The priorities presented are a good framework through which to approach governance programming, but the devil is always in the details.
Tag: development
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A New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States was welcomed at the Busan High Level Forum last week. Work now needs to be done to implement the New Deal principles into existing frameworks and aid delivery.
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Now that the hard questions about aid effectiveness have been raised, is the international community prepared to tackle them?
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In this second of a series of articles on 4th High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, Rachel Locke discusses three key meetings that will happen at Busan on fragile and conflict-affected states.
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For a group of fragile and conflict-affected states, Busan represents a moment when they will articulate with a collective voice their own priorities–something that has never been seen before for this group of states.
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Mr. Chamie discusses the implications of a population that grew 1 billion over the past 10 years, though he said this was unlikely to be repeated. The major demographic issue of the 21st century is dealing with an older population,” he said.
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Dr. Sarah Cliffe, Special Representative and Director for the World Development Report on Conflict, Security and Development, told the Global Observatory that she hopes discussions at the Kusan High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness next month will include “the basic fact that no fragile or conflict-affected state has yet achieved a single one of the MDGs.”
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In this interview, Mr. Kjørven discussed the current and possible future role of the Millennium Development Goals, their relevance for development programming in fragile states, as well as the increasingly prominent role of nontraditional donors like Brazil, India, and China in development.
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Using available data from the World Bank, UNDP, WHO, FAO, and Transparency International, this map highlights the most extreme cases of youth bulge, poverty, inequality, lack of education, poor public health, corruption, and food and water scarcity
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On June 15-16, a coalition of seventeen fragile states calling itself the “g7+” came together with Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) members and multilateral donors in Monrovia, Liberia for the second meeting of the International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding. Born at the 2008 Accra High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, the International […]