Worth Every Cent: Smarter Approaches to Addressing Fragility
Publisher: adelphi
Author(s): Sara Batmanglich
Date: 2019
Topics: Assessment, Basic Services, Climate Change, Conflict Causes, Disasters, Economic Recovery, Humanitarian Assistance, Livelihoods, Programming
80 per cent of the world’s poorest could be living in fragile contexts by 2030, making fragility one of the capital challenges to achieving sustainable development. Fragility is multidimensional and complex, and progress in fragile contexts is not easy. But instead of shying away from this task, the ambition of the international community must be stepped up. Foreign policy can help increase the efficacy of investments to tackle fragility.