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Thematic Review on Local ²Ù±ÆÊÓƵappbuilding 2022

The 2022 Thematic Review on Local ²Ù±ÆÊÓƵappbuilding, commissioned by the UN ²Ù±ÆÊÓƵappbuilding Support Office in partnership with ²Ù±ÆÊÓƵappNexus Foundation and UN Volunteers programme, is informed by youth-led primary research in Burkina Faso, C?te d¡¯Ivoire, Kyrgyzstan, and the Western Balkans, and explores how ¡®local¡¯ peacebuilding is conceptualized and approached, what factors enable or inhibit the effectiveness of local-level peacebuilding interventions, and how the ²Ù±ÆÊÓƵappbuilding Fund and other donors can support local actors better. Some of the recommendations include:

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  • Support financial independence and institutional strengthening of local peacebuilding partners for sustainability of project results by integrating income generation activities into projects, committing to longer-term and flexible funding mechanisms, or facilitating partnerships between local governments and local civil society.
  • Strengthen country-wide stakeholder mapping with a focus on local conflict hotspots to ensure that selection of partners goes beyond the well-connected, capital city based national or local elite organizations, and extends to those who represent the spectrum of actors and social groups who are relevant to local conflict dynamics and populations.?
  • Connect with, mobilize, and recognize volunteers to help build sustainability, promote local ownership and leverage the networks and knowledge of local actors.?
  • Expand the use of participatory approaches to monitoring and evaluation, including ¡®everyday peace indicators¡¯, perception surveys and community-based monitoring and evaluation tools and processes to better measure local-level results and provide feedback for adaptation.?
  • Deliberately build local-national linkages into peacebuilding projects and sufficiently resource both levels of interventions, exploring ways in which local-level efforts can be catalysts for more structural or institutional change. ?

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