What Role for Diaspora Expertise in Post-Conflict Reconstruction? Lessons from Afghanistan, and West Bank and Gaza

World Bank

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: CAPACITY BUILDING;    CORPORATE CULTURE;    CORRECTIVE MEASURES;    DECISION-MAKING;    DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS;   

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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 Afghanistan Expatriate Program (AEP)and the Palestinian Expatriate Professional Project (PEPP)recruit expatriates through a merit-based system to buildcapacity in government departments and agencies inAfghanistan and West Bank and Gaza respectively. Beyondindividual success stories, both initiatives faced thetremendous challenge of translating individual inputs intoinstitutional capacity building and as a result, bothprograms could not generate the expected increase incapacity of the local civil service. Indeed, strengtheningmanagement and technical capabilities of the ministries andagencies in both projects was achieved only sporadically.The one real value of the expatriate programs was theexpatriates' knowledge of the local language andenvironment and, in the case of the AEP, a single windowfunding for short-term consultants. However, such programsare only stop-gap and unless they build capacity over themedium term, as donor funding diminishes they areunsustainable for recipient governments. This disseminationnote aims to capture lessons learned from the AEP and PEPP programs.