Darfur - Dimensions of Challenge for Development : Background Volume

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This background volume is not about the recent conflict, nor the humanitarian situation in Darfur today. Rather, it adopts a longer term perspective in an attempt to understand the range of underlying structural obstacles to growth and prosperity in the region. The World Bank, in collaboration with a range of stakeholders, has investigated the nature and extent of the underlying structural obstacles to the region's development. This background volume presents the results of the work of several teams, drawing on primary and secondary sources and field work undertaken in the latter half of 2006. The aim is to help re-establish a knowledge base across multiple dimensions, to inform future development planning oriented toward broad-based growth and attainment of the millennium development goals. The report provides a diagnosis of existing constraints: the basic thesis is that redressing marginalization is central to effectively overcome the challenges to peace and prosperity in the region, and thus in the Sudan overall. The immense challenges facing Darfur reflect not only the immediate conflict, but a series of major structural factors that can be traced back over decades. Of foremast importance is the failure of national policies and development projects to promote broad-based development and good governance. Geographic and demographic factors, in particular increasing desertification, periodic droughts and rapid population growth - have exemplified the, challenges, but the underlying failure of institutions to function in ways that are accountable to the people, and conducive to pro-poor development, plays a critical explanatory role.

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ACCOUNTABILITY, ADMINISTRATION, ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS, ADMINISTRATIVE· FUNCTIONS, ADULT LITERACY, AGED, AGRICULTURAL POLICIES, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, ALLEGIANCE, ANTENATAL CARE, AUTHORITIES, AUTHORITY, BASIC EDUCATION, BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE, BASIC SOCIAL SERVICES, BIRTH ATTENDANT, CENTRAL GOVERNMENT, CHILD HEALTH, CHILD HEALTH SERVICES, CHILD NUTRITION, CHILDREN, CITIZENS, CITIZENSHIP, CIVIL SOCIETY, CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATION, CLIMATE CHANGE, COMMUNITY, COMMUNITY HEALTH, COMPLICATIONS, COMPLICATIONS DURING LABOR, CONSTITUENCIES, CONTRACEPTION, COUNCIL OF MINISTERS, DECENTRALIZATION, DECISION MAKING, DECISION-MAKING, DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS, DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS, DEVELOPMENT EXPENDITURE, DEVELOPMENT GOALS, DEVELOPMENT PLANNING, DIPHTHERIA, DISTRICTS, ECOSYSTEM, EMERGENCIES, EMERGENCY OBSTETRIC CARE, ENFORCEMENT, EPIDEMIC, ETHNIC GROUPS, EXECUTION, FEMALE GENITAL CUTTING, FINANCING, FISCAL, FISCAL MANAGEMENT, FORCED MIGRATION, GOOD GOVERNANCE, GOVERNANCE INDICATORS, GOVERNMENT, GOVERNMENT CAPACITY, GOVERNMENT DECISION, GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURES, GOVERNMENT FINANCE, GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS, GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, GOVERNMENT REVENUE, GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION, GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT, HEALTH, HEALTH CARE, HEALTH MANAGEMENT, HEALTH SECTOR, HEALTH SERVICES, HEALTH SYSTEM, HEALTH WORKERS, HOSPITALS, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, HUMAN RESOURCES, ILLNESSES, IMMIGRATION, IMMUNIZATION, IMMUNODEFICIENCY, IMPACT OF CONFLICT, IMPLICATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT, INCOME, INDEPENDENCE, INFANT, INFANT MORTALITY, INFANT MORTALITY RATES, INFORMAL SECTOR, INFORMATION SYSTEM, INJURIES, INTERGOVERNMENTAL FISCAL RELATIONS, INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS, INTERVENTION, INVESTMENT CLIMATE, ISOLATION, KNOWLEDGE, LACK OF ACCOUNTABILITY, LARGE NUMBERS OF REFUGEES, LARGE POPULATION, LAW, LEGISLATION, LEGISLATIVE MEASURES, LEGITIMACY, LIBERATION, LIFESTYLE, LITERACY RATES, LOCAL COUNCILS, LOCAL GOVERNMENT, LOCAL GOVERNMENT CAPACITY, LOCAL GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS, LOW INCOME COUNTRIES, MALNUTRITION AMONG CHILDREN, MARKETING, MARRIED WOMEN, MATERNAL HEALTH, MATERNAL MORTALITY, MATERNAL MORTALITY RATIO, MEASUREMENT, MEAT, MEDICAL SERVICES, MENTAL HEALTH, MIDWIVES, MIGRANTS, MIGRATION, MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS, MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, MINISTRY OF FINANCE, MINISTRY OF HEALTH, MINORITY, MODERNIZATION, MORTALITY, MORTALITY RATE, MOTHER, NATIONAL CONSTITUTION, NATIONAL COUNCIL, NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS, NATIONAL POLICIES, NATURAL RESOURCE, NATURAL RESOURCES, NUTRITION, OBSERVATION, OLD SYSTEM, OLD TRADITION, OPPOSITION LEADERS, PEACE, PEOPLE, POLICY, POLITICAL CONTROL, POLITICAL ELITE, POLITICAL PARTIES, POLITICAL POWER, POPULATION, POPULATION ESTIMATES, POPULATION GROWTH, POPULATION INCREASES, POPULATION PRESSURES, POPULATIONS, POVERTY, POVERTY REDUCTION, PREGNANCY, PRIMARY HEALTH SERVICES, PRIMARY SCHOOL, PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT, PRIVATE SECTOR GROWTH, PROGRESS, PUBLIC EXPENDITURE, PUBLIC FINANCE, PUBLIC POLICIES, PUBLIC RESOURCES, PUBLIC SECTOR, PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENT, PUBLIC SERVICE, PUBLIC SPENDING, RAPID POPULATION GROWTH, REFERRAL SYSTEM, REFUGEES, REGIONS, REGULATORY FRAMEWORK, RELIGIOUS LEADERS, REPRESENTATION, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH, RESOLUTION, RESOURCE USE, RESPECT, RISKS, RURAL AREAS, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, SAFE MOTHERHOOD, SANITATION, SCHOOL ENROLMENT, SECONDARY EDUCATION, SECONDARY SCHOOL, SENIOR CIVIL SERVICE, SERVICE UTILIZATION, SERVICE·DELIVERY, SKILLED PERSONNEL, SOCIAL IMPACT, SOCIAL SERVICES, STATE, STATE GOVERNMENT, STATE GOVERNORS, STATE REVENUE, STATES, STATISTICS, STRATEGY, STRESS, STUDENTS, SURVEILLANCE, SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT, TAX COLLECTION, TAXATION, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, TETANUS, TRADITIONAL LIVELIHOOD, TRANSPARENCY, TUBERCULOSIS, UNFPA, URBAN CENTERS, URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE, URBANIZATION, VIOLENCE, VOCATIONAL TRAINING, WAR, WATER RESOURCES, WATER SUPPLIES, WORKERS

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