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Held virtually on??26 January 9am - 12pm EST
The Secretary-General invited?all Member States to a high-level Replenishment Conference for the to mobilize critical support for conflict prevention and peacebuilding against the Fund¡¯s $1.5 billion requirements for the period 2020-24. The Conference aimed?to counter the persistent underinvestment in peacebuilding and provide this timely, catalytic and risk-tolerant instrument with more adequate, predictable and sustained resources to support national peacebuilding efforts in more than 40 countries around the world.
The Secretary-General opened the Conference and was?joined by his co-chairs:
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H.E. Julius Maada Bio, President of the Republic of Sierra Leone
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H.E. Abdalla?Adam Hamdok, Prime Minister of the Republic of Sudan
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H.E. Marc Garneau, Foreign Minister of Canada, Chair of the ²Ù±ÆÊÓƵappbuilding Commission
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H.E. Heiko Maas, Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany
Featured Speakers:?
- Ms. Leymah Gbowee,?Nobel ²Ù±ÆÊÓƵapp Prize Laureate
- Ambassador Annika S?der, Member of the UN Secretary-General's Independent Eminent Person for the 2020 ²Ù±ÆÊÓƵappbuilding Architecture Review.
Context: The conference took?place at a time of rising tensions and divisions exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic increases risks but also creates opportunities for peace as the Secretary-General highlighted in his call for a global ceasefire. It is a time for the international community to renew commitments to global cooperation and multilateralism and invest in conflict prevention and sustaining peace. Focusing on crisis response alone is unsustainable. The ²Ù±ÆÊÓƵappbuilding Fund¡¯s Strategy for 2020-2024?scales up support to national peacebuilding priorities to meet the challenges of our time in areas where the Fund has particular impact: inclusion of women in youth in peacebuilding; facilitating transitions and tackling cross border or regional risks.
Co-Chairs Joint Communiqu¨¦
During the High-Level Replenishment Conference Member States recalled the importance of sustaining peace in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and capitalized the Secretary-General¡¯s ²Ù±ÆÊÓƵappbuilding Fund to US$439 million.
Today, the Secretary-General, Anto?nio Guterres, co-chaired a High-Level Replenishment Conference for the United Nations ²Ù±ÆÊÓƵappbuilding Fund together with H.E. Julius Maada Bio, President of the Republic of Sierra Leone; H.E. Abdalla Hamdok, Prime Minister of the Republic of Sudan; H.E. Marc Garneau, Foreign Minister of Canada, Chair of the ²Ù±ÆÊÓƵappbuilding Commission and H.E. Heiko Maas, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany. The Conference also featured Ms. Leymah Gbowee of Liberia, Nobel ²Ù±ÆÊÓƵapp Laureate, H.E. Annika S?der of Sweden, Independent Eminent Person for the UN ²Ù±ÆÊÓƵappbuilding Architecture Review as well as local peacebuilding leaders from seven countries.?92 Member States joined the Conference.?
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Message from the Secretary-General¡¯s PBF Advisory Group
The High-Level Replenishment Conference on 26 January comes at a critical moment.
We now have fifteen years¡¯ experience of the ²Ù±ÆÊÓƵappbuilding Fund in action. Its impact on the ground has been amply demonstrated, and attested through rigorous independent analysis.
The human and moral imperatives for peacebuilding have always been incontestable; the business case has emerged ever more clearly. The cost-effectiveness of prevention, and of sustaining peace when threatened with relapse, has been established beyond doubt. Read the complete message?here.
About the ²Ù±ÆÊÓƵappbuilding Fund: The ²Ù±ÆÊÓƵappbuilding Fund is the UN's financial instrument of first resort to sustain peace in countries or situations at risk or affected by violent conflict. The Fund¡¯s new Strategy 2020-2024 is its most ambitious yet, responding to the Secretary-General¡¯s call for a quantum leap of support for peacebuilding and prevention.
Created by the General Assembly and the Security Council in 2005 (resolutions and ), the Fund¡¯s critical role was recognized anew in the 2016 General Assembly and Security Council resolutions on the Review of the United Nations peacebuilding architecture ( (2016)).? The Fund has invested over $1.2 billion to date in over 60 countries, with support from almost 60 Member States. Results from the Fund¡¯s last strategy period 2017-2019 are highlighted in the 2020 report Investing in ²Ù±ÆÊÓƵappbuilding Leadership.
Please direct any queries about the Conference to: pbf-replenishmentconference@un.org
The event will be?livestreamed via UN Web TV.
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