Why a Guidance Toolkit on Reconstructing Public Administration after Conflict?

 

The toolkit focuses on how to reconstruct public administration after conflict, which is the fundamental pre-requisite for development in any post-conflict situation. It provides an opportunity to think about the advantages that post-conflict reconstruction can entail in terms of innovation, whilst it also supports the view that reconstructing public administration after conflict is an opportunity to design governance systems and service delivery processes that spearheads a better future for all.

 

The purpose of the Toolkit is to provide guidance from a new endogenous-based perspective. It is not a blanket recipe for public administration reconstruction. Instead, it intends to inspire and facilitate the discovery of one’s own path because success in reconstructing public administration will depend on the engagement of the actors and stakeholders in the aftermath of the conflict, as well as on their will to find appropriate and sustainable solutions to their own situation. [Read more]

 

 

How was this Guidance Toolkit Developed and for Whom?

 

The Toolkit is based on sources that promote practical, consultative, and participatory approaches. These include the work that UNDESA/DPADM has undertaken in the area of public administration post-conflict reconstruction, particularly by its Inter-regional Advisers; the analytical research and publications issued by UNDESA and other organisations; forums, ad hoc expert group meetings, United Nations public administration working group field missions and capacity development workshops. It has also benefitted from the work conducted in this field by other international organizations and agencies, as well as from the feed-back given by the United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration at its 10th session in 2011.

The potential users of this guidance Toolkit include government officials in countries emerging from conflict, officials working for development, partners supporting the reconstruction process, civil society organisation workers, the population itself, advisers, consultants, and others involved in the reconstruction process.

 

The Toolkit is divided into four parts following a prelude that provides an overview of public administration reconstruction process after conflict. Each part focuses on one particular dimension of the reconstruction process. A set of guiding principles and tools are also derived from case studies.  [Read more]