A Network of People Building Peace
29 November 2022How to ensure funding in conflict and crisis supports the needs of local women: Lessons from Ukraine
Ukraine is under massive rocket attacks. Important critical infrastructure objects were hit at the end of November, resulting in four regions being...
12 April 2022Financing Peacebuilding: The added value of GPPAC’s locally-led network approach
Local peacebuilders play a critical role in building and sustaining peace. However, there is a dire gap in resourcing local peacebuilding work. That...
15 December 2021Enhancing Women’s Participation: GPPAC Partners with the WPHFs Rapid Response Window
We are excited to share that we have entered a one-year partnership with the Rapid Response Window (RRW) of the United Nations Women’s Peace and...
7 December 2021When, If Not Now? Funding Local Women Peacebuilders
During my undergraduate studies, I was a member of a local student-based feminist organisation. I still recall vividly how challenging it was to...
29 November 2021#Financing4Peacebuilding: Civil Society Statement to the Peacebuilding Commission
GPPAC's Senior UN Policy and Advocacy Advisor, Marina Kumskova, on behalf of civil society shared the following written submission with the...
14 October 2021Mapping the Paths to Transform Financing for Peacebuilding
Financing for peacebuilding has become a hot topic in peacebuilding discussions in recent years as the international community has come to acknowledge...
22 June 2021PBC Blog: New Frontiers in Financing for Peacebuilding within the Peacebuilding Commission
Recently, the international community came to the recognition that the full implementation of peacebuilding and sustaining peace is not possible...
16 March 2021What 2021 will look like largely depends on ourselves: Make 2021 the year of the cessation of violence
The Covid-19 pandemic continues to present an onerous challenge to peace and human security around the world. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the...
8 March 2021Transforming the Approach to Funding Peacebuilding: Challenges and Opportunities
One message that came out strongly from the 2020 Peacebuilding Architecture Review is the need to strengthen global efforts to ensure adequate...
11 February 2021What are the UN System-Wide Community Engagement Guidelines? Overview and Next Steps
The Community Engagement Guidelines (CEG) are a manual for the UN actors operating in the field. However, it is also an opportunity for civil society...
9 February 2021Implementing the UN Community Engagement Guidelines: Turning Words into Action
In August 2020, the UN published the Community Engagement Guidelines on peacebuilding and sustaining peace. The Guidelines support UN field presences...
12 November 2020Best Practices in Financing for Peacebuilding: Ensuring local ownership in Kyrgyzstan
It’s like listening to a song on repeat. International actors reiterate over and over again the importance of ‘local ownership’ and ‘meaningful civil...