THE HUMANITARIAN DEVELOPMENT PEACE NEXUS OECDDAC members stepping
THE HUMANITARIAN DEVELOPMENT PEACE NEXUS
OECD-DAC members – stepping up engagement in fragile contexts to “leave no-one behind” • More than half of the 836 million people living in extreme poverty today live in fragile contexts and that this is projected to rise to 80% by 2030 • USD 68. 2 billion, or 65. 5% of total earmarked ODA was spent in fragile contexts (2016) • OECD-DAC members are crucial actors, delivering 74% or USD 47. 3 billion of the development assistance in fragile settings
Strengthened coordination, programming and financing across the nexus The DAC Recommendation on humanitarian-development-peace nexus is a critical new legal instrument – one of only seven passed by the DAC in the past 60 years. It provides a comprehensive framework to incentivise and implement more collaborative and complementary humanitarian, development and peace actions in fragile and conflict-affected situations.
Strengthened coordination, programming and financing across the nexus The Recommendation is anchored in the highest level commitments of the DAC, including the DAC High-Level Roundtable on the nexus, held in November 2018, convening over 100 senior representatives from DAC members, the multilateral system and civil society. There have been extensive consultations with 346 civil society organisations, 12 UN agencies and 20 g 7+ countries through their respective umbrella bodies.
Strengthened coordination, programming and financing across the nexus The coordination pillar emphasizes joint, gender sensitive and risk informed analysis, empowered leadership and political engagement The programming aspect includes the need for prevention, mediation and peacebuilding, putting people at the centre, doing no harm, aligning with the risk environment, strengthening national and local capacity and promoting learning Finally, better evidence-based financing strategies, which are predictable and multi-year, are the key principals under the financing pillar.
Implementation and monitoring of the Recommendation Upon adoption of the Recommendation at the DAC’s Senior Level meeting in February 2019, all OECD-DAC Members became adherents to the Recommendation and have agreed to disseminate and to be monitored under existing OECD mechanisms The Recommendation encourages other key stakeholders in the international system to adhere in order to ensure comprehensive implementation by all relevant actors in the humanitarian, development and peace architecture INCAF will support implementation and monitoring of the Recommendation through existing OECD peer review mechanisms for OECD-DAC members and in collaboration with MOPAN, the Multilateral Organization Performance Assessment Network for UN agencies and Multilateral and Regional Development Banks.
OECD-DAC Delivering on the nexus through strong partnerships For DAC members – an opportunity and a commitment to ‘scale-up’ bilateral engagement in the nexus. For the multilateral system – engagement in the Recommendation is crucial to better utilize finite resources and ensure that they’re not ‘going it alone’. For civil society – NGOs have an essential role as partners in implementing the Recommendation, leveraging their proximity to communities and vulnerable groups and ensuring that there is renewed political support for protecting and preserving civil society space.
For further information on the OECD’s work on crises and fragility visit: www. oecd. org/dac/conflict-fragility-resilience
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