This publication provides an overview of the key issues, challenges and opportunities for ensuring more systematic consideration of gender issues in statebuilding in fragile and conflict-affected countries.

This publication takes stock of i) the evolution of fragility as a concept, ii) analyses of financial flows to and within fragile states between 2000 and 2010, and iii) trends and issues that are likely to shape fragility in the years to come.

This book makes seven recommendations to improve the quality of support that states and international organizations provide to peace processes.

This report synthesises main findings and recommendations from a survey of 13 countries on international engagement in fragile states.

This book contains a large-scale mapping of Armed Violence Reduction and Prevention activities, focusing on six countries - Brazil, Burundi, Colombia, Liberia, South Africa and Timor-Leste - with a view to understanding what works and what does not work.

This publication provides the evidence to help donors understand how to balance risks and opportunities in order to protect the integrity of their institutions while delivering better results to those who need it most.

This publication provides an overview of key definitions, components and concepts of political settlements, based on existing literature. It also examines the potential impact of donor activities on political settlements and highlights possible...

These three Programming Notes build on the 2009 publication entitled Armed Violence Reduction: Enabling Development. These three notes cover: armed violence in urban areas, youth and armed violence, and linkages between armed violence reduction and...

To help experts and practitioners working to tackle the problem of armed violence, three Programming Notes build on the 2009 publication entitled Armed Violence Reduction: Enabling Development. These three notes cover: Armed violence in urban areas ...

These three Programming Notes build on the 2009 publication entitled Armed Violence Reduction: Enabling Development and cover urban armed violence, youth and armed violence, and the links between violence reduction and security system reform.

This report serves as a tool to better monitor the levels, timing and composition of resource flows to fragile states, and presents salient facts on aid flows to fragile states, the impact on fragile states of the three crises and the need for a...

Based on stakeholder consultations and supported by data, this report reviews the implementation of the Fragile States Principles two years after endorsement, and identifies priority areas to improve the impact of international engagement.

Based on stakeholder consultations and supported by data, this report reviews the implementation of the Fragile States Principles in Timor-Leste, and identifies priority areas to improve the impact of international engagement.

Based on stakeholder consultations and supported by data, this report reviews the implementation of the Fragile States Principles in Sierra Leone, and identifies priority areas to improve the impact of international engagement.

Based on stakeholder consultations and supported by data, this report reviews the implementation of the Fragile States Principles in Afghanistan, and identifies priority areas to improve the impact of international engagement.

This report looks at ways in which the implementation of the Fragile States Principles does and does not work, based on evidence from the ground across six countries – Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo,...

More than one-third of Official Development Assistance is spent annually on fragile and conflict-affected countries. Nonetheless, aid does not always flow promptly and effectively to where it is most needed, especially in countries recovering from ...

State legitimacy matters because it transforms power into authority and provides the basis for rule by consent, rather than by coercion. In fragile situations, a lack of legitimacy undermines constructive relations between the state and society, and ...

Based on comparative case studies of Afghanistan, Bolivia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nepal, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone, this book addresses how the interventions of OECD countries may risk undermining positive statebuilding processes, and makes...

Based on literature review and inputs from surveyed agencies, this book assesses the value and role of early warning for the prevention of violent conflict and identifies the most effective systems.