Supporting Statebuilding In Situations Of Conflict And Fragility: Policy Guidance (Dac Guidelines and Reference Series)

Table of Content : - Foreword - Acknowledgements - Executive Summary - Introduction - Statebuilding in fragile contexts: key terms and concepts - History and statebuilding - Critical elements underpinning statebuilding - Making strategic choices and defining overall objectives - Designing and delivering country programmes - Choosing tools for analysis and monitoring - Adapting aid delivery modalities and technical assistance - Improving development partner operations - Bibliography Foreword......Page 5 Acknowledgements......Page 7 Table of contents......Page 9 Executive Summary......Page 13 Introduction......Page 17 Concepts of statebuilding and the challenges of fragility......Page 19 Statebuilding in fragile contexts: key terms and concepts......Page 21 Defining statebuilding......Page 22 State fragility and resilience......Page 23 Note......Page 24 History and statebuilding......Page 25 Statebuilding in fragile contexts and hybrid political orders......Page 26 Statebuilding in a new global environment......Page 27 Historical and structural legacies for statebuilding in fragile contexts......Page 28 Note......Page 29 Critical elements underpinning statebuilding......Page 31 Political settlement and political processes......Page 33 State capability and responsiveness......Page 35 Social expectations......Page 37 State legitimacy......Page 38 Conclusion......Page 40 Notes......Page 41 Policy guidance and recommendations......Page 43 Making strategic choices and defining overall objectives......Page 47 Understand context and local statebuilding processes and dynamics......Page 48 Understand your own role and clarify your objectives in relation to statebuilding......Page 49 Consider whom you can work with, and where to work......Page 53 Work towards greater coherence throughout your government/organisation......Page 54 Recognise the global and regional dimension of statebuilding......Page 56 Notes......Page 59 Designing and delivering country programmes......Page 61 Adapt programme delivery to fragile contexts......Page 62 Identify and agree on key statebuilding priorities......Page 63 Design integrated interventions to foster constructive state-society relations......Page 64 Notes......Page 76 Choosing tools for analysis and monitoring......Page 77 Make use of a range of analytical tools to understand the context for statebuilding......Page 78 Understand and monitor external impact on statebuilding, and measure progress......Page 81 Adapting aid delivery modalities and technical assistance......Page 83 Align aid modalities with statebuilding objectives......Page 84 Align technical assistance with statebuilding objectives......Page 88 Improving development partner operations......Page 91 Manage the risks of operating in fragile and conflict-affected situations and learn from failures......Page 92 Create incentives for collaboration and whole-of-government co-operation......Page 94 Review procedures and regulations in the context of statebuilding objectives......Page 95 Be aware of the impact of your presence and behaviour on your legitimacy......Page 97 Bibliography......Page 99 Annotation Functioning states are essential for reducing poverty, sustaining peace and achieving agreed development goals. Despite receiving growing international attention in recent years, fragile states are falling behind other low-income countries in human development. Fragility - and its negative consequences - can destabilise entire regions and have global repercussions. Tackling the challenges associated with fragility requires a concerted international effort to support sustainable statebuilding processes, based on robust state-society relations. 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 This publication 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 program design and delivery to day-to-day operations in the field and at headquarters.--Publisher's description