Investing in Prevention and Peacebuilding

A/RES/78/257View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 132 Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations, published in 2023.

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.

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

2 reports · 2024–2026

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2026	A/81/96	Implementation of projects financed through transfers from the Peacebuilding Account to the Peacebuilding Fund report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/78/257
2024	A/79/541	Revision of the terms of reference of the Peacebuilding Fund report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/78/257

What subjects does this mandate have?

8 subjects

Budget Contributions Financing Funds Peacebuilding Programme Evaluation Resources Mobilization Support Accounts War Prevention

What’s in this document?

24 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General;¹

¹A/76/732.

Endorses the conclusions and recommendations contained in the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions,² subject to the provisions of the present resolution;

²A/76/821.

Reaffirms that the Fifth Committee is the appropriate Main Committee of the General Assembly entrusted with responsibilities for administrative and budgetary matters, and also reaffirms the role of the Fifth Committee in carrying out a thorough analysis of and approving human and financial resources and policies, with a view to ensuring full, effective and efficient implementation of all mandated programmes and activities and the implementation of policies in this regard;

Also 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 an extraordinary arrangement, on an exceptional basis, and without setting a precedent, notes that voluntary contributions should remain the primary source of funding, and stresses that assessed funding is not meant to be a substitute for voluntary contributions and innovative funding;

Encourages Member States to make and increase voluntary contributions to peacebuilding, including to the Peacebuilding Fund, to ensure sufficient resources to support peacebuilding, and requests the Secretary-General to intensify resource mobilization efforts in this regard;

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

Decides to establish a dedicated multi-year special account, entitled Peacebuilding Account, as a modality of financing the Peacebuilding Fund;

Also decides to approve 50 million United States dollars of assessed contributions per annum, under grants and contributions, to fund the Peacebuilding Account, starting 1 January 2025, subject to the revision of the terms of reference of the Peacebuilding Fund;

Further decides, on an exceptional basis and without setting a precedent, that the assessment rates applicable to the regular budget are applied to half of the grant to the Peacebuilding Account, while the assessment rates applicable to the financing of United Nations peacekeeping operations are applied to the other half;

Decides that this annual grant of 50 million dollars shall be allocated as an earmarked contribution to fund the Peacebuilding and Recovery Facility of the Peacebuilding Fund, and to include programme support costs for Fund management, in accordance with the terms of reference of the Fund;

Also decides that the Peacebuilding Account shall be managed by the Peacebuilding Support Office in accordance with the relevant Financial Regulations and Rules of the United Nations³ and the Regulations and Rules Governing Programme Planning, and that these resources shall be administered by the Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office as an earmarked pool of resources separate from any voluntary funding;

³ST/SGB/2013/4 and ST/SGB/2013/4/Amend.1.

Takes note of paragraph 21 of the report of the Advisory Committee;

Recalls its resolution 76/305, and requests the Secretary-General to review the terms of reference of the Peacebuilding Fund in accordance with the provisions of the present resolution, including financial, management and oversight arrangements, for the use of assessed funding, while ensuring that enhancing the flexibility and agility of the Fund shall remain the overall objective of such review, in close consultation with Member States, through a structured process, in coordination with the Peacebuilding Commission and open to the participation of all Member States, and to present the revised terms of reference to the General Assembly during the main part of the seventy-ninth session at the latest;

Affirms the respective roles of the General Assembly and the Peacebuilding Commission in providing policy guidance on the use of the Peacebuilding Fund, including assessed contributions, and in providing advice and oversight of the Fund, to maximize its impact and improve its functioning;

Encourages the Peacebuilding Fund to work in close coordination with relevant stakeholders to advance efforts to bring greater coherence to peacebuilding efforts, in support of national peacebuilding priorities;

Stresses the importance of peacebuilding effectiveness and the need to avoid structural duplication, and encourages the Secretary-General to increase transparency, accountability and oversight of the activities related to peacebuilding;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly, on an annual basis, on the proposed programme budget for the Peacebuilding Account, in a format similar to the budget presentation under section 35 of the proposed programme budget, with an annex listing the proposed projects, beneficiary countries, budget per country, and objectives, and also requests the Secretary-General to provide additional supplementary information, such as a summary of available budgetary information, as appropriate, in the course of the sessions of the Fifth Committee;

Also requests the Secretary-General to report annually on the implementation, performance, progress and expenditure of projects funded by assessed contributions, and on the implementation of the recommendations of the Board of Auditors and the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions;

Further requests the Secretary-General, through the Peacebuilding Support Office, to provide the Peacebuilding Fund Advisory Group with a list of proposed projects, beneficiary countries, budget per country, and objectives for its review, and seek strategic and practical guidance and actionable recommendations on these projects, and to report thereon to the Peacebuilding Commission;

Recalls its resolution 75/201 of 21 December 2020, and reiterates its call for a further comprehensive review of United Nations peacebuilding in 2025;

Requests the Secretary-General to entrust the Office of Internal Oversight Services of the Secretariat with conducting an evaluation of the Peacebuilding Account, and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its eighty-third session;

Recalls paragraph 33 of the report of the Advisory Committee, and requests the Advisory Committee to invite the Board of Auditors to conduct an audit of the Peacebuilding Account, separately from the entities and programmes under volume I of the United Nations financial statements, as well as the cost-effectiveness and cost-efficiency of using resources allocated for peacebuilding activities in the United Nations, and to report thereon at its eighty-second session;

Requests the Secretary-General to conduct a comprehensive study of innovative and other means of resource mobilization and options of attaining more non-monetary contributions and their further use in activities carried out by the Peacebuilding Fund, and to report on the conclusions and results of this study to the General Assembly at its eighty-third session;

Also requests the Secretary-General to review the implementation of the present resolution and to report to the General Assembly, including on projected needs of the Peacebuilding Fund, at its eighty-fourth session.

50th (resumed) plenary meeting

22 December 2023

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