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BURUNDI REPORT2008 towards 2010

Caption, cover: 73,200 saplings were planted across the !ve military zones of the country in 2009, bringing together the National Police Force of Burundi (PNB), locally elected leaders and the population, through UNDP’s support to security sector reform.

United Nations Development Programme August 2010

UNDP is the UN’s global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life.

Report prepared under the coordination of Gustavo Gonzalez and K. Danae Pauli with the participation of Martina Bacigalupo, Fiona Davies, Molly Firkaly, Francis James, Elfrida Kaneza, Jean Kabahizi and Rose Nitunga.

Photos by Martina Bacigalupo (MB) for UNDP, K. Danae Pauli (KDP) and Sylvain Liechti (SL) for BINUBPhotos on pages 15 and 71 by Aaron NsavyimanaPhotos 1 and 4 in !lmstrip on pages 36-37 by Afke BootsmanPhoto on page 27T provided by the International Conference on the Great Lakes RegionPhoto on page 33 provided by the Press Cell of the Burundian National Assembly

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UNDP Burundi in Figures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Taking Stock. . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Looking Ahead. . . . . . . . . . . 86

Table of Contents

Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Burundi at a Glance . . . . . . 6

Weaving One UN in Burundi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

UNDP’s Contribution to UN Integration . . . . 8

Fostering Trust . . . . . . . . . . 10

restoration of Personal Safety. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 promotion of Inclusive Communication . . . . . 24

Transforming Capacity. . . . . . . 28

empowerment of Human Capital . . . . . . . . . . 32 revitalization of Physical Resources . . . . . . . . 40 ownership of a Collective Future . . . . . . . . . . 44

Nurturing Equity . . . . . . . 54

reduction of Social Vulnerability. . . . . . . . . . . 58 expansion of Economic Opportunities . . . . . . 66 rebalancing of Legal Protection . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Delivering Accelerated Recovery

the UN Integrated Service Center . . . . . . . . . 76

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One of the many farm-workers employed by a micro-enterprise in the floral industry, north of

Bujumbura (UNDP’s Small and Microenterprise Promotion Project). MB


ForewordAt the time of writing, Burundi is in the midst of historic 2010 elections - “historic” because they rep-resent the !rst time that an electoral cycle has been completed without institutional disruption (2005-2010). A succession of equally historic events has laid the foundation for this 2010 milestone. With the in"ux of returnees from neighboring countries, the demilitarization of the last armed group, the launching of civilian disarmament operations, the successful completion of national consultations on transitional justice and the massive turnout of more than 3.5 million people in the electoral census, Burundi has already shown, without a doubt, that it has chosen the path of peace and development.

#e speed with which peace consolidation has ac-celerated in the past few years can even invoke a momentary feeling of giddiness. Millions of Burun-dian women and men–peasants, artisans, nurses, entrepreneurs, soldiers and political leaders—have set the pace of this transformation. Certainly, the road has not always been smooth, and there remains a distance to travel. However, the richly positive experience already accumulated provides a powerful tool for avoiding the mistakes of the past.

In this context, it has been, and remains, an honor for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to accompany Burundi as it makes the journey towards this signi!cant moment in its history. Of particular satisfaction is the fact that this partnership takes place within the framework of a United Nations system in Burundi that is more integrated than ever before.

Burundi Report: 2008 towards 2010 summarizes the main results UNDP has achieved during the past two years within the context of the United Nations Integrated O$ce in Burundi (BINUB) and with the valuable support of a wide range of national and international partners. It takes stock of the major accomplishments, identi!es a set of lessons learned and explores the challenges ahead.

This report bears witness to UNDP Burundi’s transformation during this period, responding to the demands of peace consolidation and the chal-lenges of integration. Indeed, the Country O$ce has experienced an unprecedented expansion in delivery capacity, resource mobilization, launching of new service lines and exploration of innovative

partnerships in order to ful!ll its role supporting national priorities.

At the same time, 2010 marks UNDP’s celebration of 35 years of work in Burundi. It has been a long and rich partnership, throughout the most beautiful as well as the most tragic moments in this country’s history. #us, this report also pays tribute to the numerous colleagues in the United Nations system that have lost their lives in the name of peace and development in Burundi.

#e report is structured around three major chal-lenges of transitioning toward development: (a) fostering trust in order to rebuild social cohesion and faith in the state, (b) transforming capacity to be better able to meet the physical and institu-tional demands of a peaceful developing society, and (c) nurturing equity in order to ensure that all Burundians are empowered to maintain peace and have access to opportunities to improve their lives.

Accompanying the report is a DVD linking the images and the testimonies of this journey toward peace and development, as de!ant as it is passionate.

Charles PetrieExecutive Representative of the UN Secretary General/

UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator

Gustavo GonzalezCountry Director

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Located at the heart of the African continent, Bu-rundi is a country of paradoxes. It is sandwiched between francophone in"uences to the west, and anglophone in"uences in the southeast. It is a very small country, but has a very high population density (2nd highest in Africa). It has incredibly fertile soil and a favorable climate and yet is stricken with extreme poverty. #e country’s citizens have su%ered their fair share of violence in the past de-cades with more than 300,000 deaths as a result of the con"ict since 1993—nevertheless, things are

Burundi at a Glance

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looking positive. Armed con"ict in Burundi is over and more than 100,000 refugees have returned since January 2008 to contribute toward rebuilding the country. Participation in primary education is above 90% of school-aged children. #e current President of the Republic, Pierre Nkurunziza, is the !rst democratically elected leader to remain in o$ce for longer than a year. Although Burundi faces enormous challenges in the face of the 2010 democratic cycle, its potential to continue develop-ing swiftly is undeniable.

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#e UN Integrated O$ce in Burundi (BINUB) con-stitutes an innovative model of UN cooperation to support peacebuilding1 in a post-con"ict context. Part of the UN reform process2 initiated in 1996, BINUB has mainly evolved as an approach and a modus operandi, where di%erent UN agencies fo-cus their e%orts in three thematic areas: Peace and Democratic Governance, Security Sector Reform and Small Arms, and Justice and Human Rights. Within countries in transition where the UN has a Country Team and a political mission, integration is the guiding principle linked to UN reform—the purpose being to maximize the individual and collec-tive impact of the UN’s response by concentrating all agency e!orts toward consolidating peace3.

1 In practice, two integrated UN peacebuilding Missions have been launched—the !rst in Sierra Leone, which has since been converted to an integrated political o$ce, and the other in Burundi, whose mandate has been extended through 2010.2 #e UN has vastly expanded since its post-World War II inception. In order to meet the demands asked of the organization in the 21st century, reform was and is necessary to streamline the response of the various UN agencies in each country for greater e$ciency and e$cacy. #e complex process of reform started in 1996 with Secretary General Ko! Annan’s acceptance speech outlining his term goals, which included a leaner, more responsive UN. #e idea of creating “One UN” country team by integrating all agencies on the ground into a single o$ce, is currently being piloted in eight countries spread around the world.3 United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon

Weaving One UN in Burundi UNDP’s Contribution to UN Integration

A handicapped artisan weaves a traditional-style Burundian basket, Bujumbura (UNDP’s Small and Microenterprise Promotion Project). KDP

While integration looks di%erently in every country, shaped in response to the priorities of national politics and development situations, it includes four essential elements that are also found in Burundi:

» A shared vision of the UN’s strategic objectives; » Closely aligned or integrated planning; » A set of agreed results, timelines and responsi-

bilities for the delivery of tasks critical to peace consolidation;

» Agreed mechanisms for monitoring and evalu-ation.

Accordingly, BINUB was o$cially established in January 2007 as a mechanism to bring a coher-ent and coordinated UN response to the chal-lenges of peace consolidation and to provide a transition from peacekeeping to development-focused activities. #e United Nations system in Burundi has integrated the tasks mandated by Security Council Resolution 1719 with the various United Nations agencies present in the country4

4 #e following UN agencies have a physical presence in Burundi: UN Development Programme (UNDP), UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), World Food Programme (WFP), UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), O$ce of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), World Health Organization (WHO), UN Population Fund (UNFPA), UN Educational, Scienti!c and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), UN Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). #e non-resident agencies include: UN O$ce for


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by strategically focusing on peace consolidation. #ese tasks were articulated in the United Na-tions Integrated Peacebuilding Support Strategy 2007-2008, an expansion of the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) for the same timeframe, which has guided the peace consolidation e%orts of the UN system for the past three years in support of the Government’s priorities.

During this critical peacebuilding phase, UNDP has played a key role within the integrated framework. With critical support from the UNDP Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery (BCPR), UNDP supports BINUB with a network of post-con"ict experience and a comparative advantage in ad-dressing the root causes of con"ict, promoting the rule of law and enhancing community security, developing capacity for good governance, including dialogue at the community level, and supporting the creation of sustainable livelihoods in con"ict-a%ected communities.

UNDP Burundi supports the integration process and the mission’s goals in multiple ways. #rough BINUB’s three joint programmes, UNDP contributes

Project Services (UNOPS), International Labor Organiza-tion (ILO), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), UN Human Settlements Programme (UN HABITAT), and UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)

human, planning and !nancial resources to the integrated mission. In close collaboration with the Government, UNDP also implements 17 of the 21 projects !nanced by the Peacebuilding Fund in Burundi. With signi!cant support from BCPR, UNDP contributes 70 sta% members to BINUB, 30 of who are in management positions, totaling a !nancial contribution of more than USD $2.5 mil-lion in technical assistance since 2007.

In October 2009, UNDP actively participated in the strategic planning exercise to develop the new UNDAF cycle for 2010-2014, with the participa-tion of all 15 United Nations agencies and the Government of Burundi. In addition to de!ning the UN strategic priorities for 2010-2014—in-cluding (A) support to strategic planning and coordination; (B) support to community recovery; (C) support to national reconciliation and the protection and promotion of human rights; (D) support to democratic governance, including the electoral process and related institutions—the strategic planning exercise also established the joint Government-UN steering group to continue the planning exercise. Taking into account the comparative advantage of the United Nations and its partnering with other key stakeholders, UNDP is committed to supporting the remaining peace consolidation and development challenges in an integrated manner.

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Children playing at the ground breaking ceremony for the ‘Tribunaux de Residence’, Cibitoke province (UN-DP’s Greater Access to Justice Support Project). MD


FosteringTRUST

Trust \`tr est\ (n): cannot be imposed, im-ported or bought. It emerges slowly and re-luctantly and is built through collective en-gagement on issues small and large, and through consistent daily commitment to and application of a common vision. More than the revitalization of infrastructure or the presence of government, trust is the glue that keeps so-ciety together in intangible but crucial ways.1

1 Interpeace: 5 Peacebuilding Principles, (http://www.interpeace.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=156&Itemid=290)


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!During the extended civil conflict that began in 1993 and lasted more than a decade, uncon-trolled violence erupted and relationships be-

tween friends and neighbors broke down across the country. Ensuring a lasting peace in Burundi, therefore, requires rebuilding trust between civilians and the state as well as between individuals. To support this, UNDP has adopted a dual approach—on the one hand reinforc-ing institutions and mechanisms that improve citizens’ sense of personal security, and on the other empowering open and inclusive dialogue to reestablish trust in the community. UNDP’s catalytic support aims at enhancing the trust necessary to consolidate sustainable peace.

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2008-2009 investment

Project Name Project Cycle

Project Budget International Partners National Counterpart

National Dialogue Framework Support 2007-2009 $3,148,000 PBFMinistry of Good Governance, General State Inspection, and Local Administration, Ministry of Communication, Ministry of External Relations and International Cooperation, Ministry of Interior and Public Security

Transitional Justice Consultations 2008-2010 $1,254,757 PBF, TRAC 1 Presidency of the Republic

Executive Secretary of the International Con-ference on the Great Lakes Region Support 2008-2009 $546,448 Norway N/A

Military Barrack Rehabilitation 2007-2010 $6,789,420 Netherlands, PBF, TRAC 1 Ministry of Defense and Veterans Affairs

Military Morale Building 2008-2009 $400,000 PBF Ministry of Defense and Veterans Affairs

National Police Census 2007-2009 $992,232 Netherlands International Commission for Transitional Justice (NGO)

Regional Facilitation Action Plan Support 2008-2009 $1,702,588 PBF Emergency Window, TRAC 1 Government & Political Parties

Emergency Basket Fund for DDR Phase 1 2009/2010 $1,660,000 PBF Emergency Window, Germany, Switzerland

Ministry of National Solidarity, Repatriation, National Reconstruction, Hu-man Rights and Gender, Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Public Security

Local Security Force Strengthening 2007-2010 $6,900,000 PBF Ministry of Public Security

Judgment Implementation and Judiciary Reinforcement 2007-2009 $1,158,520 PBF Ministry of Justice

National Intelligence Service Respecting the Rule of Law 2007-2009 $500,000 PBF National Intelligence Service

Small Arms Disarmament and Proliferation Control 2007-2009 $2,306,962 BCPR, CPR TTF (France),

PBF, Switzerland, USAMinistry of Defense, Ministry of Public Security, National Disarmament Commission

Mine Action 2006-2008 $1,693,288 EC, CPR TTF (SIDA), TRAC 1 Ministry of Interior and Public Security

Security Sector Reform 2007-2009 $800,000 BCPR Ministry of Defense and Veterans Affairs, Ministry of Interior and Public Security

PBF - Peacebuilding Fund, a multi-donor thematic trust fundTRAC 1 - UNDP internal funds for programmatic supportEC - European Commission

CPR TTF - Crisis Prevention and Recovery thematic trust fundBCPR - Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, a specialized bureau within UNDPSIDA - Swedish International Development Agency

17 % Inclusive Communication

83 % Personal Safety

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Official handover ceremony for renovated military barracks, Kayanza province (UNDP’s

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restoration ofPERSONAL SAFETY


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!Freedom from harm and con!ict is a right that every human being should be able to enjoy. Without such freedoms individuals

and communities cannot thrive. It is the respon-sibility of the state to protect these freedoms from threat—unfortunately, in a civil con!ict, such as the one that ravaged Burundi for more than a decade, citizens naturally lose faith in the national security institutions to protect them, as well as trust in their neighbors and friends not to turn on them in violence. As the basis for a stable and peaceful nation, assisting the national authorities to rehabilitate these and other complementary institutions is one of UNDP’s top priorities in Burundi.

Military ReformBurundi’s uneasy civil-military relations are com-mon to most post-con"ict countries. To address this issue, UNDP is supporting the Government to professionalize the military as part of the Security Sector Reform and Small Arms Joint Programme within the United Nations Integrated O$ce for Burundi (BINUB), aiming to separate the military from the civilian population. To this end, thanks to !nancing from the Peacebuilding Fund (PBF) and the Netherlands, UNDP supported the renovation of 17 previously unsafe and uninhabitable military barracks between 2008 and 2009. In addition to the enhanced command and control resulting from the o$cers’ proximity to the enlisted men, these barracks contribute to professionalizing the military through newly constructed training classrooms as well as secure armories to better control the circulation of arms and munitions among o%-duty soldiers.

#e successful relocation of 90% of existing military personnel previously living amongst civilians in 2008 and 2009 has lead to the closure of 240 of the 255 identi!ed military positions country-wide.

In addition, the construction and renovation work, performed with the help of local civilians, helped to generate a more positive perception of the military in these communities, whose members gained em-ployment as well as the opportunity to communicate with military personnel in a peaceful setting.

Further contributing to rebuilding the social percep-tion of the military, which was demonstrated to be highly negative during a 2007 survey5, the National Defense Force (FDN) has started to strengthen and

5 Kristiana Powell, CENAP/NSI Working Paper: “Security Sector Reform and the Protection of Civilians in Burundi: Accomplishments, Dilemmas and Ideas for International Engagement”, July 2007

O"cial handover ceremony for renovated military barracks, Kayanza province (UNDP's Military Barrack Rehabilitation Project).

The Building Blocks of Defense Sector Reform

Officers and Enlisted Soldiers Trained in 2009

Officers and Enlisted Soldiers Trained in 2008

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Meet an average Associated WomanOn April 8, 2009, the Government of Burundi and the National Liberation Forces (FNL) rebel group agreed to the transformation of the move-ment into a political party. In addition to the 8,500 combatants who were demobilized or integrated with the National Police and Army forces, the Government agreed to support up to 10,000 adults associated with the rebel move-ment to disengage and return to their communi-ties of origin.

In accordance with UN Security Council Reso-lution 1325, special support was pledged for up to 1,000 women associated with the armed movement. Often neglected in traditional DDR exercises, ‘Associated Women’ are defined as females who have not participated directly in combat but filled support roles in the armed group(such as porters, cooks, laundry women, concubines, etc.), either voluntarily or by compul-sion. UNDP’s support to this population included organizing special registration days in the com-munities of the Associated Women, providing them with the option to open a savings account and join a local credit and savings association, and undertaking a study to determine their past and present socio-economic profiles and recom-mend sustainable reintegration strategies. The following are the salient characteristics of the average Associated Woman. She:

» Is from Bujumbura Rural or Bubanza province. » Is between 25-54 years old. » Was recruited between 1991 and 2000. » Provided logistical aid in the role of cook,

porter or supply manager. » Has at least some formal education. » Owns at least a small parcel of land and lives

primarily by farming. » Does not own any livestock. » Is a widowed head of household, in charge

of 5 dependants.

Among the suggestions provided by the study, it was recommended that the Government and organizations avoid privileging the Associated Women over other members of their commu-nities when implementing recovery programs and that such programs include training for the creation of small and microenterprises to enable economic self-sufficiency.

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improve military conduct. #anks to support from the Peacebuilding Fund, 38 o$cers bene!tted from a training of trainers on human rights and respect for the rule of law and were subsequently charged with training the remaining military forces. #ese strategically chosen trainers were able to invigo-rate force-wide behavior transformation—training almost 22,000 military personnel, including 90% of all o$cers and sub-o$cers over the life of the project. In addition, the FDN lead community-building activities with local citizens and elected leaders in the !ve military zones across the country, including planting 73,200 trees to foster community reconciliation.

Police ReformFollowing the Arusha Accords, a new National Police of Burundi (PNB) was created in late 2004, consisting of former members of the national police, military sta% of the Burundian armed forces and combatants from various armed movement signatories to the cease-!re. Without the time to gather all the relevant sta% data and develop the appropriate Human Re-sources tools, the PNB quickly faced serious di$cul-ties managing its in"ated and diversi!ed personnel. Moreover, the PNB was confronted with allegations of misconduct by uniformed individuals and realized that it was not possible to identify with certainty an actual police o$cer from someone posing as one.

Police o"cers model the force’s new standardized uniforms at the o"cial handover, Bujumbura (UNDP’s Local Security Force Strengthening Project). SL

To respond to these challenges, in partnership with the Netherlands and the Ministry of Public Security, as part of BINUB’s Security Sector Reform and Small Arms Joint Programme, UNDP launched a Police Identi!cation and Census Programme in March 2008. At its completion in mid-2009, the census had registered 18,164 police o$cers who were o$cially recognized by the Ministry of Public Security. With technical assistance from the International Center for Transitional Justice, the project supported the reorganization of the PNB, and rendered its human resource management system more transparent as well as its police o$cers more visible. By creating an expandable database that includes biometric data to track all personnel, and helping to provide o$cers with service cards, badges, and numbered uniforms, UNDP supported the PNB to remodel its institutional identity into a more accountable police force trusted by the civilian population.

Furthermore, the operational capacity of the 17 pro-vincial judicial branches of the police was expanded through provision of transport vehicles, each fully equipped with two-way radio systems. An additional 500 handheld two-way radios were distributed, thanks to the Peacebuilding Fund, enhancing co-ordination as well as reinforcing command and

Human Rights workshop for military personnel, Bujumbura (UNDP’s Military Morale Building Project). SL


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control of police o$cers’ movement outside the o$ce. #ese interventions enable the local police to react more rapidly and appropriately to the popula-tion’s needs as well as bolster the public perception of the PNB as a professional police force protecting citizens’ rights.

Intelligence ReformIn one of the most innovative of the Government’s initiatives, the National Intelligence Service (SNR) is demonstrating a will to rapidly reform itself in respond to intense national and international scru-tiny. In Partnership with the National Assembly and the Peacebuilding Fund, within the framework of BINUB, UNDP helped the SNR develop a new Code of Ethics, adopted in 2008, that provides greater direction and regulation to its mission and practices. #e SNR was made further accountable through the reform of ambiguous national oversight legislation creating a greater supervisory role for the National Assembly. For this, UNDP trained the 25 members of the Defense and Security Commission of the National Parliament on security sector oversight responsibilities. In 2009, the SNR organized its !rst ever “open doors” session, inviting the public to enter its buildings in Bujumbura and learn about the service’s mandate and mission. #is unprec-edented initiative was followed by other similar

events throughout the country, and resulted in a series of civilian-issued recommendations for a better working relationship with the SNR. #ese mechanisms encouraging behavior modi!cation and a democratized system of checks and balances foster greater public faith in the SNR’s ability to respect the rule of law and protect citizens’ safety.

Beyond DDRIn April 2009, the Forces Nationales de Libération (FNL) was o$cially transformed from an armed rebel group into a political party, marking the true end of armed con"ict in Burundi through the in-tegration of 3,500 combatants into the national army and police forces. It was also agreed that a #e steps of Demobilization and Disengagement (UNDP’s

Emergency Basket Fund for DDR Phase 1 Project).

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further 5,000 combatants would be demobilized along with up to 11,000 men and women associated with the party. With support from the Peacebuilding Fund, Germany and Switzerland, UNDP was able to process all 10,186 ‘Associated Adults’, including a total of 1,052 women by the end of August 2009. All Associated Adults were o$cially registered in

a biometric database, given return kits with the !rst installment of their return assistance, and transported to their communities of origin. By the end of 2009, the return of all Associated Adults to their communities was veri!ed and the second half of their return assistance distributed. #is timely and critical action provided relief for the

communities that have hosted the FNL members in two formal assembly areas and six informal pre-assembly areas for as long as a year. With the !rst phase of DDR completed, UNDP is supporting the national institutions in the implementation of a national programme for sustainable reintegration of war a%ected populations, including ex-combatants and Associated Adults.

Judgment EnforcementIn a society plagued by petty crimes and mistrust, a functioning justice system at the local level is criti-cal to re-establishing the rule of law and avoiding self-help acts of vengeance. Citizens need to believe that their cases will be heard within a reasonable period of time and that once a judgment is reached, through a fair and transparent process, it will be

A member of the PNB tosses discarded fatigues onto a pile during the demobilization process, Rubira Site (UNDP’s Emergency Basket Fund for DDR Phase 1 Project). SL

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Additionally, more than 500 magistrates underwent training in the proper enforcement of judgments, decreasing the wait-time for cases to be judged and increasing the quality of the judgments made. Fur-thermore, with the provision of means of transport for each of the 17 Tribunaux de Grande Instances (provincial courts), judges are now able to make

follow-up !eld visits and ensure that their judg-ments are enforced.

Small Arms ControlControlling the circulation and proliferation of small arms and light weapons (SALWs) is an essential part of curbing violence and rebuilding a safe environ-ment. Burundi, with almost a third of its border a short distance from the shores of the Democratic Republic of Congo across Lake Tanganyika, is par-ticularly vulnerable to the proliferation and circula-tion of illegal arms among civilians. In 2008 alone, more than 1,500 incidences involving arms and explosives occurred across the country, resulting in more than 1,000 deaths and more than 1,200 injuries. Reducing the number of civilian-owned small arms is an obvious and important focus area

Riders pass before one of the billboards of the Disarmament Commission’s campaign during an awareness raising bicycle ride, Bujumbura (UNDP’s Small Arms Disarmament and Proliferation Control Project).

A Burundian technician at the national arms destruction site, Bujumbura (UNDP’s Small Arms Disarmament and Proliferation Control Project). MB

A container overflowing with destroyed arms at the national de-struction site, Bujumbura (UNDP’s Small Arms Disarmament and Proliferation Control Project). SL

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in a post-con"ict context such as that of Burundi, directly impacting personal security.

UNDP, with support from Switzerland, France, USA, the Peacebuilding Fund and the UNDP Bu-reau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery (BCPR), established a Small Arms Programme in 2007 as part of BINUB’s broader Security Sector Reform strategy, to support the Government in reducing vio-

lence. In close partner-ship with the National Commission for Civil-ian Disarmament and Prevention of Weapons Proliferation (CDCPA), UNDP helped establish a National Observatory

of Armed Violence that has monitored the inci-dences of armed violence across the country since 2008. With UNDP’s assistance, the Government was able to establish a computer center at the Army’s Logistical Brigade in 2009 with trained operators to tag, register and track SALWs. Between 2008 and 2009, UNDP also facilitated the establishment of a national explosives destruction site and a weapons destruction workshop with trained personnel, at the Logistics Base of the National Defense Force in Bujumbura. In the 2008 calendar year alone, a total of 5,925 documented SALWs were destroyed.

After a public media campaign developed with the CDCPA and carried out in early 2009 in Bujumbura, UNDP supported the Commission to carry out a voluntary disarmament campaign across the nation.

Meet SusaneSusane Nshimiramana lived next to a minefield. A mother in her thirties living with her 5 children and husband in a suburb of Bujumbura, Susane remembers several years ago being abruptly awakened in the middle of the night by a loud sound and finding the body of a female neighbor in the field next to her home the following morning. Her small adobe brick house in Mutanga Nord, just below Lumière University, borders a sec-tion of land that was suspected to contain landmines planted during the conflict. Susane and her community were afraid to step foot on the land, and no one was able to live there or use the land to farm, fetch wood or feed their goats. This created problems for Susane and for the other members of her community, who survive on subsistence farming and who already suffer from tight land constraints. Susane lived in fear that her young children might accidentally step foot on the land, and when she heard loud noises at night she worried that she might wake up to find another body in the field.

From 2006 to 2008 UNDP’s Mine Action Programme cleared 99% of the land in the country suspected of containing landmines, removing any

explosive remnants of war found and otherwise assuring the neighboring communities that there are no landmines with the potential to maim or kill. The field next to Su-sane’s house was among the last 31,000 square meters cleared during 2008. She is extremely relieved that the land next to her house has been declared mine-free. Now her children are able to play in the field. She can fetch firewood, cultivate manioc leaves and take her goats to graze there, all of which are important eco-nomic activities for Susane. Community relations have eased since there is less land pressure and the population is able to exercise their daily activities. More importantly, Susane no longer fears hearing the sound of explosions near her house in the middle of the night and waking up to find someone gravely injured or dead next door.

There was a long period during which no one would put a foot here because someone had placed mines during the war...Now we are happy that you have come and removed these mines.

With help from the Peacebuilding fund, during an eight-day period in October across 138 posts in all 17 provinces, UNDP supported the CDCPA to collect:

» 160,657 munitions (all kinds) » 12,820 grenades » 2,186 assault weapons » 389 handguns » 540 bombs » 38 mines » 19 multi-person weapons (requiring more than

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A recent analysis of armed violence trends across the country reveals a post-amnesty (the period following the voluntary disarmament campaign in October 2009) drop in criminality in 15 of the 17 provinces, by 38% on average, compared to the previous 10 months in 2009. In Muramvya province, the rate of violence dropped by 77% compared to pre-amnesty levels.

Ensuring appropriate control of the arms held by security forces is another key factor in fostering trust within the population. To this end, UNDP suc-cessfully rehabilitated and constructed six armories

in between 2008 and 2009 to be o$cially handed over to the Government by mid-2010.

In 2008 UNDP provided support for an updated baseline study on small arms proliferation, and in 2009, supported a joint study on the impact of armed violence in Burundi with Ligue Iteka carried out by Small Arms Survey7. Information from both these documents contributed to the preparation of a National Five-Year Action Plan for the Control

7 Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Develop-ment & Small Arms Survey, An Assessment of Armed Violence in Burundi, available at http://www.genevadeclaration.org/!leadmin/docs/Geneva-Declaration-Armed-Violence-Burun-di-EN.pdf

and Management of Small Arms and Light Weapons and the Disarmament of the Civilian Population that was validated by relevant actors in early 2009 and is in the !nal stages of being adopted by the Government. UNDP also helped the Government to adopt a new SALW law in late August 2009 that harmonizes the previous law with the Nairobi Pro-tocol for the Prevention, Control and Reduction of Small Arms and Light Weapons in the Great Lakes Region and the Horn of Africa, which was rati!ed by Burundi in 2006.

Mine RemovalUNDP, within the framework of the UN Opera-tion in Burundi (mandate completed in 2006) and then BINUB, helped the Government establish the National Mine Humanitarian Mine Action Centre (DAHMI) in November 2007, to coordinate and oversee Burundi’s compliance with international mine removal and destruction treaties. In 2008, by declaring the last 31,000 square meters of suspected hazardous areas mine-free, UNDP supported the Burundi National Humanitarian Mine Action Centre (BURMACC) to return the land to the almost 32,000 people in Bujumbura and Bubanza provinces (see pro!le of Susane) who were living in fear of the ground surrounding them and were unable to live on or farm them. In destroying the 3,905 antiper-sonnel landmines and other explosive remnants of war found during the process (which started in 2006), Burundi was able to ful!ll its obligations under the Ottawa Convention to clear and destroy landmines six years prior to the deadline and is now in compliance with Article 4 of the Ottawa Convention against the use, storage, production and transfer of antipersonnel mines. #rough UNDP’s assistance to destroy the 664 unplanted mines being stocked by the National Defense Force (FDN), the Government also contributed to the future safety of individuals in Burundi—one of the Government’s most remarkable achievements in 2008.

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Gender & the Security SectorIn Burundi, as in many post-con"ict countries, the rate of sexual and gender-based violence remains very high although it is di$cult to precisely pin-point the rate of incidence due to underreporting. Integrating a gender-balanced approach, particularly in the security sector, is essential to promoting the protection of women (and children) against violence.

During 2008, with help from the UNDP Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery as part of BI-NUB’s Security Sector Reform and Small Arms Joint Programme, UNDP helped the National Police of Burundi (PNB) empower the 64 provincial Gen-der Focal Points. Appointed in 2007 for Cibitoke, Bubanza, Bujumbura and Rural Bujumbura, the Gender Focal Points are now better able to assume

Watching the destruction of anti-personnel mines, Bubanza province (UNDP’s Mine Action Project) MB

their roles in upholding gender equality and respect for the rights of women thanks to training on their responsibilities. With UNDP’s help, an additional 65 female police o$cers formulated policy recom-mendations on the role of women in the police force and in upholding respect for human rights. #e O$ce of the Inspector General of the PNB was also reinforced with and with transport to facilitate !eld inspections as well as training on administra-tion and management, ethics, public security and administrative investigation, and maintaining law and order. A reformed security sector, respectful of citizens’ rights, helps to resurrect public trust in the capacity of national institutions to protect civilians and their property, thereby cementing the building blocks upon which nation-wide develop-ment is founded.

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!Whether through dialogue or other forms of exchange, communication is critical for fostering understanding and trust

in any relationship. Just as in a marriage, citizens and the state in a post-con!ict context also require sincere dialogue in order for trust to be rebuilt—particularly in the latter case because miscommu-nication or the entire lack thereof, is often at the root of con!ict. In Burundi, the United Nations Integrated O"ce for Burundi (BINUB)—through UNDP—has been at the forefront of enhancing the dialogue agenda across all levels of society with communal, national and even regional projects for inclusive communication and open exchange.

National DialogueHonest and open communication at all levels of society must take place in order for past and present

di%erences to be resolved peacefully. At the political level in particular, Burundi lacked the space for such dialogue to take place. #rough BINUB’s leadership and UNDP’s support, an inclusive and participatory framework for continued dialogue and consensus was created, assembling all relevant socio-political actors, including political groups, parliamentar-ians, the media and civil society organizations (the four sectoral groups—see pro!le of Calixte), with a national forum session held for 180 participants in 2008 and a national monitoring and evaluation committee established to ensure follow-through and maintain the positive momentum. During phase I, which ended in February 2009, the four sectoral groups were able collectively determine the major peace consolidation challenges that Burundi faces today. #is phase, in particular, helped !ll the con-sensus gap that presented itself when Parliamentary

sessions were blocked during 2008. #e second phase, which began in March and !nished in May 2009, allowed the sectoral groups to concretize their roles in promoting sustained democratic dialogue through action plans and expanded dialogue work-shops to the private sector, youth groups and univer-sity students, and a special session on the electoral process with the political parties. Furthermore, the

“Solution: Dialogue” billboard in the center of Bujumbura (UNDP’s Forums for Dialogue Project). KDP

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Meet CalixteCalixte Ndayishimiye, a late twenty-something from Bukeye Commune in Muramvya Province, has been doing work in the area of conflict resolu-tion and peaceful cohabitation since he was in high school. Together with his classmates from all different ethnic backgrounds, he formed an association called SAMMOURAI (Solidarité, Amour, Mutuel, Morale, Organisation, Unité, Responsabilité, Animation, Intellectuelle) to act as a role model for engagement across ethnic and other divides. Throughout the extended conflict, Calixte has remarked that people from different ethnic groups have become more guarded and do not speak openly around each other. He and his friends were afraid of the state—of their local government administrators, and of the police—because they saw mismanagement and corruption, but did not feel free to criticize it. Calixte remains Vice President of SAMMOURAI, which allowed him to participate with more than 40 other representatives of associations, media and police representatives, communal administrators, and religious representatives from around the province in two separate 4-day dialogue forums in 2008.

UNDP’s Framework for Dialogue project, started in 2007 and financed by the Peacebuilding Fund, has worked with groups like that of Calixte, as well as groups of Parliamentarians, political parties, the media, youth and the private sector, to carry out constructive dialogue sessions. Each session has a set of ground rules that include: Do not personalize the debates; Respect the views of other participants; All criticism should be accompanied by proposals; Be empathic towards others (allow the right

to be wrong and to be corrected nicely); and Be specific and concise in participating (3 minute maximum), among others. Calixte believes that it is not part of Burundian cul-ture to speak out when you have something nega-tive to say, and during his forums it took the entire first day for participants to open up and start communicating honestly. He never thought that the diverse range of participants would be able to see eye-to-eye on what constitute the major challenges of the province and how to best address them. In the end, the entire group of more than 60 participants was able to elaborate a series of concrete actions to carry out within their respec-tive communities. Calixte left feeling more comfortable expressing himself with his local administrators and police and was able to tell them how the community is affected by what it perceives to be poor governance. In a subsequent, self-organized session of more than 500 members from different associations to openly communicate with the commune’s local governance, Calixte was amazed that even the administrator was able to admit to the existing management and corruption problems!

sessions led to the establishment in early October 2009 of a permanent Forum for dialogue amongst the political parties, which will, in turn, contribute to preventing a future relapse into violence.

For communities torn apart by violence, transitional justice is often the thread that sews back together the fabric of society and signals the beginning of national reconciliation. Often shedding light on divergent views and interpretations of history, transitional justice can reconcile neighbors, fam-ily members, and friends, helping them to move

beyond a tortured past toward a united future. In 2000, the Arusha Peace and Reconciliation Agree-ment for Burundi called for a transitional justice process, consisting of a dual system: a Truth and Reconciliation Commission and an International Criminal Tribunal, in the case where an Interna-tional Commission of Inquiry found that genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity had been committed during the con"ict.

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to gather views on transitional justice and encour-age local ownership of the process. Speaking with more than 4,500 people nationwide, the consulta-tions take the form of individual interviews, focus group sessions and community-wide meetings with Burundians across all socio-economic levels. With the O$ce of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Burundi providing technical guidance and UNDP acting as the implementing agency, a Tripartite Steering Committee composed of the Government of Burundi, civil society and the UN was established in 2008 to oversee the national consultations on the establishment of transitional justice mechanisms. Early 2009 was devoted to preparing the media, the public and the Tripartite Steering Committee for understanding the histori-cal context and political signi!cance of transitional justice as well as the methodology of the consulta-tions. #is included the creation of a network of transitional justice journalists in January, as well as

a series of 7 informative radio broadcasts across all eight stations, 2 television broadcasts across the two main channels, and 16 newspaper articles printed in four di%erent local papers. #e consultations began in July and proceeded rapidly across the country, !nishing on December 17, 2009. Preparation is underway for the !nal phase—consultations with

members of the Burundian diaspora in East Africa and Europe—in early 2010 after which the project will develop a !nal report and recommendations. #e report will provide the Government with important input from a wide spectrum of Burundian society on transitional justice mechanisms and facilitating reconciliation between formerly opposing groups.

Regional Collaboration#rough Norway’s !nancial support, UNDP assisted the Executive Secretariat of the International Confer-ence on the Great Lakes Region to hold its mandatory Regional Inter-Ministerial and Summit meetings, during which 2008-2010 regional action plans for Peace and Security, Democracy and Good Governance, Economic Development and Regional Integration, and Humanitarian and Social Issues (the four priority areas of the Pact on Security, Stability and Develop-ment) were developed. Action plans for the six cross-cutting issues and for combating sexual violence were also developed. #e Secretariat’s Documentation Centre was fully operational by mid-2009, with rel-evant documents in all the working languages of the Conference. By helping to establish the Secretariat and the Institutions of the Pact, UNDP is contribut-ing to Burundi’s integration in the East African and Great Lakes Region Communities—a critical boost toward sustaining regional partnerships.

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Capacity \k e-`pa-s e-te_\ (n): the ability of individuals, institutions and societies to per-form functions, solve problems, and set and achieve objectives in a sustainable manner. Capacity Development is thereby the process through which individuals, organisations and societies obtain, strengthen and maintain the capabilities to set and achieve their own development objectives over time.1

1 UNDP Definition of Capacity, (http://www.capacity.undp.org/)

!After more than a decade of crisis, Burundi has been left with significantly depleted human and physical resources. Regardless of the influx of

international support, the sustainability of Burundi’s transformation will not be ensured without the strength-ened capacity of national actors (i.e. the government, civil society, communities and the local private sector). UNDP is investing in key physical infrastructure, while also supporting national authorities and civil society to identify and transform existing sources of capacity. This critical transformation is essential to the ongoing pro-cess of peace consolidation. UNDP’s interventions not only aim at reinforcing institutional skills and behaviors, but also at establishing deeper national ownership to ensure a lasting impact.

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Strategic Planning Support 2008-2009 $212,532 TRAC 2 Ministry of Planning and Reconstruction

Second National Communication on Climate Change 2005-2010 $405,000 GEF Ministry of Environment, Physical Planning and Public Works

Sustainable Land Management 2009-2010 $475,000 GEF Ministry of Environment, Physical Planning and Public Works

Disaster Risk Management Planning 2008-2010 $1,648,904 CPR TTF (Spain), TRAC 1 Ministry of Public Security

Avian Flu Emergency Response Update 2006-2008 $16,657 BCPR Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, Ministry of Environment, Physical Planning and Public Works

National Urban Strategy Development 2008-2009 $8,770 TRAC 2 Ministry of Environment, Physical Planning and Public Works

Human Development Report Creation 2008-2009 $176,460 TRAC 2 Ministry of Planning and Reconstruction

Burundi Emergency Programme Support 2006-2010 $22,595,569 DFID, Belgium, Norway, Morocco, TRAC Ministry of Health, Ministry of National Education

Public Administration, Parliament and Local Governance Support 2007-2010 $2,764,244 TRAC 1 Ministry of Interior and Communal Development, Ministry of

Good Governance, Ministry of Planning

Support to National Decentralization 2008-2009 $115,047 Switzerland Vice Minister of the Interior and Communal Development

Rutana Local Development 2007-2011 $394,941 TRAC 1 Vice Minister of Community Development

Civil Registry Capacity Building 2008-2009 $300,000 DG TTF Ministry of Interior and Communal Development

2010 Electoral Cycle Support 2009-2010 $20,939,451 Belgium, DFID, Egypt, European Commission, France, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, PBF, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, TRAC 1

National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI)

Greater Electoral Participation Promotion 2009-2010 $1,840,000 BCPR, GTTF, Switzerland, TRAC 1 National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI)

Civic Education Promotion 2007-2009 $302,450 UNDEF COSOME

Support to National Aid Coordination Commission (CNCA) 2008-2010 $1,926,294 Netherlands, DFID, Belgium 2nd Vice Presidency

PRSP Monitoring and Evaluation 2008-2009 $175,586 TRAC 2 Ministry of Planning and Reconstruction

TRAC 1 - UNDP internal funds for programmatic supportTRAC 2 - UNDP internal funds for research and studyDG TTF - Democratic Governance thematic trust fundUNDEF - UN Democratic Fund

PBF - Peacebuilding Fund, a multi-donor thematic trust fundDFID - UK Department for International DevelopmentCPR TTF - Crisis Prevention and Recovery thematic trust fund

BCPR - Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, a special-ized bureau within UNDPGEF - Global Environment FacilityGTTF - Gender thematic trust fund

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!The people of Burundi are the country’s rich-est resource, with enormous potential for a#ecting change. Although the serious loss

of human capital during the con!ict has held Bu-rundi back until recently, UNDP is working with other partners to help transform the country’s human resources into the driving engine of change. We are investing the country’s human assets with the capacities and tools they need to play their various roles in reconstructing the nation, from local civic leadership and participation to e"cient administration of government at all levels.

National GovernanceAs part of BINUB’s Peace and Governance Joint Programme, UNDP is working closely with the Gov-ernment of Burundi on the ongoing transformation of the Public Administration. #rough its participa-tion in the 7th African Governance Forum (FAG VII) in Burkina Faso, Burundi was able to outline its national strategy objectives to strengthen state capacity. #is draft document will be re!ned and validated by a broader government group in 2009. Furthermore, UNDP’s provision of technical and communication tools to central administration

services, including the Consultative Committee for the Amelioration of Public Administration (ASAP), the Minister’s Cabinet for Public Administration, and the National Public Administration School, among others, has helped modernize and render their services operational. #e Documentation Cen-tre of the National Public Administration School was updated with more than 600 new works in social science, humanities and other subjects correspond-ing with the new courses o%ered in 2009. UNDP’s technical and advisory support to the Presidency of the Republic also resulted in the submission of

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a legislative text towards establishing an Ombuds-man’s O$ce to resolve bottlenecks and accelerate Public Administration performance, in conformity with the Arusha Peace Agreement and the nation’s Constitution.

UNDP helped reinforce the skills of 96 o$cials and Members of Parliament through a capacity develop-ment program on drafting and analyzing legal texts. UNDP also encouraged Burundi’s participation in the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), sup-porting the participation of 67 parliamentarians and members of civil society in a training on this south-south approach of ensuring that national policies and practices conform to the agreed political, economic and corporate governance values, codes and standards contained in the African Union’s Declaration on Democracy, Political, Economic and Corporate Governance.

In addition to transforming the capacity of the Parliament, UNDP is also encouraging greater bal-ance within it. With UNDP’s support to establish a Women’s Caucus, the voices of female parliamentar-ians and their in"uence in governance were ampli-!ed, ensuring the promotion of issues that a%ect more than half of the Burundian population. #e media’s potential to encourage greater transparency and enhance public comprehension of political and legislative matters was also expanded through the training of 25 representative media professionals, on issues ranging from televised, written and spoken media to thorough and even-handedly reporting on parliamentary activities. Although plenty of work remains, Burundi has made its !rst steps toward cementing a healthy legal framework for free and fair governance.

Decentralized GovernanceAs a counterbalance to the deep-seated ethnic issues fueling much of Burundi’s violence in the

recent past, the Government has chosen to fo-cus on re-establishing civil identities at a local level, with each community in the country more strongly invested in their respective communes. By enhancing local governance mechanisms, and encouraging accountability at the communal level, decentralization aims to promote a greater sense of belonging and individual a$liation with one’s immediate neighbors.

Facilitating greater ownership through general consultations in each of the 17 provinces, UNDP, in partnership with the Peacebuilding Fund and Switzerland and within the framework of BINUB, enabled more than 2,000 representatives of the general public, local elected o$cials, administration civil society, community development committees and decentralized services across the country to evaluate the current state of decentralization and contribute to the formulation of a new National Policy Document on Decentralization. #e subse-quent framework of the National Policy Document and a three-year Action plan, providing an inclusive vision for the future of the decentralization process, were adopted in early 2009 during a national work-shop including almost 250 participants from civil society, local government, development partners and various government ministries.

In order to enhance national ownership, the project kicked-o% with 17 joint !eld missions (one in each province), informing over 1,500 representatives of local elected o$cials about decentralization and the project’s objectives, and inviting the representatives to contribute their ideas to the evolution of the project. UNDP further empowered members of Parliament, local elected o$cials, administrative authorities at the national and provincial levels, civil society organizations and other relevant actors with a reference tool on the legal framework for decentralization. 7,500 copies of the compilation booklet containing the 18 existing national laws and rules on decentralization were printed and distributed across all 129 communes.

At the national level, in perhaps the greatest achieve-ment of 2008 with regard to empowering local representation— the ultimate goal of the decentral-ization process—UNDP successfully supported the formation of the Burundian Association of Locally Elected Leaders (ABELO). Representing more than

Representation structure of ABELO(Burundian Association of Locally Elected Officials)

Executive Board Members21

Members of ABELO256

Locally Elected Leaders17,000+

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17,000 locally elected o$cials nationwide, ABELO will allow the o$cials to share experiences and best practices, will act as a union to raise resources for local governance, and will rapidly di%use relevant central information rapidly across the country. At the community level, UNDP supported account-ability for these same locally elected leaders through trainings for 100 representatives of civil society organizations, media and relevant ministry depart-ments on their respective roles in educating and motivating the population on its right to responsive civil services.

As part of a pilot project initiated in 2007 to enable more responsive and accessible local governance, UNDP, in partnership with the UN Capital Devel-opment Fund (UNCDF), has been working with the 6 communes of Rutana province to develop Communal Development Plans. #ese plans were completed in 2008 and implementation is underway. It began with a series of trainings for 183 provincial technicians and elected o$cials across the province, providing greater understanding of the objectives and technical aspects of the decentralization pro-cess and their role within it. Additionally, 12 local committees were established across the communes to manage shared socio-economic infrastructure, such as schools, health facilities and local govern-ment buildings.

#e elaboration of the Communal Development Plans by communal council members and technical teams would not have been possible without the skills provided by the 6 Decentralization Technical Agents. #ese Technical Agents were trained as trainers with support from UNDP and UNCDF to carry out this activity in Rutana, and assist other communes in developing individually tailored decentralization plans in 2009 and beyond. UNDP and UNCDF further supported the sustainability of the decentralization process in Rutana and its

application to the rest of the country through the development of a tool for communal self-evaluation, which was adopted in early 2009. Sub-sequently, all 6 communes of Rutana province were able to use the tool to identify weaknesses in their administration’s transformation progress. #e self-evaluation tool suggests relevant responses based on the evaluation, and includes indicators that allow for the eventual tracking of national decentralization progress.

Another aspect of the decentralization e%orts in-cludes re-empowering civil registry services (births, deaths, marriage, etc.) at the community level. In early 2008, with help from the Democratic Gover-nance #ematic Trust Fund and the Peacebuilding Fund, UNDP supported a comprehensive analysis of the current state of civil registries around the country to inform the rehabilitation process and ensure the accuracy and appropriateness of future interventions. Although most of Burundi’s civil


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registry archives and o$ces were damaged or de-stroyed during the country’s recent crisis, UNDP re-equipped all 129 communal Civil Registry o$ces to enable them to archive public records safely. #e 67 o$ces that have electricity were provided with computers and other electronic administra-tive equipment in order to modernize their civil registry services. In addition, UNDP is supporting the construction and renovation of 19 communal o$ces to be handed over to the Government in early 2010. In addition, UNDP strengthened Civil Registry management capacity through training for the 17 Provincial Inspectors, who had received little previous orientation, to carry out their jobs.

Civic EngagementIn 2005 Burundi held its first elections in twelve years, returning the nation to constitutional dem-ocratic rule after more than a decade of intense violence and political instability. Through the

UN Democracy Fund, UNDP has been supporting the Coalition of Civil Society Organizations for Election Monitoring (COSOME) since 2007 to enhance the population’s capacity to fully partake in the upcoming political process and uphold the democratic cycle. Building on 2007’s work in nine north-eastern provinces, the citizens in the eight remaining provinces were provided greater access to information on these subjects through the mobilization and training of an additional 1,193 community organizers. These organizers taught their local populations on civic rights and responsibilities. Furthermore, 6 radio programs were broadcast on the same subject in collaboration with Radio Isanganiro during 2008. Broader civic inclusion was encouraged through a sensitization session for 34 representatives of women’s’ associations, parliamentarians and delegations of Batwa on how to better integrate traditionally excluded groups in political activity.

Steps of the National Identity Card exercise carried out across the country (UNDP's Greater Electoral Participation Promotion Project). SLConstruction workers renovate the Communal O"ce, Ngozi province (UNDP’s Local Public Services Support Project). KDP


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Achieving open dialogue in anticipation of the chal-lenges of the 2010 electoral cycle, a debate was held between 61 journalists and representatives of civil society organizations, the Administration, the Sen-ate and the National Assembly, and of 13 di%erent political parties. An additional 55 representatives of 10 di%erent political parties, civil society organi-zations and the media were able to reach a shared understanding of the Code of Conduct for Political Parties during an Election Period, through a valida-tion workshop—boding well for the potential to minimize violence in 2010.

In further support of the democratic cycle, CO-SOME’s project convened a diverse range of 93 stakeholders, including Parliamentarians, represen-tatives of political parties, civil society organizations, international partners, communal councils and administrators, and the Gutwara Neza program, among others, to contribute to and agree upon

updated versions of the communal law. Address-ing a widely acknowledged limitation of the 2005 elections, during which only 40% of election sites had o$cial observers trained by the National Elec-tion Commission, COSOME organized a training of trainers session for 38 delegates from the Pro-vincial Coordination Committees of COSOME in 2008, the Ministry of the Interior, and other civil society organizations who were mobilized to train a peaceful force of 2,515 non-partisan election observers for 2010.

In April 2009 the National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI) was officially established with the swearing in, under oath, of the mem-bers nominated by the President and approved by Parliament. The five Commission members, two of whom are female, come from varied back-grounds: the Inspector of Finances at the Bank of the Republic of Burundi, the Acting General

Public Prosecutor of the Prosecutor General of the Republic, the Cabinet Director of the Ministry of Human Rights and Gender, an ex-judge/ex-gov-ernment Minister and an ex-Ambassador/African Union Electoral Expert. After the establishment of the CENI, President Nkurunziza sent a formal request in May to the UN Secretary General for assistance to prepare the historic 2010 general elections. Thus, a Needs Assessment Mission was deployed in July and a project document to assist the CENI was signed in September 2009 between UNDP and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. To facilitate the support of the international com-munity, a basket fund was established by UNDP, with contributions and pledges from Belgium, the UK Department for International Development (DFID), Egypt, Japan, Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, and the European Com-mission totaling more than USD $23 million at the end of 2009.


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Burundi's 2009 code requires citizens to present a national identification card to register to vote, withdraw their electoral card or vote. Data col-lected by the Government suggests that about 1,000,000 highly vulnerable Burundian citizens do not have an officially recognized national ID. Between pictures, transport, and other related expenses acquiring an ID card costs between USD $3 and $5 per person, which is unaffordable for most citizens, but especially for women in rural areas and other underprivileged citizens. In ad-dition, the process of applying and receiving a card is normally time consuming as it entails 5 steps at different locations. To empower poor and marginalized citizens to be able to exercise their civic duties, UNDP rapidly helped the Govern-ment undertake a one-month campaign starting December 21, 2009, to issue free identity cards in one-stop-shops set up in the Communal Offices across all 129 communes. With support from Switzerland and the UNDP Gender Thematic Trust Fund, the campaign was very successful at mobilizing citizens. Massive turnout resulted in an average of 40,000 cards issued per day for a total of more than 968,000 cards and an addi-tional almost 1 million Burundians empowered to pursue their right to vote in the upcoming electoral cycle.

Aid CoordinationIn a post-con"ict country, one of the most im-portant aspects of state building is restoring the Government’s capacity to coordinate, plan and monitor the in"ux of international aid. By ren-dering aid management more transparent, ac-countable and results-oriented, con"ict-a%ected countries can enhance aid e%ectiveness for sus-tainable development. #e increasing likelihood of diminished international aid as a result of the global !nancial crisis makes these challenges all the more urgent.

#us, in 2008, the Government adopted an action plan to maximize aid contributions and, with the support of the Netherlands and Belgium, a UNDP-managed basket fund was established to support the plan’s implementation. UNDP’s support to the Executive Secretariat of the National Aid Coordi-nation Commission (CNCA) helped establish the Partner Coordination Group (GCP), with 13 sectoral working groups, as well as facilitate the Strategic and Political Forums and the meetings of the overarching monitoring and evaluation group to follow progress on implementing Burundi’s Strategic Framework for Poverty Reduction (CSLP) throughout 2008 and 2009. Among other concrete results, this framework has led to the adoption of progress reports on the Poverty Reduction and Peace Consolidation Strategy Papers (CSLP and CSCP, respectively), examination of the UN Development Assistance Framework for 2010-2014, an evaluation of the GCP to propose new strategic orientations to improve its e$ciency, and preparation of the Burundi delegation to the Consul-tative Group on Burundi in Paris in October 2009. UNDP also supported the setup and progressive usage of an Aid Management Platform by relevant stakeholders, as well as a website to disseminate information on international aid to Burundi.

In September 2008, the Government of Burundi and UNDP participated in the Accra High Level Forum on Aid E%ectiveness, during which the government delegation was able to take part in two high-level panels on Fragile States. #e project further supported the Government’s participation in the Doha International Conference on Financing for Development at the end of 2008. Both events helped Burundi to increase its e%orts in implement-ing the Paris Declaration on Aid E%ectiveness and subsequent action plans. UNDP is also supporting the CNCA to carry out a series of studies to improve Burundi’s coordination system and align country practices with the Paris Declaration.


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A Government Minister signs the o"cial handover of equipment document, Bujumbura (UNDP’s Public Administration Support Project). MB


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revitalization ofPHYSICAL RESOURCES

Constructing a primary school, Bubanza province (UNDP's Burundi Emergency Programme Support Project). MB


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Emergency ResponsePost-con"ict recovery also requires physical invest-ment to facilitate the population’s access to shelter and basic social services, among other things. #e massive in"ux of repatriated citizens, internally displaced people and the resettlement of thousands of demobilized soldiers constitutes an extraordinary challenge for the Burundian government and each individual community. In 2006 an Emergency Programme Multi-Donor Trust Fund (EMDTF) was established as an early recovery mechanism to respond rapidly to the challenges of reintegration and resolve bottlenecks that could potentially a%ect the peace process. With !nancial support from the

UK, Belgium, Norway and Morocco totaling more than US$17 million, the EMDTF has supported the Government’s investment in critical areas through-out Burundi.

#e Emergency Programme Multi-Donor Trust Fund has developed focused and catalytic interventions in areas with high concentrations of war a%ected popu-lations to cover basic needs, such as access to educa-tion, health, and shelter. Executed by UNDP’s United Nations Integrated Service Center (UNISC—see

Building a new primary school (UNDP’s Burundi Emergency Programme Support Project).

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Meet VénusieVénusie Ndabagoye has been teaching as a 6th form teacher at the Bihara Primary School, on the outskirts of Bujumbura, since 2006. When he began, the school consisted of 6 classrooms built many years ago by Belgians out of adobe clay. Although Vénusie is an energetic and engaging teacher his job was hard because the classroom’s physical structure was literally falling apart with age and the school’s bare equipment had mostly disappeared throughout the years and was no longer enough for the number of students. Vénusie and the other teachers had a mobile chalkboard, but no permanent fixed chalkboards in their classrooms to facilitate lessons. Nor was there a staff room for the teachers to securely keep their educational materials or to hold meetings. Vénusie’s students often had trouble following lessons because there were not enough benches for the students to sit on and with the doors and windows destroyed during the conflict the students were often distracted by noises and activity outside the classroom.

In 2008, UNDP’s Emergency Program completed the construc-tion of 32 schools across the country, one of which replaced Bihara Primary School. In addition to the 6 new classrooms, UNDP also constructed several offices, where Vénusie and the other teachers now safely store their teaching supplies and conduct staff and parent-teacher meetings. In September 2008, the new buildings welcomed Vénusie and a class of students in the 6th form. The school is so much better that it has attracted some students from nearby schools as well as students who were not previously going to school at all. While this has not improved the student-teacher ratio, Vénusie still finds it easier to teach the children in the new school build-ing now that they all sit at proper desks. The blackboards, stretching the length of the walls at the front and back of the classroom, are easy for Vénusie to write on while teaching and if something is happening outside the class that is distracting, he can now close the windows and better keep the students focused on the lesson at hand.

I am better able to lead and teach the students in the new school be-cause there is a real blackboard and if there is a distraction outside I can close the windows and door.

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Delivering Accelerated Recovery chapter), the EMDTF launched a to-tal of 7 projects across a wide range of sectors.

Specifically, the EM-DTF helped improve the quality of primary education for approxi-mately 96,000 children across the country in

2008 through the construction, provision of equip-ment and o$cial handover of 32 primary schools across the nation (see pro!le of Vénusie). #e extent and quality of primary education in the subjects of English, Kiswahili and Civic Education was further improved through the training of 4,500 teachers, facilitating the re-entry of recently returned Burun-dian children who have spent a majority of their childhood in refugee camps in Tanzania. Supporting the state’s physical capacity to respond to the basic health needs of the existing and returning popu-lations, UNDP provided 35 hospitals and health centers throughout the country with much needed medical equipment and supplies. #ese materials ranged in complexity from disposable gloves and arm pressure bands to facilitate basic preventive health care, to more high-tech equipment such as centrifuges for blood testing, operating lights and incubators. With UNDP’s construction of 4 “Peace Villages” in Rural Bujumbura, Muyinga, Bururi, and Bubanza provinces in 2008, 1,000 returnee and IDP families were able to move from temporary shelters to solid houses, where they may begin to rebuild their lives. In 2009, the EMDTF expanded its sup-port for physical investment to the transportation sector, including enhancing aerial access to Burundi through marking and lighting the national airport in accordance with international civil aviation safety and security standards.

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#e Muyanga Peace village, Bubanza province (UNDP’s Burundi Emergency Programme Support Project).

A prematurely born baby inside an incubator at the Roi Khaled Hospital, Bujumbura (UNDP’s Burundi Emergency Programme Support Project).

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COLLECTIVE FUTURE

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!During the previous decades of con!ict, envisioning the shape of the medium and long-term future of Burundi was nearly as

impossible as planning for it. Now that the country has been experiencing relative peace since 2005, imagining Burundi’s future and preparing for it are real options. From elaborating a future vision for the country, planning for population expansion and setting up contingency arrangements, among other planning activities, the Government has been supported by UNDP to move beyond reactive

policies towards strategically preparing for a bet-ter Burundi in the medium and long-term future.

A National VisionConceiving and drafting a coherent vision for the future toward which a country wants to progress helps to provide focus and motivation for obtain-ing it. Visioning exercises, often developed around achieving the Millennium Development Goals and frequently undertaken with the assistance UNDP, have been carried out in a number of countries,

UN Development Assistance Framework Strategic Planning Retreat with all UN agencies & the Government of Burundi, Gitega province. MB

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In 2025, Burundi is a united Nation, in solidarity and in peace; a country built on a rights-based society with a rich cultural heritage; a prosperous economy for the well-being of all. - Burundi Vision 2025


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including Botswana’s “Vision 2016”, and the “Vision 2020”s of Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, and Ma-laysia, among others. #e exercise of developing the “Vision” involves creating a space for open dialogue on the current challenges a country is facing and determining goals that will help the nation work toward shared aspirations. #e idea of the “Vision” as a lighthouse, guiding a nation’s people forward through rocky waters toward a stable and secure future is particularly powerful in a post-con"ict setting, where the “Vision” can serve as a power-ful reconciliation tool for moving beyond the past.

Looking to build upon the positive momentum af-ter the country’s successful democratic elections in 2005, the President of the Republic launched such a visioning exercise in Burundi in mid-2006. With UNDP’s support, the draft “Vision 2025”, which has been developed through !ve national broad-based workshops and the participation from more than 150 local development partners, governmental and parliament o$cials, and representatives from media and civil society organizations, is proceeding to national adoption. #e vision encompasses three possible scenarios—Burije (dark, deteriorating conditions), Ntarataze (half hearted, lacking fun-damental change), and Burundi Buhire (Burundi prosperous and proud)—and how each would look in terms of peace and security, governance and the role of public powers, economic growth and poverty reduction, and the role of the southern region and the international community. Capitalizing on the positive developments that have occurred in the previous 18 months—greater regional integration, demobilization of the last rebel group, repatriation of a large number of refugees—and mobilizing against the continuing challenges, complicated further by the global economic crisis, the President launched a series of validation workshops around the country in October 2009. #e Ministry of Plan-ning and Reconstruction is leading the workshops

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at the provincial level before extending them to the communal level, in order that the “Vision 2025” of Burundi is widely known and understood, providing motivation as well as orientation for all Burundians.

Environmental ChangeOne of UNDP’s key on-going projects, enabled by the Global Environmental Facility, is to strengthen Burundi’s institutional and technical capacity to regularly prepare and submit national communica-tions on the country’s progress in the eight sectoral

development plans to the Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. To date, this project has led a series of studies on the country’s vulnerability and adaptation to climate change and mitigation of its e%ects, as well as on reducing human-made emissions of greenhouse gases. #e project also created an informational publication to raise public awareness on the im-portance of protecting the environment and on the ways in which individuals can reduce their impact on environmental degradation. Additionally, with UNDP’s help, the Government was able to develop

a National Action Plan for Adaptation to Climate Change, which has become one of the main reference documents for mobilizing partner support toward environmental protection in Burundi.

UNDP is also overseeing the recently launched Regional Programme for jointly integrated man-agement of Lake Tanganyika, which is executed by UNOPS and the Executive Secretariat of which is in Bujumbura. Although the project’s 4th phase is in its early stages, it aims to implement the regionally agreed Strategic Action Plan for Lake Tanganyika in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania and Zambia and to reinforce the Lake Tanganyika Authority and Secretariat. In doing so, the project plans to improve lake processes and productivity through enhanced catchment manage-ment, reducing siltation and waste water pollution to protect the lake’s biodiversity.

A second new UNDP project, Capacity Building for Sustainable Land Management in Burundi, will con-tribute to the mitigation of land degradation as well as promote the integrity and stability of ecosystems by increasing ecological services, strengthening national and local management capacity, and by in-tegrating the issue of sustainable land management into national development strategies and policies. UNDP is currently also commencing a micro-grants project. By generating sustainable living condi-tions through micro-grants to non-governmental organizations and community-based organizations that propose relevant activities, the programme will contribute to (a) the alleviation of the impact of climate change, (b) biodiversity conservation, (c) management and protection of water, (d) reduction of the impact of persistent organic pollutants, and (e) !ght against land degradation.

Another nascent project on the protection of biodi-versity across Burundi will focus on strengthening

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the management capacity of Ruvubu National Park and Kibira Forest. By developing a strong partner-ship between the authority in charge of Burundi’s management network of protected areas (parks, nature reserves and forests) and other stakehold-ers, the project aims to conserve biodiversity in the country’s outdoor spaces in an integrated and sustainable manner.

Contingency PreparationPromoting sustainable development requires a strong capacity for disaster risk management, par-ticularly in a country such as Burundi that has been severely a%ected by global warming. Tackling the country’s vulnerability to natural disaster entails understanding and identifying the risk factors that cause disasters such as the exposure and vulnerabili-ties of society to natural hazards as well as preparing comprehensive responses to prevent damage to hu-man life and property. Burundi possesses a number of vulnerabilities—to "ooding, to famine, and to earthquakes, among others, including the cyclical droughts that have annually interrupted the harvest cycle in Kirundo province since 1994—any of which could present themselves without warning and cause an enormous threat to the nation’s citizens. Moreover, if incorrectly managed, any such human security threat could also threaten the country’s hard-won peace.

To mitigate and prevent the damage of these po-tential disasters, UNDP, thanks to support from Spain, has helped Burundi prepare a coordinated response mechanism—the National Platform for Risk Prevention and Disaster Management, with 17 Provincial Platforms to coordinate at the lo-cal level. In addition to equipping and training the National Platform and Provincial Platforms, UNDP helped the Government form a ministerial committee for Disaster Risk Prevention within the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock. In 2008, Consulting equipment at the National Meteorological Society during a Joint UN Evaluation Mission, Kirundo Province. SL


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UNDP, OCHA and UNICEF were able to prepare a joint Government—UN inter-agency contingency plan based on a national map developed by UNDP that overlays current physical vulnerability indexes (rainfall, erosion, food insecurity, etc.) with the current presence of international NGOs. Provincial contingency plans were also prepared for the most vulnerable provinces—Ngozi, Kayanza, Muyinga and Kirundo.

During the year 2009 a study on the Organiza-tion Plan of Civil Security (Plan ORSEC) was con-ducted and the plan implemented, conjointly with UNICEF, in !ve provinces. #anks to this tool the National Platform for Risk Prevention and Disaster Management, the Directorate General of Civil Defense and the provincial governors bet-ter understand the serious nature of their new responsibilities to coordinate and organize the di%erent phases of risk reduction and disaster management. In October 2009, local authorities were able to respond quickly to "ooding in Rural

Bujumbura province, thanks to the !rst aid tools and training provided by UNDP, "ushing a chan-nel and widening the river bed to minimize the "ood damage.

In its planning for 2010-2014, UNDP has focused on an approach to capacity building that emphasizes the synergy between reducing disaster risk and adapta-tion to climate change, as well as their integration with planning programs and development projects to stabilize and preserve the gains of development. To this end, UNDP supported the participation of a Burundian delegation, including the !rst Vice President, at the world summit on Climate Change in Copenhagen in December 2009.

For the speci!c threat of Avian Flu, UNDP supported the updating and adoption of the National Avian Flu Emergency Response Plan in 2009. Prelimi-nary implementation of the plan included public health messages, informing 230 people across the 10 provinces considered particularly vulnerable to

the disease on basic prevention as well as training for 118 veterinary and medical provincial health sta% in 16 provinces on prevention and treatment of the disease.

Urban ExpansionBurundi has the second highest population density of any country on the continent of Africa—behind only Rwanda—inevitably leading to intense com-petition for land. In particular, with the return of thousands of refugees and displaced citizens, the number of land tenure con"icts is on the rise and people are "ocking to urban areas. #is has led to the rapid expansion of ghettos and shanty-towns and a sharp deterioration of the standards of living in the nation’s few urban spaces. #e impact of this phenomenon on the environment as well as the health sector cannot be overstated. However, since 1993, Burundi has lacked a strategic vision or policy on how to deal with the country’s increasing urbanization.

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the Ministry of the Environment to address this gap, in view of the annual urban growth rate of 6.8%. A policy letter was developed, describing the national urban development vision for 2020, in line with the Millennium Development Goals. #e policy note includes !ve speci!c objectives: 1) strengthen the institutional framework to include urban development and progressive environmental improvements, 2) establish a viable and sustainable urban tradition in the country , 3) ensure decent housing for all segments of the population, 4) slow down the deterioration of urban living standards, and 5) strengthen governance to enhance urban productivity. Following the letter’s adoption by the Government in July 2008, UNDP and UN HABITAT are continuing to work together with the Ministry of the Environment toward developing a national action plan to implement the national habitat and urbanization policy.

Measuring DevelopmentFirst launched in 1990, with the single goal of put-ting people back at the center of the development debate, the Global Human Development Report (HDR) focuses on telling the story of development in terms of people’s wellbeing and quality of life, rather than focusing solely on economic measures. Tracking indicators of life expectancy, literacy and education, and income level, the HDR is an inde-pendent report commissioned by UNDP, translated into at least 13 languages, and launched in more than 100 countries annually. Each annual report focuses on a di%erent salient theme in the current development debate, including relevant analysis and policy recommendations. Analyzing the prospect for people to lead lives that they value in light of current global challenges and, since 2000, tracking progress towards the Millennium Development Goals, the Human Development Report aims to motivate progress toward achieving the MDGs, as well as provide an accurate source of development data.

Burundi !rst participated in this process in 1997, and in 2008 the Ministry of Planning and Recon-struction began the process of determining an overarching theme, gathering statistical data and writing the county’s fourth National Human De-velopment Report (the last was published in 2005). With UNDP’s support, a national steering commit-tee was formed and successfully adopted the theme of “Good Governance and Sustainable Development in Burundi” to frame the report. Including in-depth analysis of the various components contributing to Good Governance, in addition to the traditional development indicators, Burundi’s 2009 National Human Development Report was launched in De-cember 2009 to a broad audience of government, UN and civil society representatives.

#e report shows that the human development index (HDI) in Burundi has improved between 2005 and 2007 from 0.375 to 0.394, in some part due to an emerging culture of good governance. #e report details that progress has been made in terms of good governance in the areas of Public Administration reform, partnership between the state and the main actors of public life, challenges of demography, ur-banization, environment and land management, as well as competitiveness of Burundi's economy and its integration into regional and global economies. Nevertheless, it was also concluded that further progress is necessary regarding respect for human rights, !ght against corruption, access to justice, and modernization and professionalization of govern-ment and democratic institutions.

#e Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), eight time-bound development targets adopted by 189 countries in 2000, make up an integral part of UNDP’s mission worldwide. UNDP Country O$ces are periodically called to assist developing world countries to provide an update on their progress toward the MDGs. In 2009 UNDP assisted the

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Ministry of Planning and Reconstruction to un-dertake this important review particularly in view of the few remaining years to reach the goals. Not surprisingly, the many years of violent con"ict in Burundi have had a negative e%ect on the country’s ability to achieve the MDGs, in many cases derail-ing, and even reversing, progress. For example, the percentage of households living below the poverty

line, which Burundi aims to cut in half as the goal indicates, has doubled since its 1990 baseline. #e only goal that Burundi is likely to reach by 2015 is that concerning gender parity in primary educa-tion, in large part due to the President’s declaring free primary education for all Burundians in 2005. Nevertheless concerted e%orts could lead to positive results in the areas of ensuring that boys and girls

complete a full course of primary education, halting the spread and reducing the incidence of malaria, reducing by half the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation, reducing Burundi’s debt load to a sustainable level, formulating and implementing strategies for decent and productive jobs for youth, and providing access to a%ordable essential drugs.

Presenting at a Consultation Workshop on Burundi’s 2009 National Human Development Report (UNDP’s Human Development Report Creation Project). SL

54 UNDP BURUNDI REPORT – 2008 towards 2010A bean seller from the Asian Quarter in Bujumbura, Burundi. MB


Nurturing EQUITY

Equity \`e-kw e-te_\ (n): involves the de-

gree of fairness and inclusiveness with which resources are distributed, opportunities af-forded, and decisions made. It includes the provision of comparable opportunities of employment and social services, including education, health and justice. The notion can be relevant both within and between com-munities and nations.1

1 Indicators of Sustainable Development: Guidelines and Methodologies,(http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/natlinfo/indicators/isdms2001/isd-ms2001isd.htm)


!Emerging from more than a decade of bloodshed and destruction, Burundi is experiencing an in-frastructure deficit—the country’s human, material

and procedural resources have been dispersed, are out of date, and suffer from general neglect. Regardless of the influx of international monetary and logistical aid, national actors (i.e. the government, civil society, com-munities and the local private sector), must have the relevant tools to transform their capabilities and realize a better future in order for progress to be sustainable. In addition to UNDP Burundi’s investment in key physi-cal infrastructure, without which very little substantial development can take place, we are also committed to supporting national authorities and civil society to iden-tify and transform existing sources of capacity. This criti-cal transformation is at the heart of the ongoing peace consolidation process. Following the lines of UNDP’s “capacity development” approach, our projects focusing on human capital and planning for the future not only re-inforce institutional skills and behaviors, but also inspire deeper national ownership to ensure a lasting impact.

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critical in addressing some of the root causes of conflict in Burundi and preventing a return to violence. UNDP is enabling equity in Burundi through initiatives that strive to promote the basic social rights of the most vulner-able members of society, to jump-start the economy at the grassroots level, and to rebuild an even-handed and effective justice system. By leveling the playing field, UNDP is empowering Burundian men and women to ensure that the dividends of peace and development are accessible to all.

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Public Administration, Parliament and Local Governance Support $1.479.940 $1.330.739 $1.002.044 TRAC 1 2007-2009

Support to National Decentralization $115.047 $98.714 N/A Switzerland 2008

Rutana Local Development $250.000 $228.799 $159.633 TRAC 1 2007-2009

Civil Registry Capacity Building $300.000 $187.456 $110.179 DG TTF 2008-2009

2010 Elections Cycle Support N/A N/A $1.060.000 TRAC 1

Civic Education Promotion $113.741 $115.040 $29.751 UNDEF 2007-2009

Support to National Aid Coordination Commission (CNCA) $267.000 $188.407 $250.000 Netherlands, TRAC 2 2008-2009

PRSP Monitoring and Evaluation $40.220 $37.086 $70.000 TRAC 2 2008-2009

Burundi Emergency Programme Support $11.413.755 $7.413.748 $3.714.169 DFID, Belgium,Norway, Morocco, TRAC 2 2006-2009

Strategic Planning Support $92.300 $61.532 $85.000 TRAC 2 2008-2009

Second National Communication on Climate Change $178.600 $114.500 $108.400 GEF 2005-2009

Sustainable Land Management N/A N/A $64.800 GEF 2009-2010

Disaster Risk Management Planning $517.000 $513.949 $592.000 CPR TTF (Spain), TRAC 1 2008-2009

Avian Flu Emergency Response Update $11.169 $11.022 N/A BCPR 2006-2008

National Urban Strategy Development $12.000 $6.106 $7.571 TRAC 2 2008-2009

Human Development Report Creation $45.000 $27.460 $110.000 TRAC 2 2008-2009

TRAC 1 - UNDP funds for programmatic supportTRAC 2 - UNDP internal funds for research and studyDG TTF - Democratic Governance #ematic Trust FundUNDEF - UN Democratic Fund

DFID - UK Department for International DevelopmentCPR TTF - Crisis Prevention & Recovery #ematic Trust FundBCPR - Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, a specialized bureau within UNDPGEF - Global Environment Facility"

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Small and Micro Enterprise Promotion 2008-2009 $263,260 PBF Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism

DIMAC (Plastic Tubing) Competitiveness Enhancement 2006-2008 $140,000 IFTF Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism

Rugofarm Essential Oils Industry Support 2005-2008 $66,648 IFTF Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism

Burundi Normalization Bureau Quality Testing Support 2007-2008 $115,092 IFTF Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism

COTRIEX (Dried Fruits and Vegetables) Competitiveness Enhancement 2006-2008 $110,000 IFTF Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism

Greater Access to Justice Support 2008-2009 $1,106,128 Luxemburg, PBF Ministry of Justice and Keeper of the Seals

Reduction of Impunity for Sexual Violence 2008-2009 $200,000 Luxemburg Ministry of Justice and Keeper of the Seals

Justice Sector Reform 2007-2009 $1,799,174 BCPR, TRAC 1 Ministry of Justice and Keeper of the Seals

Reintegration, Rehabilitation and Poverty Reduction 2005-2008 $4,511,764 BCPR, Netherlands, Norway,

TRAC 2Ministry of National Solidarity, Repatriation, National Reconstruction, Human Rights and Gender

Displaced Family Reintegration 2008-2009 $212,447 PBF Ministry of National Defense and Veterans Affairs

Human Security 2008-2009 $1,567,751 UNTFHS Ministry of National Solidarity, Repatriation, National Reconstruction, Human Rights and Gender

Community Recovery Programme 2009-2010 $5,457,553 BCPR, Netherlands, PBF Ministry of National Solidarity, Repatriation, National Reconstruction, Human Rights and Gender

Reintegration of Ex-Combattants 2009-2010 $2,500,000 Japan Ministry of National Solidarity, Repatriation, National Reconstruction, Human Rights and Gender

Corruption Reduction 2007-2009 $499,420 PBF Ministry of Good Governance, Privatization, the General Inspectorate of State and Local Government

HIV/AIDS Support 2006-2008 $151,571 UNAIDS, TRAC 1 Ministry of Health

PBF - Peacebuilding Fund, a multi-donor thematic trust fundTRAC 1 - UNDP internal funds for programmatic supportTRAC 2 - UNDP internal funds for research and study

IFTF - Institute for the FutureBCPR - Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, a specialized bureau withinUNDP UNTFHS - UN Trust Fund for Human Security

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!UNDP’s goal in pursuing equitable develop-ment is to support the e#orts of a wide range of national players – government,

private sector, civil society organizations, and community leaders, among others—to create an environment in which the people of Burundi can expand their choices and opportunities. $e cornerstones of this environment include access to basic social services: health care, education, shelter, and nutrition, without which a person is vulnerable to falling short of reaching his or her potential. In supporting all Burundians, and the most vulnerable in particular, to access education, to be protected from the elements with proper shelter, to receive improved health care services, and to have reliable sustenance, UNDP is support-ing national players to ensure that every citizen has the opportunity to pursue the life that she or he desires.

Reintegrating ex-combatants, internally displaced people & returned refugeesInequitable management of recovery resources related to reintegration of returnees, internally displaced people, demobilized ex-combatants and other a%ected vulnerable groups could be a source of con"ict within a community undergoing recovery from extended con"ict. Since 2005, UNDP’s Reinte-gration Programme, in partnership with Germany, Japan, Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Swit-zerland, has worked to reduce con"ict by supporting the peaceful return of internally displaced people and refugees to their communities and ensure an equitable share of recovery dividends.

Starting in 2006, to enhance decision making at the local level, UNDP supported the completion of Provincial Operational Reintegration Plans in 14 of the 17 provinces by the end of 2009. #ese plans support the peaceful return of internally

displaced people and refugees to their communities by ensuring that recovery dividends are equita-bly shared and reintegration initiatives are in line with the priorities determined by the community. UNDP also supported the empowerment of a total of 1,550 members of traditional and local systems of con"ict management across 31 communes in Makamba, Rutana, Ruyigi, Cankuzo and Karuzi provinces. #ese members included village elders/wise men, local elected leaders, and representatives from women’s associations, among others. #rough training in techniques to resolve the high number of disputes arising from the in"ux of returnees to these areas, the con"ict management facilitators have been able to increase their role in preventing and managing local con"icts.

#rough the Reintegration Programme, UNDP has assisted the Government to rehabilitate and im-prove physical infrastructure across the country,

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including: the creation of 90 kilometers of rural roads and bridges, construction and rehabilitation of 30 primary schools, 10 health centers, 4 veteri-nary clinics, and 139 seed centers and warehouses, rehabilitation of 585 hectares of swampland and watersheds, distribution of 969,100 saplings, in-cluding 3,600 palm oil saplings, distribution of 28 tons of enhanced seed and other agricultural sup-port including henhouses, beehives, fertilizers, !sh farms, farming tools and grain processing machines, training for 159 agricultural associations, distribu-tion of 2,289 livestock animals, and support to 988 vulnerable families to build or receive new homes

(see pro!le of Yohan). #e HIMO (High Intensity Physical Labor) activities, implemented in partner-ship with the UN Food and Agricultural Organiza-tion (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP), served a number goals—local economic stimulation through the provision of temporary employment to the laborers (Work for Cash and Work for Food), easing pressure on overcrowded social services, and bringing together di%erent social groups to foster acceptance of returnees to host communities and peaceful co-existence.

Within the Reintegration Programme, UNDP sought to support micro-projects with highly diversi!ed value chains, in order that direct interventions

Transporting goods along a new dirt road, Karuzi province (UNDP’s Reintegration, Rehabilitation and Poverty Reduction Programme). KDP

Buying vegetables at the newly built marketplace, Karuzi province (UNDP's Reintegration, Rehabilitation and Poverty Reduction Programme). KDP

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stimulated other correlated economic activities in turn. One example is the palm-oil community project, which involved exploiting the ubiquitous palm trees found on the south-western, coastal area of Burundi and providing a palm-oil extraction machine to an association of 22 returnees and local community members to extract oil more e$ciently and e%ectively. Previously the group extracted the

oil with a hand-powered machine that was labor intensive and time consuming. Now the Associa-tion is able to process the fruit of their communally owned palm trees more quickly, as well as to o%er the machine for the use of other local community members who pay a small fee, allowing the Associa-tion to maintain their infrastructure. Furthermore, the waste from the processing is sold to local women

who supplement their family incomes by separat-ing out and cracking the nuts to sell the seeds to a nearby soap factory. By providing a source of income for many returnee families the mechanization of the oil extraction station contributes to their eco-nomic reintegration in the community, reducing the competition for scarce resources and improving community relations.

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Another of the longer-term and most successful of these interventions was a project to support ac-cess to basic food security through solidarity chain initiatives at the colline level. #e solidarity chain initiative, carried out across a number of collines throughout the country, involves an initial dona-tion of goats and cows to community members who use the animal dung to improve their crop yield in addition to selling and drinking the milk from the female animals. Each family only assumes full ownership of their animal once it has bred and the o%spring is successfully passed on to another fam-ily, thus creating a chain of solidarity. #e process has created goodwill between neighbors, easing the reintegration of various vulnerable groups, by providing them with the ability to contribute to their communities. Moreover, it has proved one of

the most successful reintegration strategies in the long-run, as the animals provide both a sustainable source of protein through their milk as well as a sustainable source of fertilizer to enhance crops for families otherwise vulnerable to food insecurity.

In 2009, with support from the UNDP Bureau of Crisis Prevention and Recovery and the Peacebuild-ing Fund, UNDP is preparing a targeted Community Recovery Programme in Bubanza, Bujumbura Rurale and Cibitoke provinces, in northern Burundi. #ese three provinces have a speci!cally high concentra-tion of returned refugees and internally displaced citizens and have been largely neglected by previous waves of rehabilitation interventions due to the continued presence of the last armed rebel group until early 2009.

#e project supported the development of a National Reintegration Strategy, which was adopted in Feb-ruary 2010 by the Government. #e strategy falls under the commitments of the Republic of Burundi and the UN Peacebuilding Commission as outlined in the conclusions of the third semi-annual review of the implementation of the Strategic Framework for Peacebuilding in Burundi and is the result of a long series of consultations led by the Government with UNDP’s support. #e consultations included participants from various government ministries, civil society organizations and the international community, via the Sectoral Group on Community Recovery, Repatriation and Reintegration.

In addition, thanks to Japan, UNDP is follow-ing up the recently completed disarmament and

Meet YohanOne of the “most vulnerable among vulnerables”, Yohan Kazungu is a member of the pygmy Twa people that make up less than 1% of the population of Burundi. Although the Twa are a separate ethnicity from the majority of the population and were not politically involved in the protracted ethnic conflict that started in 1993, they nevertheless lost a significant percentage of their population during the violence and gener-ally suffer social exclusion from land ownership, formal employment and education. Surrounded by other Twa families in Shombo commune, in Karuzi province, Yohan, until recently, was living in a traditional Twa round hut, made of thatch, with his wife and four children. When it rained the water leaked through the roof and onto the family. He often felt that his living conditions were behind those of many other people in the country.

Between 2005 and 2008, the Reintegration Programme helped Yohan—as well as 974 other displaced people, repatriated refugees and other vul-nerable individuals—construct his own house and contribute towards the construction of other houses in his community by teaching him to make bricks, and providing other building materials. As soon as he had 5,000

bricks, Yohan was able to build himself a small house with four rooms, a tin roof, windows and a door. Yohan now feels that he and the other members of his community have been able to move forward to a similar level as that of other groups in the country. Rainwater no longer enters his house, so he, his wife and children can stay dry by waiting inside until the storm passes. In addition to being better lit, the new house is more spacious than his previous dwelling such that Yohan is now able to stand and stretch his arms fully overhead. He felt motivated by the work that he invested in building his own home and working together with other members of his community to make bricks. Most importantly, Yohan feels that he now lives well, and is finally able to partake of the dividends of peace as do other Burundians in the rest of the country.

We were always behind, but now we are on the same level as others

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demobilization process with a one-year project focused on peaceful and sustainable socio-economic reintegration of the ex-combatants and demobilized people in their host communities. By facilitating psychosocial support, access to agricultural facilities and Income Generating Activities, as well as involve-ment in community development organizations and structures, UNDP will support the ex-combatants, demobilized population and their dependents to reintegrate successfully, contributing to enhanced security and accelerated development. Capacity building for local reintegration actors and centralized services will further help communities absorb the ex-combatants and demobilized people and ensure

that all community members have equal opportuni-ties to provide for themselves and their families.

Combating CorruptionReducing corruption in Burundi will allow all citizens equal access to the basic social services provided by the state, regardless of means or connections. In 2008, with support from the Peacebuilding Fund, UNDP facilitated the formation and activation of 17 Local Anti-Corruption Task Forces. #ese Task Forces are comprised of representatives from local civil societies working to reduce corruption and promote good economic governance, to advocate against corruption and serve as watchdogs reporting

potential abuses. In an example of south-south co-operation, the Government of Burundi’s corruption case-building capacity was sustainably improved through the training of 4 o$cials in South Africa as trainers, who subsequently trained 73 special court members and representatives from the Supreme Court and the Public Finance O$ce on proof, fraud, internet fraud and performing searches.

Mechanisms to enforce anti-corruption, including the special Anti-Corruption Court, based in Bu-jumbura, and the four regional commissariats, as well as OLUCOME, the National Anti-Corruption and Economic Misspending Observatory, are better equipped to carry out their work thanks to UNDP’s

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of representatives from civil society organizations working to reduce corruption, enhancing their co-ordination and resulting in a jointly organized cel-ebration of the 3rd International Anti-Corruption Day in Kayanza in 2008. #e day included the par-ticipation of representatives from the private sector and provincial o$cials. An address from the Head of State, as well as educational performances and games helped inform the thousands of participants on the importance of reducing corruption and its resulting burden on Burundi’s development.

HIV/AIDS SupportWith Burundi’s current HIV/AIDS prevalence rate at 3.47% of the population and climbing, estimated

support in 2008 and 2009. UNDP supplied them with basic equipment, such as vehicles, comput-ers, furniture and other administrative material as well as with training in relevant areas. OLUCOME now has even greater visibility, and citizens are better informed on anti-corruption measures tak-ing place in Burundi through UNDP’s support to build a public website, (www.olucome.bi). UNDP further promoted public access to anti-corruption information through a week-long television spot broadcast across public and private media chan-nels and a series of sensitization sessions for local leaders on their responsibilities to !ght corruption and how to report to the Special Anti-Corruption Brigades. UNDP helped establish a national forum

Sur$ng the OLUCOME website, Bujumbura (UNDP’s Corruption Reduction Project). SL

at up to 10% in urban areas, the disease is and will continue to be a signi!cant vulnerability factor in the population’s health. Moreover, high rates of HIV/AIDS negatively a%ects productivity, longevity and other key indicators traditionally associated with the disease. UNDP has partnered with UNAIDS to focus its interventions on coordination at the national and regional levels, and on building lo-cal advocacy and support for people a%ected and infected by the disease.

#rough 4 regional workshops in Bujumbura, Gitega, Ruyigi and Muyinga, UNDP assisted the National AIDS Reduction Commission (CNLS) to develop a national and regional coordination and monitoring mechanism, comprised of civil society representa-tives, local elected leaders and people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs) to maximize the impact of Burundi’s prevention of and response to the disease. At the community level, the PLWHAs and their de-pendants in Bujumbura Mairie province now have advocacy focal points, thanks to UNDP’s support for empowering 120 local community leaders to defend, protect and promote the rights of this population. Further support was leant to seropositive pregnant women and mothers across the country, through the training of 549 community volunteers and facilitators in the prevention of mother to child transmission, 2,474 home visits, the distribution of 162 socio-economic kits to bedridden women, supplemental nutritional support to 8,629 babies and 6,415 women on anti-retroviral medicine, and the participation of more than 5,500 people in thera-peutic psychosocial educations sessions nationwide. An additional 150 PLWHAs were provided with legal assistance. Helping this population overcome its added vulnerability helps level the playing !eld so that Burundians infected and a%ected by HIV/AIDS can focus their energy on the ever challenging task of consolidating peace and regaining the means to thrive in this post-con"ict context.


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populations across Burundi. With UNDP’s sup-port for a series of !ve national exhibition fairs, and participation in an international exhibition in Rwanda these small businesses, engaged in industries as wide-ranging as embroidery, carpen-try, pottery, basketry, sewing, livestock-farming, candle-making, leatherwork, honey gathering, shoes, and "oral arrangements, to name a few, and have been able to network and expand their client bases. To further promote national and interna-tional partnerships, as well as share best practices, a guide to best practices for micro-entrepreneurs was developed and a training tool was conceived for future trainings of micro entrepreneurs as trainers in e%ective business and peacebuilding practices. In 2009 and 2010, UNDP is working with the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism as well as the Ministry of Youth and Sports to further promote peacebuilding micro-entrepreneurs by establishing a permanent expo-sition and market place in Bujumbura for greater visibility and access to a larger market.

!The impact of sustained violent con!ict on a country’s economy can be devastat-ing—markets can cease to exist or function,

quali%ed personnel and physical assets are often lost, production capacity can be wiped out, and con%dence in the market almost always disap-pears. Too often, the role of the local private sector is then overlooked by both national and international actors during the process of building and consolidating peace. Needless to say, the long-lasting con!ict that ravaged Burundi for more than a decade has had a destructive impact on its economy. UNDP recognized from the early stages the essential role of supporting local economic stimulation. A sustainable peace that establishes a culture of hope and allows citizens to restart livelihoods cannot be achieved without having meaningful and viable economic opportunities available that involve the people who have been a#ected by con!ict. With projects promoting small enterprises, private sector mechanisms and companies as well as projects facilitating deeper regional integration, UNDP is contributing to an enhanced economic environment. Such an

environment will strengthen the ability of the domestic private sector to contribute to poverty reduction and peacebuilding.

Local MarketsDespite the e%orts of micro and small entrepre-neurs to run their businesses, the day-to-day reality is challenging and complex in Burundi. In 2008 and 2009, thanks to Peacebuilding Funds and in conjunction with the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism within the framework of BINUB, UNDP promoted the role of 52 small and micro enterprises in peace consolidation and reconciliation. #ese enterprises are successfully run by women, youth, ex-combatants, return-ees, handicapped people and other vulnerable Select small and micro entrepreneurs supported through

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The National MarketAt a more macro level, UNDP partnered with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Develop-ment, the International Trade Center, the World Trade Organization, and the World Bank to sup-port the implementation of the Global Action Plan of the Integrated Framework for Less Developed Countries. #rough the Framework, Burundi was granted USD $1 million to strengthen the country’s exports, reduce its international trade de!cit, and create new jobs to !ght poverty. Working with the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism, UNDP empowered the Dimac Society to compete in regional markets and provide lower-cost supplies of PVC tubes within Burundi through the provi-sion of an industrial strength machine meeting international standards. Dimac, based in Bujum-bura, is one of the !rst companies in the country capable of producing connecting plastic PVC tubes, used for piping clean drinking water in and out of buildings. Other projects in the Global Action Plan include projects to promote the exportation of patchouli and citronella essential oils, to dry and conserve agricultural products (fruits, vegetables, aromatic and medicinal plants) for exportation, and to strengthen the capacity of the national Quality Control O$ce to test the chemical composition of products to be exported according to international standards. Although logistical and other obstacles have prevented some of these other projects from being implemented to the fullest degree possible, UNDP is in the process of identifying potential areas for the development of inclusive markets as part of a broader strategy that is being elaborated to encourage pro-poor private sector growth at the national level.

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!Together with the executive and legislative branches, the judiciary forms the third pillar of a just, balanced and democratic form of

government. Equal opportunities for all citizens cannot be reinforced if there is no equity before the law or a functioning legal system through which to demand recourse in case of a rights violation. Following more than a decade of civil war, Burundi’s legal system was both physically destroyed and operationally undermined. Courts, prisons, and professional training were completely neglected

and impunity reigned unchecked. With a strong emphasis on empowering ordinary citizens, UNDP has responded with several key catalytic projects to strengthen the rule of law in Burundi. By support-ing improved access to justice, capacity-building for magistrates and court personnel, and the reduction of sexual and gender-based violence against women and children, UNDP is helping Burundi re-establish a judiciary that is seen to be accessible, equitable, and an e#ective means for peaceful con!ict resolu-tion and accountability for all citizens.

Judiciary Investment#anks to Peacebuilding Funds and the support of Luxemburg, UNDP assisted the Ministry of Justice to improve access to the legal system for more than 1.1 million citizens in Makamba, Rutana, Ngozi and Mwaro provinces through the construction and equipping of 17 Communal tribunals that had been entirely destroyed during the crisis. Previ-ously, these citizens had to travel to a neighboring commune in order to reach a tribunal, which was exceedingly di$cult given the very hilly terrain and

O"cial handover of a newly constructed Communal Tribunal in Busiga Commune, Ngozi province (UNDP’s Greater Access to Justice Project).


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the practical nonexistence of paved roads in these rural areas. #e new tribunals not only enhance local

accountability, but also serve to dramatically reduce the average processing time for cases awaiting trial.

Within the framework of Justice Sector Reform, UNDP supported the improved functioning of the Tribunaux de Grands Instances (provincial courts) in Ngozi and the O$ce of the Public Prosecutor in 2008 by empowering 12 Magistrates to become trainers for managing courts and tribunals. #ese trainers were subsequently able to train 205 clerks and magistrates on this subject. #e position of magistrate was further professionalized through the training of 254 magistrates from all jurisdic-tions on human rights and on drafting arrests and judgments and an additional 1,078 magistrates on ethics. Furthermore, a comprehensive analysis, jus-tifying the basis for legal assistance and specifying what types of cases are entitled to representation according to Burundi law, was completed in April 2009. #is enables the Ministry of Justice to put into practice the necessary obligations and guarantees for juveniles, victims of sexual violence, the mentally ill, and those facing severe penalties as prescribed in the new criminal code.

Sexual Violence#e extended years of violent con"ict between numerous armed rebel groups saw a spike in the

Opposing parties make their cases at the Communal Tribunal, Mwaro Province (UNDP’s Greater Access to Justice Project). KDP

Newly trained and robed magistrates pass their judgments (UNDP’s Greater Access to Justice Project). KDP

“Where the United Nations succeeds in sup-porting change that results in the betterment of peoples’ lives through their equal protec-tion under the law and the attainment of jus-tice, it strengthens the rule of law. Ultimately, the equal protection of the law as the means to achieve freedom from fear and freedom from want is the most sustainable form of pro-tection. Perhaps the United Nations contribu-tions to such protection are its most profound achievements. Yet, success in this pursuit is among the hardest to attain.”

—UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, August 2008 (A/63/226)


number of rapes and other forms of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) against women and children. Most of these victims have not been able to seek justice to date for a number of reasons, including the great distance to the nearest court, widespread social acceptance of impunity for such crimes, and lack of knowledge about legal protection. To combat this last point, thanks to support from Luxemburg, UNDP supported a broad-reaching public awareness campaign carried out by the 14 national Family Development Committees (CDF), who were able to inform more than 10,000 women and children across 51 communes nationwide about their legal rights. In March 2009, the campaign spread to the airwaves, when UNDP supported a

three-hour simultaneous broadcast across 13 public and private radio stations on the subject “Men and Women: Together for the eradication of violence against women”. In addition, 25 SGBV focal points from government Ministries, local NGOs and the UN System were trained as trainers to enhance sensitivity to SGBV concerns across their respec-tive organizations. UNDP is continuing to work with the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Human Rights and Gender to develop a national strategy to reduce sexual violence against women and children as well as with the Burundian Bar Association to further support justice for victims of sexual violence by providing them with free and low-cost legal counsel in accordance with the Beijing

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Meet AnnonciateAnnonciate Ndikumana is a slight, 17-year-old student whose life events once lead her to jail. Her father died before she can remember, and An-nonciate spent the majority of her formative years living with her mother and step-father in Murambi Colline in Ngozi Province. When her mother fell sick and passed away in 2004, Annonciate’s step-father began to sell the mother’s property, including the land her mother had owned. Although she was only 12 at the time of her mother’s death, Annonciate eventually realized that she and her four younger brothers and sisters were being deprived of their rightful possessions by their step-father. In following the step-father’s instructions for recuperating her mother’s land, Annonciate was arrested for property destruction and imprisoned at the police post in her commune. For a week she was the only prisoner in a station full of male officers and she was petrified that they might rape her. At night she asked for a candle and was so afraid that she kept it lit until each morning. She exited her cell only once, when her step-uncle and aunt were able to pay the officers to visit Annonciate for a few minutes.

UNDP’s Juvenile Justice pilot project, a collaborative effort between the Government of Burundi and BINUB’s Justice and Human Rights Joint Programme, found Annonciate in the prison a week after she arrived.

The project’s legal counsel con-vinced the police to release her temporarily and pushed for the case to be heard as quickly as possible in a system where lim-ited capacity to process cases and inequitable access to legal representation means cases are frequently ignored for months, even years. In January 2008, a judge pronounced a light sentence and Annonciate’s case was closed. The lawyer, provided through UNDP’s assistance, was further able to bring a second case to court, where it was judged that the step-father return all her mother’s property to Annonciate and her siblings. She is incredibly grateful for the project’s intervention, implemented in partnership with the International Non-governmental Organization Terre des Hommes, without which she believes she would still be in jail wait-ing for her case to be heard and would have had a breakdown from fear and the trauma of the experience. Since she no longer worries about her legal problems, she is able to study well and go to school every day, where she is usually the first or second student in her 10th form class. Her favorite subjects are Biology, Chemistry and Physics.

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Declaration. Speci!cally, 5 select SGBV cases are to act as test cases for close follow-up and "high pro!le" supervision by the Justice Joint Programme. Furthermore, a one-stop-shop model for care and treatment of victims of SGBV is to be piloted in the four Northern Provinces.

Penitentiary RehabilitationSimilarly to the judiciary, the penal system in Bu-rundi was also neglected and damaged during the years of violent con"ict. With support from PBF and Luxemburg, UNDP is working with the Min-istry of Justice to provide structural renovations and equipment to 7 prisons, many of which have not been maintained since their construction soon after Burundi’s independence from Belgium and are lacking such basic material as mattresses, blankets, dishes and utensils. Between 2008 and 2009, !ve of the prisons were completed, raising the living standards of 3,216 prisoners in conformity with minimum international human rights standards for incarceration and pre-trial detention. #e remaining prisons are expected to be rehabilitated by the end of 2010. UNDP further supported the updating of Burundi’s Penal Code, which was adopted at the end

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of April 2009, and its printing and distribution to all upper-level magistrates across the country. A revised Criminal Procedure Code, which animates the Penal Code, is underway, to be completed by mid 2010.

By supporting the Director General of Prison A%airs (DGAP) to launch a pilot project to reduce pretrial juvenile detention and to undertake a month-long series of public sessions between prison and court

o$cials and magistrates, UNDP was able to help the judiciary close 440 of 924 backlogged juvenile case !les (almost half), releasing many of these minors back to their families to await trial (see pro!le of Annonciate). Such reforms of the Justice Sector in Burundi provide more equal legal protection and access to citizens of all ages from rural and urban, IDP and returned refugee backgrounds.

Distribution of the revised Penal Code, Bujumbura (UNDP’s Justice Sector Reform Project). MB

UNDP supported the reform of the justice proce-dures for minors through four consultative sessions in 2008 for magistrates, judicial police o$cers and social workers, providing a basis for the development of a national strategy. #ese sessions further served to identify a number of particularly strong candi-dates from each of the three branches to implement the training of trainers module developed by UNDP on supporting juveniles within the justice system.


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Delivering Accelerated Recovery in a difficult post-conflict

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“The true measure of the success of the United Nations is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.”

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!In an unstable post-con!ict environment, the timing and the quality of recovery interven-tions is crucial. $e UN Integrated Service

Center (UNISC) is Burundi’s one-stop shop for accelerated program delivery, providing UN agencies, the Government and NGOs with critical goods and services to quickly implement appropri-ate recovery responses.

Established in 2007 to enhance national aid absorp-tion capacity and facilitate the UN system’s program implementation in Burundi, UNISC plays a key role in maximizing the peacebuilding momentum in Bu-rundi by providing strategic and technical assistance in the preparation, implementation and monitoring of development projects. UNISC is responsible for the procurement of a large variety of goods, from vehicles, computers, o$ce furniture and reintegra-tion kits to sophisticated health service equipment and radio communication materials. UNISC is also in charge of recruiting a large spectrum of national and international experts in the various !elds of governance, early recovery, and private sector de-velopment, among many others.

#rough the negotiating power of economies of scale, local and international Long Term Agree-ments, a database of suppliers and partners, and standardized practices the UN Integrated Service Center limits the need to duplicate work, making it the fastest and most cost-e$cient option to acceler-ate the provision of supplies for the population. With

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89% of 251goods providers located within Burundi, UNISC ensures local investment in peacebuilding projects and encourages greater national ownership in the results achieved.

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While some organizations only prioritize cost in making procurement decisions, UNISC also empha-sizes quality, meaning its results are more durable and ultimately more valuable. #ree di%erent major modes of procurement and an impressive pool of expertise, including engineers, logisticians, and

procurement and recruitment experts, ensures that UNISC’s tailored support meets the needs of a large diversity of clients.

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implementation areas, UNISC experienced rapid growth throughout 2008 and into 2009. With more than double the number of transactions and explosively expanding delivery by almost twice the total value in 2007, UNISC proved to be up to the task of accelerating delivery directly to the population.

Building on the successes of 2008 and 2009, UNISC will continue providing its advice and operational support to the Government and UN agencies in 2010, as well as commence its de-velopment of national capacities in programme planning, monitoring and evaluation, and pro-curement of goods and services. UNISC is also playing a critical role in the implementation of the Harmonized Approach for Cash Transfer (HACT) to government entities, building state capacity in !nancial management while encouraging transpar-ency in conformity with the Accra Action Agenda and the Paris Declaration.

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208 Number of new personnel contracts signed by UNDP

in 2008, including National, ALD, Interna-tional, Service and SSA contracts1 as part of the rapid increase in program activities. The office is building its human resource capacity to expand the quantity and quality of delivery in response to Burundi’s needs.

1 Source: UNDP Burundi Human Resources Unit

1st Rank of Burundi among all 44 UNDP offices in the Regional

Bureau for Africa for number of partici-pants in the 2008 and 2009 Global Staff Surveys (3rd among all 138 Country Of-fices worldwide). With more than 90% of staff members4 anonymously registering their individual perceptions of the office, this rank represents an all-time record for UNDP Burundi as well.


1 : 1 Approximate ratio of perma-nent female employees work-

ing for UNDP Burundi at all levels at the beginning of 2009, including project staff, compared to 105 men2. Among profes-sional positions the ratio in 2008 was 1 in 3 (33.3%), up from 23.1% in 2007. UNDP Burundi’s improved gender balance indica-tor demonstrates dedication toward includ-ing female perspectives and strengths in all areas, particularly in management positions.


9 in 10 Proportion of staff who felt that the UNDP

Burundi office was free from prejudice and harassment, as indicated in the anony-mous 2008 Global Staff Survey3. Addition-ally, 86% indicated that they felt job pride, and 87% felt that the office had ethical transparency.

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Regional Bureau for Africa in terms of programme expenditure in 2008. In 2006 and 2007 Burundi ranked 25th, and 14th, respectively.10

10 Source: Balanced Scorecard, 7 Feb. 2009

511 Number of official field mis-sions undertaken by UNDP staff

to monitor and evaluate on-going projects in the interior of Burundi between January 2008 and June 2009.12

12 Source: UN Security Cell, Burundi

255 Number of active UNDP email addresses in the Burundi

Country Office.11

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15 Number of distinct bilateral in-ternational partners supporting

UNDP’s work in Burundi in 2008 and 2009, including Belgium, Egypt, the European Commission, France, Germany, Japan, Luxemburg, Morocco, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.6

6 Source: UNDP Programme Management Support Unit

$1.35 m Surplus, in US dollars, recovered

from third parties for use of UNDP ser-vices in 2008, representing a forty-fold improvement compared to the -$32,000 balance at the beginning of 2007.7

7 Source: Extrabudgetary Status Report, 25 Aug. 2009

80.0 % Actual delivery rate for 2008, based on a

ratio of money spent compared to money budgeted.8

8 Source: Balanced Scorecard, 29 Jan. 2009

325 % percentage improve-ment of UNDP’s delivery

(in US dollar value) in 2008 compared to delivery in 2006.9

9 Source: Balanced Scorecard, 11 Sep. 2009, actual ratio is approximately 3.246

$28,618,670 Value, in US

dollars, of Peacebuilding Fund projects in Burundi, which are financially managed by UNDP in 2008 and 20095. Burundi is currently in a peace consolidation (as opposed to peace-keeping) phase, which the UN system is supporting through a number of integrated and non-integrated programs and projects.

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2008 and 2009 were record-setting years for UNDP Burundi, with programme delivery almost tripling, e%ective insertion into the UN integrated frame-work, as well as the o$ce’s highest ever participa-tion rates in the Global Sta% Survey1 two years in a row. However, the UNDP Country O$ce was also exposed to enormous operational challenges due to the sudden increase of !nancial resources and engagement in critical areas. Re"ecting upon the achievements and disappointments has led to a number of conclusions in various di%erent areas, from which UNDP hopes to draw wisdom for its continued work in Burundi.

It is often said that change comes from within. Much of UNDP’s success in Burundi in 2008 and 2009 would have been impossible without the re-inforced human resource capacity that grew rapidly throughout this period. While project management and reporting, as well as ATLAS (UNDP’s online management system) skills were sharpened in 2008, they are not the o$ce’s greatest strength. If the o$ce focuses on these areas for internal capac-ity building in 2010, it should continue to deliver outstanding results. #e development of a tailor-made partnership and communication strategy, able to capture the speci!city of the aid-coordination landscape in Burundi, could substantially help the O$ce in improving still more its partnering capac-

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ity. Timely and substantial reporting should also be part of these e%orts.

UNDP has found that focusing on transforming existing capacities, rather than trying to build new ones, particularly in this post-con"ict environ-ment, is the best path towards national ownership and sustainability. National ownership is certainly a process rather than an end point, reaching beyond the state and beyond institutions. Expanding the network of partners (civil society organizations, private sector, community-based organizations, etc.) has been also one of UNDP’s key achieve-ments in 2008 and 2009. Supporting national stakeholders in modeling Burundi’s future pros-pects—through the Vision 2025 exercise—has laid the foundation for a promising partnership in view of the upcoming Strategic Framework for Poverty Reduction and achievement of the Mil-lennium Development Goals.

UNDP certainly could not have achieved its 2008 and 2009 results in Burundi on its own. #e UN integrated framework—BINUB—has been a crucial environment for targeted peacebuilding initiatives and throughout the past two years UNDP collaborated closely with other UN agen-cies and non-UN partners to harmonize goals and actions. Partnership at all levels has proven to be the best way to produce greater impact and cost e$ciency. Speci!cally within the UN system in Burundi, while there is still a long way to go to

Taking Stock

take full advantage of the bene!ts of integration at all levels, the integrated approach has allowed UNDP and the UN to optimize their comparative advantages and improve the results of their joint interventions in support of Burundi.

At the programmatic level, UNDP Burundi found that the quick availability of Peacebuilding Fund resources to respond to post-con"ict emergen-cies has been critical, allowing the deployment of at times catalytic and at times stabilizing actions critical to peace consolidation in Burundi. Among other lessons learned, UNDP Burundi has con-cluded that the project approach used (as opposed to a geographically-based programme approach) tended toward a certain fragmentation of initiatives, diminishing the desired impact. Introducing the early recovery approach to de!ning priorities from a comprehensive understanding of community-based needs constitutes an essential programmatic tool to guarantee the interdependence of the peace and the development agenda, as Burundi looks forward to transitioning from a peace consolidation phase to one focused on equitable growth.

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#e positive and peaceful momentum in Burundi at the beginning of 2009 paved the road toward 2010 in a clear and encouraging direction. Many of the less visible accomplishments involved laying the groundwork for greater concrete results in peace consolidation and sustainable development in 2010 and beyond. UNDP has enjoyed a strategic position within BINUB, the UN Integrated mission, whose mandate was extended through the end of 2010. In the lead-up to the 2010 national elections, UNDP will continue supporting the three joint programmes in fostering trust, transforming capacity and nurtur-ing equity, to create an enabling environment for a peaceful democratic process.

In order to continue fostering greater trust through improved community safety, UNDP will maintain its support to the Government to professionalize the police and army forces and local justice system, to !ght the proliferation of small arms and light weapons and to disarm the civilian population. In partnership with the O$ce of the High Commis-sioner for Human Rights in Burundi and BINUB, UNDP will support the Government to conduct expansive and inclusive country-wide consultations on the implementation of transitional justice mecha-nisms for national reconciliation. Furthermore, by supporting the consolidation of the practice of open dialogue and peaceful resolution of di%erences at every level of society, UNDP will promote reconcili-ation and greater social cohesion.

In order to continue transforming the nascent capacity in Burundi, UNDP aims to improve the state’s role as the primary driving force behind, and manager of, sustainable development. By support-ing Parliament and other democratic institutions, building the capacity of political leaders, reforming the Public Administration, and expanding the ca-pacity of civil society and the media, UNDP aims to promote the consolidation of a democratic culture. Outside the framework of the integrated mission, UNDP will continue its support to the Government’s strategic planning and aid coordination. To this end, UNDP will help to !nalize Burundi’s “Vision 2025” and translate it into workable policies, as well as support Burundi’s further alignment with the Declaration of Paris, the Accra Forum and the Doha Conference on Aid E%ectiveness. In addition, UNDP will continue to support Burundi’s preven-tion of, and preparedness for, disasters, including executing the Government’s action plan for adapting to climate change.

In order to continue nurturing equity, UNDP will maintain its support for reviving the judiciary and penitentiary sectors by promoting the independence and e%ectiveness of the magistrate, improving access to justice, !ghting to end sexual violence against women and children, and enhancing respect for hu-man rights. Building on the previous reintegration program and capitalizing on the preparation and planning carried out in 2008 and early 2009, UNDP

Looking Ahead

is implementing a new community recovery and local development program. Using an “early recov-ery” approach, UNDP will support the relaunch of local economies, access to land and functional basic social services, and accountable local governance, ensuring that even the most vulnerable popula-tions are able to overcome their disadvantages and access the opportunities stemming from improved stability and peace.

Aiming to shift the balance of project execution to the Government, from 2010 forward, UNDP Burundi will fully apply the !ve global UNDP capac-ity development concepts—engaging stakeholders on capacity development, assessing capacity assets and needs, formulating a capacity development re-sponse, implementing the response and evaluating the capacity development—across the sectors of aid coordination, disaster risk management, local governance and reintegration management. #is will ensure improved impact measurement and greater accountability, in line with the Paris Declaration on Aid E%ectiveness, for UNDP’s peacebuilding and sustainable development interventions in 2010 and as the o$ce looks ahead.


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UNDP is the UN’s global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life.

Report prepared under the coordination of Gustavo Gonzalez and K. Danae Pauli with the participation of Martina Bacigalupo, Fiona Davies, Molly Firkaly, Francis James, Elfrida Kaneza, Jean Kabahizi and Rose Nitunga.

Photos by Martina Bacigalupo (MB) for UNDP, K. Danae Pauli (KDP) and Sylvain Liechti (SL) for BINUBPhotos on pages 15 and 71 by Aaron NsavyimanaPhotos 1 and 4 in !lmstrip on pages 36-37 by Afke BootsmanPhoto on page 27T provided by the International Conference on the Great Lakes RegionPhoto on page 33 provided by the Press Cell of the Burundian National Assembly

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