Publications
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Jan 1970This report records the results of a year-long study on the link between needs assessment and decision-making in the humanitarian sector.
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This note looks at the challenge of capacity building in post conflict countries, including options for creating capacity and the trade-offs between speed and longer-term impact, the need to ensure that aid management agencies include sunset provisions, and six proposed general lessons for more...
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Jan 1970The paper defines fragile states and addresses the challenges for development and poverty reduction. The paper distinguishes between four broad types of environments: the ‘Monterrey’ cases of strong capacity and reasonable political will, the ‘weak but willing’ category where government...
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Paper presented at GEPPA Conference March 2005 presents four lessons for development assistance to fragile states. Firstly, the PRS process must honour its original design and give adequate attention to the political, protective and socio-cultural dimensions. Secondly, the PRS process needs to...
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This paper looks at the evolution of policy commitments and thinking on peacebuilding, against the backdrop of other agendas such as the responsibility to protect (R2P). It analyzes disjunctions between policy and practice overall, and focuses on gaps in the areas of democratic governance and e...
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This paper explores the politics and practicalities of coherence in various forms, and argues for a rights-based coherence agenda. It starts with a short description of the debates around “failed and fragile” states, moves into a discussion of Canada’s current coherence agenda, and ends with a...
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Jan 1970Without an effective collective security system, war, terrorism and other forms of strife will increase, and international prosperity will be at risk or even reversed. This volume explores strategies for reducing conflict, combating international terrorism, and nuclear nonproliferation and disa...
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Jan 1970This book examines the dynamics of what actually happens on the ground during and after emergencies. Case studies written by international aid practitioners and journalists have been enhanced by commentary from the point of view of the people and organizations most affected by wars. Case studie...
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This policy paper brings together the latest analysis by DFID and others on how to make development more effective in fragile states. It sets out some objectives and makes commitments about how DFID will work differently in future.
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The experience of the last twenty or so years with states emerging from conflict is that you can’t have development without security or security without development. It is becoming widely recognized that security – or freedom of the individual and society from harm and conflict – is a precondit...