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Apr 27, 20221 min

Tracking Peacebuilding Funding in the world by the United Nations

The Uniited Nations Secretary-General has introduced the UN Peacebuilding Funding Dashboard.

It displays data of 6 global peacebuilding trust funds from 2015 to 2021 disbursed across 1,000 projects that amount to over $1 billion.

The twin resolutions on the 2015 review of the United Nations peacebuilding architecture requested the Secretary-General to “provide options on increasing, restructuring and better prioritizing funding dedicated to United Nations peacebuilding activities”. In response to this request, the Secretary-General’s report on peacebuilding and sustaining peace in 2018 (A/72/707-S/2018/43)PDF proposed to establish a dashboard for peacebuilding funding to “help to address issues of fragmentation and competition among funding instruments and to enhance transparency, accountability and effectiveness.” - Extract.

See Press release here: Secretary-General's Peacebuilding Funding Dashboard | PEACEBUILDING.

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