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  1. “The Peacebuilding Commission could be a useful forum in which to explore how the peace- and State-building goals and specific challenges facing conflict-affected countries can be reflected in the post-2015 United Nations Development Assistance Framework. Delivering results for people living in fragile and conflict-affected situations will require concerted and sustained efforts from all of us. The World Bank is deeply committed to that agenda and looks forward to working closely with all partners around the table.”

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  2. “It will be most useful to link the relevant recommendations of the World Development Report 2011, the review of civilian capacity and the ongoing work of the Peacebuilding Commission. Additionally, the implementation of the New Deal offers fresh opportunities to strengthen our collaboration. Six States that have endorsed the New Deal are also on the agenda of the Commission. The Commission has a role in ensuring the coherence and alignment of international assistance behind the New Deal's implementation. Better support to peacebuilding requires moving from needs-based approaches towards genuine prioritization. The peace- and State-building goals provide a great starting point for such prioritization by highlighting the issues that States themselves have identified as critical moving forward.”

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  3. “We are also carrying out a joint review of the United Nations-World Bank collaboration within the 2008 Partnership Framework Agreement to take stock of cooperation and identify priorities going forward. That brings me to my final point, on future perspectives. We need to continue to strengthen our partnership and alignment of activities in the countries on the Peacebuilding Commission's agenda, especially our work on needs assessments and poverty reduction strategies. We support the recommendations of the annual report to further explore complementary programming between the United Nations, the World Bank and other international actors, where issues of security, justice and development intersect.”

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  4. “In addition to the country-level collaboration I mentioned, we have thematic collaboration in a joint platform for coordinating job creation and collaboration in the area ofjustice and security. We are also working to more effectively address on-the-ground implementation. The World Bank and the United Nations are finalizing a review of the important Fiduciary Principles Accord, which facilitates implementation by one entity of trust funds managed by the other, in specific post-crisis circumstances. That review will open space for a broader discussion of how the World Bank and the United Nations can collaborate to address operational challenges to implementation on the ground, including increased interoperability, common approaches to risk management and the development of instruments for combined operations.”

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  5. “In Guinea-Bissau, the World Bank and the Brazilian Chair joined forces to support the country in reaching the decision point under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative. In Guinea, as the Ambassador mentioned, we collaborate closely with the Government and the Ambassador of Luxembourg on a number of critical issues, including employment generation, and we are exploring ways to further engage in the area of security sector reform. The World Bank and the United Nations, along with the European Union, are also strengthening coordination on the framework for post-crisis assessments, as the recent example of the joint assessment in Yemen effectively illustrates.”

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  6. “We see progress in all of the country-specific configuration areas and in all six countries on the agenda. Ambassador Momen has already mentioned some of the joint initiatives. In the Central African Republic, we are working with the former Belgian Chair on a common agenda to support the Government and development partners. In Liberia, we are coordinating our upcoming country assistance strategy with the country-led implementation of the New Deal and the Peacebuilding Commission's efforts led by the Swedish Chair. In Burundi, we are working hand-in-hand with the Swiss Chair and are jointly supporting the Government in organizing a partners' meeting this fall. In Sierra Leone, the leadership of the Canadian Chair helped all partners align behind the Agenda for Change, and we are coordinating efforts in the critical area ofjob creation.”

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  7. “It has engaged actively in all of the Commission's country-specific configurations. We have been coordinating our respective efforts well. The Commission has provided useful inputs and guidance to our country teams. I am also encouraged to see that the Commission's country-specific configurations are working to enhance coordination and coherence on the ground. The suggestions made by Ambassador Momen also offer promising avenues for further enhancing the Commission's impact. Over the past two to three years, the United Nations-World Bank partnership has continued to grow at both the institutional and the country levels. Our teams are collaborating more than ever to ensure that our strategies are aligned and that we respond in a complementary fashion.”

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  8. “The New Deal and the g7+ have called for strong national ownership of development and peacebuilding strategies and for the alignment of development partners to support those strategies. To achieve those objectives, we need to see greater coherence across an international aid structure that is often too divided and too stove-piped between development, security and humanitarian and diplomatic assistance. That is where the Peacebuilding Commission can play a fundamental role in bridging some of those gaps, as it has in the past. The regular exchanges that are being promoted between the United Nations, its Member States and the World Bank Board have also been instrumental in bringing about that coherence. The World Bank has supported the Peacebuilding Commission's work since it was founded, six years ago.”

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  9. “We are also developing a package of internal reforms to enable more informed risk-taking, more nimble operational responses to changing environments, more hands-on implementation support to partner teams, and new approaches for measuring results. Fourthly, we are deploying our human resources differently. The g71L group of fragile and conflict-affected States has challenged us by saying that they need more face-time with more senior technology specialists on the ground, working more closely with partners in the United Nations and other agencies. In response, we have created a new centre in Nairobi, the Global Centre on Conflict, Security and Development, and are increasing our staffpresence in several conflict-affected countries. I would like now to turn to the partnership and our work with the Peacebuilding Commission.”

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  10. “We also have a State- and Peace-building Fund, which we use as a pilot fund to actually implement the ideas of the World Development Report 2011 and the New Deal for International Engagement in Fragile States. In fact, aligning financial instruments is critical for all of us in order to ensure coherence in our approaches to working with fragile and conflict-affected situations. We have therefore launched a discussion on how to align the World Bank's State- and Peace-Building Fund with the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund and on how we can learn from each other. Thirdly, we are operating differently.”

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  11. “The development assistance must support and must go hand-in-hand with peace and State-building goals. We at the World Bank are making four major changes on how we engage in our work in situations of fragility and conflict. First, we are doing strategies differently. Our country strategies for fragile and conflict-affected States are now focused on support to peace and State-building goals, directly or indirectly through the programmes we are supporting. Secondly, we are financing differently. Together with our partners in the International Development Association - the World Bank's fund for the poorest countries - we are developing proposals to simplify, adjust and accelerate the framework for allocating resources to fragile and conflict-affected situations.”

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  12. “We are now putting into operation that document, which has set us on a new path. We have seen that the New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States, formed in Busan at the High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in November and December 2011, and which was endorsed by about 40, countries embodies some of the same principles of more effective partnerships in support of those partner countries. The New Deal and the World Development Report 201] call for the international community to re-examine the way it engages in situations of fragility and conflict. Challenges facing fragile and conflict-affected countries cannot be resolved on a short-term basis or with partial solutions in the absence of institutions that provide people with security, justice and jobs.”

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  13. “Over the past 20 years, we have seen formidable progress in global poverty reduction, but progress has been uneven. Issues of conflict, fragility and violence are among the biggest obstacles to development. Fragile and conflict-affected States are the furthest from achieving the Millennium Development Goals. I just want to make a few comments on how the World Bank is scaling up its own efforts to fight poverty and promote development in these particular situations, talk about our rising partnerships, and make a few comments on future developments. On our own efforts over the past two years, when we prepared the World Development Report 2011 on conflict, security and development, in very close collaboration with the United Nations, we decided to scale up and intensify our work in conflict and fragile situations.”

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  14. “Mr. Von Amsberg: I thank the Secretary-General and Ambassadors Momen and Gasana for their leadership in this very important endeavour. I thank you, Madam President, for inviting the World Bank to brief the Council on the progress on the strengthening and deepening partnership with the United Nations to support peacebuilding and development in fragile country situations. I bring with me today the good wishes from the World Bank President, Mr. Jim Yong Kim, who assumed the presidency just last week. He is very much looking forward to engaging over the next weeks and months closely with all our partners on how to deepen and strengthen our collaboration and, in particular, on how to make our work on the ground in conflict and fragile situations even more effective in the future.”

    2012-07-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6805 (2012) · source