peacebuilding fund update

Peacebuilding FundUpdate

November 2013

2013: An increased focus on assisting country programme design

• For 2013, the PBF focused on a more proactive approach to aiding the design of country programmes for financing. This includes• Taking into account country-level demand and a country ‘scanning’,

identifying priority countries for every 6 – 9 month period

• Early financial support for preparatory activities (pre-secretariat structures, conflict analysis)

• Technical assistance by the PBF staff and mobilizing partnerships (InterPeace, PeaceNexus, former PBF Advisory Group members)

• In 2013 priority countries were: Guinea, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Niger, Somalia, South Sudan, Yemen

• September 2013 to early 2014 priority countries: Burundi, Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Papua New Guinea, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Yemen

The PBF programme team benefits from assistance from UNHCR

Strengthened M&E unit is focusing on quality

All PBF countries now have a programme officer and an M&E support officer

Increased field missions offering direct support for development of Theories of Change and Results Frameworks (Kyrgyzstan,

Yemen, Guatemala)

Organization of first regional workshop and of another revision of Guidelines

Quality assurance on periodic reporting on results (i.e. new Joint Steering Committee Annual Reports, feedback on project-level 6

monthly reports)

Management and co-management of PRF and IRF evaluations, respectively

Collaboration with Policy Branch on PBF-related thematic reviews

Oversight of global PBF 2013 Review

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The M&E unit benefits from assistance from Australia and UNDP

Reporting and Planning Global 2013 PBF Review report (January 2014). Analysis and recommendations from

the six-month independent investigation into PBF’s achievements and challenges as against its

2010-2013 Business Plan, including the functioning of country-based systems.

Secretary General’s Report on the Peacebuilding Fund (March 2014). A country-

by-country annual examination of PBF’s investments and results.

Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office’s Report on the PBF (May 2014). Financial and

results reporting according to PBF thematic areas, with special attention to RUNO lessons learned

and achievements.

Stakeholders meeting and presentation of next Business Plan (June 2014).

Based on the 2013 Review, development of next three-year Business Plan. The Stakeholders

Meeting will be timed during the same week as PBC event.

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Evaluation CoverageCompleted evaluations by end of 2013:

2010 (2): Burundi, Liberia

2011 (6): The Comoros, Guinea-Bissau, Nepal, Sierra-Leone, Sri Lanka,

Timor Leste

2012 (4): Kyrgyzstan, Central African Republic, Guinea, Uganda,

2013 (4): Burundi, DRC, Lebanon, Liberia

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Beginning in 2014, the PBF M&E Unit will manage all evaluations of PRF portfolios to ensure quality, timeliness, and a specific substantive focus on assessing the higher-level peacebuilding contribution of the Fund’s investments.

Active Country Portfolio

Active: Peacebuilding & Recovery Facility (PRF)** 1. Burundi* 2. CAR* 3. Comoros4. Côte d'Ivoire 5. DRC 6. Guatemala7. Guinea* 8. Guinea Bissau* 9. Kyrgyzstan**10. Liberia* 11. Nepal 12. Papua New

Guinea13. Sierra Leone* 14. South Sudan 15. Yemen Active: Immediate Reponse Facility (IRF) - only 16. Chad** 17. Lebanon** 18. Myanmar **19. Niger 20. Somalia 21. Bosnia

Herzegovina

Closing: Countries closing 2014Uganda (Northern - GPI) Sudan Libya

UN country teams preparing proposals for PBF:Colombia, Mali, Philippines

* = Peacebuilding Commission ** = Declared Eligible by the Secretary-General

List of Peacebuilding Fund Funding & Eligibility Decisions done in 2013

Date Country Programme/project Amount (US$m)

Feb-13 South Sudan Priority Plan 10.0

Feb-13 Myanmar IRF - Support to Myanmar Peace Center 0.5

Apr-13 Niger IRF - Reconciliation Project 3.0

Apr-13 PNG Eligibility n/a

May-13 Kyrgyzstan Surge Support – Pre Secretariat Capacity 0.1

May-13 Comoros 2nd Priority Plan 2.5

May-13 Yemen IRF - Outside Mediation 0.5

May-13 UN Secretariat PBF Review Project 0.2

Jun-13

Guinea

2nd Amendment of the Priority Plan 5.2

Jun-13 IRF - Dialogue/Mediation for SRSG Djinnit 1.3

Sep-13 3rd Amendment of the Priority Plan (Elections Support) 3.5

Jun-13 Myanmar Eligibility n/a

Jun-13 Guinea Bissau IRF - High Level Commission 0.5

Aug-13 Myanmar IRF - Peace Dividends in the South-East 1.6

Sep-13 Kyrgyzstan Priority Plan 15.0

Sep-13 Yemen IRF - Women and Youth 1.0

Sep-13 Yemen IRF - South 1.0

Oct-13 Liberia Priority Plan 15.0

Oct-13 Sierra Leone IRF - Constitutional Review 0.3

Oct-13 Bosnia Herzegovina Promoting Co-Existence and Diversity in Bosnia Herzegovina 2.0

Oct-13 PNG Surge Support – Pre Secretariat Capacity 0.2

Total 63.4

2013 Country Highlights (1) • Guinea – • Two strategies in 2013:

• First: Address political crisis around legislative elections • Total amount $5.5 million using both IRF and PRF • Electoral support through dialogue, election monitoring, support to the mediator

(SRSG Djinnit) , political dialogue, youth employment)

• Second: Organize phase 2 of Priority Plan 2013 – 2015 • Total amount requested $15.3 million • Areas of work include: political dialogue (central, community), national reconciliation,

women & youth employment, parliamentary support.• Liberia – • Core strategy for 2013: developing phase 2 of Priority Plan 2013 – 2015

• $15m approved in September, 2013 • Centered on supporting the National Roadmap for Reconciliation: land commission,

national human rights commission, “palaya” huts, national youth programme extension, national resource management in collaboration with the World Bank, women’s economic empowerment

• Positioning of Joint Steering Committee and Priority Plan more closely aligned with the Government’s Agenda for Transformation (overall national plan)

2013 Country Highlights (2)

• Kyrgyzstan – $15m Priority Plan approved in September focusing on:• a) the rule of law and human rights promotion; b) improving local

governanace capacity to manage conflict and reduce tensions in collaboration with civil society and community efforts; c) promotion of policies to deal with ethnic relations, national unity and language policy.

• JSC established in early 2013 co-chaired by the Presidents Office and UNRC and comprising of members of the UN team, government, donors, Civil society. JSC supported the process of preparing conflict analysis, priority plan.

• Individual projects expected to be approved by the JSC before the end of the year.

• Mali – Strategic focus: helping quickly• Cantonment project in Kidal expected before the end of the year (IRF $3m)• Working closely with MINUSMA – through them government has officially

expressed interest in being eligible for PBF • PBSO has been organizing meetings across UN system to have coordinated

approach with MINUSMA on peacebuilding

• Yemen – Strategic focus: supporting national dialogue and scaling-up UN Country Team support outside of Sa’ana • Approval of 2 IRF’s in support of national dialogue (participation of women

and youth, and focus on the south).• Eligibility declared in February 2013; Joint Steering Committee established,

chaired by the Prime Minister • Priority Plan under development in areas of political dialogue, transitional

justice, local governance and local peace dividends • Niger – Strategic focus: supporting Government’s peace consolidation plan

• Eligibility requested formally in November, 2013 • $3m IRF programme for youth engagement in border areas started• Possible follow-up issues: strengthening security sector, youth employment,

women’s empowerment, extractive industries • South Sudan – Strategic focus: UNMISS Peacebuilding Support Plan

• $10m PRF approved February 2013• Decentralized youth engagement & peace dividends (water access)


• Burundi – Strategic focus: 3rd Priority Plan for period before next election• Burundi has developed a new Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP), which

integrates peacebuilding issues, particularly in governance pillar. • Following on the October 2012 Conference organized in Switzerland in

collaboration with the PBC, the Fund aims to build momentum for issues aligned to the PRSP.

• A Priority Plan has been drafted; conflict analysis is being discussed by the Burundi government and the UN, prior to PBSO submission. The approach was agreed also by the PBC. Expected areas of support are: social cohesion/national dialogue, youth participation, human rights, and resolution of land disputes.

• Meanwhile, 2013 results of the closing year of the 2nd Priority Plan (2011-2013) include: strengthening of government's capacity to coordinate and plan activities in the area of reintegration; reduction of tensions and increase of social cohesion; peaceful resolution of 305 land conflicts; access to revenue for 540 vulnerable persons through community work; finalization of construction of 202 houses for reintegration; equipment of 3 youth centers; training of returnees and ex-combatants in entrepreneurship.


2013 Country highlights (5)• Myanmar – strategic focus: helping UN respond to rapidly evolving

peace processes• Myanmar declared eligible in mid-2013 • In 2013, peace dividends in south-east ($1.6m) and support for

Myanmar Peace Centre ($0.5m); another peace dividends project in southern Shan State under development

• Collaboration with the World Bank on a small grants facility to accompany the Joint Peacebuilding Needs Assessment

• Sierra Leone – strategic focus: maintaining UN peacebuilding focus as UNIPSIL transitions to a UN Country Team with PBC accompaniment • Package of IRF proposals being supported: conflict prevention; security

sector reform; constitutional review; human rights


• CAR – strategic focus: use IRF to support BINUCA efforts so facilitate exit from crisis • PBF suspended all programmes in April 2013. • In September 2013 – in collaboration with PBC and, on the ground, with EU –

agreed to support civilian police / gendarmerie re-start• In November 2013 – agreed to explore support human rights work through

OHCHR

• Guinea Bissau – strategic focus: use IRF to support UNIOGBIS efforts to advance the transition• Agreed to $5m package of IRFs to assist transition, including:

• support high level planning commission, joint with DPA; political dialogue, fight against drug trafficking, women’s programme, symbolic (catalytic) elections support

• The full (suspended) PRF portfolio postponed after elections take place• ASG Cheng-Hopkins and PBC Config Chair to visit in early 2014


• Papua New Guinea – Strategic focus: peacebuilding activities in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville as it prepares for its referendum on possible independence (due between 2015 and 2020).• Eligibility declared in mid-2013 • Possible areas of support include : youth issues, referendum process, women’s

participation, arms disposal, peace process management capacity, relationship between national and autonomous authorities, and rule of law/transitional justice.

• Joint Steering Committee will include Bougainville and national government• Conflict analysis being undertaken in collaboration with InterPeace

• Bosnia and Herzegovina – Strategic focus: building on Presidential initiative to counter concerning trends on ethnic relations • Support for Presidentially endorsed dialogue platform• Support for media / cultural initiatives and outreach into youth and education

environments to create space for discussion of ethnic relations

Collaborating with IFI’s

Specific efforts to collaborate with the World Bank/ AfDB Liberia – The PBF is working with the World Bank to undertake a

study on natural resource management that may lead into future funding.

Myanmar - The PBF is working with the World Bank to design a small grants facility to accompany the Joint Peacebuilding Needs Assessment

Somalia – PBSO mission (Nov 2013) to Somalia meeting with AfDB and the World Bank to review how conflict-related financing instruments can best be aligned

Central African Republic – Discussion of how conflict analysis / needs assessment can be jointly undertaken

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Looking Forward

• Colombia – IRF proposal for peace campaign under preparation• Cote d’Ivoire – Expression of interest for a second phase of PBF support.

Positive response relying on findings of the evaluation (first phase) • Somalia – Eligibility request likely; support to UNSOM for newly

recovered areas, including governance, youth engagement, dialogue, peace dividends

• Democratic Republic of Congo – 2009 grant was evaluated in 2013; possible 2nd grant in 2014, focused on 2nd generation ISSSS and ‘Islands of Stability’ approach

In addition to actions that follow directly on the country highlights listed in the previous slides, some additional activities foreseen in 2014 include:

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2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

Agency recipients of PBF funding

WHO

DPKO

UNCDF

UNRWA

UNODC

UNIDO

UN-HABITAT

UNESCO

WFP

ILO

OHCHR

UNWOMEN

UNDPA

FAO

IOM

UNFPA

UNHCR

UNOPS

UNICEF

UNDP

TRANSFERS TO RECIPIENT ORGANISATIONS as of 15 November 2013

2007 - 2011 year by year and cumulative

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013Total 2007 -

2013Agency

proportion

UNDP 38,030,816 29,626,262 22,536,652 40,245,780 35,996,320 18,565,492 18,328,669 203,329,992 53.2%

UNICEF 189,390 4,100,000 10,417,611 6,082,068 5,132,745 5,674,078 31,595,892 8.3%

UNOPS 788,644 1,905,000 2,930,696 12,391,350 3,899,354 8,601,784 30,516,828 8.0%

UNHCR 700,000 2,100,010 1,480,696 4,574,742 8,678,295 719,425 0 18,253,168 4.8%

UNFPA 4,000,000 200,005 3,368,959 4,699,300 1,635,360 946,036 936,138 15,785,798 4.1%

IOM 4,610,933 1,605,602 3,460,103 1,426,225 3,192,785 1,515,167 15,810,815 4.1%

FAO 804,215 4,278,200 4,285,158 1,176,795 0 10,544,368 2.8%

UNDPA 6,271,887 2,305,566 768,326 9,345,779 2.4%

UNWOMEN 3,000,000 718,443 513,108 1,068,691 2,318,714 2,277,894 9,896,850 2.6%

OHCHR 1,999,830 948,942 2,470,453 600,000 374,580 6,393,805 1.7%

ILO 1,851,785 1,000,000 702,193 3,474,663 650,000 7,678,641 2.0%

WFP 2,949,440 2,410,200 0 5,359,640 1.4%

UNESCO 900,000 1,050,000 1,149,922 617,800 2,041,826 5,759,548 1.5%

UN-HABITAT 750,000 921,761 2,000,000 291,575 481,500 4,444,836 1.2%

UNIDO 1,050,000 900,000 0 1,950,000 0.5%

UNODC 900,000 744,630 921,309 2,565,939 0.7%

UNRWA 1,418,499 0 1,418,499 0.4%

UNCDF 760,000 0 760,000 0.2%

DPKO 550,000 294,464 844,464 0.2%

WHO 65,869

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46,519,460 41,150,043 42,478,435 89,360,259 80,607,133 39,273,796 42,865,735 382,254,862 100.0%

PBF Cumulative allocations by status of UN presence, 2007 – 2013 (Sept)

Sierra Leone

CAR

Guinea-Bissau

LiberiaDRC

Nepal

Uganda

KyrgyzstanComoros Yemen

Guinea

Cote d'Ivoire

HaitiSudanSouth Sudan

Timor LesteGuatemala

ChadNiger

Kenya

MyanmarSri Lanka

SomaliaLibyaLebanon

Burundi

38% - In country with Special Political Missions ($163m)

29% - In country with Peace-Keeping Operations ($122m)

33% - UN Country Team ("non-mission" settings) ($141m)

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