaints and concerns about humanitarian assistance. Communities’ feedback will be collated and analyzed to inform potential adjustment of the response and necessary course correction.
- Improving information-sharing mechanisms, ensuring that people have access to the information they need to make informed decisions about their lives.
- Engaging with community-led organizations, female-headed households, and marginalized groups, ensuring that their voices are heard and influencing the design and implementation of the programme as well as course correction.
- Roll-out of community perception surveys to identify areas where the response can be improved.
- Strengthening and reinforcing ongoing efforts on the prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA).
- Monitoring the accountability to affected people (AAP) indicators by the AAP Working Group to ensure that partners are held accountable to the communities they support.
- Promoting gender equality and women's empowerment through close collaboration with women-led organizations to ensure that specific needs of women are adequately addressed.
- Promoting disability-inclusive response, including improved data collection and training.
- Integration of Gender and Age Marker (in which disability inclusion is included), AAP and PSEA in the project sheet while lightening the project registration process.
- Developing programs to mitigate social exclusion, addressing obstacles different groups of vulnerable people, particularly people with disabilities, face in accessing humanitarian assistance.