Post-war Statebuilding
Modern civil wars often result from ineffective and exclusive governance that creates the inability to manage resources and provide equal opportunities. In light of this, post-war statebuilding has been highlighted as necessary for sustained peace. Reviving key functions of civil administration can build a stable base for transparent, effective and inclusive civil administration processes, which will not only serve the post-war reconstruction phase, but also provide a basis for long term development.
The objective of CMI’s post-war statebuilding work is to address the causes of state fragility and to improve the ability of the state to fulfill its function of serving and protecting its citizens. CMI produces methodological tools for statebuilding programming. The cluster additionally develops tools for effective implementation of statebuilding priorities. It also aims to better link peacebuilding, statebuilding and long-term development processes.
ICT4Statebuilding: Governance out of a Box
Governance out of a Box –initiative aims to offer the international community and national governments recovering from crisis tools which are flexible and mobile, and reliable under less than optimal conditions, with which to support the re-establishment of key governance functions. The initiative seeks to answer how to create a simpler implementation process, in terms of time, technology risk and delivery while at the same time to develop conditions for repeatability with the help of robust technology, as most countries in post conflict processes confront very similar challenges.
Governance out of a Box –toolkit is built around quickly deployable communications infrastructure, collaboration tools and software applications, which allow scaling and linking up with broader systems and processes of civil administration once development occurs. The first Governance out of a Box –tool will be implemented in cooperation with the Government of Liberia.