ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the various conflict-sensitive strategies implemented in Global Environment Facility projects to address and manage risks across the different stages of the project cycle from design through implementation and completion. The categories are acknowledgement, avoidance, mitigation, peacebuilding, and learning. From there, a project may take no further action (simply acknowledging the situation without trying to manage accompanying risks), or may respond to the conflict context through avoidance or one or more mitigation measures. Generally, mitigation strategies recognize that the conflict-affected or fragile context presents risks to the project and then seek to identify them early on and address them before they escalate and seriously affect the project. Many of the approaches may also be found in the peer-reviewed and gray literature on conflict-sensitive programming.
