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Emerging Powers and Peacebuilding Financing: Recommendations for Finding Common Ground

There is currently a North-South gap in discussions on peacebuilding financing, despite the fact that emerging powers are playing an increasingly important role in fragile and conflict-affected countries. Now is the moment to create opportunities for mutual engagement, coordination, and learning.

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Apr 20, 2022
Priyal Singh, Gustavo de Carvalho
East Asia, Latin America, Middle East, South Asia, India, South Africa
Good Peacebuilding Financing, Prevention and Peacebuilding

Can Financing for Peacebuilding Be More Accessible and Responsive? Four Recommendations for More Inclusive Approaches

In 2020 and 2021, peacebuilding funding discussions focused on community led initiatives gained renewed momentum from a ripple effect of global movements focused on equality and decolonization. In response, donors initiated reviews and made commitments to increase local financing in quantity and to improve financing quality by shifting power and inclusion in grantmaking processes to communities being supported and impacted by the funding.
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Apr 20, 2022
Peacebuilding Fund, PBSO, United Nations, civil society, regional consultations, PBAR, Matrix of Recommendations
Peace and Prevention

The Secretary-General’s Proposal for Assessed Contributions for the Peacebuilding Fund: An Explainer

In this explainer, we unpack the proposal introduced by the UN secretary-general for the General Assembly to approve, on an annual basis, $100 million in assessed contributions to the UN Peacebuilding Fund (PBF), and address misconceptions and key sticking points for member states ahead of the April 27, 2022 High-level Meeting on Peacebuilding Financing.
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Apr 18, 2022
Betty N. Wainaina, Paige Arthur
UNSG, Investing in Peace, Peacebuilding Fund, peacebuilding financing
Peace and Prevention

Do Recommendations Really Have Influence?

More than 70 papers were submitted for the UN Peacebuiilding Architecture Review in 2020, covering nearly 800 recommendations from the UN, member states, civil society organizations, Independent Eminent Persons, and Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) consultations. CIC is delighted to announce that it has created a publicly available tool to analyze and monitor the recommendations in an online matrix.
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Apr 12, 2022
Céline Monnier
Peace and Prevention

Social Housing 2.0

The global housing crisis shows few signs of letting up. This report from Gianpaolo Baiocchi (Director of the Urban Democracy Lab, Professor of Individualized Studies and Sociology at NYU) and H. Jacob Carlson (postdoctoral research associate at S4 at Brown University) argues that the solutions can be found in "social housing."

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Apr 20, 2022
Gianpaolo Baiocchi, H. Jacob Carlson
Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

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