Triple Nexus in Fragile Contexts: Next Steps
In our latest policy brief, NADEL’s Fritz Brugger together with Joane Holliger and Simon Mason from CSS take stock of the debate on the Triple Nexus in Fragile Contests and outline next steps to make it happen.
Fragile contexts call for multi-dimensional engagements, where humanitarian, peace, and development actors work towards collective outcomes in an agile and synergistic way. However, institutions face challenges as to how to operationalize the triple nexus, including lack of mutual understanding and entrenched bureaucratic structures. Making the triple nexus work requires improving coordination, overcoming bureaucratic silos, and restructuring funding flows. It also requires getting serious about localization: international actors need to partner with local actors, rather than using them as sub-contractors and outsourcing security and fiduciary risks. Finally, embracing agile programming: Classical programming is limited due to lack of context predictability. Agile programming entails flexibility built into design, monitoring, and evaluation approaches.
This policy brief is jointly developed and published by CSS ETH Zurich in the CSS Policy Perspectives series and by NADEL ETH Zurich as a NADEL Policy Brief.
DownloadPolicy Brief: Triple Nexus in Fragile Contexts: Next Steps (PDF, 575 KB)