The organisations that suffer the most damaging accountability failures in fragile-state operations are rarely those that lacked policies. More often, they had policies written for environments that bear little resemblance to the ones they were operating in. A fraud prevention framework developed for a stable country context does not protect a programme running across conflict-affected regions in the DRC. A supply chain compliance protocol that assumes regulatory infrastructure will function does not hold up in South Sudan.

25 August 26

Getting this right requires a clear-eyed assessment of what accountability infrastructure should look like in a genuinely high-risk operating environment, and what it means to find an advisory partner capable of supporting it in practice.

In this edition of our Fragile States series, we explore why conventional assurance models often fall short in high-risk environments, what proportionate accountability really looks like, and the questions organisations should ask when selecting an advisory partner.

Click here to download and read the full article. 


Should you have any questions regarding the information in the fragile states series, please do not hesitate to contact Willie Oelofse or Paul Otonglo.

 

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