My sense on the ground is that the situation today, the conflict, has disrupted most of the social services in the northern part of the country. This is one fact.
Also, we must not only look at the north because 80% of the needs today are in the south. Most of the IDPs have fled the north for the south. In the south the problems that we have now are much more related to capacity building. Of course, we must help the IDPs and respond to the crisis with the IDPs, but we also have to reorientate the programming towards more capacity-building activities at the grassroots level.
I think that the situation in Mali and the outcome of the political crisis, etc., have raised the fragility of the state institutions. There has also been some corruption, and we need to face all of those as factors that we need to consider today. If we have to continue our cooperation and strengthen the government capacities, we should also look at how we can encourage communities to develop capacities themselves and basically their access to social services in the proximity. In my view, this is what was lacking a bit in the past. We should have a more decentralized kind of vision for addressing both short-term and longer term needs in terms of resilience building.