The Impacts of State Instability on Services Delivery in Post-Conflict South Sudan

Abstract

The state fragility poses a causal consequentialism on the political will and commitment for good governance, capacity to reduce and mitigate poverty, and inclusive plan to innovate development and safeguard security. This study investigates the effects of state instability on service delivery in post-conflict South Sudan and intellectualizes the period of political transitions with a social concentration on recovery and reconstruction of the impaired social fabric and economic growth. It focuses on capacity function, political stability, governance, services, and public infrastructure facilities by contextualizing post-conflict transitory parameters. A total of 300 respondents were proportionately divided equally among Central Equatoria, Upper Nile, and Warrap States using stratified random method. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches were deployed using questionnaires for primary data collection and literature reviews for secondary evidentiary data synchronization. Data was managed and analyzed using Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS) version (20.0). Cross tabulation was made to show the differences between beneficiaries and service providers concerning their demographics. Pearson’s correlation statistical techniques were used to test and establish the existence or non-existence of relationships among the variables. Moreover, a multiple regression analysis was used to test the potential predictors of the dependent variables. Empirical statistics on the studied variables revealed low outcomes. These studied variables indicated respondents’ dissatisfactions on capacity at 50 percent, stability transition at 64 percent, governance at 69 percent, and service delivery at 67 percent and infrastructural installations at 67 percent. The inferences were based on the data analysis outcomes, which primarily stipulated vulnerability to state instability, fragility, and low reciprocation of services delivery and innovation during post-conflict, and political transitions. The interpretative and empirical outcomes demonstrate deficiencies in institutional development and governance execution. The post-political transition arrangements were overshadowed by fragmentation and factionalization of state elites, leading to ethnographic conflict and polarizing South Sudanese and their ethnicities. This ethnographic conflict diminished the pursuit of social cohesion and resilience. The findings indicate policy gaps and implications resulting from the deficiency of service innovation. Therefore, the recommendations provide concise policies for delivering quality service addressing post-conflict and political transition predicaments to enhance socio-economic sustainability and development that leads to the suitability of democratic transformation. Further studies are needed for a modality of post-conflict political transition using bottom-up services-oriented delivery.