Nigeria - Strategic Conflict Assessment : Methodology, Key Findings and Lessons Learnt

Lyons, Sarah ; Reinermann, Dirk

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: CONFLICT MANAGEMENT;    METHODOLOGY;    DICTATORSHIP;    POLITICAL VALUE JUDGMENTS;    SOCIAL VALUES;   

RP-ID  :  27088

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

The need to support a Strategic ConflictAssessment (SCA) was agreed by donors in December 2001, andsupported by President Obasanjo. The central guidingprinciple was that the SCA process should be led by thenational Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR),in the Presidency. Local ownership and capacity buildingwere considered key to achieving credibility andsustainability. Technical and financial support was providedto IPCR and local stakeholders by some of Nigeria'smajor international donors: DFID; UNDP; USAID; and the WorldBank, who formed an SCA Advisory Group to IPCR. The AdvisoryGroup proved to be a vital structure for collectivedecision-making. This approach was chosen over the moretraditional single-donor approach to draw upon a wide rangeof international expertise and experience, to share resourcecosts and to mitigate political risk to donors. Donorcooperation and collaboration meant that donors were able tocover areas where partners may not have had the capacity ormandate. This was the first time, globally, that a nationalconflict assessment had ever been supported by a group ofdonors. Conflict assessments by individual donors are oftennot shared beyond the sponsoring donor. Where they areshared, they are often edited to remove"sensitive" parts, thus defeating the purpose ofthe analysis and making it difficult for stakeholders andother donors to benefit.