Financing for Peacebuilding

A/RES/76/305View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 66 Peacebuilding and sustaining peace, published in 2021.

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Subprogramme 6	Peacebuilding and Peace Support Office	14

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Subprogramme 6	Peacebuilding and Peace Support Office	14	—

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

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2 subjects

Financing Peacebuilding

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20 operative paragraphs

Notes the progress made in financing for peacebuilding by the entire United Nations system, while recognizing that financing for peacebuilding remains a critical challenge, and affirms its commitment to consider all options for adequate, predictable and sustained financing for peacebuilding, including through voluntary, innovative and assessed funding and other means of resource mobilization, and notes the significance non-monetary contributions can play in peacebuilding efforts;

Calls upon the Peacebuilding Commission to continue to strengthen the delivery of its advisory, bridging and convening mandate in support of resource mobilization for nationally owned peacebuilding priorities in the countries and regions under its consideration, and to continue to strengthen its working methods to enhance its efficiency and impact in support of peacebuilding and sustaining peace, in synergy with the Peacebuilding Fund;

Encourages all Member States and other partners to consider increasing their contributions to peacebuilding and sustaining peace activities in conflict-affected countries and regions, and stresses the importance of multi-year, flexible and risk-tolerant funding commitments, including pooled funding;

Underlines the critical contribution of peacekeeping operations and special political missions to peacebuilding activities, where and as mandated, underscores the importance of transition finance plans established at an early stage, and stresses the importance of sufficient funding to support peacebuilding activities during transitions and throughout the life cycle of peacekeeping operations and special political missions, especially in the period immediately after their departure or reconfiguration;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to elaborate options for adequate resourcing of the peacebuilding activities of United Nations country teams, including those carried out through the Peacebuilding Fund, and the mandated peacebuilding activities of United Nations peacekeeping operations and special political missions, including during mission transitions and drawdown, for the consideration of Member States;

Urges efforts to fund initiatives that integrate women’s full, equal and meaningful participation in the planning, implementation and reporting of peacebuilding and sustaining peace at all levels, including at the local level, welcomes the progress made by the Peacebuilding Fund in meeting and exceeding the Secretary-General’s targets for investments in support of inclusive and gender-responsive peacebuilding, and encourages other United Nations and non-United Nations funding mechanisms to increase the percentage of peacebuilding funding dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls;

Also urges efforts to address existing financing gaps for youth-led initiatives and youth organizations to ensure the full, effective and meaningful participation of youth in the design, monitoring and implementation of peacebuilding efforts at all levels, and encourages all financing stakeholders to increase coordination and collaboration with youth on financing national priorities;

Recognizes the importance of taking into account the local context in peacebuilding and sustaining peace, and stresses that civil society can play an important role in advancing efforts in peacebuilding and sustaining peace, and in this regard urges longer-term and more flexible funding mechanisms for strengthening capacities of local communities in tandem with national peacebuilding efforts;

Notes the launch of the Secretary-General’s peacebuilding funding dashboard and its contribution to enhancing transparency and coordination of the utilization of funds, encourages its further development to strengthen accessibility that enhances information-sharing for the planning and coordination of financing, and calls upon the Secretary-General to finalize the dashboard to catalogue all existing instruments and funding streams supporting United Nations peacebuilding, including pooled funds within the United Nations system at the global, regional and national levels;

Encourages all relevant stakeholders in the field of financing for peacebuilding to increase their strategic and operational collaboration at the regional and country levels, including in peacebuilding, development and humanitarian efforts, with a view to promoting coordinated and context-specific approaches;

Encourages the Secretary-General to develop a strategy for resource mobilization from the private sector in support of financing for peacebuilding, and further encourages Member States and the private sector to take practical steps to strengthen partnerships in support of peacebuilding efforts;

Encourages all Member States to enhance efforts to explore and pilot innovative and flexible mechanisms to mobilize additional public and private financing for peacebuilding that can be further contextualized, implemented and scaled up in conflict-affected countries and regions, building on existing best practices;

Encourages Member States to foster cooperation, including South-South and triangular cooperation for peacebuilding, and also encourages strengthened South-South cooperation with the Peacebuilding Fund in mobilizing resources for the joint implementation of peacebuilding activities, and reaffirms that such cooperation is an important element of multilateral cooperation;

Recognizes the important role of international and regional financial institutions in peacebuilding and sustaining peace, and encourages the implementation of the strategies adopted by the African Development Bank, the Islamic Development Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, as well as the relevant strategies adopted or being developed by other regional and international financial institutions focusing on operating in peacebuilding settings and conflict-affected countries and regions, including addressing drivers of conflict, and further encourages continued efforts towards strengthened partnership and strategic cooperation between the United Nations and international financial institutions at headquarters and field levels and consideration of joint initiative and analysis, where applicable, and shared priority-setting towards collective outcomes, complementarity and coordination in implementation, in line with national priorities;

Welcomes the funding compact, noting its voluntary nature, encourages Member States and entities of the United Nations system to contribute to its full and effective implementation, affirms the importance of voluntary contributions to the Peacebuilding Fund, and stresses the need to broaden and diversify the donor base, and in this regard encourages Member States and stakeholders to make and increase voluntary, multi-year and flexible contributions to the Fund;

Reaffirms the importance of ensuring adequate, predictable and sustained financing for peacebuilding, notes that the amount of voluntary contributions has not been sufficient to meet increasing demands for the support of the Peacebuilding Fund, and affirms that other sources of funding, including assessed contributions, could be used to finance the Fund through modalities determined by the General Assembly as a means of achieving this objective, and stresses that assessed funding is not meant to be a substitute for voluntary contributions and innovative funding;

Notes that the provision of assessed contributions to financing for peacebuilding would represent a shared commitment of Member States to peacebuilding and sustaining peace;

Encourages the Fifth Committee to continue and conclude its consideration of the report of the Secretary-General on investing in prevention and peacebuilding including considerations related to increased transparency, accountability and oversight of the Peacebuilding Fund including by requesting the Secretary-General to review the terms of reference of the Fund in close consultation with Member States including ensuring a geographically representative Advisory Group of the Fund, while ensuring the continued flexibility and agility of the Fund during the seventy-seventh session of the General Assembly;

Requests the Secretary-General to present proposals to standardize the reporting procedures of the existing financing for peacebuilding mechanisms of the United Nations in consideration of the diversity of the implementing partners;

Also requests the Secretary-General to include in his regular reports on peacebuilding and sustaining peace an update on the implementation of the present resolution, as well as recommendations to further advance efforts to ensure adequate, predictable and sustained financing for peacebuilding.

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