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The international community is increasingly concerned with the slow progress towards 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 their citizens to ensure security, prevent conflict, safeguard human rights and provide the basic functions for development. The spillover effects from these countries - the trafficking and exporting of people, drugs, criminality and terrorism - concern many parts of OECD governments beyond aid and development agencies. Since the early 1990s, the DAC's Network on Conflict, Peace and Development Cooperation (CPDC) and, since 2005, the DAC's Fragile States Group (FSG) have addressed these challenges by developing policy guidance to help improve donor responses to the most challenging development settings and circumstances and to chart results.
Beginning of december a step change was made in the DAC’s engagement in fragile situations with the launch of a new International Network on Conflict and Fragility (INCAF), bringing together the CPDC and FSG into one forum. INCAF has been set up to perform a complementary function to the Working Party on Aid Effectiveness – the focus is on fragile and conflict affected countries, but moving beyond aid management concerns to examine the substantive policy issues of security, peace building and state capacity. In line with the spirit of Accra, INCAF is taking an inclusive approach to its work by engaging with partner countries.
For more information please contact DAC.Contact@oecd.org .
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