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Improving Security & Development in Conflict-Affected Situations

Improving Security & Development in Conflict-Affected Situations. Stephen Groff, OECD The Hague, 27 April 2011. Changing how we do business. View the world differently: Use and apply a state building perspective Revise our approaches: Better results through better risk management

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Improving Security & Development in Conflict-Affected Situations

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  1. Improving Security & Development in Conflict-Affected Situations Stephen Groff, OECD The Hague, 27 April 2011

  2. Changing how we do business • View the world differently: Use and apply a state building perspective • Revise our approaches: Better results through better risk management • Build better partnerships: The International Dialogue

  3. Use and apply a state building perspective Regional and global Policy environment Drivers of good and bad governance POLITICAL SETTLEMENT and PROCESSES Elite bargains, balance of power, centre-periphery relations • STATE CAPABILITY & RESPONSIVENESS • Security and justice, • Revenue management, • Eco. dev./employment, • Service delivery SOCIAL CAPACITY & EXPECTATIONS Including perceptions and responsibilities Societal space

  4. Use and apply a state building perspective Incentives!

  5. Better results through better risk management Some challenges: An underdeveloped understanding of risk and its management • What can be done: • Improve risk management tools, skills and mitigation methods. • Better public articulation, balance and ownership of risks & • Pressures for short term results and accountability increase risk avoidance • Realistic objectives and timelines enable better risk management • Procedures and incentives need to be adapted to country context & • Joint identification of risks as a starting point for engagement • More leverage on risks through joint approaches and pooled funding • There is a lack of strategic coordination and, as a result, of collective approaches to risk management &

  6. The International Dialogue • Engaging the key multi- and bilateral DAC donors as well as the g7+, a group of ca. 15 self-declared fragile states to… • … Create a joint set of international objectives to guide peacebuilding and statebuilding efforts… • … As well as an action plan to change how we do business, focusing on political dialogue, planning processes, capacity building and aid instruments… • …A joint enterprise starting in Dili (2010) and moving via Monrovia (June 2011) to culminate in Busan (November 2011).

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