Peacebuilding Principles in Global Development Policies: South-North Civil Society Collaboration

The Civil Society "Core Group" of the IDPS (International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding) is a network of Southern and Northern civil society organizations that are collaborating to engage with governments on issues of development effectiveness in conflict-affected states. 3P and AfP met with other members of the Core Group in The Hague to discuss opportunities, goals, and strategies for promoting peacebuilding approaches to international engagement in conflict-affected countries.  The conference helped strengthen and enhance the impact of the Civil Society Core Group to further streamline civil society's collaboration across conflict-affected countries and Northern donor countries.

   

3P also works actively within the Core Group's "Political Strategy Working Group" (PSWG), chaired by Melanie Greenberg, President of the Alliance for Peacebuilding, and Larry Attree, Conflict & Security Advisor for Saferworld. The working group's mandate is to develop and steer the Core Group's strategies for increasing political will among donor and host governments for making the concrete reforms needed in bilateral aid systems and country-level development processes for more sustainable peacebuilding and statebuilding outcomes in conflict-affected societies.

Aid Effectivness in Fragile States - Civil Society

April 20, 2012

World Bank Discusses Aid Effectiveness in Fragile States with Civil Society 

3P Human Security, the Alliance for Peacebuilding, and other members of an InterAction sub-working group on issues of aid effectiveness in conflict-affected and fragile states helped organize a panel discussion about the implementation of New Deal principles at the three-day Civil Society Policy Forum, part of the World Bank and IMF 2012 Spring Meetings. The meeting follows the global buzz generated when 35 donor and recipient countries (including the United States) signed the New Deal in Busan at the end of 2011.  The panel included government representatives from self-described "fragile states" (called the g7+), civil society representatives from the global South, and the coordinator of the North-South inter-governmental dialogue process (called the International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding which produced the New Deal).

The New Deal and the long-term global dialogue that made it become a reality is significant because it signals the broadest consensus ever reached between donor and recipient nations about how international aid to conflict-affected and fragile states must be done in a way that fosters more sustainable and inclusive development outcomes and inclusive state-society relations in parts of the world where cycles of war and poverty are most severe. 3P Human Security and peacebuilders around the world hope the principles of the New Deal will become a core pillar of whatever global development framework emerges after the Millennium Development Goals expire in 2015.

Event: Aid Effectiveness in Fragile States

Dec 15, 2011 

Post-Busan Debrief on Aid Effectivess in Conflict-Affected Regions

U.S. government and civil society representatives who participated in the Fourth High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan, Republic of Korea Nov 29 - Dec 1 offered analysis of the major outcomes of the historic forum and what it means for US-sponsored aid mechanisms and the larger discussion of development effectiveness, especially in conflict-affected and fragile states.

 3P initiated collaboration with the Alliance forPeacebuilding, the Woodrow Wilson Center, USAID, InterAction, and CDA Collaborative Learning Projects to host a post-Busan de-briefing event on Dec 15th. 

Click here for the event agenda.

Click here for a recording of the event.

From left: South African Ambassador to the U.S. Ibrahim Rasool,3P Program Manager John Filson, and World Vision Senior Policy Advisor Randy Tift

 Leaders of the official USG delegation to Busan and several CSO participants in Busan provided analysis of the historic forum and its implications for the way USAID and other donors approach international development cooperation. The second of two panels focused on the effectiveness questions in conflict-affected and fragile states, such as G7+ countries in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa where the lack of effective development is a major obstacle to human security. Most of the 19 G7+ countries have not yet reached a single Millennium Development Goal, and it was the sense of both U.S. officials and CSO representatives that the US must do more to foster genuine improvement.

Steve Pierce, Senior Advisor, Office of Donor Engagement,
 Bureau for Policy, Planning  and Learning, USAID