Conflict Sensitive

Programme Management
An introductory presentation

Conflict sensitive programme management CSPM is not an additional crosscutting issue to be dealt
with on top of others, but a way to look at poverty, equity, gender and governance.

Conflict Sensitive Programme Management

• Conflict Sensitive Programme Management”, is, first and foremost, a management task.

• is a procedure designed to anchor the conflict perspective SDC’s Programme Cycle

Management.

• core question: Does a programme contribute to the prevention of violence and peaceful
transformation of conflict or does it aggravate it?

• CSPM has to be concrete, operational and local ownership

Why CSPM?

 When traditional programme management is challenged:

 Development actors are faced with a variety of socio political challenges as partners,
beneficiaries can become conflict parties.

 Transformation of social conflict through development programme

 To maximise its positive but real influence on the conflict, SDC programme has to be managed
in a conflict sensitive way

Programmes are also part of a conflict

 SDC programmes are linked and support social processes of change; to reduce poverty and
contribute to development.

 Promotes the participation of certain actors and excludes others

 Supports disadvantaged women and men to articulate and demand their rights
(empowerment)

 As a result, programmes are often part of the context of social conflict

CSPM at project level

• Promoting transparency, accountability, inclusion, impartiality

• Best example: conduction of district level Public Hearing events, attended by SDC Country
Director or Dy Country Director. Ensures transparency and increases the acceptance of
projects.

• Conflict sensitivity analysis as integral part of project planning process

• Workforce Diversity Policy

• Basic Operating Guidelines

Becoming more conflict-sensitive

 Recognize the context

 Develop a sharpened awareness of conflict symptoms

 Observe the tensions and conflicts and reflect on your role

 Behave on the basis of analysis of the causes, risk evaluation

 Do No Harm for all development programmes, do not support dividers. Dividers intensify
tension between groups in a society

 Practice PRO ACTIVE COMMUNICATION