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ISBN: 9789264074965
Publication date:
28 February 2011
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The negative consequences of state fragility adversely impact the lives of more than one billion people around the world. Although fragile states have received increasing international attention in recent years, they are still falling behind other low-income countries in human development. Fragility – and its negative consequences – can destabilise entire regions and have global repercussions. Addressing the challenges associated with fragility requires a concerted international effort to support sustainable statebuilding processes, based on robust state-society relations. Functioning states are essential for reducing poverty, sustaining peace and achieving agreed development goals.
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Supporting Statebuilding in Situations of Conflict and Fragility: Policy Guidance presents new thinking on statebuilding and clear recommendations for better practice. It provides an internationally accepted conceptual framework for statebuilding, informed by today’s realities of conflict-affected and fragile situations. Building on good practices already being successfully applied on the ground, this guidance lays out how developing and developed countries can better facilitate positive statebuilding processes and strengthen the foundations upon which capable and legitimate states are built. The recommendations in this guidance address critical areas for better international engagement from strategy development, and programme design and delivery to day-to-day operations in the field and at headquarters.
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Part I. Concepts of statebuilding and the challenges of fragility
Chapter 1. Statebuilding in fragile contexts: key terms and concepts
Contemporary understandings of the state
Statebuilding
State fragility and resilience
Chapter 2. History and statebuilding
Statebuilding in the Western World
Statebuilding in fragile contexts and hybrid political orders
Statebuilding in a new global environment
Historical and structural legacies for statebuilding in fragile contexts
Chapter 3. Critical elements underpinning statebuilding
Political settlement and political processes
State capability and responsiveness
Social expectations
State legitimacy
Part II. Rethinking international engagement – Lessons from efforts to promote statebuilding
and implications for improved development partner policy and practice
Chapter 1. Making strategic choices and defining overall objectives
Understand context and local statebuilding processes and dynamics
Understand your own role and clarify your objectives in relation to statebuilding
Consider whom you can work with, and where to work
Work towards greater coherence throughout your government/organisation, through shared
departmental visions, objectives and joint strategies
Recognise the global and regional dimension of statebuilding
Chapter 2. Moving from strategic choices to country programme design and delivery
Adapt programme delivery to fragile contexts
Engage with government and key partners in identifying and agreeing key statebuilding priorities
Design integrated interventions to foster constructive state-society relations
Chapter 3. Tools for analysis and monitoring
Make use of a range of analytical tools to understand the context for statebuilding
Understand and monitor external impact on statebuilding, and measure progress
Chapter 4. Implications for aid delivery modalities and technical assistance
Align aid modalities with statebuilding objectives
Align technical assistance with statebuilding objectives
Chapter 5. Implications for development partner operations
Matching ambitions to capability and setting the right incentives
Strengthen field presence and capacity to work on statebuilding in fragile situations
Manage the risks of operating in fragile and conflict-affected situations and learn from failures
Create incentives for collaboration and whole-of-government co-operation
Review procedures and regulations in the context of statebuilding objectives
Be aware of the impact of your presence and behaviour on your legitimacy in the eyes of local populations
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