Statebuilding and Aid Dependency in Afghanistan

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This article was originally published with errors, which have now been corrected in both the online and print versions. Please see Correction (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2020.1759903)

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1 The New Deal is a framework that was endorsed during the 4th High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in 2011. It was negotiated and developed jointly between the g7+, a group of which Afghanistan is a founding member, and donors. It is a set of principles guiding a new approach for engagement in fragile situations. It recognizes that development interventions in conflict-affected countries should be based on country-owned Peacebuilding and Statebuilding goals (PSGs), which form the foundations necessary to achieve development and resilience.

2 See https://buildingmarkets.org/sites/default/files/pdm_reports/pdt_spending_dev_twice_report_0709.pdf

3 The PSGs are 1. Legitimate politics; 2. Security; 3. Justice; 4. Economic Foundation; and 5. Revenue and services.

4 Development aid in Afghanistan was channeled through two modalities, namely 1. on-budget and 2. off-budget. On-budget assistance was implemented through government system and is in line with the ‘Use of Government System’ of the New Deal and was hence preferred by the government of Afghanistan. Off-budget, on the other hand, would bypass the government systems and would be managed by donors themselves.

5 The Donors’ Assistance Database (DAD) was established in the Ministry of Finance and aimed at tracking aid flows: http://dadafghanistan.gov.af.