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28-May-2010
This report aims to help OECD DAC members and partners to improve their policies and modalities for providing rapid, flexible and predictable financing to situations emerging from conflict and fragility.
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17-May-2010
While international donors have the potential to make positive contributions to support statebuilding, they can inadvertently do harm. This panel discussion provides practical guidance on constructive intervention in fragile states.
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18-Mar-2010
What works and what doesn't in situations of fragility? The first Monitoring Survey of the Fragile States Principles provides evidence of the quality of international engagement based on national consultations with Afghanistan, CAR, DRC, Haiti, Sierra Leone and Timor-Leste across diplomacy, development and security. Published in a Global Report and six Country Reports, the survey was launched at a joint OECD-Center for Strategic and International Studies event in Washington, D.C. on 26 February 2010.
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17-Mar-2010
The 2010 edition of “Ensuring Fragile States Are Not Left Behind” presents salient facts on aid flows to fragile states with specific consideration to the impact of the triple food, fuel and financial crises. It also calls for a whole-of-government response.
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15-Mar-2010
This report looks at the central role of state legitimacy in transforming power into authority, and providing the basis for rule by consent rather than by coercion. It specifically focuses on the challenges to state legitimacy in fragile situations: a lack of legitimacy undermines constructive relations between the state and society, and thus compounds fragility; in addition, multiple sources of legitimacy often compete and conflict, leaving the state unable to impose the ultimate rules of the game.
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15-Jan-2010
Based on comparative case studies of Afghanistan, Bolivia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nepal, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone, this book addresses how the interventions of OECD countries may risk undermining positive statebuilding processes, and makes recommendations as to how this may be avoided.
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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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09-Mar-2009
Each year, 740 000 people die as a result of armed violence. Armed violence increasingly exploits a link between conflict and crime and undermines the chances of reaching the Millennium Development Goals. This publication will help aid donors - both policy advisors and programme staff - to transform good words into good programmes that can ultimately help reduce armed violence globally.
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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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