Past Events

Building National Capacities for Conflict Prevention and Transformation
6-8 March 2006, Istanbul

The workshop Building National Capacities for Conflict Prevention and Transformation took place on 6-8 March 2006 in Istanbul, Turkey. Hosted by UNDP and the UN Department of Political Affairs (DPA), with the assistance of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the governments of Canada, Denmark, and Sweden, and the Folke Bernadotte Academy of Sweden, this meeting was an opportunity to review the progress achieved by the Joint UNDP-DPA Programme initiated in 2003. This programme is a joint  effort to build national stakeholders’ capacities for conflict prevention.  The meeting brought together 14 countries from around the world and benefited from the participation of government representatives, civil society organizations, UN staff members, academics and bilateral partners. Practitioners shared experiences and lessons learned. A number of challenges with regard to conflict prevention were raised—from the need to improve coordination at all levels to the identification of mechanisms to engage national stakeholders in cultivating ownership and effective resource mobilization, while being able to adapt to evolving political situations. Follow up actions include: a) Collectively identifying indicators to more efficiently measure the impact of conflict prevention programmes; b) Strengthening UN support to ongoing and new conflict prevention programmes through the provision of additional human, financial and knowledge resources; c) Generating a user-friendly
platform for conflict prevention practitioners to exchange ideas; and d) Developing the joint UNDP-DPA project into a programming framework for countries interested in developing conflict prevention strategies. For more information, contact chetan.kumar@undp.org.

Global Disaster Risk Reduction Mainstreaming Workshop
22-23 September 2005, Geneva
How can we integrate disaster risk reduction more effectively into development programming? The UNDP’s Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction into Development Workshop, held in Geneva on 22-23 September 2005, initiated the consultation process and dialogue to address this question. Through discussions with selected UNDP country offices and key international organizations, the initiative aimed to work towards three main objectives: 1) To support the development of appropriate policies, tools and human resource capacity for mainstreaming disaster risk reduction into development activities; 2) To provide a platform for advocacy and exchange of mainstreaming experiences; and 3) To support the harmonization of these tools and practices among development actors. There was strong consensus among the participants that mainstreaming disaster risk reduction is not an option but should be made part of the regular development programming within UNDP, and that UNDP needs to work both internally and with partners to move this objective forward. For more information, contact jennifer.worrell@undp.org.

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