A Review of the Impact of Employment Programmes on Peace in Fragile and Conflict-affected Countries

Presenter:  Professor Tilman Brück, Director, ISDC – International Security and Development Center, Berlin, and Co-Director of the Households in Conflict Network

Discussants: Nadia Piffaretti, Senior Economist Fragility, Conflict & Violence CCSA, and Jan von der Goltz, Economist, Social Protection & Labor Department

Moderator: Mattias Lundberg, Program Lead, Global Partnership for Youth in Development,  Equitable Growth, Finance & Institutions Vice Presidency

Overview:  What are the links between employment programs and employment in fragile environments?  More importantly, is there any connection between employment programs, jobs, and peacebuilding?  The World Bank Group’s framework for the IDA 18 negotiations includes Fragility, Conflict, and Violence and Jobs and Economic Transformation among the five core themes of the IDA 18.  This Framework recognizes the important role of job creation and shared opportunity in supporting stability and advancing development.  As a first step in this work, the World Bank has recently joined forces with the International Labour Organization and the United Nations to improve the impact of employment programmes on peacebuilding.  This speaker series event will present the most up-to-date review of the existing evidence.  The research involved a comprehensive literature review, an analysis of 438 employment programmes (labour-based, targeted vocational training, and small and micro enterprise development) in 40 conflict-affected countries, country case studies, interviews, and regional consultations. 

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