SFCEP is an independent, non-for-profit Sudanese ‘think-tank’ that aims to review, critique and study the Sudan economy, urban and rural planning opportunities and challenges, prepare policy papers, research and present proposals based on the principles of best economics and planning policy frameworks and practices.
The Centre is a leading and respected voice of globally professional economists and planners, who are willing to think outside the box for finding effective and creative solutions that does not count on ‘one size fits all’, but rather tailored to fit the Sudanese environment. This effort aims at addressing the distortions, historical deterioration and failures that accompanied the Sudanese economy and urban and rural planning processes.
The Centre intends to advocate the values and impacts of economics and planning and development on communities in Sudan. This will be accomplished through strong organizational leadership and strengthened through strategic partnerships.
The Centre will strive to follow effective advocacy strategies aimed at advancing policy positions that may influence the political leaders and leverage the decision-making process.
As an effective and influential organization, the Centre will identify and actively engage in economic and planning dialogues and initiatives that support environmental, social, and economic best practices. This includes focusing on economic and planning policy frameworks and initiatives that aim at improving the quality of life within different Sudanese regions and communities through excellence in economic and planning, and development that supports resilient and sustainable communities.
Today, we live in a fast-paced international economic and planning environment with interconnected challenges and opportunities that bring with it more complicated and fast-changing solutions, which makes it challenging for countries to remain and operate in isolation of the international and regional communities. It is the Centre’s intention to strive to bridge the knowledge gap in identifying areas of economic and planning collaboration through conducting advanced research and studies that may strengthen the newly born democratic transformation which may help stabilize the political uncertainty in Sudan.
The Centre aims at bringing together a wide range of experts including economists, planners, and other professionals who may be working in the public sector, private sectors and/or active research scholars.
The Centre is on a mission to get to the bottom of the economic and planning challenges and critical issues in Sudan that had crippled the country for over six decades, and draw upon its experts who will analyse, question and challenge the economic and planning ‘status quo’ and hold candid conversation with the policy makers and citizens who should play a critical role in crafting viable solutions.
On this journey, you will learn more than ever about Sudanese economic and planning policy frameworks and associated challenges and opportunities, and understand different ways and opportunities for contributing to the Centre’s growth and success through membership, participation in seminars, workshops, conferences, live debates and conducting research papers.
The Centre is also a home and a source of real-time commentary on current and burning Sudanese economic and planning policy issues and topics from time to time, which would be commanded by some of the enlightened economists and planners, who may provide timely and professional commentaries on such issues on a regular basis.
The Centre operates to support and strengthen the recently born democratic transformation in Sudan and sustainable economic and planning and development. The Centre is fully aware of the current challenges and historical responsibilities of the country, thus providing reliable information and economic analysis, as well as proposing resolutions through the general economic policy papers issued periodically to serve the Sudanese economy and the future reconstruction phases.
The Centre intends to develop relations with like-minded organizations in Canada and across the globe including policy institutions, professional institutions, universities, non- for-profit organizations, etc.
As the world has become a small village, political and economic boundaries are no longer valid in curtailing great ideas. Therefore, the Centre intends to draw upon the Canadian experience in adopting economic best practices that led to national steady economic growth, regional collaboration and growth, and the healthy federal-provinces financial relations. The Centre also intends to draw upon the Canadian experience in urban/rural planning best practices that led to the creation of sustainable municipal growth and great communities across the country. Best planning practices that integrated planning ideas that become an apparatus for addressing engineering, environmental, social and health and safety challenges.
In view of the large and complex challenges that Sudan faces, the Centre will strive to provide accurate, reliable and extensive information, supplemented by scientific analysis while providing comprehensive recommendations for creating viable economic and planning policies issued by the Centre from time to time. The Centre hopes to serve the economy and planning and development in Sudan in its current and future stages of reconstruction.