CSOs and the IDPS - POLICY BRIEF 1 The International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding within a Wider International Dialogue on Aid Effectiveness - An introduction

The decision to initiate an International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding (IDPS)i originated at the 3rd High Level meeting on Aid Effectiveness in Accra (Ghana) in September 2008. ii It found expression in paragraph 21 of the Accra Agenda for Action:
“At the country-level, donors and developing countries will work and agree on a set of realistic peacebuilding and statebuilding objectives that address the root causes of conflict and fragility and help ensure the protection and participation of women. This process will be informed by an international dialogue between partners and donors on these objectives as prerequisites for development.”
But the discussion on aid effectiveness in so-called „fragile states? and situations of fragility had already begun earlier. In 2007 OECD DAC Development Ministers and Heads of Agencies endorsed a Policy Commitment and set of “Principles for Good International Engagement in Fragile States and Situationsof Conflict”.iii The Principles aim to complement and inform the commitments set out in the 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness which had noted the need to adapt and apply aid effectiveness principles to differing country situations, particularly fragile states.