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Funded by the UK Department for International Development, the Governance and Social Development Resource Centre (GSDRC) aims to help reduce poverty by informing policymaking and enhancing professional knowledge in relation to governance, conflict and social development.
Spotlight: Building the State and Securing the Peace
How can support for state-building and peace-building be integrated? This Emerging Policy Paper from the UK Department for International Development (DFID) outlines a strategic framework for DFID's engagement in situations of conflict and fragility, plus operational implications. DFID's integrated approach to state-building and peace-building aims primarily to promote inclusive political settlements. This facilitates the further goals of: (i) addressing causes of conflict and building resolution mechanisms; (ii) developing state survival functions; and (iii) responding to public expectations. Support across all four of these interrelated areas is necessary to help create a positive peace- and state-building dynamic.
Latest Document Summaries
Promoting Social Integration
Author: Clare Ferguson (2008)
Size:
55 pages
(234 KB)
What are the policy instruments that provide the most coherent and consistent cross-sectoral approach to social integration? This background paper was prepared for the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs' Expert Group Meeting on Promoting Social Integration (2008). It reviews policy instruments and institutions that promote social integration, finding that the human rights framework provides the most effective basis for policy development. This framework can help to resolve some of the tensions between conflicting processes.
Measuring and Monitoring Governance By Listening to the People and Not the Interest Groups
Author: Maksym Ivanyna, Anwar Shah (2009)
Size:
24 pages
(75 KB)
How can governance measurement be improved? Governance indicators influence development work and foreign direct investment, but this World Bank paper argues that current indicators are inadequate because they fail to conceptualise governance or to capture citizen opinion. It offers instead a citizen-centric framework for measuring governance quality based on four dimensions: responsiveness, fairness, responsibility and accountability. Governance is "an exercise of authority and control to preserve and protect public interest and enhance the quality of life enjoyed by citizens".
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