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The international community is increasingly concerned about slow progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) resulting from state fragility and violent conflict. A third of the world’s poor live in countries where the state lacks either the will or the capacity to engage productively with its citizens to ensure security, prevent conflict, safeguard human rights and provide the basic functions for development. Moreover, the spillover effects from these countries - trafficking and exporting of people, drugs, criminality and terrorism - concern many branches of OECD governments other than aid and development agencies.
The INCAF (www.oecd.org/dac/incaf) was created in order to help improve donor responses to the most challenging development settings and circumstances and to chart results. Founded in 2009, it brings together experts from governments and international organizations on issues of peace, security and governance. It results from the merger of the OECD-DAC Network on Conflict, Peace and Development Co-operation and the DAC Fragile States Group which have been operating since the early 1990s and 2005, respectively.
INCAF facilitates co-ordination between bilateral and multilateral development co-operation agencies and provides a platform for sharing experiences. The network focuses on setting international norms and developing policy guidance to help improve donor responses to conflict and fragility, while ensuring that good practice is implemented at headquarters and on the ground in partner countries.
Based on a whole-of-government approach, INCAF moves beyond classical aid management concerns to examine substantive policy issues such as security and conflict prevention, peacebuilding and state building. In the spirit of the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (Accra, 2008), INCAF is taking an inclusive approach to its work by engaging with partner countries.
The network works closely with the DAC Network on Governance ( http://www.oecd.org/dac/governance/), and also benefits from inputs from other DAC networks and working parties such as the DAC Working Party on Aid Effectiveness (http://www.oecd.org/dac/effectiveness/). The INCAF is part of the OECD’s Development Co-operation Directorate and a subsidiary body of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC).
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