| Rethinking aid
Over the last decade there has been a growing realisation that development assistance and humanitarian aid can feed conflict as well as alleviate it – through inadvertently supporting and entrenching the systems and structures that lie at the root causes of civil war.
There has long been a need for the international community to rethink approaches to development assistance in Nepal, which has been receiving aid for the past fifty years - but with limited discernible impact. It is certainly in need of support to meet the basic needs of the population, and the international community is beginning to recognise that Nepal’s conflict must be taken into consideration.
When the King sacked his government on the 1st February 2005 and declared a state of emergency, International Alert had been talking with the international community for some time, advising on how aid could be provided in a way that is sensitive to the conflict and contributes to lasting peace. The events of 1st February meant that these discussions took on a sense of urgency as donors began to question their own role in the changed context. The political developments of 2006 have not altered the need for sensitivity in this area and International Alert continues to work with the donor community, facilitating a process of continued reflection on approaches to development assistance.
Links
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out more about our work on conflict-sensitivity, development and
humanitarian aid and development
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here to download our report, Conflict, Humanitarian Assistance
and Peacebuilding: Meeting the Challenges (this will open in a
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here to download our report, Building Institutional Capacity
for Conflict-Sensitive Practice: The Case of International NGOs
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here to download the Resource Pack on Conflict Sensitive Approaches
to Development, Humanitarian Assistance and Peacebuilding produced
by FEWER, International Alert and Saferworld (this will open in
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For more information contact Mais Yacoub
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Last Updated: September 2006 |
