BCPR | Economic Recovery

Post-Conflict Economic Recovery:
Enabling Local Ingenuity

Post-conflict economic recovery aims to establish sustainable economic growth and human development while addressing the factors that could lead to a recurrence of conflict. Post-conflict recovery is not about restoring pre-war economic or institutional arrangements. It is about transformation — requiring a mix of far-reaching economic, institutional, legal, and policy reforms that allow war-torn countries to re-establish the foundations for self-sustaining development.

Listen to John Ohiorhenuan, Director of the report on Post-Conflict Economic Recovery: Enabling Local Ingenuity, discuss the findings of the report (streaming audio or download mp3) and the role of women and girls in post-conflict economic recovery (streaming audio or download mp3)

Press Release

NEW YORK, 22 October 2008–While countries ravaged by war make the headlines, their recovery from violent upheaval is a story rarely covered. Yet, economic recovery is a formidable challenge facing these devastated nations, and is the subject of a sweeping new report released today by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).Read more...

Listen to Emmanuel Letouze, BCPR Policy Specialist, discuss the Post-Conflict Economic Recovery Report (UN Radio interview in French)

Listen to Elisabeth Diaz, BCPR External Relations Specialist, discuss the Post-Conflict Economic Recovery Report (UN Radio interview in Spanish)

Key Highlights

Post-Conflict Economic Report: Highlights
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Complete Report (13.42 MB)

Executive Summary
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Chapter 1: War, peace and durable economic recovery

Chapter 2: The legacies of armed conflict

Chapter 3: Strengthening indigenous drivers of post-conflict economic recovery

Chapter 4: Macroeconomic policy considerations in post-conflict recovery

Chapter 5: Economic recovery and the role of the state

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Appendices

Background papers

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Key Data

UNDP’s livelihoods programme in Somalia, 2009

Despite a fragile security situation and operational obstacles, UNDP has been able to assist more than 11,000 households in the Middle Shebelle and Bay regions with livelihood and employment opportunities. Read full story...

Special Feature: Rebuilding Livelihoods in Liberia, 2008

Martha lost her husband during the civil war that tore Liberia apart and left 75 percent of the population in extreme poverty. A mother of two, Martha did not have any formal training. She could not send her children to school as she was not able to pay their school fees.Since Martha became a beneficiary of the UNDP Microfinance Initiative, her life has changed for the better. Read full story...

Listen to Masaneh Bayo, who manages the UNDP Microfinance Initiative in Liberia, discuss
how the programme is changing the lives of poverty-stricken women and families (streaming audio or download mp3)