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Self Report 2017

The self-report on WHS Commitments below is organized according to the 24 transformations of the Agenda for Humanity. It is based on commitments pledged at the time of report submission. Click on the 'Expand' symbol to expand each section and read the reporting inputs by transformation.

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1B
Act early

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility

  • The United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office will support and incentivize conflict analysis and early action to prevent violent conflicts and sustain peace.


  • Operational
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts

  • The United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office will improve capacities to prevent and resolve violent conflicts peacefully and sustain peace, including by improving on the tools to identify multi-dimensional and interconnected risks and drivers of conflict and on the capacities to translate conflict analysis into conflict-sensitive programming at all levels.


  • Operational
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts

  • The United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office will contribute to a UN system-wide effort to identify, collect, learn from and bring to international attention concrete cases where UN prevention has worked, as the basis for a renewed and urgent international push to re-prioritize preventive action.


  • Advocacy
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts

Core Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Core Responsibility
  • Commit to act early upon potential conflict situations based on early warning findings and shared conflict analysis, in accordance with international law.
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts
  • Commit to make successful conflict prevention visible by capturing, consolidating and sharing good practices and lessons learnt.
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts

  • What led your organization to make the commitment?

    These commitments are core parts of our mandate.

  • Achievements at a glance

    • PBSO has focused all its efforts on the implementation of the resolutions on sustaining peace, which has a very strong focus on “preventing the outbreak, escalation, continuation and recurrence of conflict” (A/RES/70/262 and S/RES/2282 (2016)).
    • PBSO requires that all projects and programmes funded by the PBF are based on a solid conflict analysis and provides training and technical support to UN Country Teams, including on the design of peacebuilding projects and programmes based on conflict analysis.
    • PBSO is working closely with the office of the President of the General Assembly on the organization of the High-Level Meeting of the General Assembly on sustaining peace during the 72nd session.
    • The Peacebuilding Fund (PBF) has supported gender equality and the empowerment of women and young people ...

  • How is your organization assessing progress

    We assess progress against the PBF business plans and the strategic results framework for the implementation of the Sustaining Peace resolutions

  • Challenges faced in implementation

    - Fragmentation across the UN-system around the humanitarian-development-peace nexus.
    - Adequate and sustained financing.

  • Next step to advance implementation in 2017

    - Implement with the World Bank(WB) the humanitarian-development-peace initiative, to support coherent planning across the HDP nexus and the development of collective outcomes.
    - Prepare a UN-WB Flagship Report on the prevention of violent conflict, to help our institutions work better together to prevent conflict.
    - Prepare the SG report on Sustaining Peace for the High-Level event during the 72nd General Assembly. This report includes options for financing UN peacebuilding activities and recommendations to enhance coherence.

  • If you had one message for the annual report on what is most needed to advance the transformation 'Act early', what would it be

    More focus on early response and operational prevention efforts as well as more focus on structural measures to prevent violent conflict.

  • Cross cutting issues

    ☑Gender

1C
Remain engaged and invest in stability

Joint Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility

  • Commits to support the realization of The Peace Promise, which is a set of five commitments to develop more effective synergies among peace, humanitarian and development actions in complex humanitarian situations in order to end human suffering by addressing the drivers of conflict.


  • Policy
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts
Partners: CARE International, United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), World Vision International, Peace Direct, CDA Collaborative Learning Projects, International Alert, Conciliation Resources, Human Appeal, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Catholic Relief Services, International Labour Organization (ILO), Mercy Corps, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN WOMEN), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict (SRSG CAAC), Alliance for Peacebuilding, Cord, Interpeace, Saferworld, Search for Common Ground, UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth, UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, UNESCO, United Nations Department of Political Affairs, World Bank, Initiatives of Change International, Women for Women International

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility

  • The United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office fully supports the five Core Commitments related to Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts and commits to contribute to the United Nations’ commitment to the prevention of violent conflicts, peacebuilding and sustaining peace, including through support to the Peacebuilding Commission and the management of the Peacebuilding Fund, as highlighted in General Assembly resolution A/RES/70/262 and Security Council resolution S/RES/2282 (2016).


  • Operational
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts

  • The United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office will support the organization of a High-Level Meeting of the General Assembly on strengthening the UN's work in sustaining peace within the next two years.


  • Policy
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts

Core Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Core Responsibility
  • Commit to improve prevention and peaceful resolution capacities at the national, regional and international level improving the ability to work on multiple crises simultaneously.
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts
  • Commit to sustain political leadership and engagement through all stages of a crisis to prevent the emergence or relapse into conflict.
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts
  • Commit to address root causes of conflict and work to reduce fragility by investing in the development of inclusive, peaceful societies.
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts

  • What led your organization to make the commitment?

    These commitments are core parts of our mandate.

  • Achievements at a glance

    • PBSO has advocated for coherent activities around the Humanitarian-Development-Peace (HDP) nexus throughout the UN system, including by co-organizing a workshop of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee and the UN Working Group on Transitions in October 2016. This workshop focused on the operationalization of the humanitarian, peace and development nexus, focusing particularly on joined up analysis and planning and identification of collective outcomes.
    • The Peacebuilding Fund (PBF) is risk-tolerant and is a financial instrument of first resort in situations of high risk or volatility. The PBF has a comparative advantage in relatively high-risk programmatic settings. It has developed a rigorous, proactive approach to risk management in its corporate governance through the designation of a risk marker system and through policies that ensure tighter management focus on high-risk/high-return programmes.
    • Launching the Humanitarian, Development, Peace initiative together with the World Bank, to enhance coherence across the HDP nexus.

  • How is your organization assessing progress

    We assess progress against the PBF business plans and the strategic results framework for the implementation of the Sustaining Peace resolutions

  • Challenges faced in implementation

    - Fragmentation across the UN-system around the humanitarian-development-peace nexus.
    - Adequate and sustained financing.

  • Next step to advance implementation in 2017

    - Implement with the World Bank (WB), the humanitarian-development-peace initiative, to support coherent planning across the HDP nexus and to support the development of collective outcomes.
    - Prepare a UN-WB Flagship Report on the prevention of violent conflict, to help our institutions work better together to prevent conflict.
    - Prepare the SG report on Sustaining Peace for the High-Level event during the 72nd General Assembly. This report includes options for financing UN peacebuilding activities and recommendations to enhance coherence.

  • If you had one message for the annual report on what is most needed to advance the transformation 'Remain engaged and invest in stability', what would it be

    More focus on early response and operational prevention efforts as well as more focus on structural measures to prevent violent conflict.

  • Specific initiatives

    ☑Commitment to Action: Transcending the humanitarian - development divide

  • Other related Agenda for Humanity transformations

    ☑4C - Deliver collective outcomes: transcend humanitarian-development divides

1D
Develop solutions with and for people

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility

  • The United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office will put local actors, including women and young people, at the fore and to support and strengthen national and local systems and capacities for conflict prevention and resolution.


  • Partnership
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts

  • What led your organization to make the commitment?

    These commitments are core parts of our mandate.

  • Achievements at a glance

    - The Peacebuilding Fund (PBF) has supported gender equality and the empowerment of women and young people through the third Gender Promotion Initiative and the first Youth Promotion Initiative. In 2016, it allocated 20 per cent of its resources to projects that focus on gender equality or women’s empowerment as a principal objective. The PBF was the first UN fund to reach the 15 percent target (in 2015) set by the Secretary-General in 2010.
    - The Peacebuilding Fund (PBF) empowers communities in which it invests through community-based monitoring schemes that provide conflict-affected communities with mechanisms to directly voice their opinions and express demands to members of Joint Steering Committees and other oversight bodies charged overseeing implementation of PBF-funded projects.

  • How is your organization assessing progress

    We assess progress against the PBF business plans and the strategic results framework for the implementation of the Sustaining Peace resolutions

  • Challenges faced in implementation

    - Fragmentation across the UN-system around the humanitarian-development-peace nexus.
    - Adequate and sustained financing.

  • Next step to advance implementation in 2017

    - Implement with the World Bank (WB), the humanitarian-development-peace initiative, to support coherent planning across the HDP nexus and to support the development of collective outcomes.
    - Prepare a UN-WB Flagship Report on the prevention of violent conflict, to help our institutions work better together to prevent conflict.
    - Prepare the SG report on Sustaining Peace for the High-Level event during the 72nd General Assembly. This report includes options for financing UN peacebuilding activities and recommendations to enhance coherence.

  • If you had one message for the annual report on what is most needed to advance the transformation 'Develop solutions with and for people', what would it be

    More focus on early response and operational prevention efforts as well as more focus on structural measures to prevent violent conflict.

  • Cross cutting issues

    ☑Accountability to affected people ☑ Gender

  • Other related Agenda for Humanity transformations

    ☑3D - Empower and protect women and girls

5C
Invest in stability

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility

  • The United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office commits to provide through the Peacebuilding Fund fast, flexible and risk-tolerant financing for the prevention of violent conflicts, peacebuilding, sustaining peace and resilience development, dependent on financial contributions of donors to the Peacebuilding Fund.


  • Financial
  • Invest in Humanity

  • What led your organization to make the commitment?

    These commitments are core parts of our mandate.

  • Achievements at a glance

    The Peacebuilding Fund (PBF) is risk-tolerant financial instrument of first resort in situations of high risk or volatility. The PBF has a comparative advantage in relatively high-risk programmatic settings. It has developed a rigorous, proactive approach to risk management in its corporate governance through the designation of a risk marker system and through policies that ensure tighter management focus on high-risk/high-return programmes. Collectively, these measures enable the Fund’s comparatively higher risk tolerance to other Funds and contribute directly to the PBF’s organizational effectiveness and added value. In Somalia, for example, the PBF has supported the extension of state authority in newly recovered areas from Al Shabaab in the South-Central Region, including through the utilization and reinforcement of evolving country systems, demonstrating through resources delivered under a peace and security mandate that these risks can be monitored, shared and managed.

  • How is your organization assessing progress

    We assess progress against the PBF business plans and the strategic results framework for the implementation of the Sustaining Peace resolutions.

  • Challenges faced in implementation

    - Fragmentation across the UN-system around the humanitarian-development-peace nexus.
    - Adequate and sustained financing.

  • Next step to advance implementation in 2017

    - Implement with the World Bank (WB), the humanitarian-development-peace initiative to support coherent planning across the HDP nexus and to support the development of collective outcomes.
    - Prepare a UN-WB Flagship Report on the prevention of violent conflict, to help our institutions work better together to prevent conflict.
    - Prepare the SG report on Sustaining Peace for the High-Level event during the 72nd General Assembly. This report includes options for financing UN peacebuilding activities and recommendations to enhance coherence.

  • If you had one message for the annual report on what is most needed to advance the transformation 'Invest in stability', what would it be

    More focus on early response and operational prevention efforts as well as more focus on structural measures to prevent violent conflict.

  • Cross cutting issues

    ☑Innovation

  • Other related Agenda for Humanity transformations

    ☑4C - Deliver collective outcomes: transcend humanitarian-development divides ☑ 5E - Diversify the resource base and increase cost-efficiency