Development in postconflict setting - role of aid and civil society- bAlkans AND

Afghanistan

Olga Mitrovic and Tania Aria

Chevening 30th anniversary scholar conference

change and leadership in the 21st centuryDurham university

Civil society - key component of the peacebuilding efforts

Emergence of peacebuilding in the 1990s

Transformative power of civil society in the postconflict settings (Belloni 2001; Bibier 2003, Chandler; McMahon, 2007)

Testing the underlaying assumptions

Civil society role is inherently good for peacebuilding

development contributes to peacebuilding through targeted policy interventions such as conditionality of aid resources and participatory approaches that includes conflicting parties. (TANJA CHANGE)

Balkans: some aspects of the civil society

Triple challenge: postconflict, postcommunist, postauthoritarian

NGO stigma: actors on a foreign payroll/ detached elite

Transition backlash: emergence of uncivil actors / illiberal elements

EU conditionality policy

Reconciliations process and facing war crimes legacy

Polarizing society along ethnic and ideological line

Structural weakness: possibility of CS to assume the peacebuilding responsibility ?

Aids in Afghanistan

Aids in Afghanistan

Ratio of on-budget compared to off-budget Assistance (2011)

Busan High level forum 2011-PSGsThe New Deal by G7+ for Conflict affected States (representing 19 countries and 365 Million people)

Goodbye conflict and welcome development

Busan Forum…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuyN4_Zl-Vc

Aid Productivity… What is committed should be paid On time Channel of aid (on budget or off budget)

Problems:Too many Actors Luck of CoordinationDifferent Priorities by Government and Donors

Conditionality

Quantity Vs. Quality

Kabul Conference, July 2013Lessons Learnt50 percent on budget and 80 percent alignment targets as per TMAFFocus in agriculture and Rural Development (NSP)

2014 (Transition Year)-Election -Troops withdrawal