Grants and Contributions

With GAC’s support, Development and Peace is helping to increase the resilience of acutely vulnerable families living in substandard housing in Gaza.

This project aims to provide critical support to United Nations (UN) peace operations and help enhance the UN’s peace and security architecture. Project activities include: (1) providing support for the enhancement of the performance of Troop and Police Contributing Countries (T/PCCs) to UN peace operations; (2) improving data driven decision-making, and collection and analysis of data on performance at the mission and TCC levels; (3) providing specialized training on child protection, conflict-related sexual violence, explosive ordinance, joint operation centre functions, and engagement of women in peace operations; and (4) capacity support for the Extra-Budgetary funds/projects and implementation of the Action for Peacekeeping initiative.

February 2019 - From new violence in peaceful areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo (RDC), such as Ituri, to multiple Ebola outbreaks, and the forced return of hundreds of thousands of Congolese refugees and IDPs, 2018 pushed the limits of DRC's humanitarian assistance.

This project supports the work of the United Nations Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA), which plays a central role in the United Nations efforts to prevent deadly conflict, and build sustainable peace around the world. The DPPA also works to help ensure the meaningful participation of women, youth, Indigenous peoples and marginalized groups in political processes, conflict prevention and mediation. Project activities include: (1) advancing the sustaining peace agenda by supporting inclusive constitutional processes, peaceful elections and national dialogues; (2) strengthening the capacity of regional and sub-regional organizations to address key conflict drivers; and (3) fostering inclusiveness through civil society networks.

This project supports the multi-donor United Nations (UN) Peacebuilding Fund (PBF), which delivers fast, flexible, catalytic, and targeted programming to peace support and peace building initiatives in fragile and conflict-affected states (FCAS). Project activities include: (1) supporting the implementation of peace agreements and political dialogue; (2) promoting coexistence and peaceful resolution of conflict; (3) economic revitalization and generation of peace dividends; and (4) rebuilding essential administrative services and capacities.

The project aims to support and incentivize efforts to increase the meaningful participation of uniformed women in United Nations (UN) peace operations. The project seeks to accelerate progress towards achieving the United Nations Security Council’s declared target of doubling the rate of women’s participation within police and military contingents by 2020 compared to 2015, as well as supporting targets to increase the proportion of women serving as military observers, staff officers and individual police officers.

This project aims to support effective peace and security efforts in Afghanistan through the NATO Afghan National Army Trust Fund.

It aims to do so by: creating safe spaces for women and girls to support them in their collective efforts for positive change; supporting meaningful community participation by women; working with men and boys to promote gender equality and positive role models; supporting local women’s rights defenders; contributing to an inclusive, women-led accountable Women, Peace and Security agenda. Project activities include: (1) building the capacity of parliamentarians (women and men) towards policy development that strives to improve gender equality (GE) and promote the participation of women in the rebuilding of their communities; (2) providing technical and financial assistance for women's rights organisations (WROs) and groups of women’s rights defenders, including, training and coaching in GE, human rights (HR), policy development, network development and livelihoods programming; (3) with the assistance of the WROs, establishing child-friendly women’s spaces where women can meet to seek assistance, education, exchange ideas and discuss matters of importance to the rebuilding of their communities; (4) training for community leaders (who are mostly men), as well as men and boys in GE and issues pertaining to women and girls (and in some cases men and boys) in their communities such as HR, sexual and gender-based violence, and sexual and reproductive health and rights, in order to garner support for improved lives of their mothers, sisters and daughters; (5) establishing networks between women, WROs and community leaders to ensure women’s voices are heard and that they participate in the rebuilding of their communities, develop and conduct a social media campaign with GE messaging based on the work with community leaders, men, boys, women and girls to champion GE.

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The project aims to promote peace and stability in conflict affected states.

The UN Multi-Partner Trust Fund for Post-Conflict in Colombia (MPTF) was launched in 2016 in order to support the implementation of the Peace Accord between the Government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).