The Working Groups

Capacity development: Develop recommendations for improving and harmonising support to capacity development, recognising the critical contribution of South-South co-operation. Recommendations will also address how to avoid policies that undermine the capacity of developing countries, and how to support statebuilding.

Aid instruments: Improve the way aid is delivered to ensure rapid and flexible delivery and transition towards government-led delivery through country systems.

Planning processes: Improve the process that ensures that developing countries’ peacebuilding and statebuilding priorities and constraints are identified, that feasible plans are prepared, and that development partners align to them.

Political dialogue: Improve how peacebuilding and statebuilding are part of the political dialogue between developing countries and development partners, and how in-country political dialogue can ensure better state-society relations and the building of trust between state and citizens. This could address the role of media and communications at the national, sub-national and global levels.

What will be done with the outcome?

The outcome of the International Dialogue will be presented to 4th High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan (South Korea) in November/December 2011. It will also feed into other relevant policy debates, including the forthcoming review of the Millennium Development Goals.

Who is involved?

Participation in the International Dialogue is open to all developing and development partner governments; countries providing South-South cooperation for peacebuilding and statebuilding; regional and international organisations; and civil society organisations. Special emphasis is put on participation of fragile countries, which are now organized within the “g7+”, a grouping of countries affected by conflict and fragility.