Fragile States
Learn what can be done to address corruption in efforts to rebuild post-conflict states and in fragile situations.
Fragile states’ weak institutions and policies, in combination with high volumes of aid, make them highly vulnerable to corruption. Citizens of these states suffer the consequences of diverted aid flows, while the destabilising effects of corruption can potentially trigger conflict or a return to conflict. Corruption must especially be addressed in these challenging contexts to support statebuilding.
Explore this U4 Theme Page to:
- Understand how addressing corruption early supports statebuilding
- Find out how to address corruption through state building lenses in post-conflict situations
- Paul Collier ‘Ted-Talks’ us through how to reconstruct states
Publications
NGOs and corruption in post-war reconstruction: The case of Bosnia's refugee return
Latest Expert Answers
Evidence of illegal cross-border flows in South Asia and their impact on corruption
The effectiveness of donor responses to corruption in deteriorating environments
Videos
Tiri Testimonies – Reconstruction in Sierra Leone
This video is part of Tiri Testimonies and focus on interviews with social accountability workers on monitoring road reconstruction. Tiri -- Making Integrity Work -- is an independent, international non-governmental organisation, registered as a charity in the UK.
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Author:
OECD
Release date:
November 2011
International Engagement in Fragile States: Can't we do better?
In 2009, one-third of all aid to developing countries went to fragile states. Yet in the world’s most difficult development situations, poorly conceived involvement can do more harm than good. Challenges such as poor security, weak governance, limited administrative capacity, persistent social tensions or the legacy of civil war require responses different from those applied in more stable situations. This report presents the results of the Second Monitoring Survey on the implementation of the ten Principles for Good International Engagement in Fragile States and Situations. The report contains a number of important findings that should serve as a wake-up call to development partners to shift their level of understanding and engagement by seizing the unique opportunities that today’s changing international context provides.
Author:
World Bank
Release date:
April 2011
World Development Report 2011: Conflict, Security, and Development
This report notes nexus between conflict and corruption and analyses corruption as an added stress in post-conflict situations, including Afghanistan, Guatemala, Guinea Bissau, Kosovo, Lebanon Liberia and Rwanda. Examines implications for anticorruption with work in private sector, multidonor trust funds, decentralization of government, international-national partnerships and internal international agency systems.
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Clientelism (see patronage)
Cronyism (see clientelism and patronage)
Debarment
Extortion
Favouritism
Fraud
Grand corruption
Integrity
Kleptocracy
Money laundering
Nepotism (see favouritism)
Patronage (see clientelism)
Petty corruption (see bureacratic corruption)
Political corruption
Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs)
State capture
Systemic corruption
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