Today at the UNHQ #SDG Lounge, the #PeacebuildingWeek side event "Partnering for Prevention" launched the new Policy Guidance for Effective National Prevention Strategies, setting out how an evidence-based approach strengthens prevention and reflects the different pathways
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- Co-hosts @nyuCIC, @AustraliaUN, @SierraLeoneUN, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste & Angola explored how international partners, from the UN to IFIs & multilateral development banks, can better align support behind nationally owned prevention efforts. #PeacebuildingWeek
- At today's #PeacebuildingWeek event "Partnering for Prevention," Amb. Fred Sarufa, PR of Papua New Guinea to the UN, highlighted the Peacebuilding Fund's support to 🇵🇬 since 2016, investing in national prevention efforts in Bougainville and the Highlands region. @UNinPNG
00:00 - Conflicts are rising while civic space shrinks, yet local women #peacebuilders are already preventing violence and sustaining #peace! Yesterday, @Unwomen and @UNPeacebuilding co-hosted the timely #PeacebuildingWeek event, "Scaling Locally Led Prevention: Supporting Women
- At today's #PeacebuildingWeek Peace Circle on financing youth-led peacebuilding, young peacebuilders led the conversation, with senior @UN leaders listening: ASG for Peacebuilding and Peace Support @ElizabethSpehar, ASG @UNYouthAffairs @felipepaullier, and @PioSmith_UN ASG @UNFPA
- This morning started with the #PeacebuildingWeek side event "Leveraging Partnerships to Finance Peace: Lessons Learned from the Ground". Co-hosted by @JapanMissionUN, @UNDP & @UNCDF, it highlighted ground-level insights on partnerships, innovative finance & enabling environment
- The findings from this week's Peace Circles, held in New York and across regions, will feed into the Second Independent Progress Study on Youth, Peace and Security. Young peacebuilders' recommendations don't stop here. #PeacebuildingWeek
- Today's #PeacebuildingWeek Peace Circle creates space for listening, reflection and collective problem-solving, placing young peacebuilders from Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Afghanistan and beyond at the centre of the conversation.
- For young peacebuilders, support means more than funding. Mentorship, technical expertise, networks, visibility and long-term backing all sustain their impact. Today's #PeacebuildingWeek Peace Circle explores how to strengthen the whole ecosystem around them.
- A 2025 Peacebuilding Fund Thematic Review of 41 initiatives dedicated to the Youth, Peace and Security agenda, spanning 33 countries and territories, confirmed both the catalytic role of youth-led peacebuilding and the persistent financing gap young peacebuilders face. The case
- Nearly half the world's population is under 30. Young people are not bystanders to peace, they are building it, in some of the world's most difficult contexts. Today's #PeacebuildingWeek Peace Circle puts their leadership at the centre. @UNYouthAffairs @UNFPA @UNDPPA
00:00 - Young people are at the heart of building peace. Today's #PeacebuildingWeek Peace Circle brings young peacebuilders together with senior @UN leaders, foundations and Member States to ask how financing and partnerships can better back youth-led peacebuilding.
- #HappeningNow Peace Circle: Financing and Partnerships for Youth-led Peacebuilding #PeacebuildingWeek @UNYouthAffairs @UNFPA @UNDPPA
00:00 - 🇨🇴: From establishing the Truth Commission to delivering its Final Report, the Peacebuilding Fund has backed the institutions helping the country reckon with its past. #PeacebuildingWeek #PBF20























