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1. “That includes conducting joint analytical work on conflict, fragility and peacebuilding; expanding operations aimed at promoting and consolidating good governance; leveraging public and private solutions to maximize development impact on the ground; consolidating cooperation and partnerships in dealing with regional challenges; and deepening complementarity for a greater division of labour among institutions in specific fragile contexts, relative to our areas of comparative advantages and mandates. Let me reaffirm that the African Development Bank Group remains committed to working as part of the humanitarian, peace and development community to support nationally led transitions and build regional resilience.”

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2. “Secondly, we need long- term programming to build capable and legitimate institutions that can effectively manage the challenges of fragility. Thirdly, there is a need for the generation of sustainable employment and the improvement of livelihoods through private sector development. Fourthly, good governance, especially through improving public financial management, enhancing natural resources management and combating corruption, is key to strengthening State legitimacy. The African Development Bank Group looks forward to deepening partnerships at the national, regional and continental levels with development partners, including United Nations agencies, with a view to harnessing collective development outcomes and building resilience across Africa.”

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3. “Bringing together Governments, regional actors and development partners to harness inclusive and sustainable economic growth reduces the risk of cross-border polarization and regional instability. That includes the need for flexible solutions to encourage private sector investment in fragile situations, with a focus on including women and youth in economics. As the Bank looks forward to its fragility agenda in 2020 and beyond, we reflect on some of the broader lessons that we have learned from working in fragile and conflict-affected situations. First, we note the importance of adopting a State-building approach that is focused on inclusive politics, citizen security and justice, in addition to more traditional human and economic development needs.”

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4. “That is an important example of how we can work towards collective development outcomes by enhancing information-sharing and leveraging the comparative advantage of different actors to implement targeted interventions. As part of those efforts, the African Development Bank Group's projects have focused on building resilience in key areas, such as agriculture, water and sanitation, energy and climate change, youth employment and entrepreneurship and regional integration. Building more integrated and resilient regional economies is an important part of addressing regional vulnerability. The African Development Bank Group is able to use its convening power for policy dialogue, in complement to partners who have extensive field presence in fragile and conflict-affected environments, such as the United Nations and the World Bank Group.”

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5. “Factors, such as a lack of economic opportunities for growing youth populations, communal conflict and extremism, political instability and climate change can accelerate forced displacement and irregular migration, with destabilizing effects across regions. Partnerships between national, regional and international actors within the humanitarian- peace-development nexus are critical to addressing regional fragility drivers. In the case of the Group of Five for the Sahel region, for example, we worked with international organizations and development partners to establish an alliance in 2017 to promote stability and resilience in the region.”

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6. “Just last week, as my colleague Franck Bousquet said, we worked with the Burkina Faso Government, alongside the European Union, the UnitedNations and the World Bank, to undertake a comprehensive prevention and peacebuilding assessment. Those findings will help address emerging security threats within the country and across its borders. Our interventions will focus on reaching the most vulnerable communities to enhance economic and social inclusion. We cannot talk about addressing fragility and building resilience within national borders alone. Increasingly, fragility is regional. Spillover effects are a major source of vulnerability on the African continent and beyond.”

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7. “This framework represents a multisectoral and multidimensional approach to identifying targeted entry points for addressing fragility, building resilience and consolidating peace in Africa. The Country Resilience and Fragility Assessment builds upon the Bank Group's work on fragility assessments, which have helped to generate deeper analysis, informing fragility-sensitive design of national and regional strategies and operations. Several of the assessments have been undertaken in coordination with partners, such as the World Bank Group. We need to continue to enhance our information-sharing and coordination efforts as development actors, leveraging our tools and analysis towards collective impact in fragile and conflict-affected situations.”

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8. “We will continue to learn from those experiences as we look at current and future transitions across the continent. Most importantly, identifying opportunities for early intervention and coordinating effectively with communities, Government and international partners are crucial to avoiding cycles of fragility. It is not enough to just look at sources of fragility, however. We must also look at how, as a Bank and as a development community, we can more systematically identify and strengthen sources of resilience to better mitigate local, national and regional vulnerabilities. To that end, our interventions are guided by a new data-driven analytical framework, which we call the Country Resilience and Fragility Assessment Tool. The Tool identifies national and regional pressures and capacities to manage risks and external shocks.”

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9. “It was through strong complementarity between partners, especially the United Nations Operation in cote d'Ivoire, that we were able to work together to support the successful nationally led transition of cote d'Ivoire. In the Gambia, a successful nationally led transition of power was supported by political mediation and regional peacekeeping efforts in 2017, after two decades of structural vulnerabilities and marginalization. However, that transition revealed the need for long-term resilience building of institutions, services, justice and national unity. The African Development Bank Group has worked since then with United Nations agencies, the World Bank and other partners to help the Gambian Government rebuild an inclusive economy, restore faith in justice and governance institutions and strengthen regional integration.”

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10. “That optimism towards building resilience through nationally led transitions out of fragility is at the core of the Bank's approach. In the case of cote d'Ivoire, for example, we played a central role, alongside other partners, including the United Nations and the World Bank, in helping them to make a successful transition over the past decade. From 2008 to 2017, Cote d'Ivoire benefited from the resources of all three windows ofthe Transition Support Facility, alongside the other African Development Bank Group financing instruments. That provided both the financial and the technical support that the country needed to emerge from two civil crises that devastated its economy, infrastructure, institutions and social cohesion.”

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11. “The second window clears arrears to help Governments to re-engage, as was successfully done with Liberia in 2007 and Cote d'Ivoire in 2009. We are now working on Somalia's arrears. The third window targets technical assistance programmes to strengthen the delivery capacity of national and regional institutions. The Transition Support Facility's resources have been critical to addressing the vast and evolving needs of fragile situations at the national and regional levels. As the African Development Bank Group President, Mr. Akinwumi Adesina, said recently in Madagascar, fragility must not be seen as an end state. Nations may go through fragility, but they can exit and become stable, dynamic, prosperous and resilient to shocks.”

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12. “All of those are critical to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. At the operational level, we have focused our actions on two key pillars: first, increasing the resources available to address situations of fragility across the continent, and secondly, strengthening our intervention approach to be more flexible and responsive to fragile situations. In terms of financial resources, we have created a dedicated financing mechanism, which we call the Transition Support Facility. That is an earmarked concessional financing source within the African Development Fund, with three funding windows. The first window provides supplemental support to national Governments facing specific fragility challenges.”

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13. “Over the past several years, our institution has focused on identifying the root causes of fragility and conflict, and addressing those through building more resilient economies, institutions and communities across Africa. Our 2014-2019 Strategy for Addressing Fragility and Building Resilience in Africa has been central to guiding those efforts. The Strategy contributes to peacebuilding and sustainability by focusing on three main areas: first, strengthening State capacity and establishing effective institutions; secondly, promoting equitable access to employment and basic services; and thirdly, encouraging direct policy dialogue on fragility issues, advocating for actions that foster resilience and build partnerships to achieve them.”

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14. “Mr. Baldeh: On behalf ofthe African Development Bank Group President, Mr. Akinwumi Adesina, we thank the Security Council for the opportunity to participate in today's briefing. We extend our congratulations to the Security Council, especially the Peruvian Mission, on having organized this briefing session, and laud the dedication of the United Nations to strengthening peacebuilding efforts across the African continent and globally. Peace can be built and sustained only if the underlying drivers of conflict - whether political, economic, social, environmental or otherwise - are effectively addressed. Most of the fragile situations in the world are in African countries. Those are our shareholders. That is our neighbourhood. Therefore, empowering African nations to transition out of fragility is a core part of our mission.”

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