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Peacebuilding Fund Board

Peacebuilding Fund Board. Wednesday 14 December. SRI LANKA. Objectives. Opening remarks Update on the PPP Process for Programming the PBF Contribution Review Project Concepts Next Steps for PBF Project Development Overview of EU support to the PPP AOB. Update on PPP. PPP finalized

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Peacebuilding Fund Board

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  1. Peacebuilding Fund Board Wednesday 14 December SRI LANKA

  2. Objectives • Opening remarks • Update on the PPP • Process for Programming the PBF Contribution • Review Project Concepts • Next Steps for PBF Project Development • Overview of EU support to the PPP • AOB

  3. Update on PPP • PPP finalized • President and SG endorsed • Individual meetings with most Board members • PBF contribution of $7m confirmed • UN working with counterparts to develop concept notes • PPP partner mapping database in operation • Discussion on initial concepts (today)

  4. Programming PBF Contribution 5 integrated projects based on PPP priorities. Note: Resettlement and Durable Solutions outcome addressed through EU assistance

  5. I: Transitional Justice Concept ($1.87m) • Key Counterparts: SCRM, ONUR, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Women and Child Affairs, Human Rights Commission and other relevant government institutions and CSOs • $1.87m from PBF, including $400,000 in support of civil society • OHCHR, IOM, UNDP, UNV, UN Women, UNICEF

  6. Support to design & operationalise TJ mechanisms

  7. Supporting Civil Society’s work on Transitional Justice

  8. II: Reconciliation Concept ($1.8m) Project aims to work with national partners in: • Infrastructures for Peace & Dialogue: With Ministry of National Integration & Reconciliation, Ministry of National Dialogue Co-existence & Official Languages, ONUR, District and Divisional Administration, & CSOs • Peace Education: With National Institute of Education, Ministry of Higher Education, Ministry of Skills Development and Vocational Training, Provincial Department of Education, Zonal Department of Education & CSOs • Psychosocial support: With the Ministry of Health Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine, Ministry of Women and Child Affairs, Ministry of Social Empowerment and Welfare, Provincial Director of Health Services, & CSOs. The UN will work in close collaboration with GiZ/EU to ensure complementarities

  9. Infrastructures for peace to promote dialogue, build consensus and provide early warning

  10. Peace Education

  11. Psycho-social support

  12. III: Women and Youth Concept ($1m) • The project will empower youth and women to participate and engage in governance and decision-making processes and responses related to sustaining peace and security in Sri Lanka at all levels. • National counterparts:Ministry of Women & Child Affairs, Ministry of National Co-existence Dialogue and Official Languages; Ministry of Vocational Training and Skills Development, Parliament; National Youth Services Council and National Youth Corps, Sri Lanka Institute of Local Governance. • Non-state partners: Network of national and local youth and women and civil society groups, Political parties, women’s caucuses, International and national NGOs, youth-led or youth focused civil society organizations • Youth: , $1m from PBF (+ $410,000+ from participating UN agencies) • UNFPA, UNV, UN Women, UNDP, OHCHR, UNICEF

  13. Increased youth participation in peacebuilding activities

  14. Support to women's empowerment and participation in peacebuilding, including politics

  15. IV: Independent Commissions ($0.7m) • This project will provide strategic support to strengthen the core functions of the National Police Commission, Human Rights Commission and Right to Information Commission, to enable them to play a catalytic role in the peacebuilding process in Sri Lanka. • Support to the NPC and the HRCSL will build upon/complement EUR 600,000 support through the EU/UNDP project • UNDP and IOM, in collaboration with UNWomen and UNV

  16. Independent commissions are able to contribute towards a culture of more accountable and transparent democratic governance

  17. SCRM and PBF Secretariat ($1.67)

  18. Next Steps PBF Project Operationalisation: • Share Concept Notes with Board members by 11 January 2017 for feedback by 20 January 2017 • Develop full project proposals by 15 February • Technical review of project proposals by 24 February • Board reconvenes to review projects and approve funding allocations (End February) • Implementation begins March 2017

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