Since the conflict began in April 2023, the humanitarian response in Sudan has faced immense challenges. Despite these obstacles, considerable efforts have been directed toward sustaining early recovery, resilience-building, and durable solutions through the United Nations Common Approach and Priorities for 2024-2025. Recognizing the ongoing crisis, the Common Approach has been extended through 2025 to align with the 2025 HNRP, which prioritizes the delivery of multisectoral, lifesaving humanitarian assistance to the most vulnerable populations. By fostering connections between early recovery initiatives and durable solutions actors, these frameworks collectively promote a cohesive, sustainable approach to medium- and long-term resilience and development.
Immediate humanitarian response and assistance, through the HNRP, focuses on addressing critical needs such as food security, essential public health, nutrition, WASH, protection, education and shelter, but it does not tackle deeper, medium to longer-term structural recovery and development challenges, including poverty alleviation, employment generation, or system strengthening. The responsibility for addressing these challenges rests with the national authorities, who work alongside development partners, including through the UN Common Approach for Sudan. While the humanitarian community continues to provide urgent emergency humanitarian assistance, medium to longer-term structural issues - including preserving and sustaining service provision systems and mitigating the socioeconomic impacts of the ongoing conflict through resilience building and community stabilization - remain the focus of the Government of Sudan and its development partners.Bottom of Form
The UN Common Approach framework provides a unified set of recovery and development goals and priorities for the UN System, complementing the immediate life-saving humanitarian response outlined in the HNRP. These frameworks prioritize medium- to long-term areas such as infrastructure reconstruction, livelihoods, job creation, mine action, housing, debris removal, energy, environment, and social protection. Additionally, they highlight critical sectors like education, healthcare, as well as cross-cutting issues such as data generation, institutional capacity building, and inclusive economic growth. By aligning all interventions with the government’s criteria and priorities, these frameworks ensure local relevance and effectiveness, fostering a seamless humanitarian-development nexus. This approach lays the foundation for a more resilient and sustainable future for Sudan, bridging immediate relief efforts with long-term peace, recovery and development.
Furthermore, under the overall leadership of the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, linkages across the development and humanitarian frameworks will be strengthened in 2025, looking at the nexus between humanitarian, early recovery and development to better coordinate assistance and enable complementarities.