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For donor governments<br />

Strengthen local level state effectiveness<br />

1. Donor agencies should be actively pursu<strong>in</strong>g a form of ‘<strong>development</strong><br />

diplomacy’, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g the deployment of technical assistance <strong>in</strong> the<br />

field, identification of risks and bottlenecks <strong>in</strong> delivery, supplement<strong>in</strong>g<br />

pooled fund<strong>in</strong>g with targeted bilateral <strong>in</strong>itiatives where<br />

required.<br />

More long range analysis<br />

2. Donors should consider that the timeframes for relief <strong>in</strong> a phase of<br />

natural disaster reconstruction should be multi-year.<br />

3. Donors and governments should cont<strong>in</strong>ue to review procedures for multidonor<br />

trust funds <strong>in</strong> recovery.<br />

4. Donors should require that project proposals and the function<strong>in</strong>g of<br />

multi-donor fund<strong>in</strong>g mechanisms <strong>in</strong>clude conflict sensitivity analysis.<br />

Better targeted livelihoods recovery<br />

5. Donors should direct fund<strong>in</strong>g to basic needs and reduce the risk of<br />

further vulnerability (preventive approaches).<br />

6. Donors should create stronger policy dialogue and coord<strong>in</strong>ation<br />

mechanisms at the national level around the issue of support to isolated<br />

populations.<br />

More <strong>in</strong>tegrated area approaches<br />

7. Donors should consider that jo<strong>in</strong>t evaluations have been an effective<br />

mechanism to <strong>in</strong>crease local and regional participation <strong>in</strong> responses.<br />

Less restrictive risk reduction<br />

8. Donors should monitor the local level implementation of risk reduction<br />

strategies, and fund targeted projects where this is weak.<br />

9. Donors should conduct disaster risk assessments prior to provid<strong>in</strong>g<br />

<strong>development</strong> grants or loans for projects <strong>in</strong> high risk areas.<br />

Better notions of capacity build<strong>in</strong>g<br />

10. Donors should consider fund<strong>in</strong>g personnel support programmes<br />

designed to improve the skills of specialists, assist <strong>in</strong> placement, and<br />

conversion.<br />

11. Donors should be sensitive to the time needed to accomplish effective<br />

and susta<strong>in</strong>able recovery programmes.<br />

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