Conflict, Stability and Security Fund

The British Government created the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) on 1 April 2015, replacing the previous Conflict (Prevention) Pool. It is a pool of money, over £1 billion pounds per year, for tackling conflict and instability overseas.[1][2] It is part of the government's official development assistance (ODA).[3]

The CSSF is overseen by the National Security Council (NSC), whereas the previous Conflict Pool had been jointly controlled by the Department for International Development, the Ministry of Defence, and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.[4]

The CSSF supports delivery of the UK’s Building Stability Overseas Strategy and the National Security Strategy and Strategic Defence and Security Review. The CSSF builds on the framework of the Conflict Pool by bringing together existing cross-departmental expertise and resources from across government.[4] The CSSF funds a broader range of activities to help prevent conflict that affects vulnerable people in the world’s poorest countries, and tackle threats to British security and interests from instability overseas. This will include actions the UK delivers directly or through third parties to help prevent conflict and instability, and support post-conflict reconciliation.

Priorities for the Fund are set by the Government’s National Security Council,[5] to ensure a stronger cross-departmental approach that draws on the synergy of defence, diplomacy, developmental assistance, security and intelligence. It is designed to enable the British Government to tackle the root causes of conflict abroad with various national and regional programmes including, developing human rights training, strengthening local police and judiciaries, and facilitating political reconciliation and local peace processes.

A major spending area is related to the Syrian Civil War.[2][6]

The Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy launched an inquiry examining the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund in May 2016.[7][8] On 2 November 2016 Lord McConnell criticised the fact there was no up-to-date public strategy for the fund, as the 2011 Building Stability Overseas Strategy has never been updated.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Oliver Letwin (12 March 2015). "Conflict Stability and Security Fund Settlement, Financial Year 2015-16 : Written statement - HCWS392". UK Parliament. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
  2. 1 2 Ben Gummer (21 July 2016). "Conflict Stability and Security Fund 2015 /16 and settlement for 2016 /17 : Written statement - HCWS123". UK Parliament. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Conflict, Stability and Security Fund". House of Lords Hansard. UK Parliament. 2 November 2016. Column 708. Retrieved 4 December 2016.
  4. 1 2 Investing in long-term peace? The new Conflict, Stability and Security Fund], Conciliation Resources (PDF) (Report). Conciliation Resources. 1 September 2014. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  5. ↑ Stabilisation Unit Business Plan 2014-15
  6. ↑ "Providing non-humanitarian assistance in Syria". Foreign & Commonwealth Office. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
  7. ↑ "Conflict, Stability and Security Fund inquiry launched". Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy. UK Parliament. 26 May 2016. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
  8. ↑ "Conflict, Stability and Security Fund inquiry". Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy. UK Parliament. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
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