COMP 421 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Conditionality
27 May 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
16/02/18 Coordination Continued II
Brynania:
- Role can be found on website
- Applications for important roles
o President of Brynania
o Defense Minister → good to have military background
o Commander for the FPA
o SRSG → lead mediator in the conflict
- Write an email saying why you would be good at the role
Donor Conditionality
- When donor try to use assistance as an incentive to get parties in a conflict to behave in a more
cooperative way
- Conditionality could be used to encourage:
o Compliance with agreement
o Transparency/accountability, other reforms
o Reduction of military expenditures
o Return of refugees
- Generally requires donor coordination
- Challenges
o Different interests and perceptions
o Hits the neediest hardest?
o Might be destabilizing
o May encourage corruption
Palestine Critique
- Too complex?
- Donor-driven (should have been eclipsed by PDP)
- Variable performance
- More information-sharing
Afghanistan:
- $57 billion disbursed 2002-11
- Joint coordination and monitoring board
o High level decision-making body with representatives of government and international
community
- Consultative groups and technical working groups
o Ministries, donors, specialized agencies
- Afghan reconstruction trust fund
- ANDS (Afghan National Development Strategy)
o Only 52% of aid disbursed in agreement with Afghan government
- Afghan compact
- Agency coordinating body for Afghan Relief
- Provincial reconstruction teams
Afghanistan Critiques
- Structural problems
o Too many coordination mechanisms and meetings
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Document Summary
Applications for important roles: president of brynania, defense minister good to have military background, commander for the fpa, srsg lead mediator in the conflict. Write an email saying why you would be good at the role. When donor try to use assistance as an incentive to get parties in a conflict to behave in a more cooperative way. Conditionality could be used to encourage: compliance with agreement, transparency/accountability, other reforms, reduction of military expenditures, return of refugees. Challenges: different interests and perceptions, hits the neediest hardest, might be destabilizing, may encourage corruption. Donor-driven (should have been eclipsed by pdp) Joint coordination and monitoring board: high level decision-making body with representatives of government and international community. Consultative groups and technical working groups: ministries, donors, specialized agencies. Ands (afghan national development strategy: only 52% of aid disbursed in agreement with afghan government.
