Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 05/2011

Budget support lessons from post-conflict support to Mozambique

Lars Buur, Johnny Flentø

April 2011

Danish Institute for International Studies

Abstract

Denmark has little experience to draw on with aid when it comes to the continuum from war through post-conflict reconstruction to democratic stabilization. One notable exception is the support provided to Mozambique over the past decades, which besides its focus on providing key state services also contributed to creating political legitimacy in the form of popular acceptance of a contested regime, thereby bolstering its authority.