This note provides practical guidance for IDB invest clients on how to identify and manage contextual risks in areas of heightened conflict, violence, and insecurity. Contextual risks are defined as risks in the external environment (at a country, sector, or subnational level) that are pre-existing risk factors not caused by the project. Examples of such contextual and structural risks are land disputes, tensions and conflicts among groups, high levels of gender inequality and violence, and governance failures. 

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