International Day of Peace: Volunteering for Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace in West and Central Africa

Kensuke Matsueda — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 19:39:00 +0000

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With ongoing violent conflicts and tensions in many parts of the world, the United Nations Secretary General’s Peacebuilding Fund (PBF) is scaling up its efforts to build and sustain peace while developing partnerships with organizations such as the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme, to support peacebuilding initiatives in conflict-affected situations across the world.

From 2006 to 2017, the PBF has allocated $772 million to 41 recipient countries. The PBF works across pillars and supports integrated UN responses to fill critical gaps; respond quickly and with flexibility to political opportunities; and catalyze processes and resources in a risk-tolerant.

UNV is a strategic partner and efficient interlocutor of the PBF at the national/local levels through the mobilization of committed and skilled UN Volunteers in remote locations. For example, UN Volunteers play a critical role in the implementation of the PBF’s Gender and Youth Promotion Initiative (GYPI) projects. Last year, a group of UN Volunteers received a training by the PBF in Nairobi on gender-sensitive peacebuilding to enable them to apply a gender lens when implementing the PBF projects.

Press Statement of the Peacebuilding Commission on the Presidential run-off elections in Sierra Leone

Kensuke Matsueda — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 15:00:00 +0000

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Statement of the Peacebuilding Commission

Presidential run-off elections

New York – 30 March 2018

The Peacebuilding Commission congratulates Sierra Leone for the successful conduct of Sierra Leone’s presidential, parliamentary and local council elections that took place on 7 March 2018.

The Commission also welcomes the efforts of all stakeholders towards ensuring a professional, transparent and credible polling process, in line with national and international frameworks, and the work of the National Electoral Commission in the preparation and conduct of the polling process.

The Peacebuilding Commission is closely following developments in Sierra Leone ahead of the Presidential run-off elections scheduled to take place on 31 March 2018.

The Peacebuilding Commission calls on all political parties, particularly the All People’s Congress (APC) and the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP), and their leaders to exercise restraint in respect of democratic principles, avoid any form of divisive and inflammatory rhetoric, and urge their supporters to refrain from violence. The Commission emphasizes its confidence that all Sierra Leoneans will engage and participate peacefully in the process.

The Peacebuilding Commission assures all national stakeholders of its commitment to support Sierra Leone throughout the electoral process and continue its political accompaniment and advocacy role.

لبناء السلام - Sierra Leone

International Day of Peace: Volunteering for Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace in West and Central Africa

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Press Statement of the Peacebuilding Commission on the Presidential run-off elections in Sierra Leone

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