areas of focus , they present common points of opportunity and threat .
• Well-integrated within the larger pattern of reconstruction , they can provide a layer of connective tissue that helps both individual efforts and strategic-level efforts focus towards this idea of process , fit-for-purpose governance and locally-generated definitions .
• They can also help disparate efforts to connect and interoperate more effectively , ultimately producing a more effective operation .
As with “ necessary if not sufficient ”, while these should not be seen as a checklist of things to do in order to ensure success , they should be seen as a reminder of things that cannot be forgotten .
Fit for purpose governance
One central lesson from most past interventions is that governance tends to be conflated with government , and viewed as an overlay — a thing rather than a process , something whose presence is equated by nature with the will of the population to be governed by it . One overarching central assumption is that R & S operations , particularly those relating to governance , should focus on support for the creation of conditions of inclusive peace , safety and security — not on the architecture or the shape of the government itself . That architecture should be secondary , preferably designed and led entirely by the host nation with the support , but never the judgment of aid providers , and good governance should refer to those structures ( whatever their nature ) which support those conditions and help them flourish . Government itself should be supported by interveners only inasmuch as it contributes to the creation of those conditions .
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