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South Sudan, the youngest country on earth, is not without history. But given the vast priorities of nation building, it is a country that has until now not had permanent repositories for its historical facts.
A nation is never born, always constructed. And the records of its past are at the heart of this fragile process as all governments need efficient archive services in order to preserve records, foster a national identity, and provide public access to governance. Because of this central role of archives in the building of a democratic state, South Sudan, with assistance from the government of Norway, embarked on the establishment of this institution through an international design competition organized by the United Nations Office for Project Sevices (UNOPS).
The brief called for a secure place with state of the art technology for the preservation, storage and retrieval of important archival records. The project also needed to have a public access space where holdings could be made available for research, reference and public awareness.