Synthesis Report Local Governance

This is the synthesis report of the working group on local governance of the network for peace, security and development, a network of Dutch organisations working on these themes internationally. As a working group, they have looked at issues of local government in fragile states, in relation to other actors, both local and national/international. The work has very much focused on practice, working mostly in fragile states, with local government officials and local leaders and. PSDN feeld that state building and peace building should be well designed into laws on decentralisation, and also that they should be logically linked to large discourse in, say, Paris, Accra or Busan. But above all state building and peace building ought to make sense locally, in which case the right support at the right moment of the right process makes a whole lot of difference.

This synthesis report summarises PSDN's findings and conclusions, and lists the products of this working group.

Peace, Security and Development Network 2012

This publication is an outcome of the in 2008 established ‘Network for Peace, Security and Development’. The Network aims to support and encourage the sharing of expertise and cooperation between the different Dutch sectors and organisations involved in fragile states. The PSD Network is an initiative under the Schokland Agreements in 2007.