SHHDS works with the Government, UN agencies, diplomatic missions, INGOs, the private sector, women and youth groups, and communities. This engagement informs public policy and practice by creating opportunities for debate. It improves analytical capacity and contributes to the expansion of research, knowledge and innovation in Sudan.
Welcome to Sudan House
Our Vision
To significantly improve the quality, impact, and accountability of local, national, and international actors in Sudan by promoting more evidence-based interventions in the humanitarian and development sectors. We specialize in humanitarian emergencies; health policies; social protection; development studies; governance; democracy; civil society.
We combine the depth of a think tank with the breadth of comprehensive field experience, which allows us to curate a package of policy and operational solutions.
Sudan House for Humanitarian and Development Studies (SHHDS)
Our Philosophy
We believe that new public policies, humanitarian and development projects must be informed by reliable data, objective analysis, and thoughtful debate. The December 2018 revolution in Sudan, ended the longest period of autocratic rule in the country’s history, and set it to the path of democratization and transformational change. As Sudan embarks on critical state and nation building, and development initiatives, there is scarcity in quantitative data. SHHDs will work closely with key partners and stakeholders to close this knowledge gap and help ensure that decisions made during the critical transition period in the country’s history result in positive change.
Our Mission
We promote informed and accountable studies and practice that responds to the needs, wants, and well-being of the Sudanese people by:
Conducting, facilitating and communicating high quality, independent and action-oriented research, assessments, evaluations and analysis; program and project design.
Providing platform and opportunities for, training, capacity building, discussion and debate.
Our Services
Humanitarian consulting
Social Protection consulting
Monitoring and Evaluation services
Capacity-building, development and partnership opportunities.
Project management: baseline, midterm, and end-line assessments an advice across the project management cycle.
Need-assessments: With access across sites and communities and in-depth knowledge of Sudanese contexts, with no language barriers, SHHDS will assist partners with establishing strong, empirically based foundations to ascertain the interests, behaviors, and needs of communities.
Policy Advise to partners in different sector actors from UN agencies, embassy programming teams, international and national NGOs and CSOs as well as businesses with tailor-made consultations to inform better programming, learning from previous programmes, and ensure programmatic reach to difficult-to-reach communities. We work with local training providers to tailor-make, locally customized training schedules that elevate implementation potential.
SHHDS provides a team of expert analysts, well-versed in the local context and specializing in a range of sectors, who are on hand to provide rigorous and insightful analysis on tailored research taking in qualitative and quantitative data. Our analysts will work with partners to make efficient use of findings to compile timely, relevant recommendations across policy and practice.
Research and data analysis; we work with our partners to develop tailored industry-leading quantitative and qualitative tools to inform practical solutions to difficult developmental challenges. SHHDS conduct rigorous, field-based research and assessments that can underpin effective policies, strategies and improve programmatic decision-making through data-driven solutions.
Our team has access to field sites across the country and works closely with local, trained data-collectors to gather or collate in-depth date-sets. In consultation with partners, our team delivers well-produced, detailed databases that will form the foundation for further analyses.
Global perspective. Local solutions.
In SHHDS we provide a global perspective on local issues. We bring a depth of knowledge, ideas and practical solutions, drawn from our founders’ wide experiences and knowledge in social development. SHHDS services are offered globally, whether the need is for office-based research and drafting, in-country consultations and workshops, or operational support.