World Bank Group: Web links and publications relating to conflict prevention and fragile states

See publications relating to: Conflict Prevention - Fragile States

Links:

• World Bank Group
  • Conflict prevention and reconstruction
  • Low Income Countries under Stress (LICUS)

Publications:

Conflict Prevention:

Policies and tools for strategic engagement in conflict-affected countries

 Understanding conflict prevention and peace-building

• Conflict analysis
• PovertyNet
• Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers in Conflict-affected Countries

  • Toward A Conflict-Sensitive Poverty Reduction Strategy (2005)

• Developing Poverty Reduction Strategies in Low-Income Countries Under Stress (LICUS 2005)
• Evaluating the Impact of Development Projects on Poverty: A Handbook for Practitioners (2000)
• Breaking the Conflict Trap: Civil War and Development Policy
• Gender and conflict - [see also the OECD DAC Network on Gender Equality]

 Governance and participation issues

• Public sector and poverty
• Public Sector Reform Group

  • Engaging Civil Society Organizations in Conflict-Affected and Fragile States - Three African Country Case Studies (2005)

 Security system reform (including justice)

• Demobilisation and reintegration
• Law and Justice
• Mine action

 Environment, conflict and peace

• Breaking the Conflict Trap: Civil War and Development Policy

  • Natural resources and violent conflict: options and actions (2003)
  • Natural resources and civil war: An overview with some policy options (2002 paper)
  • Land Sessions Translating Principles Into Action: Lessons and Challenges (2004)
  • Deringer, K (2003) Land Policies for Growth and Poverty Reduction. A World Bank Policy Research Report 
  • World Bank Operational Policy 7.50 relating to water

 Social drivers of conflict:

• Refugees and internally displaced people
• Children and youth in conflict
• Health and conflict
• Integrating mental health and psychosocial interventions into World Bank lending for conflict-affected populations: A Toolkit
• Community-driven development and social capital
• Private sector development and conflict

Fragile States:

• Fragile States – Good Practice in Country Assistance Strategies (2005)
  Draws together lessons from country strategy development and implementation in fragile states. The principles and approaches presented provide a basic framework and menu o f tools to facilitate the sharing o f lessons between countries and regions.
• Good Practice Note for Development Policy Lending – Development Policy Operations and Program Conditionality in Fragile States (2005)
  Provides guidance on good practice in developing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)—also sometimes known as a Partnership Framework or Joint Financing Arrangement—between a borrowing member government and the government’s donor partners who provide aid in the form of “budget support.”
• Low Income Countries Under Stress: Update (2005) 
  Summarises progress to date under the Low-Income Countries Under Stress (LICUS) initiative and priorities going forward.
• An Operational Note on Transitional Results Matrices Using Results-Based Frameworks in Fragile States (2005)
  Provides insights from the operational experience on Transitional Results Matrices: core principles, key elements and parameters, likely risks and strategies to mitigate them.
• Making aid work in fragile states: Case studies of effective aid-financed programs (World Bank, 2004) - A paper commission by The World Bank, which aims to highlight examples of successful aid-financed programs in fragile states, and to learn lessons that can inform the design of future aid interventions in countries in which the environment is different or more difficult than in more stable contexts. Cases studies include projects in Afghanistan, Cambodia, East Timor, and Northern Uganda.
• Developing Poverty Reduction Strategies in Low Income Countries Under Stress (Agulhas, 2005) - This study is a rapid assessment of the experience so far of conducting Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRSs) in Low-Income Countries Under Stress (LICUS).  The study's conclusion is that PRS principles and practices are directly applicable to LICUS, and should be introduced as soon as feasible.  The undertaking is of course more difficult in a LICUS, and the results more modest and harder to sustain.  Nonetheless, the PRS is the right tool for addressing the deep-seated problems with domestic institutions and policy processes found in LICUS, and for structuring the donor-government relationship into a more effective development partnership.