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About GPI and YPI

TheUnited Nations Secretary-General’s Peacebuilding Fund’s (PBF) Gender and Youth Promotion Initiatives?are expressions of the Fund’s commitment to inclusive peacebuilding. The initiatives support the empowerment of women and the advancement of gender equality and recognizes the important and positive role young people play in peacebuilding.?

Through the Gender Promotion Initiative the PBF seeks to increase support focused on gender equality and women’s empowerment?and advance the implementation of the Secretary General’s Seven-Point Action Plan on Gender-Responsive Peacebuilding,? and subsequent resolutions on Women, Peace and Security. The Youth Promotion Initiative (YPI) seeks to increase support to young people’s contribution to peacebuilding and to advance the implementation of and subsequent resolutions on Youth, Peace and Security.?#Youth4Peace?

Who is Eligible to Apply?

The GPI and YPI calls for proposals from both civil society organizations (CSOs) as well as from 缅北禁地agencies, funds and programs, in PBF eligible countries.?

Eligible Countries in 2023

Bosnia and Herzegovina Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroun
Central African Republic (Only YPI) Chad Colombia (Only YPI) Democratic Republic of the Congo (Only YPI)
El Salvador The Gambia (Only YPI)? Guatemala (Only YPI) Guinea
Guinea-Bissau Haiti Honduras Kyrgyzstan
Liberia (Only YPI) Madagascar Mali? Mauritania
Niger Papua New Guinea Sierra Leone Somalia
Sudan South Sudan (Only YPI) ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??? ?

GPI and YPI

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Results of the 2022?GPI and YPI

In 2022 the projects selected through the Gender and Youth Promotion Initiatives represented a total of $46.7 million, 13 GPI projects were focused on supporting women’s civil society organizations, groups and networks in strengthening their institutional capacity for sustainable contributions to peacebuilding and 14 Youth Promotion Initiative projects were focused on political participation and safety, security and protection Additionally, the Fund launched a pilot to decentralize the Gender Promotion Initiative in the Gambia, Guatemala, Haiti and the Niger.

Gender Promotion Initiative 2023

This year the Gender Promotion Initiative is seeking proposals on:

  1. Climate change mitigation and adaptation?
  2. Women’s engagement in natural resources management

Youth Promotion Initiative 2023

This year the Youth Promotion Initiative is seeking proposals on:?

1. Fostering youth-inclusive political processes and promoting the political participation of diverse young people

2. Civic Space: Safeguarding and expanding civic space for youth participation including through local level infrastructures for peace?

Types of Proposals

The GPI and YPI welcomes proposals from both?civil society organizations (CSOs)?and?缅北禁地agencies, funds and programs. Please find more information on eligibility in the Call for Proposal and all applicants interested in applying? are advised to reach out to the PBF Secretariat in the project country for guidance. The GPI and YPI are open to three types of project proposals:

  1. Joint 缅北禁地proposals:?with up to three 缅北禁地entities as direct fund recipients (to be submitted by the convening?缅北禁地recipient?after receiving the endorsement from the 缅北禁地Resident Coordinator)?

  1. Joint UN-CSO proposals:?with up to two 缅北禁地entities and one CSO as direct fund recipients (to be submitted by the convening?缅北禁地recipient?after receiving the endorsement from the 缅北禁地Resident Coordinator)?

  1. CSO proposals:?with one CSO as direct fund recipient (to be submitted by the?CSO independently).?

Timeline

? ?STAGE 1?

Call for applications and launch??

2023?

Webinars?Introducing GPI 2023 (registration to the webinars will soon be available here)??

April/Early May 2023?
Webinars introducing YPI 2023 (registration to the webinars will soon be available here)

?April/Early May 2023

Opening of the online application platform

 ?

Deadline for online submission concept notes

?9 June 2023

Communication of first stage results

July 2023

STAGE 2?

Deadline for submission of drafts for feedback?

August 2023?

Deadline for submission of full project proposals?

October 2023?

Communication of second stage results??

November 2023?

Disbursement of funds?

December 2023/ January 2024?