Promoting Women-Led Peacebuilding for Impact: Recommendations for the Formal Phase of the 2025 PBAR

The role of women in peacebuilding is well-recognised. The 2016 dual resolution on peacebuilding and sustaining peace notes the substantial link between women’s full and meaningful involvement in efforts to prevent, resolve and rebuild from conflict and those efforts’ effectiveness and long-term sustainability (A/RES/70/262-S/RES/2282, PP21). This document presents recommendations for the 2025 Peacebuilding Architecture Review (2025 PBAR) outcome document, with a focus on strengthening women’s participation and gender analysis in peacebuilding in line with the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda. 

The 2025 PBAR outcome document should focus on the following priorities:

• articulate what inclusive national ownership in peacebuilding and sustaining peace means;
• increase quantity and improve quality of financing for women-led peacebuilding;
• encourage increased engagement by the Peacebuilding Commission on WPS;
• promote increased integration of the WPS Agenda in the work of UN field presences.