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The International Network on Conflict and Fragility (www.oecd.org/dac/incaf) is a unique decision-making forum which brings together governments and international organisations in order to support peacebuilding as well as effective and legitimate state institutions in the world’s most challenging development situations.
INCAF helps donors, international organisations and partner countries to respond to conflict and fragility by working on cutting-edge policy and programming and by acting as a dialogue facilitator between donors and partner countries (read more).
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13-Mar-2009
Every year some 740 000 people die across the world because of armed violence: young men without resources, jobs or hope for the future are most at risk of turning to violence. The new OECD Publication entitled 'Armed Violence Reduction: Enabling Development' , provides advice to donors and policy-makers on how to reduce armed violence. Armed Violence Reduction warns that urban violence, youth gangs and criminality will continue to rise unless we all start to deal with the causes of violence.
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24-Feb-2009
The international community today is hardly in a position to avoid another genocide, as witnessed in Rwanda in 1994, despite the significant evolution of early warning systems in recent years. Preventing Violence, War and State Collapse aims to support the efforts of OECD-DAC members and other organisations active in the field of conflict prevention and peacebuilding to better integrate conflict early warning analysis and response into their programming.
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09-Feb-2009
New OECD DAC publication on gender and security system reform (SSR), entitled "Integrating Gender Awareness and Equality" will provide practical guidance on how to integrate a gender perspective in SSR processes and address programming gaps in this area.
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28-Aug-2008
The OECD-DAC “Principles for Good International Engagement in Fragile States and Situations” prioritise state building as the central objective of international partnerships in fragile situations. In 2007, the DAC’s Fragile States Group (FSG) initiated a workstream on state building to assist the international community arrive at a more consistent understanding of what state building means. This fact sheet summarises the FSG’s initial findings on the nature of state building in situations of fragility.
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