Cash Consortium of Sudan Enabling Environment programme

The ‘Understanding Markets and Trade’ project is monitoring and tracking trade in Darfur, Sudan, a context of violent conflict and deep humanitarian crisis. The project is researching how trade in general, and trade in agricultural and livestock commodities in particular, has adapted, positively and negatively, to the nationwide war in Sudan. It explores how trade is interlinked with the conflict, and the implications for social cohesion.

The project aims to:

• Deepen understanding of how the war is impacting food security and livelihoods in Darfur and how those affected can best be supported through market-oriented interventions by humanitarian and development actors;
• Inform conflict-sensitive programming by humanitarian actors.

The project approach is based upon listening to local voices and capturing local knowledge.

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Cash Consortium of Sudan Enabling Environment programme publications

This material was produced as part of the Cash Consortium of Sudan, an innovative programme led by Mercy Corps and funded by FCDO that provides multipurpose cash assistance and market support to conflict-affected populations across Sudan.

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SPARC Materials

This material was produced as part of the Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises (SPARC) research programme, which ran between 2020 and 2025. These Issue Briefs were originally published on SPARC’s website https://www.sparc-knowledge.org.