Mitarbeiter sonstige

EU engagement in fragile and conflict-affected states: towards a dedicated strategy

Bergmann, Julian / Jasmin Lorch
Mitarbeiter sonstige (2024)

in: Christine Hackenesch / Niels Keijzer / Svea Koch (eds.), The European Union’s global role in a changing world: challenges and opportunities for the new leadership, Bonn: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), 28-31

DOI: https://doi.org/10.23661/idp11.2024.6
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State fragility is the new normal of European development policy and a major hurdle for the realisation of the 2030 Agenda. By 2030, an estimated 86% of the world’s extreme poor are projected to live in states marked by fragility, up from 75% in 2020. Already in 2020, 60% of all country allocable official development assistance (ODA) (USD 61.9 billion) disbursed by the OECD-DAC (Development Assistance Committee) went to such states (OECD, 2022, pp. 6, 20). State fragility is thus a key challenge for development policy that the European Union (EU) and other international donors have to deal with.