DAC Guidelines and Reference Series Supporting Statebuilding in Situations of Conflict and Fragility : Policy Guidance

Functioning states are essential for reducing poverty, sustaining peace and achieving agreed development goals. Despite receiving growing international attention in recent years, fragile states are falling behind other low-income countries in human development. Fragility and its negative consequences can destabilize entire regions and have global repercussions. Tackling the challenges associated with fragility requires a concerted international effort to support sustainable statebuilding processes, based on robust state-society relations. Supporting Statebuilding in Situations of Conflict and Fragility: Policy Guidance presents new thinking on statebuilding and clear recommendations for better practice. It provides an internationally accepted conceptual framework for statebuilding, informed by todays realities of conflict-affected and fragile situations. Building on good practices already being successfully applied on the ground, this guidance lays out how develo