New Way of Working and Coordination Mission: Sudan, April 2018

The joint mission took place between 19 and 28 April 2017. It came about at the merging of two requests for support: firstly to the Global Cluster Coordinators Group to support the review of the cluster (sector1) coordination architecture as per the Transformative Agenda protocols; and secondly a support mission to implement the New Way of Working (NWoW) in Sudan. At the suggestion of the RC/HC, in agreement with the Sudan HCT and UNCT, the two missions were merged for practical reasons, as the implementation of the NWoW would include a review of the coordination structures to determine whether they are fit for this purpose. The mission was therefore tasked to facilitate a more collaborative approach, including by making concrete recommendations to ensure fit-for-purpose humanitarian coordination systems to address immediate humanitarian needs, with a view to moving toward stronger alignment with development actors on analysis, planning frameworks, programming, monitoring and evaluation, including coordination and contribute to the long-term achievement of the SDGs through the identification of collective outcomes.