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Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding in Africa
The ILO at a high level international seminar to share experiences and good practices on strengthening peace in situations of crisis and in the post-conflict peacebuilding and statebuilding efforts.
The ILO Assistant Director General and Regional Director for Africa, Aeneas Chuma is attending a high level seminar entitled "From Peacebuilding to Statebuilding - African Experiences" at the Hilton Helsinki Kalastajatorppa, Conference Center in Helsinki, Finland, on 13 May 2014.
More specifically, the ILO Senior Executive for Africa is addressing three key issues:
How to enhance the mobilization of countries domestic revenue in order to strengthen tatebuilding, countries ownership, credibility, service delivery and engagement with citizens?
Fragile states with weak governance and countries emerging from conflict are most vulnerable to the risks of corruption and transnational illicit networks. These networks are spoilers in countries recovery processes. How can this be tackled and integrated in the development plans?
Many African fragile states are rich in their natural resources. However, the mismanagement, unequal distribution of wealth and often also illicit networks divert resources needed to re-build the country and to finance much-needed public services. What could be the way forward to enhance transparent and just natural resources management?
The seminar has three interlinked sessions: (1) African peacebuilding and statebuilding processes (2) Inclusivity in peacebuilding and statebuilding (3) Financing national peacebuilding and state building.
The Dialogue is a forum that promotes strong partnerships to build peaceful states and promote sustainable development in fragile environments. About 1.5 billion people suffer from fragility, considerably in Africa. According to some estimates by 2018 nearly half of the world’s extreme poor will live in fragile low- and middle income countries.
From 2004 to 2013, the International Labour Office (ILO) implemented more than 150 technical cooperation projects in 18 fragile States, including 13 countries from Africa (Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, and Togo).
