This Policy and Practice Note grows out of extensive consultations with countries, regional organizations, and donors and other development partners, and it is addressed primarily to high-level policymakers and decision makers within them. Its analysis and recommendations are meant to inform disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) planning across a ...» more
Library
This e-library contains more than 4500 external publications on governance, social development, conflict and humanitarian issues. It includes academic and grey literature selected for its basis in good quality research and coverage of a range of perspectives. Policy-oriented summaries of each document are provided, plus links to the full text.
Climate Security: A holistic approach to climate change, security and development
Around the world, politicians and armies of experts are coming together to consider the world’s development agenda after the Millennium Development Goals expire in 2015. The risks posed by climate change will feature highly in discussions that shape the post MDG era. Climate change is not just about rising temperatures and sea levels. It is about health, education and poverty, ...» more
10 Years after Caguán: lessons for peace in Colombia today
This report derives from a research collaboration between Georgetown University and Universidad de Los Andes Colombia which analyzes the Colombian armed conflict and the consequent peace processes through a comparative historical perspective. It examines the long history of confrontation and the consecutive attempts to restore peace in Colombia and other countries in Latin ...» more
Aid Effectiveness in Fragile States: Lessons from the First Generation of Transition Compacts
The policy report draws lessons-learned for the UN and others from the first generation of transition compacts in support of postconflict peacebuilding, focusing on case studies from Afghanistan, the DRC, Iraq, Liberia, and Timor-Leste. It finds that transition compacts can be effective but their effectiveness has been mixed. In order to improve their effectiveness the report ...» more
Beyond capacity – addressing authority and legitimacy in fragile states
This article argues that state-building represents a lengthy process whereby the state’s authority, capacity and legitimacy are forged and strengthened to enable the state to deliver across key domains. Despite the emerging policy consensus that building institutions and strengthening state legitimacy are important, donors have in practice neglected both authority and ...» more