State Building in Fragile States: Enhancing Resilience Against Risk, from Medium- and Long-Term Perspectives

This report summarizes case analyses, analyses of donor trends and discussions held in
eight study group sessions of the Institute for International Cooperation of the Japan
International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The study group sessions took place from March
2006 to January 2007. The study aims to examine the current agenda in the international
community for fragile states, as well as relevantpast aid experiences. The debate within the
international community on fragile state situationsgrew out of criticism of the results-based aid
policies of the 1990s which created problems of insufficient and volatile aid allocation to those
countries with underdeveloped anti-poverty policies and governance. The debate seeks
constructive engagement with and effective approach to those countries, where historically
assistance has had very little effect.