The need to improve the living conditions of women in Nuba Mountains, Southern Kordofan

ABSTRACT

The Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) not only ended Africa's longest civil war, it aimed to transform Sudanese society. A critical element of this transformation is uplifting the status of women. This article surveys the conditions faced by women in two villages in Nuba Mountains/Southern Kordofan, principally their ability to access land for farming, credit facilities and barriers to education and health services, and whether the implementation of the CPA has resulted in any concrete changes.

Keywords:

• Comprehensive Peace Agreement
• credit facilities
• culture
• education
• gender policy
• health care
• land ownership
• language
• law and resources
• Nuba Mountains
• returnees
• roads
• Southern Kordofan
• the Sudan
• women
• women's Empowerment