New Deal Pilots

Pilot Countries	Partner Countries	Key Documents
Afghanistan	Denmark, Netherlands, United Kingdom
Central African Republic	European Commission
Democratic Republic of Congo
Liberia	Sweden, United States	Fragility Assessment Update
Sierra Leone		Fragility Assessment
South Sudan	Denmark, Netherlands, United Kingdom	Fragility Assessment Update; Fragility Workshop: Agenda; Fragility Workshop: Group Instructions; New Deal in S.Sudan Presentation; South Sudan Fragility Assessment Summary
Timor Leste	Australia	Fragility Assesssment

What people are saying

We must truly build local ownership and include civil society while also marrying a resilience agenda with the New Deal.”

Nancy Lindborg, USAID

I am supporting the proposal from the International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding to put peace, justice and human security at the heart of the agenda for what should follow the millenium development goals (MDGs) when they expire in 2015.”

Kaifala Marah, Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Sierra Leone

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We need a data revolution as stated in the Bali conference and scale up work through South-South exchanges and we need to put our own houses in order and focus on fundamental reform.”

Caroline Anstey, Managing Director World Bank

There are 3 areas in which the New Deal can compliment the MDG’s: domestic resource organizations, building institutions and knowledge sharing.”

Amara Konneh, Minister of Finance, Liberia

We have great expectations that we can mobilize and unleash profound human potential while correctly securing peace and accountability.”

Gunilla Carlsson, Minister for International Development Cooperation, Sweden

We must take a great leap forward and ensure that status quo of fragile states is reversed.”

Mohammad M Mastoor, Deputy Finance Minister Afghanistan

We need to transform the way we all engage with fragile and conflict affected states. That’s the message from our own research and also from heeding the calls for a “New Deal” from an innovative coalition of fragile countries across Africa, Asia and the Pacific, known as the g7+.”

Jim Yong Kim, President World Bank

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A much better approach is to listen to the voices in those countries and find out where and with whom there is enough of a shared agenda to move forward together.”

Dan Smith, International Alert

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The g7+ is an important new interlocutor, which needs to be strengthened and encouraged.”

UN System Task Team on the Post-2015 Agenda

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The debate on what will replace the Millennium Development Goals after 2015 has intensified with growing recognition that a new framework must address conflict and violence to be effective.”

Larry Attree, Saferworld

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