Fragile Aid: Development Cooperation in Weak States and Conflict Contexts

Fragile Aid: Development Cooperation in Weak States and Conflict Contexts

Oxford (United Kingdom): Oxford University Press, 2025.

English

291 p.

978-0198960478

An important question for the future of aid concerns its role in weak states and conflict contexts areas. While considerable research points to a mixed record of effectiveness in these contexts, the imperative of external support for development and humanitarian needs persists. Bringing together findings from a diverse set of expert analyses, this volume sheds new light on the record of aid under fragility, spotlighting two key implications for research and practice going forward. First, more systematic unpacking of the considerable diversity that exists across fragile contexts is needed to better understand past experience and its lessons for future practice. Second, the aid effectiveness principles provide important insight into how aid can be improved, but there are fundamental challenges to their application in weak states and conflict contexts. In sum, the world urgently needs better aid, not less aid.

ELR 3888

eng

MON-131358