Scoping study for an evaluation of the Peace and Stabilisation Fund

Since 2010, Denmark has used the Peace and Stabilisation Fund as an instrument through which to address diverse challenges in some of the world’s hotspots, such as Iraq, Syria and the Sahel. In a new report Jessica Larsen, researcher, DIIS, and Katja Lindskov Jacobsen, senior researcher, Centre for Military Studies, examine possible paths through which to improve the Fund ten years into its existence. The aim is to provide pointers for an evaluation of the Fund and its activities.

The report recommends focusing in particular on four thematic issues:

• The political role of the Peace and Stabilisation Fund
• The balance between continuing established practices versus exploring new potential in programming
• Managing the breadth of actors, security dynamics and policy agendas in the regions of engagement
• The financial structures and processes of the Fund

Each recommendation is treated separately by presenting a range of related options and dilemmas in need of being addressed. As background, the report also discusses trends in funding, geography and activities over the past decade of the Fund’s existence, the organisation of the Fund and provides analysis of the geopolitical context, in which the Fund operates.

This report has received financial support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark. It reflects the views of the author alone.