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ACCOUNT PLANNING AND RESEARCH 8
Account Planning and Research
Hojung Lee
Michigan State University
Account planning and research
Introduction
This is a research about the Red Cross International commitment to solve the endless maims and sufferings of the east Africa citizens at South Sudan. South Sudan is the newest country in the world having attained independence just the other day after what was believed to be a forced marriage between the South Sudan and the Sudan itself. The period under which they are together was marked by political conflicts that always resulted to civil wars that has hundreds of thousands of the east Africans there either dead or permanently displaced. (De Waal, 2014).
At the top of the research, we try to find out the political goodwill, willingness and commitment of the international governments that are outside Africa help in their quest to end the civic and political wars that have been witnessed in South Sudan. This has been necessitated by the fact that since the country was incepted, there has never been any lasting peace. It is enjoyed for little moment and then the political quagmire engulfs again. This is further indicated by the fact that most African countries have added salt to the sore by imposing sanctions to the South Sudan government. We try to find out why the Red Cross International do not have the regional offices that are operational and that can be used to mitigate some issues experienced there in an effective way .This will remove the need of having to have the temporal points of collection that are usually set when the organization wants to carry out an activity in the area. We also to find out the reason as to why the Red Cross International do not have employees that are locally extracted from the area. The foreign employees that are brought are not well conversant with the terrain of the issues hence very infective. We would like to find out as well what will be the contingency plans just in case the plans that the organization has laid out do not work out. The quest would be to find out the intention or the plans of the organization on the relief food and support that shall receive from the well-wishers (Collier, 2003).
Research approach
Method description
South Sudan, being a very new country has all sorts of demographics, with the dominant youthful generation. This is mostly because even before inception, the larger Sudan was characterized by both political and civil wars and in this kind of an environment, the controlling and monitoring of the country’s population becomes problematic.
Based on the above situation, it becomes very wise to use interviews as my method of research. This is particularly because the population is youthful and more specifically very illiterate. Mostly the feedback from such kinds of population can be gotten through informal means as even the population patterns are also very disorganized. Use of interviews will thereby solve all the problems that could be encountered when collecting data from such a population.
Recruiting process
Mere logic and past experiences with the this kind of research would suggest that I use a population that is old enough to have witnessed some of the atrocities that were committed to the people and the suffering they went through before South Sudan was incepted as well as after it was incepted. The population chosen should also have been experienced the better part of the suffering and the efforts that were made to contain the situation.
The population samples was gotten from various social places throughout the country. I would mostly go to middle class hotels that are usually full of people to randomly select my sample. I would call a number of people enquiring their ages and buy them some food until I got the example size of the sample that I wanted. I ended up having twelve people in number who I interviewed between the age of 24 and 50 years.
Results
Sample description
In order to conduct the research more successfully and in an effective way, I organized my sample population into the three groups. The group 1, group 2 and group 3. The group 1 was composed of the people of ages between 24 years to 32 years, group 2 from 33 years to 42 years and the group 3 from 43 years to 50 years of age (Jok & Hutchinson, 1999).
Quotations and descriptions
The first question which was about the willingness of the international governments outside to help settle the situation in South Sudan was posed to all the groups in order that is from group 1 group 2 and group 3 respectively. From the answers gotten from the respondents, the general view of many of the respondents was that many international governments still had old school thought that many African countries are not civilized and would take long to do so and so were ignorant. Many of the respondents were also of the view that many international governments did not want to waste their resources in an endless war.
On the reason as to why the Red Cross International did not have the regional offices in East Africa, at least 6 respondents were quoted saying that “this region has very many illiterate people and just like they vandalize their very own projects built for their own government, they will as well vandalize the regional offices”
On the question of why the Red Cross International do not recruit the local people, seven of the respondents gave an unanimous answer as follows “ Most of the east African citizens in the South Sudan are not educated and their level of education cannot allow them to discharge any duty in an international organization like Red Cross International”
On whether the Red Cross International have a backup plan or contingency plans in case the plans laid out do fail, many of the respondents agreed that they did not have any plan as witnessed in the past when calamities befall.
The last concern that I wanted their views on what plans the Red Cross International have in terms of managing the Relief food donated, eleven of the twelve respondents agreed that it should not be channeled through any government agency for it shall be mismanaged hence ending up in people’s pockets.( Pinaud, 2014).
Research questions and hypothesis
On the very first question on whether it is true that many international governments outside Africa view African countries as primitive, many of the respondents were actually in agreement with my hypothesis and supported it. On whether the east African citizens lack the necessary professional and academic qualifications, at least six of the respondents supported the hypothesis by saying that the illiteracy level is very high and that explains why the Red Cross International do not recruit the local people. Many disagreed to my research question that “should the Red Cross International channel the relief food through the government agencies?” They said that the relief food shall be mismanaged if channeled through the government agencies (Ross, 2004).
Preliminary Discussion
The South Sudan situation has been accelerated by the fact that most countries are unwilling to help calm the situation as many believe even with their help, the case will not be solved. The perceptions that many people have about the illiteracy levels has even corrupted the minds of many international to an extent of not recruiting Africans. Media such as local radio and televisions can be used to reach many people (Kalyvas, 2003).
Appendix
1. Why is it that the international governments outside Africa are unwilling to help the situation in south Sudan?
2. Do the international governments outside Africa still believe that African countries are primitive?
3. Why do African countries plan to impose sanctions to south Sudan?
4. Why is it that Red Cross International do not have regional offices that are operational
5. Does the Red Cross International think that the east African citizens lack academic qualifications to be recruited?
6. Is true that east African citizens lack qualifications
7. Does the Red Cross International have backup plans in case what they plan fail?
8. If they are there from #7 above, what are they?
9. Should the relief food be channeled through government agencies? If No, why
10. Does the Red Cross International have a plan for the relief food from well-wishers?
References
De Waal, A. (2014). When kleptocracy becomes insolvent: Brute causes of the civil war in South Sudan. African Affairs, 113(452), 347-369.
Collier, P. (2003). Breaking the conflict trap: Civil war and development policy. World Bank Publications.
Jok, J. M., & Hutchinson, S. E. (1999). Sudan's prolonged second civil war and the militarization of Nuer and Dinka ethnic identities. African Studies Review, 42(2), 125-145.
Pinaud, C. (2014). South Sudan: Civil war, predation and the making of a military aristocracy. African Affairs, 113(451), 192-211.
Ross, M. L. (2004). How do natural resources influence civil war? Evidence from thirteen cases. International organization, 58(1), 35-67.
Kalyvas, S. N. (2003). The ontology of “political violence”: action and identity in civil wars. Perspectives on politics, 1(3), 475-494.