Fem bistandsydere har udvalgt syv skrøbelige stater
DAKAR, 20 December 2011 (IRIN): At the global aid effectiveness forum in Busan, South Korea, in November and December, the “G7+”, a group of nations which includes 19 fragile (skrøbelige) and conflict-affected states, agreed a New Deal on fragile states.
The New Deal sets out concrete and, they hope, more relevant ways to improve peace- and state-building goals.
The New Deal will be piloted (prøvekørt) in Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, the DR Congo, Liberia, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, and Timor-Leste (Øst-Timor), with help from Australia, Belgium, the Netherlands, the UK and the USA.
– It identifies five peace- and state-building goals as prerequisites (forudsætninger) for development without which no MDG (Millenium Development Goals = 2015 Målene) will be met, said Marcus Manuel, director of the Budget Strengthening Initiative at the UK’s Overseas Development Institute (ODI), one of the architects of the New Deal.
Some 1,5 billion people live in conflict-affected and fragile states, most of which are not on track to meet a single MDG (se også www.2015.dk).
Clear goals
The goals of the New Deal include legitimate politics, security, justice, economic foundations and revenues (indtægter til statskassen) and services (offentlige serviceydelser).
– If you do not sort these criteria out, no matter how many schools you build, if you have not figured out the payroll (lønudgifterne), you will not be able to move forward, Manuel told IRIN.
For years donor governments have struggled with how to approach development support to fragile states, which lack the systems or resources to process aid effectively, and often have high levels of corruption leading to low value-for-money.
Aid to fragile states has often propped up corruption, rather than weakened it, says the World Bank.
– However, the recognition that fragile states need a different approach to aid altogether, has gradually turned from policy and discussion – at the Paris and Accra aid fora and declarations for action – into a more concrete action plan, said Marcus Manuel.
New approach
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