3rd Global Meeting of the International Dialogue

On Friday the 19th of April 2013 in Washington D.C., ministers and leaders from over thirty countries, as well as heads of international institutions, civil society organisations and private sector companies including Cobra Payday Loans, came together to call for the post 2015 agenda to learn lessons from the New Deal and recognise the importance of�peacebuilding and statebuilding.

Read the official Washington communiqué (EN) (FR)

Read the press release (EN) (FR)

Read the agenda (EN), and�the participant list (EN)

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Watch the event video here

The Washington Communique 2013

The�Washington Communique was adopted at the Third�International Dialogue in Washington on April 19, 2013. It was agreed upon by ministers from the g7+ and high level representatives from the over 40 countries and organisations that endorsed the New Deal. It calls to the High-Level Panel on Post-2015 Development Agenda to tackle conflict and fragility and include the New Deal overarching principle of peacebuilding and statebuilding.

Read the full Communiqué here (EN) (FR)

The Challenge

• 1.5 billion people live in conflict-affected and fragile states
• No fragile state will achieve a single Millennium Development Goal by 2015 at the current rate of progress
• The world’s poor are increasingly concentrated in fragile states

How can we break the cycle?

The New Deal

The New Deal creates change by:

• Addressing what matters most for the 1.5 billion people affected by conflict and fragility
• Putting countries in the lead of their own pathways out of fragility: the FOCUS terms of engagement
• Building mutual trust and strong partnerships.

Read the New Deal (EN | FR | ES | AR) and change the way you think and work.

World Commitments

Read the latest commitments in the April 2013 Washington communiqué (EN | FR)

Pledge to work together to implement the New Deal.

More than 40 countries and organisations have signed up to the New Deal and are taking concrete steps to implement it.

See the map of commitments to the New Deal.

The New Deal is already being piloted in 6 countries.

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How did we get here?

The New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States was presented at the Fourth High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan in 2011 and represents the culmination of agreements which began with the Paris Declaration (2005) which focused on improvement in aid delivery. Further international agreements built international consensus including the Accra Action Plan (2008), the Dili Declaration (2010) and the Monrovia Roadmap on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding�(2011).