World bank functions in practice: Ituri case

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World bank functions in practice Ituri case

• Annemarie Sweeris
• sweeris_at_ikvpaxchristi.nl

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Programme in Ituri, east DRC
Ituri
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Programme in Ituri,short overview (1)

• Programme on peace and reconciliation, security
• Regional scope district, twice size Netherlands,
  all
• territories
• In collaboration with partner network Haki na
  Amani (consisting of 8 NGOs/churches)
• On issues as community security, land conflicts,
  reconciliation, wood/gold/petrol, LRA

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Programme in Ituri,short overview (2)

• Local Peace Committees and Local Security
  Committees (structured)
• Dialogue between authorities/army and people
  through community meetings (barza communautaire)
• Lobby/advocacy through research/conferences on
  relevant topics

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World bank functions related to Ituri programme

• Social cohesion
• Intermediation/facilitation
• Advocacy/public communication
• Monitoring/early warning
• Socialization
• (Protection)
• (Service provision)

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Social cohesion (1)

• Inclusive multi-ethnic partner network
• Haki na Amani is multi-ethnic, multi-religous,
  regionally spread, diversity in expertise
• Creates legitimacy on the ground to work with all
  groups and increases possible impact of other
  strategies
• Obvious but not simple infighting, clientelism,
  competition

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Social cohesion (2)

• Local Peace Committees and Local Security
  Committees
• Creating social movement, links between
  antagonistic groups (frequenting same market)
• Success varies
• Community meetings (barzas communautaires)
• 200 500 people, incl state/police/army
  representatives, MONUC
• Creation link population state (accountability)
• Geograhpic spread antagonistic groups together

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Sociale cohesion (3)

• Security commissions
• Representatives of all stakeholders
• Common goal is solving security problems
• Building relationships
• Capacity of HnA increased how to structure the
  committees, barzas
• Inclusion ALL stakeholders in all activities
  (trainings, conferences, meetings), including
  (former) militia members, police

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Intermediation/facilitation

• Community meetings
• Interface state/population
• Mediation
• Local conflicts (on land, between families,
  villages)
• Capacity HnA increased mediation
• Overlap with activities aiming at social cohesion
• Risk maintaining relations state and
  interfering

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Advocacy/public communication

• Conferences on conflict-related topics (DDR, LRA,
  petrol eg. Arua conference sept 08
• Creation coherent lobby messages
• Instigating public debate
• Raising awareness among citizens
• Research
• Capacity HnA increased
• Research combo
• Creating lobby opportunities

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Monitoring and early warning

• Local security committees (nyumba kumi)
• Monitoring and denouncing human rights violations
• Monitoring processes
• Monitoring state activities (misconduct,
  corruption)
• Early warning in case of danger (stealing,
  intrusion, militia activities)
• Capacity HnA increased human rights monitoring,
  how to structure NK
• gt Early warning gt information gathering gt
  relevant for lobby and facilitation of dialogue

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Socialization

• Information sharing on conflict-related topics
  through
• Training of trainers (of local peace and security
  committees, parish workers)
• Workshops (moral leadership)
• Radio human rights etc
• Capacity HnA increased creation of training
  modules and training mechanisms
• gt Often point of entry, creates legitmicacy
  to undertake other activities

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Conclusion

• Functions overlap in different strategies/activiti
  es
• Focus in our work on social cohesion,
  intermediation/facilitation and advocacy/public
  communication
• Need for complementarity in activities INGOs
  (peace dividend, combination intermediation and
  service delivery)
• Functions help in determining boundaries
  programme
• Capacity HnA increased in various ways sharing
  information, joint identification of strategies
  (committees), research

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