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The process of developing this assessment involved desk studies, interviews, workshops and focus group discussions on each of the Peacebuilding and Statebuilding goals (PSGs), involving civil society organisations, parliamentarians, community leaders and government actors from around the country.
South Sudan's fragility assessment aims to provide a first, and still limited, overview of progress, challenges and priority actions to help the country advance towards resilience.
The assessment was conducted in Timor-Leste for about 2 months, from the period of July to August 2012. It involved approximately of 41 institutions include State Institutions, Development Partners, Civil Societies Organization, Local Authorities from two selected districts and Universities.
This Compact is the result of an inclusive process to determine the priorities of Somalia for the next three years (2014-2016).
With this implementation overview, we have tried to strike a balance between background information, updates on developments in the second quarter 2014, information on the specific support from the UNDP facility as well as the impact of this support.
The third quarter of 2014 continued to see progress in implementation of the New Deal at country level as well as on the global level with support from the UNDP facility. As before, this overview is divided in country sections, and a section on global support.
Preliminary results of global monitoring of the New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States. First High Level Meeting of the Global Partnership on Effective Development Cooperation, Mexico City, 15-16 April 2014.
An Article by Habib Ur Rehman Mayar in the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development.
A Synthesis of findings from seven multi-stakeholder consultations. This report identifies seven peacebuilding and statebuilding priorities as stepping stones to reach the Millennium Development Goals in conflict-affected and fragile states.
March 2010. This is a summary document (full version in french) of the contribution of the Government of the Central African Republic to the International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding. [Also available in: Fr ]
March 2010. This report outlines the main findings and recommendations of the consultative process on peacebuilding and statebuilding in Sierra Leone. [Full report] [Also available in: Fr ]
March 2010. This country-level consultation is part of the International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding. This intergovernmental dialogue initiative was established as an outcome of the High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra in September 2008. [Also available in: Fr ]
March 2010. This report outlines the main findings and recommendations from Timor-Leste. These findings will be shared with the International Dialogue Steering Group and inform discussions at the first global meeting in Dili. [Also available in: Fr ]
Summary, march 2010. Full version available in French. [Also available in: Fr ]
Summary. Full document available in French. [Also available in: Fr ]
This report synthesises the findings of seven country consultations that were carried out as part of the International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding ("the Dialogue") between November 2009 and March 2010. [Also available in: Fr ]
This report is a summary of the responses and insights from a rapid consultative process with Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to input into the first global meeting of the International Dialogue on peacebuilding and statebuilding to be held in Dili, Timor-Leste on 9-10 April 2010.
This report outlines the main findings and recommendations of the consultative process on peacebuilding and statebuilding in Liberia. [Also available in: Fr ]
This document summarises key findings and recommendations of the Working Group on External Assistance to Capacity Development, which is one of four working groups established by the IDPS.
16 June 2011, power point presentation.
The report reviews experiences with political dialogue in a broad range of countries and based on this identifies four main types of dialogues; presents preconditions for successful dialogue; and proposes key strategic elements of interventions to support effective political dialogue.
2010-2011 International Dialogue Working Groups. These working papers are a valuable resource for all those interested in understanding the origins of the “New Deal” and provide useful inputs to help implementing the “New Deal” commitments.
The New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States [Also available in: Fr ]
Version del New Deal en Español.
New Deal Arabic version.
New Deal Portuguese version.
CSPPS Brochure
The 2014 New Deal Monitoring Report [Also available in: Fr ]
A brochure by the International Dialogue
Document from the 3rd global meeting of the International Dialogue
Room document 3 from the 3rd Global Meeting of the International Dialogue [Also available in: Fr ]
2-pager about the International Dialogue [Also available in: Fr ]
This paper reflects on what we have learnt and the scale of the challenge ahead in implementing the new development framework in countries affected by conflict and fragility. It also identifies some elements of a possible new platform for collective action that is required at global level if we are to ensure no country is left behind. [Also available in: Fr ]
Flyer distributed at the ID side event "Implementing the New Development Framework in Countries Affected by Conflict and Fragility"
The UNDP New Deal facility is now well into its second year of operation, and there is a lot of exciting activity across a range of fronts. This quarterly report covers both Q2 and Q3, due to a temporary hiatus caused by staff changes within UNDP/RCO.
The Stockholm Declaration on Addressing Fragility and Building Peace in a Changing World [Also available in: Fr ]
Main messages of the Independent Review of the New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States by NYU / CIC.
Five years after being agreed by over 40 member states and supporters, the International Dialogue’s New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States has delivered progress in countries ranging from Somalia to Sierra Leone. In order to understand the development impacts made under the New Deal, and to reflect on the lessons to be learnt, the International Dialogue commissioned an independent review by the New York University's Centre for International Cooperation.
Executive Summary of the Independent Review of the New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States by NYU / CIC.
This note examines the lessons learned from emergency responses to the outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) pandemic in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea over an 18 month period.
During the International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding Steering Group (IDPS) meeting, which was held in Washington on 10th October 2014, the co-chairs of the International Dialogue mandated the IDPS to work on the linkages between the New Deal and the Ebola crisis and to facilitate discussions on this topic.
Information for participants: venue, visa, hotel accommodation and other travel information
Discussion paper and expected outcomes – Concept Note of IWG meeting. Room Document 01- For Discussion and Approval. EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL DIALOGUE WORKING GROUP MEETING ON NEW DEAL IMPLEMENTATION. 1-2 June 2016, Nairobi, Kenya. [Also available in: Fr ]
Summary records of Abidjan IWG Meeting, May 2015. Document 02 – Background document. EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL DIALOGUE WORKING GROUP MEETING ON NEW DEAL IMPLEMENTATION. 1-2 June 2016, Nairobi, Kenya. [Also available in: Fr ]
IWG workplan and progress update. Document 04 – Background document. EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL DIALOGUE WORKING GROUP MEETING ON NEW DEAL IMPLEMENTATION. 1-2 June 2016, Nairobi, Kenya. [Also available in: Fr ]
International Dialogue Strategy Paper for the Future of the International Dialogue. Document 05 - Background document. EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL DIALOGUE WORKING GROUP MEETING ON NEW DEAL IMPLEMENTATION. 1-2 June 2016, Nairobi, Kenya. [Also available in: Fr ]
Country Dialogues on Using and Strengthening Country Systems: A Guidance Note. Document 12 - Discussion document. EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL DIALOGUE WORKING GROUP MEETING ON NEW DEAL IMPLEMENTATION. 1-2 June 2016, Nairobi, Kenya. [Also available in: Fr ]
Promoting More and Better Business and Investment in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Environments, in line with the ‘New Deal’. Document 14 – for discussion. EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL DIALOGUE WORKING GROUP MEETING ON NEW DEAL IMPLEMENTATION. 1-2 June 2016, Nairobi, Kenya. [Also available in: Fr ]
Agenda. MEETING OF THE NEW DEAL IMPLEMENTATION WORKING GROUP. Nairobi, Kenya – 1-2 June 2016. Location: World Bank. [Also available in: Fr ]
International Dialogue Nairobi Meetings. 1-4 June 2016, Nairobi, Kenya. LOGISTICAL NOTE. [Also available in: Fr ]
CSPPS with support from its host and German member organization FriEnt, held outreach event towards the German government on 8 July. You can read about the outcome of these meetings in this media document. [Also available in: Fr ]
The Civil Society Platform for Peacebuilding and Statebuilding (CSPPS) 2015 Annual Report highlights the CSPPS work towards peaceful and inclusive societies in 2015. Namely in advocacy for sustainable peace; safeguarding inclusivity and supporting the role of Civil Society in peacebuilding and statebuilding in conflict-affected states. In the Annual Report you will also find relevant updates on CSPPS governance and membership as well as on communications and outreach efforts. [Also available in: Fr ]
Concept Note - Realisation of the SDGs in Countries Affected by Conflict and Fragility: the Role of the New Deal. This note is intended for national actors and their international partners operating in countries affected by fragility and conflict. Its purpose is to support their efforts to realise the 2030 Agenda, including but not limited to SDG 16, using the principles of the New Deal. [Also available in: Fr ]
How Can the Sustainable Development Goals be Realised in Fragile Contexts ? HLM2 Wednesday, 30 November 2016 | 14.30 – 15.30 Lenana Room. KICC, Nairobi, Kenya At this side event of the International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding, high-level panelists drawn from the governments of OECD and g7+ countries affected by conflict and fragility, civil society organisations and multilateral institutions, will discuss how to ensure that countries facing conflict and fragility are not left behind and are able to realise the SDGs.
This note presents a basic guide to support the implementation of country compacts, as defined in the New Deal.
This guide aims to support the development and implementation of compacts, as defined in the New Deal. It is not meant to be a step-by-step guide, but rather to help policy makers and practitioners to consider key principles, issues, and design elements to consider when involved in a compact development process. They are drawn from past experiences, existing studies, and inputs from development partners and g7+ countries. They represent the general characteristics and transition compacts, as they have existed thus far, as well as some lessons learned and good practice.
This note sets out the rationale and benefits of a ‘spectrum approach’ to fragility, and the purpose and use of country-specific fragility spectrum and indicators (developed through fragility assessments).
This guidance note seeks to support the implementation of New Deal fragility assessments in fragile and conflict-affected states. It should not be seen as a strict step-by-step guide. Rather, it provides guidance to support context-specific processes; elements described herein should always be tailored to local needs and priorities. This guidance is based on the experience, lessons and insight generated by g7+ countries that piloted implementation of the fragility assessment between 2012 and 2013
This paper outlines options to support country-level implementation of the New Deal. These include: 1) options for specific, short-term support aimed to kick-start implementation and/or to provide targeted technical or other assistance on specific aspects of New Deal implementation, and; 2) options for longer-term, continued support aimed to build in-country capacity, within Government, civil society, and development partners to manage the overall implementation of New Deal provisions. In addition, the paper highlights areas of global support, and presents options for how implementation could be financed.
This brief highlights options for possible roles of lead development partner/s in pilot countries, within their headquarters, and through international fora. These suggestions are based on the New Deal commitments, ongoing experience, and discussions within the New Deal implementation working group (Juba, December 2012).
This document provides a preliminary guide to support the country-level implementation of the New Deal for International Engagement in Fragile States. Further guidance in particular areas of the New Deal might be developed based on initial experience and lessons learned during 2012.
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The 2017 g7+ newsletter captures g7+ advocacy activities around their main thematic work ‘Sustaining peace, access to justice and conflict prevention’.
Developed by the g7+, F2F cooperation describes the support that g7+ member States provide to each other as they transition from fragility and conflict to peace and stability. This publication aims to provide an overview of Fragile-to-Fragile Cooperation principles and experiences and to capture achievements to date of several g7+ countries including Central African Republic, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Sierra Leone and South Sudan.
Adil Korfa Garane, senior policy advisor in the Ministry of Finance, Federal Republic of Somalia and co-Chair of the UCS working group, gives his perspective on the Use of Country Systems in Somalia.
On Tuesday 6 March 2018, the International Dialogue will host a High Level Panel on “Implementing Prevention: Operational Responses to the Pathways for Peace Report” at the World Bank Fragility Forum 2018, in Washington D.C. This panel will bring together Ministers and senior officials from the g7+ group of countries affected by conflict and fragility, OECD-DAC–INCAF countries, civil society (CSPPS), UN system and World Bank, to discuss how bilateral and multilateral actors can work better together to prevent violent conflict. Panelists will provide their perspectives on the World Bank-UN report Pathways for Peace: Inclusive Approaches to Preventing Violent Conflict. Drawing on panelists’ experience of piloting the New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States in g7+ countries, the discussion will focus in particular on the challenges of operationalizing the report’s recommendations and will identify what is required to ensure they are effectively translated into practice.
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Presentation made by H.E. Deqa Yasin Hagi Yusuf, Minister of Women and Human Rights Development, Federal Republic of Somalia, on behalf of the g7+ and Somalia in response to the WB-UN Pathways for Peace report, during IDPS High level panel on 'Implementing prevention: Operational responses to the Pathways for Peace report' held on 6th March at the World Bank Fragility Forum 2018 .
The 2016 fragility assessment report is the result of inclusive consultations led by Sierra Leoneans. During this process, stakeholders identified challenges and key priorities that should be addressed by the Government. The process provided a unique opportunity to understand how the various districts view their fragility and how the Peacebuilding and Statebuilding Goals (PSGs) could assist moving the country from transition to transformation. Three key recommendations are suggested in the report in order to create greater resilience: increasing capacity building, creating a maintenance culture and ensuring that there is a resident judge in each district.
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This report takes stock of the progress made across the member countries of the International Dialogue on the Use of Country Systems (UCS) since 2016. The UCS is a core commitment of the New Deal’s TRUST principles, and was reaffirmed by Dialogue members in the Stockholm Declaration 2016. The report concludes on the need for a more nuanced approach to the topic, highlights progress at country level, and the need to showcase and strengthen it internationally in order to promote more sustained international commitment to the issue. The report builds on series of consultations conducted in 2017 between members – at the IDPS Steering Group and Implementation Working Group meetings in April 2017 and on a country level consultation with the country dialogue on the Use of Country Systems led by the Somalia donor/government Use of Country Systems Working Group, supported by the UN/World Bank coordinator in Nairobi (Kenya) in December 2018.
This report captures the main highlights from a workshop hosted by UNDP in December 2017, which brought together development partners, g7+ focal points and civil society organisations in order to review the government’s last fragility assessment (2016) and to stimulate a discussion about its findings with a view to identifying possible foci for future country dialogue. Prevention of violent conflict was advanced as an important backdrop in context of forthcoming election. The workshop also highlighted the need to open up the dialogue to a greater number of stakeholders, notably the unusual suspects which include political parties, and to revitalize the country level policy dialogue space between donor, government and civil society, for more inclusive peacebuilding and prevention.
This report captures the main highlights from a workshop hosted by the Ministry of Women and Human Rights Development of the Federal Republic of Somalia, UNDP Somalia, the Civil Society Platform for Peacebuilding Statebuilding (CSPPS) and the International Dialogue Secretariat. The workshop brought together Somalia civil society organisations, with donors and officials from Ministry of Finance (PM office) and Central Bank, to review gaps in gender mainstreaming across line ministries, during the New Deal compact phase, and identify how the new National Development Plan and Partnership agreement, open up the scope for greater gender and women’s inclusion. On this occasion, a set of preliminary recommendations were put forward.
A half day workshop jointly hosted and organised in conjunction with the World Bank Conflict, Fragility and Violence Hub, the UN/World Bank Aid Coordination Office, and the International Dialogue Secretariat, was organised as a way of furthering peer learning across IDPS members, on the current ‘state of play’ with respect to thinking and progress on the Use of Country Systems (UCS). Its aim was to facilitate the comparing of experiences, and to identify strategic ways of advancing the agenda at country and headquarter levels i.e. an agenda for action for the International Dialogue leadership on the Use of Country Systems going forward.
Brief Summary by the g7+ of the IMF report on Fragile and Conflict Affected States [Also available in: Fr ]
This evaluation assesses the IMF’s engagement with countries in fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCS). Helping these countries has been deemed an international priority because of their own great needs and the dangerous implications of persistent fragility for regional and global stability. With its crisis response and prevention mandate, the IMF has a key role to play in these international efforts. In practice, its contribution has been subject to considerable debate, and critics have called on the Fund to increase its engagement.
The IDPS High Level panel entitled ‘Prevention of violent conflict, How can bilateral and multilateral actors work better together: Operational perspectives on World Bank-UN report on Pathways for Peace’, took place at the World Bank Headquarters, as part off the Fragility Conflict and Violence Forum, on 6th March 2018, 16h00-17h30. Representatives from the three constituencies of the International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding (IDPS), discussed the World Bank-UN report entitled “Pathways for Peace: Inclusive Approaches to Preventing Violent Conflict”.
The IDPS High Level panel entitled ‘Prevention of violent conflict, How can bilateral and multilateral actors work better together: Operational perspectives on World Bank-UN report on Pathways for Peace’, took place at the World Bank Headquarters, as part off the Fragility Conflict and Violence Forum, on 6th March 2018, 16h00-17h30. Representatives from the three constituencies of the International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding (IDPS), discussed the World Bank-UN report entitled “Pathways for Peace: Inclusive Approaches to Preventing Violent Conflict”.
An IDPS summary of the World bank's Meeting on Fragility, Conflict and Violence that took place in March 2018 in Washington DC
A Seat at the Table is report by the CDA Collaborative Learning Projects on “Engaging the Private Sector as a New Peacebuilding Actor.” It documents the efforts of individual companies, as well as those of associations of companies acting collectively, as they sought to transform the dynamics of conflict unfolding around them. Authors: Miller, Ben, Brian Ganson, Sarah Cechvala, and Jason Miklian CDA Collaborative Learning Projects
The Economic Studies and Forecasting Sector at Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation (MOPIC) in collaboration with UNICEF Yemen Country Office are pleased to share the Issue (No. 39) of the Yemen Socio-Economic Update (YSEU).
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This project aims to ensure the meaningful inclusion, participation and contribution of national and local CSOs during government-led SDG consultation and validation processes in five selected countries - Côte d'Ivoire, Central African Republic, Chad, Sierra Leone and Timor-Leste - going for a Voluntary National Review (VNR) in 2019. CSPPS is joining forces with the TAP Network (and a range of other partners) to implement this project ahead of the High-Level Political Forum taking place in New York in July 2019. This Communication Update gives you an overview snapshot of where things stand today regarding the project in all five selected countries. A next updated version of this document will be shared in due course.
We are delighted to send you our first IDPS Bulletin of 2019. As you will see it has updates on our achievements, activities, constituency news, upcoming events, publications of interest and much more! A French version will follow. [Also available in: Fr ]
The High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) presents an ideal opportunity to launch the IDPS 2019-21 Peace Vision, given its focus on reviewing progress on SDG 16 on achieving peaceful, just and inclusive societies, in addition to SDG 8 on sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth and employment, SDG 10 on reducing inequality within countries and SDG 17 on strengthening global partnerships to support and achieve the 2030 Agenda. All of these SDGs are directly relevant to the IDPS’ thematic priorities and approach. [Also available in: Fr ]
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The second IDPS Bulletin of 2019 is now available. This edition highlights events such as the Steering Group meeting held in Lisbon together with the ministerial launch of the Peace Vision at the Canadian Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York. Also included are various publications and details of forthcoming events.
The 22nd IDPS Steering Group Meeting was held on 28 June 2019 in Lisbon, Portugal
An introductory paper entitled "Ready to Engage?" has just been published by CSPPS, Oxfam Novib and SOMO. This paper is an introduction to the role of the private sector in fragile and conflict-affected settings, as well as practical guidance on what civil society’s engagement with the private sector might look like.
The co-chairs of the International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding issued a statement on behalf of the IDPS.
