International Rescue Committee

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International Rescue Committee

• Presentation at Woodrow Wilson Center

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Health in fragile states relation to
governance

• Poverty and lack of democratic governance
• Attack governance through governance programs
• Need for governance in all sectors, levels, with
  emphasis on communities
• Service delivery sectors may be not just a way to
  instill governance objectives but the way.

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FOR IRC

• Keys to working in fragile states
• take the long view
• support reconstitution of institutions and
  community systems and structures
• based on principles of good governance
• with conflict sensitive approaches

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Theory to Practice

• Defining the indicators and measurement system
• Generalizable learning for fragile states
• Pilot process for community - development in
  reconstruction setting

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Gathering Evidence

• Randomized study with control and treatment
  groups
• To understand IMPACT attributable to IRC and
  donors investment
• good governance
• basic livelihood
• social cohesion
• multi country comparison

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Going Forward

• Repeat process in service delivery sectors
• USAID support through
• Backing sophisticated evaluation and data
  collection
• Requesting the information as part of ME plans