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p. 10 of 10 BACK | NEXT Challenges of rebuilding From postconflict to reconstruction Role of MDBs ADB’s approach and comparative advantage Afghanistan and ADB: a partnership renewed Postconflict rebuilding From postconflict: preconditions for reconstruction Toward reconstruction: financing the transition Towrd development: setting the stage The way forward: lessons from postconflict reconstruction

Rehabilitation and Reconstruction - ADB's Role in Afghanistan and the Region

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The way forward: lessons from postconflict reconstruction

Reviews of ADB emergency policies and lending over the past decade have identified key gaps and limitations, including the failure to fully address critical issues such as sustainable livelihoods, weak governance, institutional capacity, and human and social capital depletion; the need to place greater emphasis on early warning, prevention, mitigation, and preparedness; inadequate financing; and the dispersed and ad hoc organizational response to emergency assistance. ADB is drafting a comprehensive emergency policy to address these concerns and strengthen the link between postconflict operations and ADB’s overarching goal of poverty reduction.

Postconflict reconstruction is about growth and poverty reduction to accelerate the transition from reconstruction to development, and to minimize the risk of resumed conflict. Achieving these goals requires developing income-generating activities, providing safety nets, and improving governance and institutional capacity as well as human and social capital. Actions should be designed for all phases of reconstruction: conflict prevention, transition, and emergency recovery.

Throughout these phases, ADB must continue to act as catalyst in helping its members in postconflict situations to address the human costs of conflict, to establish and maintain security, and to develop a political process that enables the country to move forward with confidence as it builds a brighter future for its people.

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