By Martina Santschi, and CSRF
This meta-analysis offers an overview of the literature on governance in South Sudan in the CSRF repository by exploring salient and timely questions for donor-funded programming. These questions focus on (1) the reason why local governance structures differ in South Sudan and the implications for aid actors, (2) the relations between national, state, and local governance institutions and the implications for state building endeavours, (3) the impacts of conflict and food security induced displacement on governance and the implications for international actors and (4) citizens’ views and expectations about governance and connected processes such as the planned elections based in perception studies.