Multi Stakeholder Processes Service Delivery and State Institutions - Experiences from the West Bank and Gaza Strip

Five Working Groups have been formed as part of the Knowledge Network for Peace, Security and Development (KNPSD), one among them focusing on Multi Stakeholder Processes, Service Delivery and State Institutions. This report presents the case studies performed in Palestinian Territories (West Bank and Gaza Strip) for this Working Group. The focus on the research lies on „fragile contexts‟ which are characterized by conflict or political instability. However, it is important to acknowledge that this discourse, and these „indicators‟ bear in themselves a negative connotation since they are often related to other „negative‟ factors in a country‟s context (e.g. corruption, weak administrative systems, conflict, absence of capacities).

Peace, Security and Development Network 2011

This publication is an outcome of the in 2008 established ‘Network for Peace, Security and Development’. The Network aims to support and encourage the sharing of expertise and cooperation between the different Dutch sectors and organisations involved in fragile states. The PSD Network is an initiative under the Schokland Agreements in 2007.