Sudan Water Sector Strategy 2021-2031
Strategic Focus
The Sudan Water Sector Livelihoods Transforming Strategy strives to fulfill the aspiration of the deserving Sudanese people and deliver fast and visible results through expanding and improving the performance of irrigation schemes for a resilient irrigated agriculture in the country, servicing the population with reliable and accessible water supply and managing its water resources with the objective of satisfying the social, economic and environmental needs of the population. To achieve this goal, the Sudan Water Sector Livelihood transforming Strategy set three impact-driven transformative strategic plans:
National Irrigation Transformation Plan: strives to mitigate the challenges and unlock the promise of the sector through five priority interventions
Infrastructural and institutional upgrading and modernization of 1.1 million Ha of irrigated land, informed by successful pilots
Development of 400,000 Ha of newly irrigated land, benefiting from new water storage facilities along the Atbara and Blue Nile rivers
Improvement of water productivity, with at least 50% more crop per drop in both the existing and new irrigation schemes, through introduction of low to no-cost measures such as the optimization of irrigation duties and schedules to deliver immediate results without a long gestation period
Strengthening of institutions and human resources capacity building for irrigation staff, farmers’ representatives, and other relevant actors through short and long term trainings, internships, and secondments as well as on-the-job knowledge and experience exchanges
Contribution to the implementation of facilitative policies and transparent and participatory governance systems
National Water Supply Transformation Plan
endeavors to mobilize resources for the construction, upgrading, and modernization of some 25,000 gender-sensitive and disabled-friendly basic and safely managed water supply facilities. These interventions are expected to generate about half million employment opportunities. The ultimate goal is for all Sudanese people in rural and urban areas, including nomadic communities and their livestock, to have affordable access to a safe water supply
The National Water Resources Management Transformation Plan
focuses on the revitalization, enforcement, and development of new regulatory and facilitative policies, strategy frameworks, and roadmaps towards normative foundations during the transition period and beyond to 2031through promises three impacts
Fulfillment of institutional reform ambitions, implementation of catchment plans, and empowerment of water councils
Standardization of oversight, facilitative means, and alignment of competencies and policies between federal and state levels
Coordination and quality assurance of data for monitoring, assessment, allocation, development, and planning of the water resources