10th JPO Workshop - Bangkok, 19-23 November 2007

Governance and Conflict Prevention & Recovery

| Objectives | Agenda | Participants | Reading Material | Evaluation |


This JPO workshop is organized by the JPO Service Centre in cooperation with the Oslo Governance Centre (OGC) and the Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery (BCPR), with the support of the Learning Resource Centre (LRC).

Democratic Governance is the cornerstone of UNDP'ss work (both as an intervention in its own right and as the most appropriate support to governments to create the conditions for poverty reduction and sustainable development). However, in the last decade UNDP has provided support to governments and communities in unstable situations and also provided support to addressing the challenges of post conflict reconstruction. As a result, UNDP has substantially scaled up its work on crisis prevention and recovery and developed unique approaches, and responses that address the specific needs of countries in danger of crisis or recovering from it. While the assumption has been that the entry points and programming tools of UNDP can be adapted to crisis countries, today there is an increased awareness in UNDP (and within the international community) that effective programming in these situations requires both a thorough understanding of peace and conflict dynamics and a review of responses to ensure they are sensitive to those dynamics and contribute to prevent violence and/or peace building. In line with this, UNDP is working to bring these democratic governance and CPR practice areas closer together in order to ensure greater relevance and effectiveness of its programmes in conflict affected countries.

 

Objectives

The objectives of the workshop were:

  • To provide an overview of UNDP's policy and approaches to conflict prevention and governance;
  • To identify and understand linkages between governance and conflict;
  • To learn and apply relevant programmatic tools and approaches that link conflict prevention and governance;
  • To provide an opportunity for JPOs to reflect on, seek advice and share their own experience;
  • To inspire and motivate JPOs to come up with new, innovative approaches and to bring apply/share knowledge at their respective duty stations;
  • To support networking and coordination among JPOs, resource people and others.

 

Agenda

 

Participants and Resource People

Participants to the JPO Workshop, Bangkok

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Reading Material

Capacity Development
(strengthening capacity is theme throughout; specific reference in Session 1.4, and Session 4.5)

 

Conflict Analysis and Conflict Prevention
(conflict analysis for conflict prevention is a theme throughout, introduced in more detail on Day 2, all sessions)





 

Governance
(democratic governance is a primary subject theme for the workshop, different aspects to be addressed in different parts of the course/workshop)







 

Governance and Conflict Prevention
(governance and conflict is a theme throughout)

 

Gender Equality / Women's Empowerment and Crisis Contexts - UNDP's 8 Point Agenda
(introduced in session 2.1, touched on in session 2.2 and through conflict analysis country case examples on Day 2, possibly picked up again in more depth in Sessions 3.2, if resource people are available, and 4.3, responsive clinics)







 

Inter-Agency Context for Partnerships and Joint Programming
(reference for Session 3.3 and Session 4.2)

 

 

Reading material and case studies

 

Evaluation

 

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