Support to fragile states and post-conflict areas
NIRAS works on governance in a number of fragile states sharing characteristics such as weak governance structures, extreme poverty, and limited capacity to deal with shocks from both conflicts and natural disasters.
We are working to improve governance structures in both the government and civil society domains as this is a key fundamental driver for development especially in post conflict areas and fragile states.
We offer a wide range of consulting services combining technical competences with our profound understanding and experiences from complex and fragile environments. Our approach to good governance, human rights and democratisation is on delivering these programmes in a well coordinated effort along side other interventions such as: stabilisation and security; promotion of improved livelihoods and economic opportunities; conflict prevention; and regional conflict management.
We emphasize on delivering gender, age and diversity sensitive development assistance which addresses the particular need of vulnerable groups in all our programmes. Furthermore, we follow the principles for good international engagement in fragile states and situations set by the OECD-DAC and adhere to the Paris Declaration on aid effectiveness.
Reference projects
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Afghanistan: Regions of origin programme review; migration, post conflict and rights based approaches
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Afghanistan: Advisory services to line ministries in the agricultural and rural development sector.
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Afghanistan: Mine clearance reviews in Afghanistan, Angola and the DRC
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Iraq: Capacity development assistance in central ministries (Min of Human Rights and Rule of Law, Min of Migration, Min of Development and Planning and Min of Agriculture). Key focus areas include good governance and institutional development
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Iraq
: Review of support to Iraqi refugees in Jordan and Syria
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Iraq: Evaluation of Swedish support programmes on civil society, gender and political awareness
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Niger: Rural and urban water and sanitation programmes, in line with good governance practices
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Palestine: Milk sector review and Olive sector review
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South Caucasus
: Review of gender, age and diversity aspects of support to refugees and IDPs
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Sudan: Watershed management and technical assistance to the fisheries sector
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Yemen: Disaster risk reduction