Environmental Priorities in Post-Conflict Recovery: Efficacy of the Needs-Assessment Process
| Autor: | Ken Conca, Tim Kovach |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Engineering
Impact assessment Process (engineering) business.industry 05 social sciences Public administration Natural resource 0506 political science Environmental governance 0502 economics and business Political Science and International Relations Needs assessment 050602 political science & public administration Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper 050207 economics Natural resource management business Baseline (configuration management) Safety Research Environmental planning |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Peacebuilding & Development. 11:4-24 |
| ISSN: | 2165-7440 1542-3166 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/15423166.2016.1181002 |
| Popis: | Donors have converged upon an increasingly institutionalised process of promoting post-conflict recovery. The hallmarks of this process are a Post-Conflict Needs Assessment (PCNA), a Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP), and a UN Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF). This paper examines the ability of this multi-stage process to address environmental issues. While research demonstrates that environmental governance and natural resource management are key challenges facing war-torn societies, they are often subordinated to other agendas or disappear from consideration entirely. We analyse PCNAs, PRSPs, and UNDAFs for seven cases (Afghanistan, Georgia, Haiti, Iraq, Liberia, Somalia, and Sudan) and compare them to baseline environmental assessments. We ask which types of environmental and natural resource issues garner the most attention and test whether the PCNA–PRSP–UNDAF chain sustains a consistent focus. We find that topics related to infrastructure and environmental governance are most likely to be flagged in PCNAs. In contrast, ‘environmental services’ and mining-related issues are far less likely to be identified. These oversights are problematic given the importance of good natural resource management for reconciliation and recovery, the centrality of environmental services to the livelihoods of poor people, and the role of the mining sector in fostering conflict. |
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