World Bank State & Peacebuilding Fund 2021-25

Based on the report Sida takes note of the following results, at different levels: - The Bank-executed Justice Pillars Towards Evidence-based Reform (JUPITER) grant (July 2022-February 2024) produced outcome-based measures and analysis on Justice and the Rule of Law to facilitate the World Banks policy dialogue and post-conflict recovery efforts in FCV countries. This grant was used to among other things, develop acurated set of indicators on the perceptions of the effectiveness of judicial service delivery across various countries, and JUPITER, a universally applicable diagnostic framework comprising an assessment methodology and a data collection tool, to measure the state and performance of a countrys judiciary against specific measures of effectiveness related to access to justice, efficiency, and quality. A first pilot of the JUPITER methodology was developed in Liberia - During the execution of the above grant, the team engaged with several partner organizations and launched the Global Partnership on Justice and the Rule of Law, which already counts more than 35 partners including the Hague Institute for Innovation of Law, the International Development Law Organization (receiving core support from Sida's DEMO unit), the Justice Action Coalition, the World Justice Project, and UNDP. - The Central America SAFE Migrations grant produced a synthesis report on "GBV Services for Women in Human Mobility in Central America", which informed development of protocols by the Costa Rican government to address GBV at the Paso Canoas temporary migrant reception center, which receives more than 2 000 people every day. - A grant in Haiti on community based survivor centric GBV services for women and men, achieved its objective to increase the number of services provided to women and girls at risk of GBV and GBV survivors in the southern peninsula of Haiti. Four Community-based Women and Girls Safe Spaces were established with the support of locally recognized womens rights organizations. The grant also enhanced coordination among service providers and state actors in target regions through capacity development initiatives. Cmprehensive training sessions were organized by GBV experts leading to the elaboration of a joint protocol for the provision of holistic care across the health sector, mental health and psychosocial support services providers, and the legal and judicial sector. - Another grant aimed to analyze social dimensions of climate change and fragility in Southern Madagascar to support the Government of Madagascar in defining and implementing an inclusive climate-resilient development program for the South. The grant funded several analytic activities to unpack the links between climate threats and fragility in the South and understand more precisely the household-level and community-level transmission routes between social exclusion, climate shock and the drivers and consequences of conflict. - A grant (ongoing) in Sierra Leone aims to pilot innovative approaches for reducing fragility and conflict in the context of the land administration reform process and build capacity among land sector CSOs to support communities and land governance. The grant places particular emphasis on the needs of women, youth, and other disadvantaged and vulnerable populations.

The development objective of the SPF 2.0 Program is to enhance and expand the frontiers of World Bank engagement in addressing the drivers and impacts of FCV and strengthening the resilience of countries and affected populations, communities and institutions. The SPF 2.0 Program is fully aligned with the WBG’s differentiated approach to FCV, articulated in the FCV Strategy and the IDA 19 replenishment agreement. This differentiated approach sets out four strategic pillars of engagement: preventing violent conflict and interpersonal violence; remaining engaged during conflict and crisis situations; helping countries transition out of fragility; and mitigating the spillovers of FCV. These, together with the FCV Strategy’s areas of special emphasis and renewed focus on partnerships, provide the framework for a strategic and coherent SPF 2.0 portfolio. As a demand-driven fund, SPF 2.0 will ensure a focus on catalytic, innovative and targeted activities that provide clear additionality to existing WBG instruments. The approach and design of SPF 2.0 in achieving the development objective will be guided by the following foundational principles: - Adopting a holistic focus across all FCV situations. Addressing FCV issues spanning global,regional, national and sub-national levels in recognition of the geographically differentiated drivers and impacts of FCV. - Pushing the boundaries of the Bank’s FCV engagement far beyond the “traditional” IDA FCS list of countries. Maintaining broad eligibility by country type including for FCS and non-FCS, IDA, IBRD, countries in arrears and non-members, and countries affected by FCV spillovers. - Applying a vulnerability, inclusivity, and gender-sensitive lens. Ensuring that all SPF 2.0 activities are gender-sensitive and prioritize the needs of the most disadvantaged and vulnerable groups, including forcibly displaced populations and host communities, minorities, and people with disabilities. - Enabling and propagating work on the frontiers of FCV knowledge, approaches and operations. Expanding engagement on less commonly addressed issues such as compounding risks of climate or interpersonal violence, and promoting work that advances our knowledge of the different institutional, governance, security, economic and social factors that drive FCV and the corresponding efforts to prevent and mitigate impacts of FCV. - Providing support that is catalytic and that leverages and complements other sources of financing (IBRD, IDA and external). Focusing on activities that pilot, demonstrate the effectiveness, and adopt new approaches and best practices, and supporting and guiding the preparation of larger-scale interventions. - Prioritizing knowledge and learning on FCV issues and approaches. Contributing to the generation, codification, and institutionalization of best practices and innovation both within the WB and with client countries and other international partners. - Maintaining an agile and demand-driven model that responds to FCV needs. Committing to an agile business model that enables responding rapidly and flexibly to crises and emergency situations. - Reinforcing partnerships. Enabling and strengthening partnerships between the WB and other multilateral and bilateral partners and contributing to integrated approaches across the humanitarian, development and peace (HDP) nexus in the pursuit of greater coherence and collective impact of international assistance in FCV contexts.