Donors allocate $22 mln for Sudan census

September 29, 2007 (KHARTOUM) — Director-General of the Central Statistics Bureau Awad Haj Ali, announced the donors’ commitment toward the success of the Population census by putting up 22 million US dollars for the project.

He further said that the Government of National Unity has allocated 12.5 million US dollars, out of 30 Million US dollars, adding that the remaining sum – 17. 55 million US dollars- will be disbursed by the end of October.

Ali underscored that donors support is a technical support related to the training of census counters and supervisors as well as making available vehicles, equipment, calculating machines besides printing of census forms and guidelines books for the supervisors, observers and the census counters.

The Sudanese responsible indicated that work in the Census Services Centers all over the Sudan will be completed by the end of October in preparation for the national population census, due to be conducted in February 2008.

(ST)