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Seeking effective ways to tackle poverty in the world's weakest states

/noticias.info/ The Department for International Development (DFID) today publishes a new policy paper on the problems of providing effective aid to millions of people living in poverty in states beset by poor governance, insecurity and conflict.

Launched to coincide with a two-day conference in London that has attracted leading representatives of the international aid community, ‘Why we need to work more effectively in fragile states’ sets out DFID’s priorities for developing improved aid programmes to benefit some of the world’s most disadvantaged people.

These include:

- Allocation of more resources – people, time and money – to fragile states
- Moving from reaction to prevention – establishment of an early warning system as conditions deteriorate in fragile states
- Developing more effective ways of providing aid to fragile states – working better, faster and scaling up to meet aid needs

Secretary of State for International Development Hilary Benn said: ‘If we are to have any hope of reaching the Millennium Development Goals, we cannot afford to abandon countries which sit in the ‘too difficult’ box. Fragile states contain 14 per cent of the world’s population, but account for nearly 30 per cent of those people living in absolute poverty on less than $1 a day. They account for 40 per cent of all child mortality and their rates of HIV infection are four timers higher than other developing countries.

‘We know that there can be no development without peace and security - and that, conversely, sustainable development is a precondition for long term peace and security. To prevent human disasters such as that in Darfur and to guard against global insecurity and imbalance, it is essential that we prevent countries becoming marginalized and excluded from the benefits of development and poverty reduction.’

DFID is hosting the Senior Level Forum on Fragile States at Lancaster House on Thursday and Friday, 13 and 14 January, convened by the World Bank, the OECD Development Assistance Committee, the European Commission and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

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