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  1. “Fortunately, the next few months will bring a number of opportunities to reshape and improve the way in which we do business. For example, the Secretary-General will report on progress since launching his report on peacebuilding in the immediate aftermath of conflict (S/2009/304) last June, and, at the end of the year, the World Bank will present its World Development Report on the themes of conflict and fragility. Let us make no mistake. If we are to deliver real results for the people living in fragile and conflict- affected situations, those areas deserve our full attention. We know that the costs of failure are great, but let us hear in mind that the benefits that flow from success can be even greater. Starting with our deliberations here today, let us take every opportunity to ensure that success.”

    2010-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6299 (2010) · source

  2. “In that regard, I am pleased to report that the World Bank has adopted a new Access to Information Policy that will open up the Bank's work even further, enhance public ownership of the development agenda, strengthen partnerships and encourage greater participation in Bank-supported operations. So, as we turn to our deliberations today, I would ask us all to keep those three points in mind: the importance of the country context, true partnerships and appropriate accountability. I know that such ideas may sit uncomfortably with our limited appetite for risk and our need to demonstrate to our domestic constituencies the quick wins expected in an immediate post-conflict period. It is clear to me that addressing the challenges of development through such lenses will require fundamental changes to the way in which we do business.”

    2010-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6299 (2010) · source

  3. “For the first time in many years, Afghans, particularly in rural areas, are seeing the delivery of valued health services made possible by a committed partnership between Government and local providers. Access for the people living in districts where the programme is being implemented has increased from 9 per cent in 2003 to over 80 per cent now. The most recent data for 2008 shows a fourfold increase in the number of outpatient Visits to a level three times higher than in a neighbouring country. The programme has also seen a decrease in the under-five mortality rate from 257 per 1,000 in 2000 to 161 in 2007 to 2008. In the spirit of mutual accountability, we too should be held accountable for what we deliver. For example, if we demand transparency in our partners, we should expect to provide it ourselves.”

    2010-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6299 (2010) · source

  4. “Running a parallel service delivery programme may give us results in the short term but it will not contribute to, and may even undermine, efforts to build the social compact that lies at the heart of a well- functioning State. Shifting accountability also requires us to change the way that we monitor our efforts. We must get away from our traditional preoccupation with tracking inputs and focus our attention, and that of our partners, on achieving outcomes. Confronted by an uncoordinated and poorly performing health-care system, the Afghan Ministry of Public Health has established a basic package of health services, delivered through community health workers and health centres.”

    2010-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6299 (2010) · source

  5. “The World Bank has recently appointed a senior envoy to Haiti, and a similar appointment to the Sudan is expected soon. Those will strengthen our partnerships in the field in countries in particular need. We are heartened by the support that we and the United Nations have received from the Swiss Government, which will enable us to exchange senior officers between the United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office and the World Bank's Fragile and Conflict- Affected Countries Unit to help facilitate and deepen our complementary efforts. My third point is that we are all accountable. While Governments must ultimately be accountable to their citizens for what they do, we must do everything that we can to reinforce that line of accountability.”

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  6. “For example, we must pool our funding wherever possible to maximize coherence and reduce the burden on the Government, such as through multi-donor trust funds. We must support and work through the national budget and strengthen national fiduciary systems. We must use our comparative advantages and tailor our efforts to local needs and preferences, and we must reach agreement with our country partners on when it is appropriate to press for change and when we should stand back to allow a population to determine the need for reform. Just as we need to strengthen our partnership with the countries that we seek to assist, we need to look too at our own partnerships. Are we working together effectively to achieve the results expected of us?”

    2010-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6299 (2010) · source

  7. “We must recognize that achieving a sustainable peace and setting in train a broad-based agenda for development are ultimately the work of a State and its citizens. We at the World Bank and in the development community need to be humble and to remind ourselves that we play a supporting role. We provide our resources, expertise and security assistance so that a people may be able to take back the reins of Government. The only credible coordinator of a State-building process is a legitimate sovereign Government. Our assistance must be shaped to support the country in mobilizing the human and material capacity that it has at its disposal to provide the services that its citizens need. That will mean many things for us.”

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  8. “While it is important that we recognize where our overall comparative advantage may lie, it is essential that our response should be determined by the dictates of the situation and our relative capacity to deliver in the particular context of the partner countries. Predetermination could easily result in inflexibility at a time when adaptability and nimbleness are most needed. Decisions must be delegated to where the best information is and be made at the lowest effective level. That means that we need to put our best people into the field, for it is our field staff who are best placed to decide, in consultation with their country partners, who should do what, when and how. Secondly, partnerships are key.”

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  9. “Trained community paralegals employ a combination of mediation, education and advocacy, and occasionally litigation, to seek redress for Violations of rights. They engage both customary and formal institutions and provide a flexible, cost-effective method for delivering justice services that is tailored to Sierra Leone's particular socio-legal context. The Government is establishing a legal aid board, which will recognize and certify the paralegals, and it is expected that, within five years, about 100 community paralegals will serve all 154 chiefdoms in the country. Our coordination efforts must be driven by our need to deliver meaningful results. I know that some see comfort in predictability - that our response in post-conflict situations would be improved by predetermining who does what. I must challenge that notion.”

    2010-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6299 (2010) · source

  10. “We must guard against trying to replicate what we have done in the past without ensuring that it is appropriate to the present context. We must guard against any prescription that prevents adaptation and flexibility. We need to do a better job of understanding the drivers of conflict and to understand the structure of elite incentives. We must also identify each country's fundamental strengths, comprehend the limits of its capacity to absorb change and act on what that knowledge tells us. The World Bank-supported Justice for the Poor programme works to support the development of context-specific approaches to improving access to justice in South-East Asia, Africa and the Pacific. In Sierra Leone, the programme, along with other national and international efforts, is helping to scale up grassroots justice services.”

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  11. “As part of a health care pilot project, 482 pregnant women visited health centres and were subject to HIV/AIDS screening in one month - far in excess of the previous monthly average of 71. As we debate here on some of the best ways to get results, I would like us to focus on three crucial areas: country context, partnership and accountability. I believe that if we pay attention to these three areas, we will be able to contribute something substantial and enduring towards the immense challenges of helping countries create an environment of peace and security. Let me briefly elaborate on these three points. First, it is about country context. Of course, we must learn from and build on our experience but, in the urgency of a post-conflict environment, it is often too tempting to simply apply a solution that worked elsewhere.”

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  12. “Whether we are working in our headquarters offices to shape a new policy, engaging with a partner Government on a national development plan, or rebuilding a road for a war-ravaged community, we must constantly ask a single question: How will these actions provide people with a better life now and in the future? The Government of Burundi clearly understands the importance of results. In 2006, with the support of the World Bank Institute, it introduced a rapid-results approach. This approach, which breaks down long-term development plans into manageable lOO-day chunks, is now applied in 80 Government projects. A pilot project in the Ministry of Education resulted in the distribution of 250,000 textbooks to primary schools in 60 days, when previously this had required an entire school year.”

    2010-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6299 (2010) · source

  13. “In recent years, the international community's discourse addressing violent conflict and its consequences has become more nuanced. We increasingly recognize that humanitarian action, peacemaking, peacekeeping, peacebuilding, State- building and development do not happen in a mechanical linear sequence, but are closely interlinked and overlapping. Such a complex landscape calls for cooperation and coherence among actors. It challenges us to address the short-term demands of a deeply damaged society while making sure that our actions do not compromise the longer-term goal of building an effective State. Against this background, I would like to propose one overarching principle that must inform all that we do - results matter. By this, I mean that all that we do must contribute directly to results on the ground.”

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  14. “Our analysis indicates that no fragile State has yet achieved a single Millennium Development Goal. By 2015, only 10 per cent of fragile States are expected to achieve the goal of halving poverty and hunger. Against this backdrop, today's debate is a most timely one. These findings are a stark reminder of the enormous and complex challenges that lie ahead, but they are also a call to mobilize our combined resources on behalf of the poor and powerless. Violent conflict is one of the most profound development challenges. Without peace and security, there can be no sustained development, as we have heard from our colleagues who spoke earlier. However, focusing on peacebuilding alone is not sufficient. Just as development cannot occur in the absence of peace, peace without development is a peace that may not last.”

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  15. “The analysis that the World Bank has commissioned to inform its 2011 world development report on conflict and fragility confirms a disheartening fact - countries that are wracked by conflict and that suffer endemic fragility are not making the progress they need if the Millennium Development Goals are to become a reality for their people. We are all aware of the desperate needs of these countries. Our research suggests that fragile States and those recovering from fragility account for only 37 per cent of population of developing countries if we exclude China, India and Russia. However, they account for 58 per cent of poverty in the developing world, as well as 67 per cent of infant deaths and 69 per cent of the deaths of children under five.”

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  16. “Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala: I bring greetings to all present from the President of the World Bank, Bob Zoellick, who regrets that he could not be here today. I particularly want to thank you, Mr. President, for bringing us together to discuss this most important issue and for inviting the World Bank to contribute. I also wish to thank the Secretary-General for his strong leadership of the United Nations family on this issue. As 2015 fast approaches, the world's attention is turning to progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goals.”

    2010-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6299 (2010) · source