Weitzenegger's Post-conflict Economies Report

DCED Full Guide to Resources

The Donor Committee for Enterprise Development is a gathering of many of the funding and inter-governmental agencies working for sustainable poverty alleviation through development of "the private sector" - the businesses, small and large, that provide the bulk of employment and prosperity worldwide. It was established informally in 1979, when its first members met at a meeting convened by the World Bank.

Background:

Conflict and the Economy
Conflict and Development
PSD and Conflict
Peacebuilding and Conflict Prevention
Fragility and Nation-Building
Relief and Development
Security and Development

Aid Effectiveness:

Aid Effectiveness andCoordination
Conflict Assessment
Measuring Results in PSD and Peacebuilding

Employment and Vulnerable Groups
Employment
Ex-Combatants
Refugees, Returnees and Diasporas
Women and Youth

Engaging the Private Sector
The Local Private Sector
The International Private Sector

PSD Approaches:
Investment Climate Approaches
Market Development Approaches
Direct Intervention Approaches

Sector Studies:
Agriculture, Fishing and Forestry
Natural Resources
The Media
Telecommunications

Area Studies:
Africa
The Americas
Asia
Europe
The Middle East and North Africa

Microfinance and Disaster Management
http://tinyurl.com/5c9563
'This paper by Stuart Mathison enunciates policies and strategies to help MFIs prepare for the impact of natural disasters. MFIs will be better placed to respond effectively when a disaster strikes if they has worked through the issues, designed policies and products, and negotiated collaboration with Disaster Management Agencies (DMAs), before disaster strikes rather than in the midst of it.'

Market Development in Crisis-Affected Environments.
Emerging Lessons for Achieving Pro-Poor Economic Reconstruction
http://www.seepnetwork.org/files/5659file001MarketDevelopment4.
This SEEP paper presents the background to market development and then the background to crisis environments. These chapters are included to ensure that market-development and relief practitioners have a common understanding of frameworks, terminology, and strategies. Chapter 3 presents the cases themselves in summary form, along with the methodology used for gathering information. Chapter 4 presents a proposed framework for carrying out market development in post-crisis settings. Chapter 5 identifies and discusses the key challenges and issues raised by the practitioners submitting the cases, and then presents lessons learned and recommendations emerging from the cases. The latter are summarized in chapter 6. More detail of the cases is presented in the annexes.

Aid to Fragile States: Do Donors Help or Hinder?
http://tinyurl.com/6jo7zu
The record of aid to fragile and poorly-performing states is the real test of aid effectiveness. Rich countries can justify aid to fragile states both through altruism and self-interest. But, with some exceptions, donors have appeared at the wrong times and with the wrong attitudes, even sometimes undermining development progress. State failure has dimensions of both will and capacity. Failure demands constructive engagement by donors, in some cases to save people in weak states from their leaders, and in all cases to save the states from circumstances which they cannot control. This UNU-Wider paper examines the aid relationship with respect to three weak countries: Burma, Rwanda, Zambia.

Value Chain Activities for Conflict-affected Populations in Guinea
http://www.microlinks.org/ev01.php?ID=22554201&ID2=DO
This report is part of a USAID-funded research project using guided case studies to explore whether and under what conditions the application of a value chain approach can help accelerate growth in conflict-affected environments. This study uses the value chain framework to look at an integrated community development initiative called ''Social and Economic Recovery through Community Development Initiatives'' (SER-CD).

Global Directory of Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution Programs
http://www.peacejusticestudies.org/globaldirectory/
This is a comprehensive, annotated guide to peace studies and conflict resolution programs at colleges and universities worldwide. This edition profiles over 450 undergraduate, Master's and Doctoral programs and concentrations in 40 countries and 38 U.S. states. Entries describe the program's philosophy and goals, examples of course offerings and requirements, degrees and certificates offered, and complete contact information, including links to email and websites.

Humanitarian Practice Network (HPN)
http://www.odihpn.org
HPN is an independent forum for humanitarians to share and disseminate information, analysis and experience. It has specialist resources for practitioners and policy makers alike and facilitate debate through regular events and the Online Exchange discussion forum.

Transforming War Economies - swisspeace Working Paper 3/2007
http://tinyurl.com/2ahzuz
Although economic factors have proven to be crucial factors influencing the conflict proneness of a country, both military cease fires and peace agreements tend to neglect the economic and socioeconomic aspects of war, while emphasizing mainly political and military issues. However, peacebuilding and conflict prevention measures applied by the international community cannot limit themselves to ending open violence and cutting conflict profiteers from their power and income. In addition, alternative social, economic and political structures must be fostered to allow the population to meet their basic needs outside the structures of violent conflict. The establishment of relevant economic structures and the creation of an attractive investment climate for foreign investments are crucial for breaking and transforming the destructive structures of economies of violence.

The QUICK Centre for microfinance in disaster surroundings
http://www.quick-centre.or.id
This is a knowledge sharing platform for the practitioners of microfinance in disaster surroundings. A new knowledge centre and knowledge sharing platform on microfinance in disaster surroundings has been established for the practitioners' community. The QUICK Centre posts information on post-disaster microfinance support measures, microfinance as a disaster preparedness tool (incl. microinsurance), and disaster management for microfinance institutions. It includes among others a project database, a library, a forum and links to related organizations.

Promoting local economic development in a war-affected country
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/skills/training/publ/pub10.htm
This paper on the ILO experience in Cambodia analyses the ''Small Enterprise and Informal Sector Promotion'' project, implemented in Cambodia (1992 - 1995) to raise the living standards of disadvantaged, war affected, population. Its strategy was the promotion of local economic development by providing financial and non financial services to small scale and private economic activities. The organizations set up for service delivery were the Local Economic Development Agencies (LEDAs) which assisted thousands of small and micro enterprises with a significant effect on incomes and employment. The achievements are presented in terms of impact, cost-effectiveness and sustainability with a summary of lessons learned.

Tools for Economic Recovery in Post-Conflict Situations: A Brief Literature Review
http://www.bdsknowledge.org/dyn/bds/docs/632/USAID%20Tools%20Economic%20Recovery%2007.pdf
This USAID microNote is intended for practitioners, donors, governments,and business representatives working on economic recovery in conflict-affected countries. It serves as a reference for guidance and best practices on pro-gramming for conflict-affected countries. First it outlines the definitions and methodology used in the literature review then provides a brief summary of each tool and an index of the tools reviewed. The 25 tools reviewed come from a wide variety of sources including the ILO, International Alert, USAID, DFID, World Bank, CARE, IDRC, OECD and ARC.

Peace, Prosperity, and Pro-Growth Entrepreneurship
http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/dps/dps2007/dp2007-02.pdf
Support for entrepreneurship is widely seen as a mechanism to facilitate prosperity and peace in a growing number of post-conflict states. This paper critically evaluates this view. It argues that entrepreneurship is a ubiquitous quality in post-conflict states but not necessarily always for the good. Unproductive and destructive entrepreneurship may inhibit the resurgence of the private sector and might even cause a relapse into conflict. To limit unproductive and destructive entrepreneurship there are at least six dimensions which need to be taken into consideration, namely: the context of war, the relationship between institutions and entrepreneurship, the role played by ethnic/immigrant (minority) entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs in diaspora, the scope of the market, human and financial capital requirements, and appropriate forms of government support. Further research on entrepreneurship in post-conflict states is needed to overcome the current lack of data, which constrains policy design. WIDER Discussion Paper 2007/02 by Wim Naudé

PERI's new Modern Conflicts Database
http://www.peri.umass.edu/index.php?id=396
Since the end of the Cold War in 1989, millions of people have lost their lives in violent conflicts around the world. PERI's new Modern Conflicts Database is a tool for researchers and students who want learn more about these conflicts. The Modern Conflicts Database has profiles of all post-Cold War conflicts with estimated death tolls of 25,000 or more, with references to further information sources. These can be accessed via a table, which ranks conflicts by total estimated deaths, or a map, which shows the locations of war-torn countries.

Business engagement in humanitarian relief: key trends and policy implications
http://www.eldis.org/go/topics/resource-guides/corporate-responsibility&id=32669&type=Document
This paper explores the new roles that companies are playing in humanitarian action. It examines the various forms corporate engagement, with a particular focus on partnerships, and explores the underlying motivations behind this involvement.

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UN Human Security Gateway
http://ochaonline.un.org/humansecurity
The Human Security Unit at the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs is pleased to announce the launch of its new website, which serves as a platform for the United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security (UNTFHS), the Advisory Board on Human Security (ABHS) and for the work of the Unit as focal point on human security within the UN system. The site has been entirely redesigned in order to enhance the user's experience, and includes new and upgraded features including a photo gallery, sitemap, as well as a worldwide overview of UNTFHS projects.

Guided Case Studies for Value Chain Development for Conflict-Affected Environments
http://www.microlinks.org/ev.php?ID=17263201&ID2=DOTOPIC
Pact, Inc. releases a Request for Applications for ''Guided Case Studies for Value Chain Development for Conflict-Affected Environments.'' The guided case studies are part of research being conducted by the Microenterprise Development office of USAID to increase understanding of value chain approaches in economic reconstruction and recovery. Contact: Carrie Keju, tel.: 202-466-5666, ext 304 amapgrants@pacthq.org,

Conflictsensitivity.org
http://conflictsensitivity.org/?q=privatesector
Conflictsensitivity.org aims to inform on issues of conflict sensitivity and encourage further thinking and discussion on how humanitarian, development and business operations – on the project, national and international level – interact with conflict. The site has a section of private sector.

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