State-building, Peace-building and Service Delivery in Fragile and Conflict-affected States
Desk Study Outputs
Based on the fourth objective of DFID’s (2010a) integrated approach to building peaceful states and societies which says that states need to respond to public expectations in order to maintain legitimacy and stability, this research programme comprised a desk study (resulting in a literature review and 6 country case studies), followed by field research in Rwanda, Nepal and South Sudan. The Desk Study outputs have been finalised and are now available.
PAC worked with CfBT and Save the Children to produce the literature review and country case studies between February and June 2011.
Literature Review:State-Building, Peace-Building and Service Delivery in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States
This literature review is the first output of a one-year DFID-funded research programme on state-building, peace-building and service delivery in fragile and conflict-affected states (FCAS).
The following case studies are part of a larger DFID-funded research programme implemented by a consortium of three partners: CfBT Education Trust, Practical Action Consulting Ltd and Save the Children, led by CfBT Education Trust. The research programme is exploring the links between service delivery in education, health, sanitation and water, and wider processes of state-building and peace-building in fragile and conflict-affected states.
The first output of this research programme was a literature review. Building on this, DFID wanted the consortium to undertake a preliminary desk analysis to identify possible trends in secondary data on service delivery (funding, expenditure, modalities and coverage), democracy (public perceptions and accountability) and any available political economy analysis in six countries that reflect different typologies of fragility or conflict-affectedness. The following countries were selected (from a longer list given by DFID) to reflect a diversity of situations geographically and in terms of where they lie on a fragility-resilience continuum: Cambodia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nepal, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Southern Sudan.
