Making strategic choices and defining overall objectives

The top priority for development partners is to reconsider and reorient their broader strategies for engagement and define objectives that are consistent with statebuilding. To achieve this, the five main recommendations for development partners are: (i) understand the context and local statebuilding processes and dynamics (ii) understand your own role and clarify your objectives in relation to statebuilding (iii) consider who you can work with, and where to work (iv) work towards greater coherence across your government or organisation and (v) recognise the global and regional dimensions of statebuilding.