Transcript Intro to BCPR - JPO Service Centre

Introduction to the
Bureau for Crisis Prevention & Recovery
Nick Hartmann
Programme Specialist
BCPR, UNDP New York
Background
Report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of
the report of the Panel on United Nations peace operations
(A/55/502) October 2000
“I characterized every step taken towards reducing poverty
and achieving broad-based economic growth as a step
towards conflict prevention”
“In order to be effective, prevention strategies must address
the root causes of violent conflict and the environments that
promote it…”
“The biggest deterrent to violent conflict is the promotion of
sustainable human development and a healthy democratic
society based on strong rule of law and civic institutions,
including adherence to all human rights – economic, social,
political and cultural.”
UNDP Administrator Mark Malloch Brown Role of UNDP
in Crisis and Post-Conflict Situations (UNDP/UNFPA
Executive Board, New York, January 2001 :
“I am confident [the updated strategy for UNDP in crisis
and post-conflict situations] provides a platform for UNDP
better to attack the corrosive links between poverty, crisis
and conflict that have long retarded social and economic
progress in many of the poorest parts of the world.”
Context
• Trend of increasing and chronic crises : 24 of 49
LDCs face high levels of disaster risk, with at least 6 of
these countries being affected by 2 to 8 major disasters
per year in the last 15 years.
• Of the 34 countries that are furthest away from
achieving the international development goals
established at United Nations global conferences in the
past decade, 22 are affected by ongoing or recent
conflict.
Context (Continued)
• 90% of of deaths in contemporary wars are civilian
• 11 million refugees seeking protection, 20-25 million
internally displaced
• People continue to be killed every day by landmines
planted in during old conflicts
• .5 billion small arms in circulation : 80% of the victims are
children and women
• Not just major catastrophes, but thousands of ‘invisible’
small and medium scale events occur on a daily basis in
UNDP programme countries.
• In many countries, accumulated disaster losses now exceed
limited development gains.
Lessons Learned
• Development is central to strategies of peace-building,
prevention and transition
• Development actors need to look to humanitarian
counterparts to learn the lessons of responsiveness
• Development is taking place in a political context and has
to be sensitive to that context
• Too often UNDP has been more reactive than pro-active to
the challenges on the ground
• Challenges of the ‘gap’ between relief and development
require new transition initiatives grounded in a development
perspective of early recovery
BCPR Mission Statement
“To enhance UNDP’s efforts for sustainable
development, working with partners to reduce the
incidence and impact of disasters and violent
conflicts, and to establish the solid foundations for
peace and recovery from crises, thereby advancing
the Millennium Goals on poverty reduction.”
Role of BCPR
• Shapes UNDP’s priorities in terms of :
• Strategy setting
• Policy development
• Operational support and programming, building
relationships with new partners (including other
UN agencies, NGOs and donors)
• Division has established an impressive track record of
resource mobilization through the Trust Fund for Crisis
and Post-Conflict Situations established in March 2000.
BCPR Long-Term Goals
1. To reduce the incidence and impact of armed
conflict.
2. To reduce the incidence and impact of disasters
and establish solid foundations for recovery.
3. To facilitate the social and economic recovery of
countries in post-conflict situations.
What does BCPR do?
Working in over 30 countries, we provide a range of support
services that include:
• Training for disaster preparedness
• Capacity building programmes for mine action
• Small arms collection and disposal
• Security sector reform
• Demobilization and reintegration of former combatants
• Increasing access to essential social services
• Restoration of livelihoods
• Training of judiciary
• Support to the implementation of peace agreements
BCPR Service Lines
1. Conflict Prevention & Peace-building
2. Transition Recovery Programme
3.
Security Sector Reform and Rule of Law
4. Small Arms Reduction
5.
Mine Action
6.
Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration
7. Area-based Programmes
8.
Natural Disaster Reduction and Recovery
1. Conflict Prevention & Peace-building
• Advocating the role of development in conflict prevention
and peace-building
• Providing policy advice and technical assistance (including
conflict assessment) to reorient and develop field
programmes in a conflict prevention and peace-building
framework
• Creating new development tools and approaches to conflict
prevention and peace-building as part of the international
response
2. Transition Recovery Programme
• Supporting UN field coordination of early recovery efforts
through the RC system and by facilitating coordination
• Designing and piloting new development tools and
approaches to respond to the particular crisis
• Mobilizing and deploying TRTs to undertake assessments
and comprehensive early recovery planning
• Identifying and strengthening national capacities and
expertise to manage and implement early recovery
programmes
2. Transition Recovery Teams
• Collaboration with UNDAC assessments
• Specific assessments of the development losses caused by
the crisis
• Data analysis and dissemination of information, including
liaison with the media
• Development of a UNDP recovery strategy or framework
that links into the overall Country Team’s strategy
• Support to resource mobilization
3. Security Sector Reform and Rule of Law
• Promoting legal and judicial reform through the
development of more effectively enforceable laws
• Training the judiciary in new laws and legal procedures to
ensure consistent interpretation
• Supporting informed debate and decision-making on legal
and judicial matters
• Promoting justice and reconciliation through strengthening
alternative dispute resolution techniques including nonjudicial reconciliation, arbitration and mediation
• Strengthening the capacity of human rights institutions in
monitoring, investigating and reporting
4. Small Arms Reduction
• Integrating a development perspective into policies for the
reduction of small arms and light weapons
• Building national capacities for weapons collection and
destruction
• Creating opportunities for legal and sustainable livelihoods
to also reduce demand for small arms
• Supporting countries to control the illicit flow and supply of
small arms through training of customs agents, police, and
other government agencies
5. Mine Action
• Providing technical support, training, and advice to
strengthen the capacity of mine affected to develop
sustainable mine action programmes
• Developing and maintaining national management
infrastructures for mine action (Mine Action Centers) that
build local capacity
• Raising awareness on the negative impacts of landmines on
sustainable development and advocating for the global ban
on the manufacture, trade, and use of anti-personnel mines in
accordance with the Ottawa Treaty.
6. Disarmament, Demobilization, Reintegration
• Establishing management systems and structures that can
plan and implement DDR programmes
• Enabling demobilzation and disarmament and promoting
public security through reducing the availability of small
arms
• Supporting a range of secure livelihood initiatives for the
former combatants including job counseling and referral,
professional and vocational training opportunities, access to
credit and land, micro enterprises, etc.
7. Area-Based Programmes
• Creating participatory community-based structures
(community development committees) to identify, plan, and
implement rehabilitation priorities
• Providing technical assistance for the community to restore
essential social services
• Supporting communities to sustainably reintegrate waraffected populations including IDPs, returnees, etc.
• Promoting coherence between locally-identified
rehabilitation priorities and central rehabilitation plans
8. Natural Disaster Recovery and Reduction
•Promoting the integration of disaster risk planning and
preparation into national and regional development
programmes
• Piloting recovery programmes in post-conflict situations
that aim to avoid the reconstruction of risk
• Strengthening national and regional capacities to put in
place the appropriate policies, strategies, legal frameworks
and institutional structures for sustainable disaster risk
reduction through technical assistance and training