Building governance capacity in fragile states
The greatest challenge in the context of fragile states is to develop a functioning civil service. This policy brief looks at the IGAD initiative in South Sudan where 199 civil servants have been seconded from Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda to South Sudan on two-year terms to help ramp up the civilian capacity of the South Sudanese state. Notwithstanding many challenges, the initiative is promising as a new and potentially innovative model of triangular cooperation for capacity development.
The brief is published as part of the outcome from the International Capacity Research Initiative (ICRI). ICRI is a co-funded research cooperation on capacity development in fragile states between the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS); the United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office Office (UNPBSO), Noref, and the Training for Peace programme (TfP) at the Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (NUPI).
For further information, contact DIIS project researcher Frederik Rosén.
Direct link to the policy brief:
Diana Felix da Costa, Søren Vester Haldrup, John Karlsrud, Frederik Rosén
and Kristoffer Nilaus Tarp: "Triangular co-operation for government capacity development in South Sudan," Policy brief, April 2013, Noref
Other ICRI publications are:
Frederik Rosén & Kristoffer Tarp (2012): ‘Coaching and mentoring for capacity development. The case of South Sudan’, African Security Review, 21.1, March 2012, 15–30.
Frederik Rosén & Kristoffer Tarp (2011): ‘A New Model for Civilian Capacity - the Case of South Sudan’, Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, Vol. 6, 2, pp. 93-98.
Frederik Rosén & Kristoffer Tarp (2011) ‘South Sudan and Capacity: A Case for Triangular Cooperation’, October 2011.