[AID EFFECTIVENESS]-Module 11 – Plenary Session on Conflict and Fragility

 Objective

More than 1.5 billion people live in fragile and conflict-affected countries. Caught in cycles of poverty and violence, few of these countries will achieve a single Millennium Development Goal by 2015. The New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States sets out five goals — legitimate politics, justice, security, economic foundations and revenues and services — to give clarity on the priorities in fragile states.

This plenary session was used to present and endorse the New Deal, and allowed delegates the opportunity to propose specific commitments to implement it.