Users’ Guide on Measuring Fragility

Users’ Guide on Measuring Fragility published

Press Release of 28 September 2009

Can the failure of states be measured? In cooperation with the UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) has produced a Users' Guide on Measuring Fragility. The guide explains how conflict-related rankings are produced and applied - for example, the Failed States Index published by the Fund for Peace.

The Users' Guide enables non-expert users to access these rankings and contributes to disseminating knowledge on measuring social science concepts. This is a prerequisite for monitoring state fragility in developing countries.

The authors Javier Fabra Mata (UNDP) and Sebastian Ziaja of the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) presented the Users' Guide during the European Development Days on 23 October in Stockholm.