NL-KVK-41217404-PU004 GPPAC The Alliance consists of the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC) network , and the two networks coordinated by the World Federalist Movement-Institute for Global Policy (WFM-IGP) – the Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC) and the International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect (ICRtoP). Each of the networks in the alliance has a global Secretariat, as well as regional secretariats (GPPAC) and regional hubs (WFM-IGP) hosted by other CSOs. The global and regional secretariats/hubs play a convening role: connecting members with one another or with governmental and other actors where relevant at the regional and local levels. GPPAC Foundation GPPAC Foundation 40000 26500 8509 2972 14738 2944 7271 14220 29167 1875 63652 12135 28009 The participants were the Chairs of the GPPAC Working Groups from Mexico, the Philippines, Palestine, Serbia, Sri Lanka, and the USA. The GSG provided a great deal of input on various GPPAC strategies, programmes and network issues. The Global Secretariat wrote a report capturing the discussions and recommendations from the GSG meeting, as well as several discussion documents for the ISG. The GPPAC Global Secretariat convened, coordinated and funded the meeting. 3.2.2. The networks and members develop internal procedures to strengthen internal (network) and external accountability and take steps to implement them. The participants were representing all of GPPAC’s regions (with the exception of Central Asia). The International Steering Group took decisions on network governance issues, strategic planning, advocacy, knowledge production, inclusivity and communications; and advised on a number of issues including network membership, protecting civic space, and gender (including amendments to the GPPAC Charter on gender). The GPPAC Global Secretariat convened, coordinated and funded the meeting. 3.2.2. The networks and members develop internal procedures to strengthen internal (network) and external accountability and take steps to implement them. In each of the Regional Focus Areas of the Prevention up Front Alliance there was organised a Regional Steering Group meeting in 2017 for the Regional GPPAC networks. The 6 GPPAC Regional networks in the focus areas of the PuF Alliance have an own functioning governance - that is the Regional Steering Group (RSG). Altogether there were 6 RSG meetings organised in 2017. Several activities in 2017 have contributed to this overall output, namely: - new Global Strategy Group was set up with members from the GPPAC membership; - election of new Regional Representative for East and Central African GPPAC Region; - gathered input on national GPPAC networks, to be agreed by the GPPAC International Steering Group and added as a chapter to the Network Strengthening strategy of GPPAC; - included self-assessments for the 6 Prevention up Front Regional Networks of GPPAC and review of the Memorandum of Understanding in 2017 reporting by the 6 priority Regions of GPPAC; - drafting steps towards improved governance and democracy in the network, to be discussed by the International Steering Group of GPPAC in June 2018; - agreed on transitions of the Regional Secretariats of the Regional GPPAC networks in East and Central Africa, Latin America and Caribbean and West Africa. The Global Strategy Group advises GPPAC and its networks at the strategic level. It will meet - as successor of the Programme Steering Group - in The Hague in April 2018 for the first time. All the necessary discussion documents were drafted in 2018-I. Travel arrangement for the International Steering Group - GPPAC's highest decision making body - to meet early June in Sri Lanka were started. It provides an indication of the commitment of ISG members to meet and participate. On 27-28 March 2019, GPPAC convened a Global Strategy Group (GSG) meeting with 7 CSO members from around the globe, to collect input and recommendations from the GSG to develop the new GPPAC strategic plan 2021-2025. The GSG discussed the results of GPPAC’s mid-term review and the guidance it provides for the next strategic period for discussion at GPPAC International Steering Group meeting in May 2019. The Alliance contributes to enhanced civil society credibility by strengthening its networks' and members' accountability, complementarities and internal procedures and practices NL-KVK-41217404-PU005 GPPAC The Prevention Up Front Alliance defines ‘advocacy’ as “the strategic use of information to address unequal relations between different stakeholders in conflict prevention” . Information is the principal tool that enables the Alliance to support its civil society members to empower vulnerable actors affected by conflict, such as local communities, women, youth and ethnic minorities, as well as governments lacking knowledge or capacity, to participate in promoting conflict prevention by strengthening inclusivity, norms and institutions - the key features of the Alliance Theory of Change. ‘Lobby’ is the actual approach, in person or in writing, towards a target audience whose behaviour is to be changed in this regard. GPPAC Foundation 25000 7895 6635 849 712 NL-KVK-41217404-PU002 GPPAC For the Prevention Up Front alliance, inclusivity means: engagement with all social and interest groups affected by conflict, particularly women, youth, indigenous and other marginalised groups. Our strategy to ensure inclusivity is integral to our human security approach and gender justice. GPPAC Foundation 28000 2732 10755 15100 3730 NL-KVK-41217404-PU003 GPPAC Prevention up Front alliance partners produce knowledge about norms and institutions that are relevant for conflict prevention as well as knowledge about capacity building initiatives for civil society. This improves the application of those norms and the operations of those institutions, and increases civil society capacities and effectiveness to respond to armed conflicts. GPPAC Foundation 20000 8000 As part of its communications strategy and awareness-raising efforts, CICC in partnership with its Ivoirian member, publishes quarterly magazines on international justice: role of the Rome Statute in peacebuilding, gender justice and accountability. The main goal for the 2016 publications would be to build support for the Rome Statute in Africa and restore the negative perception that the ICC and international justice have in the continent. 11698 NL-KVK-41217404-PU001 GPPAC Baseline assessment: needs and capacities assessment of members of all three networks, and of GPPAC and WFM-IGP, including mapping of capabilities to develop capacities of members. Plus updating of the regional context analyses and strategic directions. GPPAC Foundation GPPAC Foundation 215000 157900 29500 3997 NL-KVK-41217404-PU006 GPPAC Strengthen the capacities of the partnership’s network members for lobby and advocacy to shape and contribute to locally grounded and inclusive conflict prevention mechanisms and practices, and facilitate the Netherlands government to effectively support these processes . GPPAC Foundation 160000 10457 77374 21965 NL-KVK-41217404-PU009 GPPAC The Prevention Up Front Alliance will implement a Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning framework based on an existing system currently used by GPPAC. In the process of learning, GPPAC has customised Outcome Harvesting as the network’s monitoring and evaluation system, which will inform the PME framework of the Prevention Up Front Alliance. GPPAC Foundation 36000 4128 16396 22662 9730 4053 17414 5563 825 1221 11301 3914 21491 During the workshop, recommendations were developed for ensuring the quality of monitoring & evaluation practices for the Strategic Partnership grants. GPPAC produced a guidance note after the workshop and initiated an online platform and other support services for Outcome Harvesting practitioners. These activities were part of the project “Improving Practices in Outcome Harvesting” co-financed by the Knowledge Management Fund and the Prevention up Front partnership. 3.2.2. The networks and members develop internal procedures to strengthen internal (network) and external accountability and take steps to implement them. In 2016 GPPAC implemented a baseline analysis in the 6 Priority Regions of GPPAC that fall under the financial scheme of the Prevention up Front Alliance. In 2017 this has been implemented for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (PME) purposes by 6 Regional operational plans and 1 global operational plan for the global priorities. This is an overall, cross-cutting output without indicators to measure progress. GPPAC Global Secretariat developed a database in 2013 to keep track of the reported outputs (activity level) and outcomes (changes among actors that GPPAC influences). The database was revised and improved during 2017 and will be operational from the start of 2018 to keep track of progress and outcome results more efficiently. GPPAC is in the lead of a project to improve Outcome Harvesting as an Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) approach and to be or become suitable and reliable for Monitoring and Evaluation of the Strategic Partnership projects (Dialogue & Dissent policy framework of the Dutch MFA). GPPAC arranged that key partners became actively involved in the second workshop on improving practices in Outcome Harvesting on 24 April 2018. The registration of participants will include key staff of the MFA in M&E, Partos as co-organiser, Strategic Partnership Alliances and NGOs, and OH experts and experienced OH facilitators. During the fourth quarter of 2018 GPPAC executed the Mid-Term Review (MTR) for the Prevention up Front Alliance. GPPAC and the Prevention up Front Alliance hired two Outcome Harvesting experts, Goele Scheers and Wolfgang Richert to harvest outcomes. This included improving of outcome statements, clarifying information provided and strengthening the underlying documentation that increase the credibility of the outcomes. 3.2.2. The networks and members develop internal procedures to strengthen internal (network) and external accountability and take steps to implement them. During the first quarter of 2019 GPPAC finalised the Mid-Term Review (MTR) for the Prevention up Front Alliance. GPPAC and the Prevention up Front Alliance hired two Outcome Harvesting experts, Goele Scheers and Wolfgang Richert to harvest outcomes. This included improving of outcome statements, clarifying information provided and strengthening the underlying documentation that increase the credibility of the outcomes. From 2016 to October 2018 the PuF Alliance recorded 99 outcomes that the external evaluators found of sufficient credibility to analyse further. The findings and final recommendations were discussed with all Global Secretariat staff of GPPAC in February and with GPPAC’s Global Strategy Group in March for learning and strategic follow-up. The Alliance contributes to enhanced civil society credibility by strengthening its networks' and members' accountability, complementarities and internal procedures and practices NL-KVK-41217404-PU008 GPPAC Strengthen the international peace and justice system to prevent and end impunity for crimes occurring in conflict and post-conflict situations. GPPAC Foundation 62500 7561 32582 NL-KVK-41217404-PU007 GPPAC Strengthen the effective implementation of agreed norms and policy frameworks for conflict prevention through lobby and advocacy. GPPAC Foundation 45000 3184 3807 9345 NL-KVK-41217404-PU000 GPPAC The Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC) and the World Federalist Movement-Institute for Global Policy (WFM-IGP) joined forces in the Prevention Up Front alliance. This alliance brings together GPPAC’s network and the two networks coordinated by the WFM-IGP – the Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC) and the International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect (ICRtoP). The Prevention Up Front programme aims to build the capacity of civil society actors to open up spaces for engagement and influence international and regional intergovernmental organisations, national governments, civil society and the general public to strengthen, adopt and implement norms, laws and policies for conflict prevention, prevention of impunity, and the protection of populations, in ways that are locally grounded and inclusive. Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs GPPAC Foundation GPPAC Foundation WFM-IGP 2000000 Fourth instalment 698481 6th disbursement to WFM-IGP 320000 1st disbursement to WFM-IGP WFM-IGP 1562000 sixth instalment 170000 8th disbursement 610000 9th disbursement 2000000 Fifth installment 800000 7th disbursement to WFM-IGP 4000000 WFM-IGP part of the Prevention Up Front grant 382000 2nd disbursement to IWP-IGP GPPAC Foundation IWP-IGP 236000 3rd disbursement to IWP-IGP GPPAC Foundation IWP-IGP 591757 4th disbursement to WFM-IGP GPPAC Foundation WFM-IGP 10000000 Grant decision of 19 November 2015 Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs GPPAC Foundation 1600000 second instalment 800000 First instalment 1938000 Third instalment 103062 5th disbursement to WFM-IGP This Final Report provides an overview of the Prevention up Front programme (2016-2020), analyses our main achievements within the results framework, and reflects on the five-years partnership’s successes, bottlenecks, and lessons learned. 2017 2017 # of CSOs with increased L&A capacities # of CSOs included in SPs programmes 2017 2017 DD3 # of times that CSOs succeed in creating space for CSO demands and positions through agenda setting, influencing the debate and/or creating space to engage. # of advocacy initiatives carried out by CSOs, for, by or with their membership/constituency. # of CSOs included in Strategic Partnership programme # of laws, policies and norms/attitudes, blocked, adopted, improved for sustainable and inclusive development # of laws, policies and norms, implemented for sustainable and inclusive development NL-KVK-41217404-PU010 GPPAC How to Do Conflict prevention: An important aspect of this focus at the global level is the follow up of the recommendations from the 2015 UN review of peacekeeping operations, the peace architecture, the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 and the UN resolutions that followed, notably the so tion, continuation and recurrence of conflict, addressing root causes, assisting parties to conflict to end hostilities, ensuring national reconciliation, and moving towards - for the UN - a groundbreakingly new and expansive understanding, close to the idea of prevention. Sustaining peace is a political process that takes place before, during, and after the outbreak of conflict, and therefore also not the task of a single UN agency, but a system-wide responsibility. GPPAC Foundation GPPAC Foundation . . 6581 85575 66062 50382 44310 58227 51644 20016 79991 51509 30982 50898 77542 79094 66481 Expansion of the program to teenagers (5th-9th grades), which is the continuation of the “Living in Peace and Harmony” course at the middle school level. A collection of material for textbooks for extracurricular activities has been completed. 1.2.2. Civil society reach out to key conflict/prevention stakeholders to engage them in developing inclusive prevention and protection strategies The Chernivtsi Expert Group on Conflict Prevention met in September to discuss conflict-related factors in connection with local elections and ways to minimize conflicts caused by the implementation of decentralization reform in Ukraine. Network members of EE GPPAC regional network participated in: - Holding international (Ukraine, Romania, Moldova, Belarus, Poland, Hungary) round tables and conferences to overcome historical resentment - Communication with local and international media (radio & TV), which promotes dialogue in polyethnic communities (Ukraine, Moldova) - Preparation for participation in an international conference (Ukraine, Moldova, Romania), dedicated to the history of the region and historical figures who made efforts to unite the region. 1.2.2. Civil society reach out to key conflict/prevention stakeholders to engage them in developing inclusive prevention and protection strategies Three thematic meetings with youth groups resulted in two policy briefs: "Role of history as an instrument in the eruption and development of the armed conflicts in Georgia"; and "Qualitative analysis of the sense of citizenship among the Abkhazia-based youth amid COVID-19 pandemic". 1.2.2. Civil society reach out to key conflict/prevention stakeholders to engage them in developing inclusive prevention and protection strategies Six featured stories were published highlighting methods of early response to conflict-prone situations, prevention of conflict escalation and peace and confidence building. Articles published online are: “The role of women in peace” at www.ginsc.net, “independence inside the cell’, “Friends' second appeal to their societies” & “Choice at the request of the client” at Meydan.tv about the Armenian-Azerbaijani war 1.2.2. Civil society reach out to key conflict/prevention stakeholders to engage them in developing inclusive prevention and protection strategies The activity was part of the localization of SDG16+ in Cameroon, it was organized under the theme “Building a Peaceful Youth for the Next Generation: A Youth Alternative Approach to SDG16+ Localization in Cameroon”. The youth camp brought together 100 participants representing different regions and communities of Cameroon with the objective of building peaceful, just and resilient youth leaders for the next generation. The youth camp for peace created safe spaces as well as offered the young people between the ages of 10-25 to learn and identify their roles in enhancing inclusive communities of peace. At the end of the National Youth Camp for Peace: • 100 young participants gained knowledge and skills on SDG16+, peace-building and non-violent techniques to conflict resolution • Transformation of youth mindsets to enhance the adoption of responsible behaviours and incline to attitudes that define them as peace ambassadors in their respective families and communities. • Capacities of the young girls and boys were improved to claim ownership of the Sustainable Development Goals particularly the peace goal, SDG16 • Participants committed individually and collectively to put knowledge and skills acquired into action as well as keep the youths connected. 1.2.2. Civil society reach out to key conflict/prevention stakeholders to engage them in developing inclusive prevention and protection strategies From September 2020, Kaabong District Local Government has mainstreamed SDGs into their district planning process. This follows the SDG localization meeting with key actors in Kaabong district in which the district took an action point to mainstream SDGs in their planning and development planning process. SDGs are now used as one of the key checklists for planning and review of local government plans right from village, parish, sub county and district level. 1.2.2. Civil society reach out to key conflict/prevention stakeholders to engage them in developing inclusive prevention and protection strategies n September 2020, the members of GPPAC South Caucasus regional network have increased their preparedness to respond promptly to the Armenian-Azerbaijani armed conflict and demonstrated increased solidarity towards its resolution which resulted in the joint statement. The outcome is important due to a very tense situation in the region, especially when it comes to the differences in the attitudes of the civil society from Armenia and Azerbaijan to the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. The fact that it was possible for both sides to agree on the joint statement is an important and significant change. See statement here: https://gppac.net/news/gppac-calls-governments-armenia-and-azerbaijan-immediately-call-ceasefire 1.2.2. Civil society reach out to key conflict/prevention stakeholders to engage them in developing inclusive prevention and protection strategies From September 2020, the SDG Secretariat in the Office of the Prime Minister has accepted and is in the process of putting in place several key recommendations highlighted in the SDG16+ study – especially in regard to enhancing SDG localization and SDG data and coordination. Following the study activities and sharing, the SDG secretariat requested GPPAC-CECORE to engage stakeholders in Kaabong district to discuss and agree on SDG Focal persons at district level as a way of enhancing SDG data and bridging the coordination gap with the national level. 1.3.2. Intergovernmental and state actors incorporate inclusive prevention and protection principles in their relevant policies In September 2020, 100 youth (48 female and 52 male) committed to becoming peace ambassadors and are now engaged in promoting peace in their respective families and communities in Cameroon. The peace ambassadors attributed this to the transformation in their mindset – following a 2020 youth peace camp organized during the International peace week in which youth learned about peacebuilding, career building and life skills. 1.2.2. Civil society reach out to key conflict/prevention stakeholders to engage them in developing inclusive prevention and protection strategies Training of Trainers workshops on the “Teaching Manual for the Prevention of Violent Extremism in Sahel and Nigeria” were organized in August and September 2020 in Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso and Nigeria. 60 teachers (15 x 4) were trained on Preventing Violent Extremism to enable them to build resilience of school children to help prevent violent extremism in the Sahel. Also in attendance were local authorities, traditional leaders as well as representatives of Intergovernmental and international organisations. The PVE manual seeks to complement regional efforts in grooming a new generation of resilient young people equipped and prepared to prevent violent extremism in the Sahel and Nigeria. All the stakeholders expressed their entire support for effective implementation of the project. 1.2.2. Civil society reach out to key conflict/prevention stakeholders to engage them in developing inclusive prevention and protection strategies This activity is based on the success of previous training in 2019 that was done by GPPAC member PPM in Lebanon for members of the security forces in Iraq, mainly in Mosul. The Iraqi army approached PPM to provide this second training, this time for higher-ranking officials, 25 generals. The Arabic translation of GPPAC’s Human security toolkit was used. 1.2.2. Civil society reach out to key conflict/prevention stakeholders to engage them in developing inclusive prevention and protection strategies GPPAC member PPM held 5 training workshops for MENAPPAC members and other civil society representatives on Responsibility to Protect (RtoP), in collaboration with ICRtoP, focusing on Libya, Yemen, Syria, early warning; WPS Agenda, refugees and COVID-19. Specialists participated in each session, as well as Karen Smith, UN special adviser on RtoP. 1.1.4. Network members work together to inform, monitor and contribute to implementing prevention and protection strategies In August and September 2020, GPPAC member PPM held six online training sessions on conflict resolution, conflict analysis, EWER, Human Security, RtoP, PoA (arms) for MENAPPAC members. As a follow-up to the sessions members worked with the concepts and tools in practice, for example by conducting conflict analyses of each others' countries. 1.1.2. Network members collaborate to gather and develop civil society resources and expertise on norms and approaches with particular attention on inclusivity GPPAC started developing a project titled "Financing for Peacebuilding: Building Opportunities for Local Civil Society" in partnership with DHF. The project aims to develop strategies for increasing the availability of funds to local civil society and their networks. The UN Liaison supported the development of the WPS and Humanitarian Compact for the Beijing 25+ process by providing recommendations on how the Compact could be financed in a way that meaningfully supports its work and integrates civil society perspectives in this work. 1.1.1. Network members engage in regional and cross-regional exchanges, working groups and action research on priority themes GPPAC works to promote linkages between sustainable development and peace in efforts to a coherent and coordinated approach to the implementation of peacebuilding and sustaining peace. In Quarter 3, a roundtable discussion on ‘Building Peace Infrastructures in Africa’ took place online and saw the participation of a diverse range of participants from across countries and regions who reflected on their perspectives and experiences in building infrastructures for peace. And the online campaign around SDGs was launched: "Every Goal is a peace goal" that featured the contribution of GPPAC network to the implementation of all SDGs through peacebuilding means. 1.1.1. Network members engage in regional and cross-regional exchanges, working groups and action research on priority themes GPPAC continues to align objectives and strengthen joint action of peacebuilding actors within civil society; thereby, strengthening the peacebuilding movement around common objectives. In addition to maintaining its convening platforms (sustaining peace roundtable series and the CS-UN Prevention Platform), GPPAC has worked to mobilize joint action with DHF and LPI around the SIPRI Forum and the PBC COVID convening. The NYPG that has been previously inactive has moved to host four policy dialogues: with PBSO and the Eminent Panel for the 2020 Review under the leadership of GPPAC (increased the recognition of the NYPG as a group for PBSO) and the co-facilitators of the 2020 Review (leed by GNWP). GPPAC has also brought additional capacities on board with the NYPG that helped mobilise the activities within the group. Together with LPI, GPPAC has also convened the 2020 Review civil society working group to mobilize the joint action for stronger implementation in the post-2020 phase. 1.3.2. Intergovernmental and state actors incorporate inclusive prevention and protection principles in their relevant policies On 14 July 2020, after the Online roundtable discussion on Building Peace Infrastructures in Africa the UN Peace And Development Advisor (PDA) in Cameroon reached out to GPPAC with the request to get to know GPPAC members in Cameroon and suggested GPPAC member WAA to be in the lead of mapping civil society in Cameroon. The engagement demonstrates the convening capacity of GPPAC and recognizes the expertise of GPPAC members with the UN at national level as well as the credibility of GPPAC members as partners of the UN. 1.2.2. Civil society reach out to key conflict/prevention stakeholders to engage them in developing inclusive prevention and protection strategies 155 participants from the Philippines, Myanmar/Burma, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, and Bangladesh attended the webinar which focused on how the COVID-19 pandemic has created a global health challenge and exacerbated the pre-existing vulnerabilities of people living in communities with violence and political instability. Main questions discussed were: How are governments and/or ASEAN responding to the pandemic? What is the impact of the pandemic on conflict-affected, displaced and marginalized, and the response of community actors? What are the most critical tasks/roles for peacebuilders and human rights defenders working with conflict-affected, displaced and marginalized communities at this time? 1.1.2. Network members collaborate to gather and develop civil society resources and expertise on norms and approaches with particular attention on inclusivity A quick assessment was conducted with 25 national (Philippines: Davao provinces, Marawi and Lanao provinces, Cotabato, Magundanao, Bukidnon, Zamboanga provinces, and Metro Manila) and 9 regional (Malaysia/Sabah, Cambodia, Timor-Leste, Myanmar/Burma and Indonesia) partners after consultations with GPPAC-SEA and other networks. The objectives of the assessment were: 1. In the short-term, surface data to identify and respond to the needs of local and regional partners in light of the Covid-19 pandemic; and 2. In the medium to long-term, adjust the institution's and partners' strategies deemed fit in light of the Covid-19 outbreak. A Rapid Needs and Capacities Assessment was conducted from April-May 2020, was analysed and summarised in June and was circulated back to partners and respondents last 1 July 2020 1.1.1. Network members engage in regional and cross-regional exchanges, working groups and action research on priority themes Six experienced CSOs from Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan have become GPPAC members. The joining of new members is essential because it increases the capacity of GPPAC South Caucasus Network, diversifies its peace activities and amplifies advocacy potential. Each new member has its unique capacity in the various fields of peace activity ranging from grant-making and youth-led activities to a think tank and advocacy. 1.1.4. Network members work together to inform, monitor and contribute to implementing prevention and protection strategies Three thematic meetings with youth groups in Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan have been organised to engage youth CSOs and student clubs in conflict prevention activities and research. And GPPAC freelance press officers in Georgia published 2 articles on peace and conflict prevention: http://www.resonancedaily.com/index.php?id_rub=2&id_artc=97399 (Conflict prevention architecture) http://www.resonancedaily.com/index.php?id_rub=2&id_artc=97400 (The importance of an archive on conflict resolution) 1.1.1. Network members engage in regional and cross-regional exchanges, working groups and action research on priority themes 20 schools and 60 teachers have been identified for the teaching of the PVE Manual in Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Nigeria. WANEP local offices in these countries identified and engaged with key stakeholders for the project implementation. These include Ministries of Education, Pedagogical Experts, Administrative Authorities, Schools Authorities, Teachers, Traditional Leaders etc. Advocacy activities were conducted in the 4 target countries with the aim of officially presenting the Preventing Violent Extremism project to relevant stakeholders and seeking their buy-in. These included: Ministries of Education and relevant departments and agencies, school authorities (Inspectors, Principals,etc.), Teachers and Communities and traditional leaders. 1.2.1. Civil Society initiates or participates in joint capacity development with state actors on how to work together and operationalise inclusive prevention and protection mechanisms and norms. As a result of GPPAC Western Balkans first online training on Resilience and Dialogue in the Times of Crisis, 20 teachers and peace educators from Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Croatia improved their personal and professional capacities to develop resilience and dialogue skills in order to support colleagues, students and parents in crisis situations with a particular focus on the current health crisis. The teachers were equipped with practical skills on how to build resilience among students and inspire colleagues and parents to do the same. 1.2.2. Civil society reach out to key conflict/prevention stakeholders to engage them in developing inclusive prevention and protection strategies The webinar ‘Role of Animated Film in Education for Peace’ focused on teacher's experiences in the use of animated film in strengthening teamwork, tolerance and resolving conflicts in the classroom. The webinar on Communication in Difficult Circumstances focused on sharing experiences of how communication processes and relations between teachers, students and parents are organised during the health crisis situation. 1.2.2. Civil society reach out to key conflict/prevention stakeholders to engage them in developing inclusive prevention and protection strategies During May-June 2020, the educational authorities in the Anenii-Noi district of Moldova agreed to start implementing the “Culture of Good Neighborhood” educational course in most elementary schools of the district starting September 2020. GPPAC members were able to persuade the district education department in the Anenil-Noi to encourage the integration of the Culture of Good Neighborhood” course in most schools of that district. 17 schools (29 teachers+653 children) are expected to start applying for the proposed educational course starting September 2020. 1.3.2. Intergovernmental and state actors incorporate inclusive prevention and protection principles in their relevant policies A set of complementing activities have taken place comprising advocacy at various official events and public forums with teachers and parents, providing guidance on steps that may be taken to start applying the “Culture of good neighbourhood” optional course in a school curriculum; delivering a two 1-day seminars for new teachers, future implementers of the CGN course in Anenii Noi district of Moldova and for Gymnasium teachers, which included the local coordinators of the Ministry of Education, Research and Culture of Moldova from Anenii Noi; and developing a concept of video lessons for online teaching of the Culture of Good Neighbourhood subject in primary schools. 1.2.1. Civil Society initiates or participates in joint capacity development with state actors on how to work together and operationalise inclusive prevention and protection mechanisms and norms. On May 7, 2020, a webinar was held focused on combining peacebuilding and gender perspectives, named “Talking about the Difficult” for the NGO “Insight” with a wide range of participants from 9 regions of Ukraine. Members of EE GPPAC were able to draw attention to and engage in a broad discussion among members of the LGBTIQ+ community about the importance of using conflict resolutions and peacebuilding methods in the challenges they can respond to in their daily lives. For this, the example of a real “Belarus case” was used, which was decomposed into stages of the conflict, the analysis of stakeholder relations, cartography of the conflict, and positions-interests-needs of the parties. 1.1.2. Network members collaborate to gather and develop civil society resources and expertise on norms and approaches with particular attention on inclusivity Competition for power at the regional level has intensified in the Wider Black Sea region, with direct disruptive effects on the region's security and stability. This competition is expressed through a various geopolitical languages of its actors (political, diplomatic, military, economic, ideological), in a diverse, hybrid and sophisticated manner, from predominantly military languages (maritime exercises, new military design, trends to rebuilding the military architecture) to predominantly ideological languages (historical revisionism, disinformation campaigns, information war), from cyber to fake, from frigates to fictions. Experts in the region have often discussed the effects of these languages, omitting / ignoring or underestimating its nature, which explains the real intentions of the state and non-state actors in the region. The round-table analyzed the nature and collisions of these languages in order to prevent further deterioration of the regional security situation. It took place on 29 June, 2020, and was attended by 16 top experts from 6 countries: Belarus, Georgia, Romania, Moldova, Turkey, and Ukraine. This event was organized by the Black Sea House Association, in partnership with the European Democratic Culture Initiative / ICDE Association, Bucharest and Constanta branch (Romania) and the Institute for World Politics (Kyiv, Ukraine) with the assistance of members of EE GPPAC. 1.1.1. Network members engage in regional and cross-regional exchanges, working groups and action research on priority themes The online training on "Analysis, Intervention and Dialogue: Making Sense of Conflict in the Age of Pandemic" was a three-session online based course given by GPPAC members 21, 22 and 23 of April with a duration of one hour and half, and it was attended by 100 participants. The second online training was on Human Security Basics: What Really Makes Us Secure When Confronting a Pandemic. It was a three-session Zoom based training facilitated by GPPAC Improving Practices Working Group Members and experts. It took place on 16, 17, 18 June. The duration of the training was 1.5 hours, and there were 90 participants.And last, the webinar: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on human security in Georgia. It focused on the results of the field research done about the gender dimension of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on human security in Georgia. 1.1.1. Network members engage in regional and cross-regional exchanges, working groups and action research on priority themes GPPAC worked to mobilise support for the early peacebuilding response to the COVID-19 pandemic by engaging with the UN actors at the field levels (Peace and Development Adviisors), mobilizing Peacebuilding Commission (through an informal dialogue) and integrating experiences of local peacebuilders around COVID-19 in other planned meetings and discussions. The main outputs are: 1) shared the GPPAC COVID-19 Statement with Member States of the PBC, where Canada and the European Union integrated our messaging in their statements; 2) On 11 May 2020, GPPAC alongside the Life and Peace Institute (LPI), and the Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations co-organized an informal brown bag discussion to bring together members of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) and civil society peacebuilders to engage in joint sharing and learning on a) What does a “peacebuilding response to the COVID-19 pandemic” mean at the field level? and b) How can the PBC meaningfully support local peacebuilding responses? 3) worked with QUNO to develop a two-pager titled "Advancing Prevention Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic: What Local Civil Society Responses look like and how Peace and Development Advisors can strengthen this work", which was compiled by the Civil Society—UN Prevention Platform to provide an overview of innovative ways local civil society and Peace and Development Advisors (PDAs) are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. 4) brought in the discussion on COVID-19 and experiences of local peacebuilders in a) SIPRI Forum discussion; b) Regional Dialogue for the Americas; c) the 2020 Review regional consultation in the Americas; 4) the 2020 Review thematic consultation on gender, climate and security in the Pacific; 4) the NYPG-PBSo dialogue; 5) online consultation co-organised by GPPAC for the 2020 Review. 5) hosted the Sustaining Peace roundtable series event on the UN capacities to respond to COVID-19 on the 2nd of June, 2020 under the title 'Building Capacities for Prevention and Sustaining Peace:What can the UN Peacebuilding Architecture learn from the COVID-19 pandemic?'; 6) hosted the CS-UN Prevention Platform to mobilize the discussion on how gender transformative analysis can inform conflict analysis of the COVID-19 dynamics on the 20th of May, 2020 under the title 'Prevention and Implications of COVID-19-19: Learning from Transformative Gender Approaches' 1.2.2. Civil society reach out to key conflict/prevention stakeholders to engage them in developing inclusive prevention and protection strategies GPPAC works to promote linkages between sustainable development and peace in efforts to a coherent and coordinated approach to the implementation of peacebuilding and sustaining peace. The mains outputs are: 1) Together with the TAP Network and CSPPS, GPPAC published the 2020 Review submission titled 'Policy Coherence Through Meaningful Inclusion: The Key Priorities Ahead of the 2020 Peacebuilding Architecture Review'. 2) On the 6th of July 2020, a roundtable discussion on ‘Building Peace Infrastructures in Africa’ took place online and saw the participation of a diverse range of participants from across countries and regions who reflected on their perspectives and experiences in building infrastructures for peace. 3) Online Campaign around SDGs: "Every Goal is a peace goal" that featured the contribution of GPPAC network to the implementation of all SDGs through peacebuilding means. 1.2.2. Civil society reach out to key conflict/prevention stakeholders to engage them in developing inclusive prevention and protection strategies On 28-31 March 2019, members of the GPPAC-SEA Regional Working Group (RWG) on Capacity Development met in Kota Kinabalu to finalise the planning and writing of the modules for the planned Regional Training on Conflict Transformation and Peace Mediation Processes, with a pilot scheduled for the third quarter of 2019. They created a work plan for the final editing of and the final integration of gender and WPS framework into the training modules. The networks and network members build support for conflict prevention by engaging with and building capacities of key stakeholders In the first quarter of 2019 the participant media outlets of meetings convened by GPPAC, including Civilnet (Armenia), Newsday (Georgia), Studio Re (Georgia), Turan (Azerbaijan) published reports and articles about conflict prevention and peace building more intensively than before. The media plays a significant role both in triggering and relieving conflict. CivilNet promptly organized a live online conference with an ICCN representative (GPPAC Regional Secretariat for South Caucasus) to make clarifications on the conflict-prone situation associated with the restrictions of the transit of cereals to Armenia by automotive transport through Georgia, which unleashed some anti-Georgian sentiments in the Armenian communities. The networks and network members build support for conflict prevention by engaging with and building capacities of key stakeholders The European External Action Service (EEAS) Prevention of Conflict, Rule of Law/Security Sector Reform, Integrated Approach, Stabilisation and Mediation (PRISM) is leading the revision of the European Commission’s Conflict Analysis Guidance Note, which is aimed at EU institutions, and influences the way EU institutions act, and how they should buy-in to and conduct conflict analysis in their work. GPPAC made specific recommendations that helped shaping gender mainstreaming and a section on limitations. Intergovernmental and state actors incorporate people-centred inclusive prevention and protection norms and principles in their policies and decision making processes The Africa Reporter tool is a mechanism for collecting conflict early warning data at their observation and monitoring centre, ‘The Situation Room’. GPPAC’s Regional Secretariat ECLF was able to convince the Conflict Prevention and Early Warning Division of the African Union’s Peace and Security Department to train all members of the SAPPC Regional Steering Group, expanding the scope of the program beyond the initial 1 GPPAC member invited to the training. This training on how to collect data for the AU’s continental early warning system will build GPPAC members’ capacities and credibility in early warning and early response (EWER) and allow them to engage on the topic for future regional intergovernmental EWER initiatives. Governments and intergovernmental institutions take steps to act on policies and operationalise norms and frameworks for conflict prevention and the protection of people and collaborate with civil society The Improving Practice Working Group had a global learning exchange in The Hague in October, with participants from 9 regions as well as global training providers. The group worked through a number of modules and case studies from the Handbook on Human Security and deliberated on planning for 2018. GPPAC Caucasus held the third round of CSO dialogue meetings between Georgian and Armenian members; and exchange on the concept of ‘economic connectivity’ in the South Caucasus in the context of conflict prevention. 1.1.1. Network members engage in regional and cross-regional exchanges, working groups and action research on priority themes (including PVE, PE, RtoP, WPS) • GPPAC and RCSS from Sri Lanka (Regional Secretariat of GPPAC South Asia) started the thematic Working Group on Prevention of Violent Extremism (PVE) with a first online meeting in September. Apart from exchanging experiences, the Working Group will formulate a position paper for the upcoming ISG meeting and recommend what GPPAC should do (further) with the topic. 1.1.4. Network members work together to inform, monitor and contribute to implementing prevention and protection strategies (incl WPS, PVE..) The GPPAC-coordinated and funded group met on 18-20 May 2018. They identified co-leaders and gender experts to steer the capacity building courses. Thematically, it was decided to focus on conflict analysis, human security and approaches to peace processes. It was also agreed on to seek partnership with the ASEAN Institute for Peace and Reconciliation. 1.1.1. Network members engage in regional and cross-regional exchanges, working groups and action research on priority themes GPPAC’s Regional Secretariat in South East Asia, Initiatives for International Dialogue, published a solidarity newsletter covering the recent activities and efforts made by the organisation in cooperation with its network partners on the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the National Democratic Front peace process. The networks and its members enhance, document and disseminate civil society expertise and skills for inclusive prevention and protection GPPAC member in Belgrade provided the Global Secretariat with the space to give a lecture to students of a private university on human security and civil military engagement. This was important as the university is more focused on ‘hard security’, as they also train military personnel. Source:https://istrazivackicentarob.com/dogadjaji/odrzano-predavanje-i-radionica-ljudska-bezbednost-i-civilno-vojni-odnosi/ The networks and its members enhance, document and disseminate civil society expertise and skills for inclusive prevention and protection The networks and its members enhance, document and disseminate civil society expertise and skills for inclusive prevention and protection During the event Intergenerational Dialogue "Take the Hot Seat" organised by UN Women, UN Secretary General's Envoy on Youth, Girls Scouts and the Working Group on Girls at the CSW63, the UN Women Executive Director, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, stressed the role of youth in leading the way forward in implementing the Beijing Platform for Action: “When we celebrate 25 years [of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action], my commitment to you is that you will be there. You will speak for yourselves. You will tell us what you want and the future you want.” There were not many young people in the age range of 18-29 present at CSW63. Eliska Jelinkova, co-chair of the GPPAC Youth, Peace, and Security Working Group, was one of the few. Her participation in the CSW63 and presentation, as well as participation in various side events contributed to the visibility of young women in the discussion on Women, Peace, and Security. Intergovernmental and state actors incorporate people-centred inclusive prevention and protection norms and principles in their policies and decision making processes The 17 June meeting between participants in the project ‘Cameras in Hands’ and the Embassy of the Kyrgyz Republic in Belgium was organised as part of the GPPAC youth empowerment project. The role of youth in initiating and leading changes in the country was acknowledged by the Embassy: “It was a pleasure to meet and talk to active boys and girls, who are from the young age trying to influence with their actions the life of their communities and the country and change it for the better” - says the post of the embassy. https://www.instagram.com/p/By1-s8Ro3RY/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Governments and intergovernmental institutions take steps to act on policies and operationalise norms and frameworks for conflict prevention and the protection of people and collaborate with civil society The Dutch MFA has now taken human security as starting point for its new security strategy as a key starting point. During 2017, GPPAC co-organised strategic discussions with CSOs active in Peace & Security and the MFA on the new Dutch security strategy, emphasising the need to put human security at the core of this strategy. GPPAC also shared the GPPAC-QUNO report on Building Sustainable Peace with key actors within the MFA. Through these activities and engagements GPPAC has contributed to this outcome. 1.3.2. Intergovernmental and state actors incorporate inclusive prevention and protection principles in their relevant policies GPPAC’s Improving Practice Working Group and the UN Human Security Unit are developing a 4-day training on human security, based on the UN’s previous trainings and GPPAC’s Handbook for Human Security. The Permanent Peace Movement is GPPAC’s Regional Secretariat. 1.2.1. Civil society initiates or participates in joint capacity development with state actors on how to work together and operationalise inclusive prevention and protection mechanisms and norms (including security sector training, briefings on the role of civil society, trainings on norms). The Countering Violent Extremism curriculum focuses on formal schools, but WANEP aims to disseminate the curriculum in informal settings as well. During the validation meeting, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)’s Directorate of Education, Youth and Sports, and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) were present. The networks and network members build support for conflict prevention by engaging with and building capacities of key stakeholders GPPAC and GPPAC member WAA Cameroon conducted a civil society review of progress in the country towards SDG16+. A validation workshop was held for key stakeholders to discuss its implementation and present the key findings and recommendations of the research. The report was presented during the High-Level Forum on SDGs in New York in July 2019. WAA and CECORE have also produced videos on SDG16+ that were showcased during the High-Level Forum. With such support, the national Focal Point for Cameroon affirms “GPPAC has been very instrumental in promoting peace in Cameroon”. Intergovernmental and state actors incorporate people-centred inclusive prevention and protection norms and principles in their policies and decision making processes During a two-day workshop on Human Security, GPPAC members from Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia, peace journalists and experts discussed human security issues within the regional context, and their country-specific challenges. They developed recommendations for promoting the conflict prevention toolbox as part of the implementation of SDG 16. In addition, they agreed that future policy papers should focus on the implementation of SDG 16. The networks and its members enhance, document and disseminate civil society expertise and skills for inclusive prevention and protection In the backdrop of accumulating unresolved or unaddressed conflict-prone issues between Georgia and Azerbaijan, CSOs from both countries proposed the creation of a Georgian-Azerbaijani civil forum. Additionally, Georgian and Azerbaijani experts agreed to support the creation of a forum, and draft a joint address to the governments of both countries to offer their expertise in addressing conflict-prone situations. The networks and its members enhance, document and disseminate civil society expertise and skills for inclusive prevention and protection In line with GPPAC’s Strategic Plan 2016-2020, the YPS Working Group was launched with UNOY (United Network of Young Peacebuilders) as its chair. The group consists of 13 GPPAC member organisations, and 23 youth-led members of UNOY. The working group aims to become a platform that localises UNSCR Resolution 2250 through collaboration, sharing best practices and intergenerational dialogue; develops GPPAC’s youth policy; and provides the opportunity for youth-led UNOY members to become involved in the GPPAC network. 1.1.1. Network members engage in regional and cross-regional exchanges, working groups and action research on priority themes (including PVE, PE, RtoP, WPS) WANEP held a validation workshop ‘National Reviews on the Progress in SDG 16+ Implementation in Ghana and the Role of CSOs’ on 11 June, in Accra. The workshop was an important moment for key stakeholders to engage around SDG 16+’s implementation and present the key findings and recommendations of WANEP Ghana’s research. GPPAC shared the experience and lessons learned from SDGs Voluntary National Review in Cameroon. One of the workshop’s conclusions was to link SDG16 with other SDGs, and invest in adequate infrastructures, including infrastructures for peace (such as the National Peace Council in Ghana) and access to justice in a coherent and integrated manner to contribute to sustainable development and peace in Ghana. The networks and network members build support for conflict prevention by engaging with and building capacities of key stakeholders Aggregated territorial communities are newly created basic units of local self-governance at the level of small towns or groups of villages in Ukraine. The Chernivtsi region is multi-ethnic but major communities are Romanian and Ukrainian, hence issues result from them being part of the same administrative unit. For Ukraine, historical issues are of great importance, both in the conflict in Eastern Ukraine and in local social conflicts elsewhere. These exhibitions are an important tool to help people recognise and understand these different perspectives. The networks and network members build support for conflict prevention by engaging with and building capacities of key stakeholders An ASEAN joint statement dated 23 April 2018, by two ASEAN officials (permanent representatives of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights from Malaysia and Indonesia), called for “urgent action by ASEAN to develop a ‘whole-of-ASEAN approach’ in cooperation with Myanmar to deal more effectively with the human rights and refugee crises emerging in Rakhine State”. GPPAC-Southeast Asia members’ input was solicited in the drafting of the ASEAN joint statement. The GPPAC South-East Asia members’ statements (November 2017), and their recommendations and engagements (April 2018) calling for decisive action from the ASEAN on the crisis in Rakhine eventually contributed considerably to the ASEAN joint statement. 1.3.1 Network members work together to promote, inform, monitor and contribute to implementing inclusive prevention and protection strategies. The decision of commencing the survey was an immediate result of the GPPAC-funded and organised gender expert meeting in The Hague in April 2018, in which gender experts from West Africa also participated. 1.3.4. National Action Plans and government strategies are developed on VE, WPS, YPS, PE, RtoP This output was a result of the work of GPPAC’s Working Group on Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE), in which various regions develop position papers and policy briefs, while sharing knowledge on PVE. 1.1.3. The networks produce relevant and timely lobby and advocacy statements, policy and position papers with civil society (conflict, context, thematic) analysis on target countries, situations and policies with particular attention to inclusivity The experts were representing GPPAC Gender Focal Points and other GPPAC members from 10 GPPAC regions and 17 countries. According to evaluations, participants felt empowered after having been given the opportunity to share their experiences with other members; and increased their capacity and skills in lobbying and advocacy. As part of this, GPPAC organised an expert event, “We are not there yet: Women in conflict prevention and peacebuilding” together with the Knowledge Platform, on 18 April 2018. It facilitated a meaningful exchange between GPPAC’s gender experts and representatives of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Dutch Civil Society on the implementation of Women Peace and Security Agenda. The Gender Experts Meeting was fully funded by GPPAC. 1.1.3. The networks produce relevant and timely lobby and advocacy statements, policy and position papers with civil society (conflict, context, thematic) analysis on target countries, situations and policies with particular attention to inclusivity The consultations aimed at monitoring, reporting and intervening on potential conflict and/or violent situations. Although this output was not directly funded by GPPAC, this activity is part of and has direct bearing on the follow-up activities of the Human Security projects of GPPAC in Mali and surrounding countries (‘Sahel’). 1.2.2. Civil society reach out to key conflict/prevention stakeholders (a.o. journalists, religious leaders, educators, victims) to engage them on developing inclusive prevention and protection strategies In the second quarter of 2018, the development of Terms of Reference and identification of the consultant for the curriculum development were concluded. In addition, GPPAC’s West African Regional Secretariat (WANEP) and its partners continued to actively engage communities in the development of resilience mechanisms on human security and prevention of violent extremism. 1.1.4. Network members work together to inform, monitor and contribute to implementing prevention and protection strategies (incl WPS, PVE) The event called “What’s the role of civil society in sustaining peace and preventing conflict?” brought together 85 participants representing local and international voices reflecting on the importance of civil society participation in preventing conflict and building peace. It was a first time collaboration that profited from the strengths of both GPPAC and the Dutch embassy in Sri Lanka. GPPAC has the connections to bring local and international civil society, while the embassy was able to effectively reach out to the Sri Lankan community. 1.2.1. Civil society initiates or participates in joint capacity development with state actors on how to work together and operationalise inclusive prevention and protection mechanisms and norms GPPAC Focal Point for Brazzaville, Congo, raised awareness among women in the country on their Human Rights. One of the key steps the GPPAC focal point and women embarked on is monitoring of police violence against women. This activity helped to raise awareness among Congolese public opinion about violence committed by Congolese law enforcement agents. Several women decided to file complaints for the murders caused by police in the Pointe Noire region. Some policemen were sentenced to several sentences following these complaints in April 2019. The networks and its members enhance, document and disseminate civil society expertise and skills for inclusive prevention and protection GPPAC Regional Secretariat for Eastern and Central Africa, Center for Conflict Resolution (CECORE), in partnership with GPPAC are implementing a project on “Building peace through young adult peace champions in post conflict communities in Uganda”. The project is aimed at preventing re-radicalization in selected post-conflict communities in Uganda in a bid to prevent the targeted young adults from sliding back into acts of violence. The participating 94 young adults (37 female and 57 male) had been ring-leaders in violent acts like armed cattle rustling, and rebel activity-related acts against the government of Uganda. For example, in Kasese, the young adults are now conducting joint community awareness with heads of security in the district (Resident District Commissioner) to create community awareness on peace and income generation. The networks and network members build support for conflict prevention by engaging with and building capacities of key stakeholders The Prevention of Violent Extremism WG met in April and July 2018 to finalise regional position papers and policy briefs, and to discuss expansion of membership. The new Influencing Policy WG held its second meeting in June 2018. The Enabling Collaboration WG held two online meetings in May and June 2018, in which they discussed strategies and made work plans. 1.1.1. Network members engage in regional and cross-regional exchanges, working groups and action research on priority themes (including PVE, PE, RtoP, WPS) The conference brought together more than 200 educators, specialists, decision makers, etcetera among the 50 states and around the globe who have programs such as conflict management, human rights, peace education, democracy and civics education. Participants exchanged best practices, evaluation methodology, creation of policy implementation structures, consideration of obstacles to success, and new and innovative uses of training, resources, and technology. 1.1.1. Network members engage in regional and cross-regional exchanges, working groups and action research on priority themes (including PVE, PE, RtoP, WPS) This output came from GPPAC’s global Policy and Advocacy team participating actively in the Civil Society Platform for Peacebuilding and Statebuilding (CSPPS) Annual Core Group Meeting together with over 20 other civil society organisations working in peacebuilding and prevention. The meeting was held on 12-13 April 2018. The group was also hosted at GPPAC offices. 1.1.1. Network members engage in regional and cross-regional exchanges, working groups and action research on priority themes (including PVE, PE, RtoP, WPS) The statement was disseminated via the Global Secretariat and network members, also to media outlets. 1.1.3. The networks produce relevant and timely lobby and advocacy statements, policy and position papers with civil society (conflict, context, thematic) analysis on target countries, situations and policies with particular attention to inclusivity. The Dutch Embassy expressed their interest appreciation of the GPPAC missions and resulting studies. The new one is planned for the Zakarpattia area in the Ukraine to take part in November 2018. 1.2.1. Civil society initiates or participates on joint capacity development with state actors on how to work together and operationalise inclusive prevention and protection mechanisms and norms The GPPAC’s Improving Practice Working Group presented common elements and key considerations for multi-stakeholder processes, including a case study from the Southern Africa Region. This webinar “Setting up Multi-Stakeholder Processes for Human Security: Common Elements and a Case Study” was based on GPPAC’s “Multi-Stakeholder Processes for Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding: A Manual” and is made available online. 1.1.1. Network members engage in regional and cross-regional exchanges, working groups and action research on priority themes On 14 June 2018, GPPAC and the Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) organised a policy discussion in the Hague on “The Implementation of National Security Strategies: How to ensure national ownership for legitimacy and long-term impact?” It was organised in the context of the implementation of the recently published Dutch Integrated External and Security Strategy 2018-22, which GPPAC had provided significant input to in the first quarter of 2018. Speakers included an EU official from the European External Action Service. 1.3.3. Intergovernmental and state actors demonstrate readiness to consider civil society - including women and youth - input in official negotiation process The international advocacy engagement of Kyrgyzstani youth has been envisaged in the Project Document of “Cameras in Hands”. The project is a collaboration among the GPPAC Foundation, and GPPAC members Middle East Nonviolence and Democracy from Palestine and the Foundation for Tolerance International (FTI). FTI is GPPAC’s Regional Secretariat in Central Asia. The aim of the project is to foster the understanding between girls and boys of Kyrgyzstan from different gender, ethnic and social backgrounds, as well as give them a voice in local, national and international policy levels. In frames of this project, 8 chosen young project participants (15-17 years old) have come to The Hague, Utrecht, Amsterdam, and Brussels with the advocacy visit in order to present their movies created within the project and share the success stories of conflict prevention in action with the international community. They were accompanied by the project staff from our implementing partner, FTI, as well as the National Manager of United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office (UNPBSO) in Kyrgyzstan. The networks and network members build support for conflict prevention by engaging with and building capacities of key stakeholders It is a new tool to keep the Working Group and its local partners updated on the peace process in the Philippines. The current format is based on a regular monitoring started by Conciliation Resources. The networks and its members enhance, document and disseminate civil society expertise and skills for inclusive prevention and protection In its fifth edition, this Forum took place in Bogotá, Colombia, with a strong regional emphasis. Bringing together 60 young peacebuilders, the Forum provided a unique space to build concrete and meaningful partnerships beyond mere networking. The four-day event saw multi-angled discussions around the role of global agendas in peacebuilding processes in the Americas and beyond, engaging with a range of relevant stakeholders, such as representatives from the Colombian Truth Commission (Comisión de la Verdad) and the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz), as well as thematic experts. During the forum, 20 formal partnerships were forged among participants, 5 media outlets covered the event, 5 forum initiatives were offered comprehensive funding opportunities, and a living library was formed. The networks and its members enhance, document and disseminate civil society expertise and skills for inclusive prevention and protection In Southeast Asia the GPPAC Regional Secretariat conducted a survey among regional members to identify the capacities and needs to develop additional capacities in lobby and advocacy for conflict prevention and peacebuilding. The regional network agreed on a framework for a regional capacity building program that will be set up and starting early 2018. 1.1.1 Network members engage in regional and cross-regional exchanges, working groups and action research on priority themes Throughout 2017, GPPAC members in Eastern Europe continued to advocate for the “Strategic framework for the development of civil peacebuilding activities in Ukraine” among various stakeholders, as well as to integrate some of the approaches from the document during the development of action plans of other agencies and organisations. Two practical outcomes of this work include, firstly, the fact that the “Strategic framework” helped in developing potential impact criteria for a long-term project, which is to be implemented by a platform of 5 Ukrainian and 1 international organisation during 2018-2020. Secondly, the fact that materials from the “Strategic framework” were used in developing input for the strategic planning of the activities of the “Renaissance” Foundation (the Ukrainian branch of the G. Soros foundation). 1.2.2 Civil society reach out to key conflict/prevention stakeholders to engage them on developing inclusive prevention and protection strategies An important decision made during the GPPAC Regional Steering Group meeting in June 2017 was to resume the practice of organising civil monitoring and assessment missions to areas of ongoing conflict and sites where there may be a risk of escalation of tensions (Early Warning Early Response). The first area for such a mission, selected during the regional network meeting, was Southern Bessarabia – an area in the west Odessa region, with a multi-ethnic population that is relatively isolated from other parts of Ukraine. The mission took place in October 2017 and a mission report including follow-up actions is currently being finalised. 1.1.4 Network members work together to inform, monitor and contribute to implementing prevention and protection strategies The ‘Trauma Awareness, Resilience and Managing Stress’ module of the GPPAC Human Security Handbook was contextualized by integrating regional issues, case studies and a more explicit gender lens, and further presented for input to a psychologist and counsellors conference in Nairobi (“Transformational Leadership through Solution Focused Model”) in collaboration with the International Leadership University (ILU) and the Council of Governors (CoG). The conference opened new partnership possibilities with some two County Governments on this topic. 1.1.2 Network members collaborate to gather and develop civil, society resources and expertise on norms and approaches with particular attention on inclusivity GPPAC took the initiative to find co-financing for improving practices in Outcome Harvesting. GPPAC started practicing Outcome Harvesting already in 2009 and currently there are at least half of the 25 Strategic Partnership Alliances (or within the NGOs of SP Alliances) that also started practicing Outcome Harvesting for their Monitoring & Evaluation system. GPPAC managed get financial support from the Knowledge Management Fund of the Secretariat of the Knowledge Platform Security and Rule of Law to organise two expert workshop and develop guidance to improve the quality of Outcome Harvesting Practices among the Strategic Partnerships. The first workshop - a training for 20 NGO representatives - took place in December 2017. 1.1.1 Network members engage in regional and cross-regional exchanges, working groups and action research on priority themes The webinar explored the dynamics of violent extremism in West Africa with focus on its impact on youth and the education systems and focused on how peace education could be used as a proactive and long-term strategy to address violent extremism. The activity raised awareness about the role of peace education to address violent extremism and contributed to knowledge sharing regarding human security and the implications for security policy development. The networks and network members build support for conflict prevention by engaging with and building capacities of key stakeholders Following the meeting with Fhi360 and Creative Associates, the Chair has been connecting the potential donors with our PEWG members that work in regions they were interested in. Creative Associations and Fhi360 mentioned that they are interested in funding the local CSO directly and would like to hear from GPPAC members. 1.1.2. Network members collaborate to gather and develop civil society resources and expertise on norms and approaches with particular attention on inclusivity The conference convened educators from around the globe for a week-long, residential, learning community experience in Peace Education. A rich exchange of peacebuilding research, academic theory, best practices, and actions was shared with participants from around the world. As the report shows, the conference focused on global issues of particular relevance to Cyprus and the adjoining region of the Mediterranean, North Africa, Southern Europe, and the Middle East – the intersection of Asia, Africa and Europe. The conference emphasized the role of educators on all levels in addressing conflict in creative ways and offering alternatives to violence in contexts such as the Cypriot one. As the report shows, educating for practical and theoretical methods is of paramount importance for the creation of inclusive identities and a critical hope for the region, and for humanity as a whole. The networks and its members enhance, document and disseminate civil society expertise and skills for inclusive prevention and protection From February to November 2019, GPPAC member and other Civil Society Groups, as well as intergovernmental organizations like the UN, Association of Southeast Asian Nations, etc., worked together over three stages to hold a survey and consultations of 300 CSOs; in order to develop System-Wide Community Engagement Guidelines for peacebuilding activities Intergovernmental and state actors incorporate people-centred inclusive prevention and protection norms and principles in their policies and decision making processes GPPAC’s Eastern European network was in October 2017 able to conduct a civil monitoring and assessment mission to the Southern Bessarabia region. During the first quarter of 2018, a report on the mission has been drafted and translated to Ukranian, and the network is now utilising said report to prepare a consultation on the question of advancing the role of civil society organizations in conflict prevention and conflict transformation. The possibilities for such a consultation are currently being discussed with the Embassy of the Netherlands in Ukraine. 1.1.4. Network members work together to inform, monitor and contribute to implementing prevention and protection strategies As an outcome of conferences held by WANEP on the UN Security Council Resolution 2250, Ministers of Education from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) invited WANEP to develop a peace education curriculum on the eradication of violent extremism, for the Sahel region and Nigeria. This is now in the process of being developed as a collaboration between ECOWAS, WANEP and curriculum development experts. 1.3.2. Intergovernmental and state actors incorporate inclusive prevention and protection principles and norms in their relevant policies. The conference was held following OAS’s commitment to expand its engagement with civil society, particularly those working on peacebuilding and conflict prevention. This is not the first time they are having joint meetings with civil society. Significantly, OAS expressed its interest to continue its partnership with GPPAC. The networks and network members build support for conflict prevention by engaging with and building capacities of key stakeholders Sources of information: Ms Yadira Soto, Senior Advisor, OAS As a result of the successful partnership on co-organising the Regional Intergovernmental Organizations (RIGO) conference, the organisations now believe that the partnership can go beyond just this conference and work on other areas of common interest in the region. This agreement will allow GPPAC members in the region to participate with RIGOs and in future multi-stakeholder processes The networks and network members build support for conflict prevention by engaging with and building capacities of key stakeholders In July and August 2019, the Culture of Good Neighborhood course was presented to teachers and principals of many Moldovan schools. They were told about its importance, the methods of teaching; and the possibilities of using its elements in teaching other subjects, in those schools where it is not yet possible to introduce this course in full. “The Living in Peace and Harmony” was a similar course covering the same topics of peacebuilding and conflict resolution. The networks and network members build support for conflict prevention by engaging with and building capacities of key stakeholders GPPAC participated in and hosted a workshop on challenges and strategies to implement SDG 16 during the SDG Global Festival of Action organised by the UN SDG Action campaign in Bonn on 21-22 March 2018. This led to an agreement on continued exchanges and work between like-minded CSOs around SDG 16. As such, GPPAC has established itself within an international forum as one of the main CSOs working on conflict prevention and peacebuilding that are active on the SDGs. 1.1.1. Network members engage in regional and cross-regional exchanges, working groups and action research on priority themes The success of the RIGO conference lead to the addition of two high level political decision makers to the RIGOs Working Group. The networks and network members build support for conflict prevention by engaging with and building capacities of key stakeholders In Moldova, practitioners (GPPAC members) prepared and distributed the “Culture of Good Neighborhood” course in the region, encouraging teachers to offer this peacebuilding course regionally The networks and network members build support for conflict prevention by engaging with and building capacities of key stakeholders On 10 September 2019 in Bangkok, GPPAC members participated in the ASEAN Civil Society Conference/Peoples Forum 2019 Workshop “Rising Populism and ‘Othering’ in ASEAN: Protecting Rights and Freedoms of Ethnic-Religious and Queer Communities”. The conference gathered multiple civil society organizations, including both GPPAC members and non-members. Intergovernmental and state actors incorporate people-centred inclusive prevention and protection norms and principles in their policies and decision making processes A policy brief has been prepared by the Georgian expert from the well-known CSO Caucasian House on 23 September 2019. The brief deals with the state of conflict prevention tools in the Georgian state agencies’ policies and policy documents analysing situation in the context of security in the conflict zones and in the region. The networks and its members enhance, document and disseminate civil society expertise and skills for inclusive prevention and protection The willingness from these state institutions ushers on the window of opportunity for advocacy of ICCN’s developed CPToolbox. Intergovernmental and state actors incorporate people-centred inclusive prevention and protection norms and principles in their policies and decision making processes NGO Working Group on Women Peace and Security accepted GPPAC’s application to become a member. By joining the working group GPPAC’s advocacy on inclusive conflict prevention in relation to our work on Women, Peace and Security is strengthened and it also provides a platform for network members to provide recommendations on inclusivity and conflict prevention across the UN system and member states on thematic and country specific issues. 1.1.2. Network members collaborate to gather and develop civil society resources and expertise on norms and approaches with particular attention on inclusivity On 11 of July, in New York a roundtable event where 130 participants from various NGOs connected with institutional stakeholders. Intergovernmental and state actors incorporate people-centred inclusive prevention and protection norms and principles in their policies and decision making processes On the 24th of September in New York, GPPAC UN Liaison in collaboration with the International Peace Institute, the Dag Hammarskjold Foundation and the Global Network of Women’s Peacebuilders hosted discussions as part of a series of roundtables on Sustaining Peace. The networks and its members enhance, document and disseminate civil society expertise and skills for inclusive prevention and protection During the High Level Political Forum in New York, SDG16 received greater attention as 11 organisations coalesced around the campaign, agreeing to pool resources and develop a joint advocacy messages and events. This is an important qualitative shift in the way policy and implementing organisations have been working thus far. The networks and network members build support for conflict prevention by engaging with and building capacities of key stakeholders Several activities have taken place to support normalisation, such as a case study on how to deal with conflicts within civil society based on attitudes toward LGBTQI+ to be used in workshops; mapping players who are involved in work on issues concerning LGBT people and their relationships with other groups of the population; and defining priorities for discussion on the UN Commission on the status of women. The networks and its members enhance, document and disseminate civil society expertise and skills for inclusive prevention and protection. The networks and network members build support for conflict prevention by engaging with and building capacities of key stakeholders The 4th grade programme “Culture of good neighbourhood” is continuously being implemented in 35 schools. This is the last phase of the piloting, after which the programme will be analysed, the curriculum improved, and the programme expanded. During the spring of 2018, network members have discussed key steps towards launching a strategy of nation-wide integration of a peace education curricula for the elementary schools in Moldova/Transnistria. 1.2.2. Civil society reach out to key conflict/prevention stakeholders to engage them on developing inclusive prevention and protection strategies GPPAC’s South East Asian Regional Secretariat facilitated a training on EU lobbying in January 2018. The training provided greater awareness amongst the South East Asian GPPAC Network members (CSOs) on EU functioning, policies and processes as it relates to peace building and conflict prevention. This is part of a larger growing engagement with the EU in the region, which is especially related to Myanmar and the Philippines, and has led to an agreement between the European Peacebuilding Liaison Office (EPLO) and GPPAC to cooperate on the hosting of the CSDN meeting with EU in Philippines/Mindanao. 1.2.1. Civil Society initiates or participates in joint capacity development with state actors on how to work together and operationalise inclusive prevention and protection mechanisms and norms. The database was created as part of GPPAC’s focus on gender mainstreaming through its Gender Focal Points. As a result of the database, several members organisations (from MENA and Africa) have applied for funding for projects with a prominent place for gender mainstreaming. 1.1.1. Network members engage in regional and cross-regional exchanges, working groups and action research on priority themes Following the recent armed conflict in South Sudan that led to the signing of the revitalized peace agreement in 2018, President Salva Kiir and opposition leader Riek Machar, finally fulfilled one of the key peace agreement issues and formed a transitional government of national Unity in March 2020 as a means of restoring peace in South Sudan. GPPAC contributed to the outcome by holding in 2019 a national meeting on the Development of recommendations for the implementation of the peace deal. The activity attracted several high level and key influential actors. After the meeting, GPPAC member CEPO continued to make several follow-up meetings and engagements towards ensuring that the recommendations in the peace agreement were fulfilled. Governments and intergovernmental institutions take steps to act on policies and operationalise norms and frameworks for conflict prevention and the protection of people and collaborate with civil society By February 2020, women leaders at the community level (district, sub-county level and village level) in the Districts of Kaabong, Moroto and Amudat in Karamoja region – a region known for high levels of negative cultural practices, have transformed their minds and also transformed the minds of men towards women and embraced gender justice. Women leaders and male counterparts at community level who used to support violent acts against women like female genital mutilation, lack of property rights, wife-beating, no participation of women in important decision making processes, not contesting for open (not under affirmative action) leadership positions, wife inheritance, etc as normal are now working together and leading in educating community members to embrace gender justice. The sensitisation efforts are done through community advocacy clubs, community talking circles and dance and drama. The networks and network members build support for conflict prevention by engaging with and building capacities of key stakeholders By February 2020, 2278 youth and young adults in 3 post-conflict districts (Kaabong, Yumbe and Kasese) in Uganda had abandoned acts of violence and embraced peacebuilding and income-generating activities as a means of preventing youth re-radicalization and slide back into armed violence – including 25 former combatants who abandoned gun-violence, and handed over guns to government authorities. The youth and young adults were sensitized and convinced by their peers referred to as peace champions (94 - 37 female and 57 male), who had been perpetrators of violent acts like armed cattle rustling, and rebel activity-related acts against the government of Uganda but declared themselves peace champions and started luring their peers into peacebuilding and income-generating activities. The networks and network members build support for conflict prevention by engaging with and building capacities of key stakeholders A strong collaboration and peaceful co-existence have been enhanced among young people belonging to the different political parties and between young people and local authorities in the province of Makamba and the outlying districts of the capital Bujumbura in Burundi. The youth supporting different political parties who had been divided along ethnic lines and the local authorities now jointly conduct peacebuilding and economic activity programmes. The target groups are those at most affected and at most of the instability in the country. The intervention is important for the prevention of violence In Burundi – especially as the country heads towards election time when youth are always at the forefront of instability in the country. This is the first-time youth from different ethnic and political affiliations are working together and with the local authorities for a common goal of peace. Governments and intergovernmental institutions take steps to act on policies and operationalise norms and frameworks for conflict prevention and the protection of people and collaborate with civil society The webinar “The Participatory Video in Peacebuilding: Lessons Learnt from Occupied Palestinian Territories and Kyrgyzstan” focused on participatory video methodology and how this was used for peacebuilding in Palestine and Kyrgyzstan. Practical examples and lessons learned were shared. The webinar was joined by participants from: Kyrgyzstan, Palestine and The Hague. The discussion focused on the success of the project and how it could be replicated. The networks and its members enhance, document and disseminate civil society expertise and skills for inclusive prevention and protection Established communication and collaboration with the Charhar Institute and the Korean National Peace Committee in conducting online trainings and continuing future collaboration with GPPAC. The idea is to follow up the ability of testing online trainings in Beijing. The outcome is relevant as it is a result of the Training of Trainers for Peacebuilding Skills organised by GPPAC’s Improving Practice Working Group in 2019. The networks and network members build support for conflict prevention by engaging with and building capacities of key stakeholders GPPAC, in collaboration with civil society and government partners has conducted a series of activities aimed at providing strategic input into the 2020 Review. This includes capacity building sessions for GPPAC members, written submissions, informal dialogues and formal consultations with relevant peacebuilding stakeholders. It has contributed to the strengthening of civil society engagement with UN actors and member states at all levels, to ensure that civil society perspectives inform global policy on peacebuilding and sustaining peace and to strengthen the recognition of GPPAC expertise by the UN actors at all levels. Intergovernmental and state actors incorporate people-centred inclusive prevention and protection norms and principles in their policies and decision making processes In January 2020, the Governing Council and the Advisory Board of the ASEAN Institute for Peace and Reconciliation (ASAN-IPR) decided to conduct joint trainings on Conflict Transformation and Mediation Processes with GPPAC-Southeast Asia for the next three years. The Malaysian MFA will lead the fundraising, and GPPAC-Southeast Asia Working Group will lead the program and content of the trainings. The networks and network members build support for conflict prevention by engaging with and building capacities of key stakeholders In November we offered a webinar on peace education in Rwanda, focused on a successful model for peace education, supporting tens of thousands of young people across the country with the knowledge and skills to overcome the legacy of genocide. In December, a webinar on confronting social conflict in Mexico focused on the development of knowledge, skills and aptitudes for the construction of peace through various nonviolent strategies. The networks and its members enhance, document and disseminate civil society expertise and skills for inclusive prevention and protection Report of the UN Secretary General on Women, Peace and Security published on 9 October 2019 has included recommendations relevant for conflict prevention. It informs the United Nations, Member States and regional organizations on the progress of the implementation of WPS agenda and promotes women’s rights, gender equality and the full and meaningful participation of women across all decision-making contexts. Due to this advocacy, the language now included in the Report strengthens it’s conflict prevention aspects from the perspectives of local peacebuilders from GPPACs network. GPPAC is an active member of the NGO Working Group on Women Peace and Security and provided input for the SG’s report on WPS based recommendations of GPPAC Gender experts accumulated in GPPACs knowledge products. Intergovernmental and state actors incorporate people-centred inclusive prevention and protection norms and principles in their policies and decision making processes From 25th -29th November 2019, in Mathare and Kawangware Slums, Nairobi, Kenya. A highly interactive and participatory training focused on the following skills: conflict analysis, negotiation and mediation strategies, problem solving and communication skills, analysis of grievances, key actors, key mobilizers, institutions for peace and conflict, and social patterns of conflict in Kawangware and Mathare informal settlements and, simulated small groups mediation on various types of conflicts in these neighborhoods. Such conflicts include Youth-police conflicts, tenants-slumlords conflicts, inter-ethnic political conflicts, communities- criminal gangs conflicts among others. The networks and network members build support for conflict prevention by engaging with and building capacities of key stakeholders In December 2019, participants of Nigeria Youth for Peace Forum established the Nigeria Coalition on Youth, Peace and Security - a coalition of over 60 organisations which was hitherto not in existence to help galvanise support and resources in moving the youth, peace and security agenda forward in Nigeria. It is significant because up to now there was no existing coalition or network on youth, peace and security. This outcome means that there is now an entry point to begin conversation with the legislative body on strengthening young people's participation in peacebuilding in Lagos and Nigeria. Intergovernmental and state actors incorporate people-centred inclusive prevention and protection norms and principles in their policies and decision making processes Experienced trainers from the Western Balkans shared examples and their experiences of how to use conflict analysis tools during their capacity building trainings on conflict for multi-ethnic groups in the region. Important issues such as who the parties to and the drivers of the conflict are were addressed. The networks and its members enhance, document and disseminate civil society expertise and skills for inclusive prevention and protection The issue of kidnapping has been worsening and spreading to new areas. This issue is compounded by armed clashes that have resumed between Congolese ethnic militias which often cross over borders. To address the issue, GPPAC member in the DRC, Heritiers de la Justice, implemented a quick-impact project funded by GPPAC GS PuF Emergency Crisis Fund. The project was structured around three main activities: 1. The organisation of a brainstorming meeting on the issue of kidnapping and hostage-taking with government, civil society, police and media representatives. 2. provide populations with a toll-free number dedicated to answering related questions 3. produce and broadcast educational spots and awareness-raising messages on radio channels. The networks and its members enhance, document and disseminate civil society expertise and skills for inclusive prevention and protection The Women, Peace and Security Office of the Secretary General - NATO invited GPPAC Gender coordinator to present Early Warning Indicators for conflict prevention, including GPPACs work on gender and prevention. GPPAC also facilitated a group working on gendered indicators on prevention with the idea that they are tested later. Intergovernmental and state actors incorporate people-centred inclusive prevention and protection norms and principles in their policies and decision making processes In December 2019, Mr. Theo Ngwabidje, the Governor of South Kivu Province in the DRC, placed the restoration of peace and security at the top of the priorities of its mandate. After years of political tension and rebel activities, the situation is now calming down in South Kivu province because of this action. GPPAC member has organised training sessions for government and state actors in South Kivu as part of its advocacy work. The civil society, local authorities, Human Rights Defenders and local communities have continued to engage their leaders like the Governor on the importance of prioritizing peace and human rights in South Kivu as well as the rest of the county. On January 9 and 10 of 2020, in the territory of Uvira in the DRC, several outlaws responsible for looting and hostage-taking were arrested following the set-up of a toll-free number available to the public for alerting the authorities about criminal activities as well as the re-establishment of night patrols. Both initiatives came out of the emergency GPPAC-funded project implemented in December 2019 by GPPAC member in the DRC, Héritiers de la Justice. Governments and intergovernmental institutions take steps to act on policies and operationalise norms and frameworks for conflict prevention and the protection of people and collaborate with civil society We developed the SDG16 Toolkit to respond to the members’ question: “how can we use SDG 16 for our daily work?”. The SDG16 Toolkit guides to useful material, experiences and suggestions about the local implementation of SDG16+. In responding to 20 questions, its responses includes information on: governmental SDGs focal points in various countries, how the SDG 16 review process looks like, developing advocacy strategies and how to take part in decision-making processes around SDGs. It also provides users with recommendations on how to influence key actors for SDG16+ related implementation or how to write a shadow civil society review on SDG 16+. The networks and its members enhance, document and disseminate civil society expertise and skills for inclusive prevention and protection In October 2019, during the workshop “Inclusion of civic sector in the process of conflict prevention for better inculcation of conflict prevention tools in the government’s policies and strategies” held in Tbilisi, three state agencies in Georgia: Government’s State Chancellery, the State Minister’s Apparatus for Reconciliation and Equality and Ministry of Internal Affairs have agreed to continue cooperation with ICCN about use of conflict prevention tools before taking action, such as to do a conflict analysis before implementing specific actions in order to prevent conflict and violence. Given worsening state and human security situation along the administrative border line between Georgia and South Ossetia and Abkhazia since October 2019 even verbally expressed willingness of the state agencies to consider the ICCN recommendations about conflict prevention tools is a significant marker. Governments and intergovernmental institutions take steps to act on policies and operationalise norms and frameworks for conflict prevention and the protection of people and collaborate with civil society The activity aims to create awareness about political participation and the need for youth and women to be involved in that process. Women and young people followed a training on the importance of the role they can play in their country, empowering them to become part of decision making and democratic processes in Tunisia such as voting during elections. The networks and its members enhance, document and disseminate civil society expertise and skills for inclusive prevention and protection Several initiatives have resulted in changes: a) different civil organizations representing various ethno-cultural groups agreed about specific joint measures aimed to prevent conflicts during the electoral period. b) 3 local Aggregated territorial communities (ATC) have applied the model of working with conflicting historical memories and c) Teachers, librarians and civil activists started to use a new methodology to address sensitive issues regarding inter-ethnic relations due to complicated history. The networks and its members enhance, document and disseminate civil society expertise and skills for inclusive prevention and protection This news bulletin covers the latest updates on the GRP-NDF peace process including the localisation of peace talks, red tagging of opposition leaders and the arrest of NDF political consultants. In this specific issue, it covered the effect of red tagging especially on the education sector as seen through the coverage of the suspension order of Lumad schools in Davao. The networks and its members enhance, document and disseminate civil society expertise and skills for inclusive prevention and protection Netherlands Clingendael Institute invited GPPAC’s Training and Capacity Building Coordinator to provide this training. It is the first time GPPAC receives such an invitation from Clingendael, which is an indication of recognition of GPPAC’s knowledge of the subject matter. Also, it is an opportunity to directly influence the MFA personnel undergoing this training, to focus on themes GPPAC finds important. The training focused on the civil society / NGO perspective on EU/UN missions, with some case studies including Mali, focused on Human Security and Local ownership. The networks and network members build support for conflict prevention by engaging with and building capacities of key stakeholders The second webinar of GPPAC’s Improving Practice Webinar series focused on the engagement and empowerment of women promoting peace and confidence building in South Caucasus. Peacebuilder Nina Tsikhistavi-Khutsishvili, Director of the International Center on Conflict and Negotiation (ICCN) shared her experiences and challenges on the creation of the first ever Network of South Caucasus Women Mediators in the region. She was joined by Zaal Anjaparidze, GPPAC member and ICCN program coordinator. He shared his expertise on adaptive leadership pertinent to human security, how and whether it works in Georgia’s conflict zones and how it contributes to conflict prevention. The networks and its members enhance, document and disseminate civil society expertise and skills for inclusive prevention and protection Through a series of case studies, the GPPAC Peace Education Working Group highlights examples of how peace and conflict education efforts are being scaled in countries and regions, both within the formal education structures (schools, teacher training facilities) for primary, secondary and higher education, as well as in the community. Each case study highlights the efforts that civil society and government actors have undertaken in order to create collaborative processes to develop, disseminate, train, monitor and improve the learning and application of Peace Education. The case studies also highlight lessons learned to assist those who are seeking to engage with civil society and government actors to improve peace and conflict education initiatives in their own countries and regions. The first case studies of the series is 'Armenia’s Peace & Conflict Resolution Education in Schools Program'. The networks and its members enhance, document and disseminate civil society expertise and skills for inclusive prevention and protection GPPAC was invited to propose a presentation for the Partos Strategic Partnerships Meetup ‘New roles and partnerships in international advocacy’, and was one of three partnerships selected to present. Charlotte Crockett presented on the functioning of the GPPAC network, and what it really means to be ‘member-led’. The audience in large part consisted of more traditional development organizations, many of whom are looking for ways to shift power in their relationships with Southern partners, away from partners being mere implementers of Dutch development organisations’ plans. There was a lot of interest in GPPAC’s approach, as well as that of the ‘Count Me In’ Strategic Partnership led by Mama Cash. The networks and its members enhance, document and disseminate civil society expertise and skills for inclusive prevention and protection GPPAC is an active member of the NGO Working Group on Women Peace and Security since February 2018 by contributing thematically to knowledge products and providing input for various processes. A delegation of GPPAC members has been participating in the Women, Peace and Security activities at UN New York level annually since 2010. GPPAC’s track record on the WPS agenda lead to the NGO Working Group on Women Peace and Security inviting GPPAC to be an active partner in the formulation of the agenda, format, participants and facilitators for the second Multistakeholder Forum on WPS. The event will be held in collaboration with NGO Working Group Sweden and UN Women. The networks and network members build support for conflict prevention by engaging with and building capacities of key stakeholders Sources of information: Kavya Asoka, Executive DIrector of the NGO Working Group on WPS (contact available upon request), Maja Vitas Majstorovic Gender coordinator at GPPAC Georgian-Armenian civil society dialogue in Yerevan discussed how the economic blocks led by Russia and EU, respectively, influence Armenian-Georgian trade and economic relations in the short and mid-term perspectives. The dialogue considered how CSOs can contribute to reduction of conflicts between the competing economic alliances, including secessionist regions. Two thematic meetings in Baku were hosted by Kharabakh Public Council. Georgian, Armenian and Azerbaijani experts prepared three policy papers dealing with prospects of complementarity between the two economic blocks, distributed among the eight state agencies in each country. Participants in the project have increased understanding of the strengthening conflict prevention mechanisms and Infrastructures regarding the two economic blocks and outlined salient issues in trade-economic relations to be addressed in terms of coexistence of the two economic blocks led by Russia and EU, respectively. Increased involvement of media, youth and women in the discussion of conflict and peace issues at the thematic meetings and lobby & advocacy. Recommendations by civil society were reflected in the rhetoric of Georgian and Armenian officials, thanks to the GPPAC supported dialogue process. 1.3.1 Network members work together to promote, inform, monitor and contribute to implementing inclusive prevention and protection strategies. Despite tensions, Armenian, Georgian and Azerbaijani journalists and civil society agreed to work together more closely on conflict prevention. During 4th quarter of 2018 GPPAC organised a training on Human Security Essentials based on GPPAC Handbook on Human Security for 10 women community leaders residing in the villages adjacent to the conflict zone. Nine freelance and peace journalists selected by GPPAC South Caucasus and its partner CSOs in Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia produced 10 articles on peace, conflict prevention and confidence building and underlined GPPAC experience in this area. Creating the ground for a network of GPPAC freelance press officers in the region. Georgian, Armenian and Azerbaijani journalists improved their knowledge about ways and methods of detecting and fighting hate speech on social media and in traditional media. Azerbaijani and Armenian CSOs and journalists have become more tolerable towards different points of view on the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh and expressed readiness to cooperate. 1.2.3. Civil society promotes, convenes or participates in inclusive multi-stakeholder dialogue processes and preventive and protective actions During 4th quarter of 2018 GPPAC members contribute to further development of school education on living together peacefully in post-conflict communities in Moldova and Transnistria. CSOs and local partners developed and implemented the educational course “Culture of good neighborhood” / “Living in peace and harmony” for elementary schools with relevant educational courses in middle school level. Holding a second seminar for new teachers who teach the optional subject ”Culture of good neighborhood” in TL ”A. Pușkin”, in Chisinau on 29 October with 17 participants. Monitoring the process of teaching the “Culture of good neighborhood” course in new schools. 1.2.3. Civil society promotes, convenes or participates in inclusive multi-stakeholder dialogue processes and preventive and protective actions GPPAC Eastern European Network sent missions to areas of potential conflict and organized a regional civil rapid reaction platform for the prevention of electoral violence or escalation of tensions, during the electoral period in Ukraine in Chernivtsy region. The platform was created during a round-table on the risks of electoral violence in the region, by relevant experts and civil society representatives on December 21, 2018, and was followed by a program on local TV. 1.2.2. Civil society reach out to key conflict/prevention stakeholders to engage them on developing inclusive prevention and protection strategies Hosting of a 2-day strategy workshop on the inclusive development of an independent Infrastructure for Peace in Sierra Leone (4-5 October). This brought together international members from GPPAC, WANEP and 25 civil society members from Sierra Leone to prepare for the planning and establishment of a Peacebuilding and National Cohesion Commission. There was a joint statement by those 25 CSOs from Sierra Leone on the need for such a commission in Sierra Leone. Follow-up advocacy meetings after the event with the project coordinator at United Nations Development Programme, the UN Resident Coordinator as well as the responsible Minister of State of Sierra Leone. Formal agreement by the Sierra Leone government to include a broad range of CSO’s in the setting up of a peace commission, and commitment of State support for the process and engage with the CSO platform. 1.4.1. Governments and intergovernmental organisations invest in, and collaborate with civil society in coordinated EWER and conflict/situational analysis (including RtoP) Nine civil society organisations that are members of the GPPAC working group on Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE) met on 30 November - 1 December 2018 in Manilla, The Philippines, to review and update the submitted position papers on PVE situations and strategies in various GPPAC regions (a.o. West Africa, South East Asia, MENA) and what role GPPAC and its members are/can play. WANEP participated and submitted a position paper based on its long time experience in working on those issues in West Africa. 1.1.3. The networks produce relevant and timely lobby and advocacy statements, policy and position papers with civil society (conflict, context, thematic) analysis on target countries, situations and policies with particular attention to inclusivity Development, fine tuning and adoption of Course Modules and GPPAC training curriculum at the Regional Steering Group meeting for CSOs in Southeast Asia, November 29-30, 2019. The course now includes perspectives from scholars, activists and peacemakers on peace, conflict transformation and peace building, and peace processes. 1.1.2. Network members collaborate to gather and develop civil society resources and expertise on norms and approaches with particular attention on inclusivity CSO advocacy by 5 GPPAC members at the ASEAN Civil Society Conference/ ASEAN People’s Forum (ACSC/APF) 2018 (2-4 November 2018) held in Singapore, and on “Empowering People’s Solidarity Against All Forms of Discrimination”. The forum was designed to be a conversation among representatives of ASEAN particularly the ASEAN Institute for Peace and Reconciliation (AIPR), ASEAN Inter-governmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) and ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children (ACWC), and representatives from the Rohingya community and groups working for peace and humanitarian situation in Rakhine state in Burma on the current responses of the ASEAN and prospects for substantial and effective collaboration with civil society, solidarity movements and advocacy groups on the Rohingya issue. Core advocacy messages were based on the submission by the participants to the dialogue on the Rohingya situation in the ASEAN agreed during the dialogue activity became part of the official statement of the whole ACSC/APF2018 conference. 1.3.3. Intergovernmental and state actors demonstrate readiness to consider civil society - including women and youth - input in official negotiation process GPPAC lobby and advocacy mission to the "Symposium on the Establishment of an ASEAN Women for Peace Registry (AWPR)" in Cebu City and follow-up advocacy with the new ASEAN Institute for Peace and Reconciliation Executive Director. The ASEAN Institute for Peace and Reconciliation (AIPR) expressed commitment to partner with civil society organisations on the GPPAC regional capacity building program and training plan on conflict transformation and peace process mediation. 1.3.3. Intergovernmental and state actors demonstrate readiness to consider civil society - including women and youth - input in official negotiation process In coordination with UNDP Headquarters, GPPAC hosted a 3-day meeting on the UN-WB report on Pathways to Peace in Bangkok with aim to translate the findings on the ground and facilitate cooperation between civil society organisations and in-country actors. GPPAC members established links between civil society organisations and UNDP, DPA, PBSO and World Bank representatives from Asia and Pacific for further national level discussions. As a result of the meeting, advocacy contacts were established for GPPAC members to follow-up discussions in country for the Philippines, Cambodia, Sri Lanka and Maldives. 1.4.2. Governments take steps to implement NAPs and strategies on WPS, YPS, VE, RtoP in collaboration with civil society Hosting of the international solidarity mission to the Philippines with 19 GPPAC participants engaging with parties to the Peace Talks, negotiators and over 20 different CSO stakeholders from key actors working on the peace process and/or affected by the ongoing conflict. New and/or reinforced contacts between GPPAC members of the Working Group Enabling (10 CSOs), Philippines based associates (8 CSOs) and key actors to the Philippines Peace Talks / Peace Process and propositions for continued work by the WG on the talks. Parties to the Philippines talks and broader process recognized the GPPAC network as a knowledgeable resource for providing additional support to the peace process. 1.3.3. Intergovernmental and state actors demonstrate readiness to consider civil society - including women and youth - input in official negotiation process The Civil Society-UN Prevention Platform - which GPPAC co-facilitates with the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) - in close collaboration with the UN UNDP-DPPA Joint Programme on to Build National Capacities (Joint Programme) launched a project focused on the UN Peace and Development Advisors (PDAs). PDAs serve to build linkages between the UN’s political and developmental efforts ‘on the ground’. This project contributes to lessons-learned and best practices on engagement between PDAs and local CSOS to ensure inclusive and meaningful engagement with all marginalized communities and overall to strengthen the UN’s engagement with civil society on the ground. 1.4.1. Governments and intergovernmental organisations invest in, and collaborate with civil society in coordinated EWER and conflict/situational analysis (including RtoP) The Secretary-General’s 2018 report on Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace requested the UN to develop UN system-wide guidelines for UN’s engagement with civil society. A working group is functioning since November 2018 consisting of various UN departments and GPPAC, along with two other civil society organizations. Through this working group, GPPAC supports the UN to develop a Community-Engagement Guidelines on Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace as an overarching UN policy document. 1.4.1. Governments and intergovernmental organisations invest in, and collaborate with civil society in coordinated EWER and conflict/situational analysis (including RtoP) GPPAC co-facilitates an experts-level dialogue between civil society, UN agencies and Member States to discuss how best to advance the Sustaining Peace Agenda in order to deliver on its promises. The first meeting was held in December 2018 and continues in 2019. The UN Peacebuilding Support Office invited GPPAC and its partners to help design this process of meetings including to uptake CSOs recommendations. 1.4.1. Governments and intergovernmental organisations invest in, and collaborate with civil society in coordinated EWER and conflict/situational analysis (including RtoP) On 20 September 2019, in Brussels, in order to support the EU’s conflict prevention work, the meeting brought together civil society experts with the EU External Action Service / EU Commission officials who shared their insights and analysis of contexts at risk of (increased) conflict at different time horizons 1.2.3. Civil society promotes, convenes or participates in inclusive multi-stakeholder dialogue processes and preventive and protective actions The Improving Practice Working Group held their meeting on 3-4 October 2019 in Vienna on Conflict Analysis. The meeting built the capacity of the working group member through a horizontal learning exchange, and has started to result in new endeavors between participants. The draft of the final report can be found here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xGdQPneh9mSj6zBgLy6T30 1.1.4. Network members work together to inform, monitor and contribute to implementing prevention and protection strategies The success of the RIGO conference changed the perception of the steering group. The members found that their advice and collaboration on this subject should go beyond just this one conference to sustained engagement on influencing/ interacting with regional actors. The networks and network members build support for conflict prevention by engaging with and building capacities of key stakeholders On 28-20 September in Ukraine, there was an exchange of experience between GPPAC and non-GPPAC civil society organisations regarding approaches and tools for dealing with collective memory in order to reduce the potential for conflict in relations between countries, ethnic groups and people with different historical backgrounds and political views. The networks and its members enhance, document and disseminate civil society expertise and skills for inclusive prevention and protection The conference held on September 26-28, was used as an informational occasion for GPPAC members to participate in two television programs in order to explain to the general public the ambiguity of history and attitudes regarding the topic of the conference. Additionally, they emphasised the need to find common approaches to the study of history and its impact. The networks and its members enhance, document and disseminate civil society expertise and skills for inclusive prevention and protection OSCE Conflict Prevention Center (CPC) updated and designed their Conflict Analysis tools using GPPAC’s Conflict Analysis Field guidelines and procedures handbook as its main resource. In addition, GPPAC’s Conflict Analysis Field guide is from October 2018 onwards included in the official mapping of the EU on conflict analysis tools, which is their starting point for updating the EU’s official Conflict Analysis Guidance Note. 1.3.2. Intergovernmental and state actors incorporate inclusive prevention and protection principles in their relevant policies County Government Watch (CGW) from Kenya was supported by GPPAC. CGW is collaborating with Saferworld in conducting county-based multi-stakeholder forums aimed at bringing together relevant stakeholders to chart the way forward in relation to the General Elections in Kenya in 2017. The platforms were/are an opportunity for different stakeholders to come together and review strategies and mechanisms put in place to ensure that the elections were free, fair and credible. The interventions were/are county specific, which led to a national stakeholders’ forum that reviewed actions and measures taken by various stakeholders to ensure peaceful elections. Eight of the nineteen counties were covered by CGW interventions and initial feedback learned that there was less violence in these counties, most likely due to the round table and related events organised by CGW. 1.4.3. Intergovernmental, state actors and non-state actors take steps to act on early warnings and apply prevention and protection norms and principles in practice The first project is financed from the SP project’s “crisis intervention fund”: for Héritiers de la Justice (HJ) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) around the delayed presidential election and prevention of electoral violence. HJ organised many public activities during autumn, including an impressive all-citizens strike in several Eastern cities and towns. 1.2.3. Civil society promotes, convenes or participates in inclusive multi-stakeholder dialogue processes and preventive and protective actions GPPAC Global Secretariat has set up 4 global Working Groups in 2017 on (1) Improving Practice, (2) Policy & Advocacy, (3) Enabling Collaboration, and (4) Prevention of Violent Extremism (PVE). The working groups had online meetings and the Working Group Improving Practice met physically in The Hague, focusing on exchange of experience around using GPPAC’s training curriculum handbook on Human Security and Security Sector Reform, and how to take this further. The global working group of Gender Focal Points is the fifth global Working Group of GPPAC. They met during the Gender week in October 2017 and engaged with various UN bodies to advocate for inclusivity in peacebuilding processes. Local follow-up by members with UN DPA country desk officers was reported from Pacific/Fiji, Cameroon and Sri Lanka. The 6th global Working Group on Peace Education met in December 2017 in Armenia, organised by GPPAC member “Women for Development” from Armenia during the International Conference “Peace Education for Peacebuilding”. The Working Group members advocated the international community towards peacebuilding and the necessity of spreading the culture of peace among the young generation. 1.1.1 Network members engage in regional and cross-regional exchanges, working groups and action research on priority themes (including PVE, PE, RtoP, WPS) The GPPAC-Southeast Asia Regional Steering Group Meeting was held 19-21 September in Manila, The Philippines. The meeting was held back-to-back with the Conference on Peace and the Prevention of Violent Extremism. GPPAC Global Secretariat also participated and the SEA members had a prominent role in the conference, including as facilitators of group discussions. 1.2.1. Civil society initiates or participates in joint capacity development with state actors on how to work together and operationalise inclusive prevention and protection mechanisms and norms (including security sector training, briefings on the role of civil society, trainings on norms) In 2017, GPPAC laid the foundation to provide support to its members in Low and Low-Middle Income Countries on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). An analysis was conducted and translated into a brochure for members on how SDGs can be made relevant at local and national levels. Initial trainings were organised in Southeast Asia. Members in at least 4 countries are more aware of the importance of the SDG process and the Southeast Asian plan for 2018 has taken up the SDGs as one of the priorities to work on internationally through GPPAC. 1.1.2 Network members collaborate to gather and develop civil, society resources and expertise on norms and approaches with particular attention on inclusivity In Moldova the 4th grade peace education program was developed during the spring and summer of 2017. The course is called “Culture of good neighborhood” and has been undergoing testing in 32 schools in Moldova (including the Transnistria region), involving more than 1200 pupils. On 27 December 2017, over 40 teachers and managers from different localities of the country, as well as the representatives of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Research and of the General Departments of Education participated at the final Conference of the project “Peace education through promoting culture of good neighborhood in primary schools”. 1.2.2 Civil society reach out to key conflict/prevention stakeholders to engage them on developing inclusive prevention and protection strategies From July to August 2019, in Yerevan, Armenia, and Baku, Azerbaijan, civil society organisations expressed and confirmed interest to work with the GPPAC regional network and/or join it. That was the first step towards strengthening the GPPAC regional network in the South Caucasus. The networks and its members enhance, document and disseminate civil society expertise and skills for inclusive prevention and protection After receiving responses on the Conflict Prevention Toolbox questionnaire from Georgian state agencies (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Security, Defense Minister and State Ministry Apparatus for Reconciliation and Civic Integration); ICCN strengthened partnerships with these agencies through an advocacy campaign. In addition, between June-September 2019, the Prime Minister’s State Chancellery’s department for sustainable development expressed willingness to discuss the issue. The networks and network members build support for conflict prevention by engaging with and building capacities of key stakeholders Following the presentation of the SDG 16+ review on Ghana in New York, WANEP was invited by the Government of Ghana in July 2019 to participate in the national coalition of CSOs on SDG 16+ working with the government on SDG planning and implementation/review. The coalition had until then lacked representation of peacebuilding CSO’s. Intergovernmental and state actors incorporate people-centred inclusive prevention and protection norms and principles in their policies and decision making processes Bilateral meetings with the EU Delegation and the High Commission of Canada were also arranged during the GPPAC staff participation at the Voluntary National Review workshop in Cameroon. The workshop was a good opportunity for GPPAC member, WAA Cameroon, to present key advocacy messages at national level. The networks and its members enhance, document and disseminate civil society expertise and skills for inclusive prevention and protection The roundtable did not exist before, and it now discusses pressing issues on implementing the sustaining the peace agenda among the UN, Member States, and civil society. The forum is now seen as a useful and trusted space to discuss challenging issues around Sustaining Peace. This includes a frank discussion on what is expected from the 2019 and 2020 Secretary-General reports on Sustaining Peace and Peacebuilding. It is also significant because this forum provides a space for civil society to directly influence key actors within the Sustaining Peace agenda and to raise issues and perspectives of their own in a context in which they are heard, as well as raise awareness about Sustaining Peace agenda in different forums. Governments and intergovernmental institutions take steps to act on policies and operationalise norms and frameworks for conflict prevention and the protection of people and collaborate with civil society This is a result of fruitful and trusted partnership that has also showed strong alignment during the ‘Voices of SDG16+: Stories for Global Action’ event; previous exchange of knowledge and experiences with CSPPS about their involvement in Voluntary National Reviews in their member countries and several meetings in The Hague; GPPAC becoming a TAP Network partner; co-writing the Rome Declaration, and co-writing publications that were launched and disseminated at the side events during HLPF. The networks and its members enhance, document and disseminate civil society expertise and skills for inclusive prevention and protection The event was launched by Saferworld, Transparency, Accountability, and Participation (TAP) Network, Conciliation Resources, Article 19, Peace Direct, Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC), Civil Society Platform for Peacebuilding and Statebuilding (CSPPS), World Vision, Justice for All, Pax Christi, Life and Peace Institute, and Namati, with the support of the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the United Kingdom Department for International Development through the UN Development Programme’s Global Alliance. Intergovernmental and state actors incorporate people-centred inclusive prevention and protection norms and principles in their policies and decision making processes This outcome was the result of a policy dialogue between WANEP and ECOWAS ahead of an upcoming ECOWAS Summit. The dialogue was attended by representatives of 12 out of 16 ECOWAS ambassadors residents in Abuja, Nigeria. This outcome has direct bearing on the activities and GPPAC plans in West-Africa (PVE in Sahel) and of two of GPPAC’s global working groups on Preventing Violent Extremism and Influencing Policy. Document link: www.ecowas.int/ecowas-and-wanep-call-for-increased-synergy-in-order-to-prevent-violent-extremism-in-the-region/ 1.3.1 Network members work together to promote, inform, monitor and contribute to implementing inclusive prevention and protection strategies (incl WPS, PVE) The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Nairobi participated in the meeting. 1.3.1 Network members work together to promote, inform, monitor and contribute to implementing inclusive prevention and protection strategies. Led by ICCN and supported by the Prevention up Front and GPPAC Network: CSOs established the women mediators network when they met and received mediation training in Istanbul from 25-29 September by GPPAC. The purpose of the Network is involving and strengthening women mediators in peace processes before, during and after conflicts. The Network’s Memorandum of Understanding: https://gppac.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=559829eb6027c27d2658b2173&id=5dd55d7404&e=5c8199a0c1 1.1.1. Network members engage in regional and cross-regional exchanges, working groups and action research on priority themes GPPAC launched a project to connect with local freelance press officers who are writing about peacebuilding issues. Journalist Sawssan Abou Zahr supported by CSO member organization MAMAN in Sudan published: www.lebanonfiles.com/news/1373146 on Human Security. 1.1.1. Network members engage in regional and cross-regional exchanges, working groups and action research on priority themes Participation of 50 CSOs and other actors in conflict prevention and peacebuilding on SDGs, gender mainstreaming and Human Security; 3 meetings in Kyiv, Istanbul and Kampala. 1.1.1. Network members engage in regional and cross-regional exchanges, working groups and action research on priority themes Several activities were undertaken to train teachers on interactive teaching methods, with an emphasis on resolving educational conflicts that arise in their schools due to ethnic, religious, social diversity, and intercultural issues. A webinar was organized on-line with 2 groups of teachers (Romanian and Russian speakers) and video lessons developed. As an impact, over 800 children will benefit from an important educational innovation, developed also based on the intercultural education students workbook ""Culture of Good Neighborhood"". 1.2.2. Civil society reach out to key conflict/prevention stakeholders to engage them in developing inclusive prevention and protection strategies The GPPAC Peace Education Working Group’s webinar series continued in April-July 2019. Through the webinars, GPPAC's peace education experts share their decades of experience integrating peace education into formal (schools, colleges and universities) and informal (community) education structures. The networks and its members enhance, document and disseminate civil society expertise and skills for inclusive prevention and protection A webinar hosted by Jon Rudy on Community Policing through a Human Security Approach aimed to provide a learning opportunity on community policing, engage GPPAC network members on content, do outreach online, and add to GPPAC online resources on topics around human security. Source: https://youtu.be/F90BelbDBC4 The networks and its members enhance, document and disseminate civil society expertise and skills for inclusive prevention and protection Winning the Peace Conversation is the biggest gathering of multi-stakeholders to engage with the Government of the Republic Philippines, the National Democratic Front peace process, and the new Secretary of the Office of the Presidential Advisor on the Peace Process (OPAPP). There has been a long-standing hesitance among peace advocates/NGOs to deepen collaboration and joint action as well as hesitance among other sectors (private sector, academia, religious sector, etc) to be further involved in the GRP-NDFP peace process. This expression of commitment builds on the GPPAC Enabling Collaboration Working Group and the Secretariat’s objective to broaden the constituency of the GRP-NDFP, and to develop trust and coordination between the actors already engaged with the peace process. Moreover, during the meeting, they expressed the need to start the process of developing a National People’s Peace Agenda. The networks and network members build support for conflict prevention by engaging with and building capacities of key stakeholders The United Network of Young Peacebuilders, a GPPAC member and chair of the GPPAC YPS Working Group, has been advocating the Dutch MFA to embed the YPS agenda within the Ministry, by ensuring dedicated focal person and continued human resources to guide and monitor the implementation of UNSCR 2250. This has now been achieved with the appointment of the Ambassador for Youth. A Task Force was set up to support the temporary seat of the Netherlands in the Security Council, which also dealt with Youth, Peace, and Security (YPS) on an ad hoc basis. Governments and intergovernmental institutions take steps to act on policies and operationalise norms and frameworks for conflict prevention and the protection of people and collaborate with civil society Youth, Peace, and Security Advisor to UN Women recognised the link, which was not made clear before, and acknowledged the contribution of the United Network of Young Peacebuilders and GPPAC to it. Understanding the link contributes to the understanding of the unique challenges that young women face. GPPAC has contributed through the presentation of Eliska Jelinkova, the Co-Chair of the GPPAC Youth, Peace, and Security Working Group during the panel “Sustainable Infrastructure for Gender Equality: Putting Prevention Up Front”. The panel was organised by GPPAC in cooperation with ICRtoP and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, showing that gender equality is linked to inclusive human security, and when women and girls are empowered and have access to the services they need, states are more peaceful and communities are safer. Intergovernmental and state actors incorporate people-centred inclusive prevention and protection norms and principles in their policies and decision making processes Justine Kwachu of Women in Alternative Action (WAA) Cameroon used learnings from the GPPAC network and her participation in GPPAC activities as a Gender Focal person to mainstream gender in WAA approaches like peace education in schools, kids for peace program, and “Queens for Peace”. Queens for Peace is an innovative initiative that brings on board women in traditional institutions to participate in peace processes and decision making at the grassroots level. Intergovernmental and state actors incorporate people-centred inclusive prevention and protection norms and principles in their policies and decision making processes In Moldova, there is an unresolved territorial dispute over the separatist region of Transnistria. For the long-term resolution of this conflict and other societal issues, it is important that children are educated on peace and tolerance. GPPAC members from Ukraine and Moldova have been working on the development of this peace education curriculum since 2013, and have been training teachers on its use. The course is based on a similar course GPPAC members -previously based in Crimea- had developed. The network of youth peacebuilders aims to mainstream youth inclusivity within GPPAC’s regional network, and strengthen and unify youth voices on key political platforms. The network has representatives from Kuwait, Sudan, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt; and Palestinian Lebanese and Palestinian Syrians (refugees). The networks and its members enhance, document and disseminate civil society expertise and skills for inclusive prevention and protection In May 2019, the work of the Georgian-Armenian intergovernmental commission on trade and economic cooperation has been restored after an 8-year break, and the first session took place in June 2019. Additionally, in June, the Armenian city of Dilizhan hosted the Georgian-Armenian economic and business forum aiming to propel bilateral economic relations to a new level. The change can be partially attributed to- along with other actors’ efforts- GPPAC South Caucasus regional network and the advocacy work of GPPAC Regional Secretariat in the South Caucasus, International Centre of Conflict and Negotiation, in 2017-2018 through the publishing of policy papers and media reports, as well as various experts-level meetings. The resumption of the suspended economic ties, especially at an official and high profile level is vital, as it significantly diminishes the probability of conflict and/or conflict-prone developments. The networks and network members build support for conflict prevention by engaging with and building capacities of key stakeholders GPPAC Georgian, Armenian and Azerbaijani CSOs and experts developed a questionnaire about conflict prevention based on best international practices for state agencies in charge of conflict management and prevention. The questionnaire was contextualised with the realities of each participant country. GPPAC Regional Secretariat for the South Caucuses, International Centre of Conflict and Negotiation (ICCN) sent the questionnaire to the Prime Minister’s Office and its department in charge of the UN Sustainable Development Agenda 2030, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Defence, State Security Service and the State Minister’s Office for Reconciliation and Civil Integration. ICCN received responses from all the agencies and analysed them together with experts and CSOs. The responses and the information gathered were used to further GPPAC members’ work on the Conflict Prevention toolbox. Intergovernmental and state actors incorporate people-centred inclusive prevention and protection norms and principles in their policies and decision making processes On April 2019, Permanent Peace Movement, GPPAC Middle East and North Africa’s Regional Secretariat convened a national meeting of Tunisian CSOs to explain GPPAC and its regional work to encourage Tunisian CSOs to form a national platform. GPPAC’s Tunisian members organised a meeting to form their national network in a rural area to ensure that the network and process are inclusive, not just for urban elite. The newly formed national network is recognised by peacebuilding organisations in Tunisia. The objectives of the national network are to provide a platform for the members to work together to deal with the challenges the country is facing; and recognise the importance of a network approach to deal with issues related to peace, conflict prevention, and human rights. The networks and its members enhance, document and disseminate civil society expertise and skills for inclusive prevention and protection The commitment was renewed for the first time since they could not take any step in disseminating the agreement from the date of its signature (September 12, 2018). The NPTC is an institution created by the peace agreement to oversee the activities of the pre-interim period, convene a workshop on the development of key recommendations for the peace agreement principals, and launch the dissemination strategy which was funded by GPPAC with the contribution from CEPO. As a result of the advocacy training offered by GPPAC in 2018, GPPAC member CEPO (in Yei River State) was the first civil society organisation to lobby and influence the National Pre-transitional Committee (NPTC). The renewed commitment towards the implementation of the South Sudan peace deal builds hope and confidence in the population as a key step towards preventing the re-escalation of armed conflict in the country. Governments and intergovernmental institutions take steps to act on policies and operationalise norms and frameworks for conflict prevention and the protection of people and collaborate with civil society The training was organised by GPPAC-ECA from June 29-30 in Kampala, Uganda. It followed requests from members to enhance their skills in effectively responding to conflicts, transforming conflicts and building sustainable peace in their communities and the ECA region. The four members who indicated a shift of mindset also shared that they plan to integrate a preventive approach to conflict in the programmes of their organisations. This transformation leads to a collective approach of prioritising a preventive approach to violent conflict in the region. The networks and its members enhance, document and disseminate civil society expertise and skills for inclusive prevention and protection Somaliland is a country influenced by a traditional male dominated clan system. GPPAC’s Eastern and Central African members have undergone a number of capacity building trainings on gender, women participation, negotiation and mediation, and advocacy. In 2018, one of the trainings emphasised skills on how to conduct constructive and conflict sensitive advocacy especially in fragile contexts and where cultural practices are hostile to women participation. NAGAAD, GPPAC member and focal point organisation for Somaliland, applied these skills to foster women participation in peacebuilding processes like negotiations. NAGAAD also cascaded the knowledge gained from this training to women peace coalitions to strengthen their advocacy, negotiation and mediation skills. Intergovernmental and state actors incorporate people-centred inclusive prevention and protection norms and principles in their policies and decision making processes During a 3-day validation workshop on the Voluntary National Review of UN SDG16 on Peace Justice and Inclusive Institutions, GPPAC staff provided a workshop on Lobby and Advocacy to 30 participants from different civil society organisations coming from different regions in Cameroon. The participants acknowledged that the workshop was necessary for the peacebuilding field. For GPPAC member, Women in Alternative Action (WAA) this was needed for the phase of implementation of the key recommendations that come out of the Country Report Progress towards peaceful, just and inclusive societies: SDG 16+ in Cameroon, published in June 2019. There were several significant opportunities where WAA Cameroon could apply these advocacy and lobby capacities, such as at the UN High Level Political Forum in New York in July 2019 and during the bilateral engagements with permanent missions of several countries (Switzerland, Germany, The EU Delegation and others) to the UN. Voices of SDG16+: Stories of Global Action is a collaborative campaign to bring the work of civil society on SDG16+ to the 2019 High Level Political Forum (HLPF) on SDGs. Individuals and organisations from around the world had the opportunity to submit short videos telling their “stories” of best practices towards SDG16+ at the national and local levels. The campaign provided a unique opportunity to showcase their stories – featuring both challenges and successes – and their concrete commitments to advancing SDG16+. Until 2019 and the HLPF, SDG 16 and its peace related goals had not been received broad attention and organisations working in the field of peace had undertaken individual advocacy but this had not translated into a joint endeavour. The fact that 11 organisations coalesced around the campaign, agreed to pool resources and developed joint advocacy messages and events is significant as it is an important qualitative shift in the way policy and implementing organisations have been working. It is equally significant since the joint advocacy increases the likelihood of its messages being taken up. GPPAC helped shape the form and content of the campaign as one of its earliest partners, it mobilised its members to submit videos (5 videos of members were submitted), participated in the selection of the videos, bringing the winners to New York as well as co-organising the events in New York and covering the campaign through its social media outlets. The video of GPPAC member, Women in Alternative Action (WAA) Cameroon Out of these 150 videos 13 winners were selected, which were then invited to come to the HLPF. The video of GPPAC member, Women in Alternative Action (WAA) Cameroon was one of 13 winners. The first edition of 100 copies was printed for the program aimed at implementing a systematic approach to educating children and young people for a culture of good neighborhood in a multicultural society. And several seminars with teachers took place to discuss extracurricular work with adolescents 1.2.2. Civil society reach out to key conflict/prevention stakeholders to engage them in developing inclusive prevention and protection strategies Several activities took place building upon the work from the rest of the year: A one-day webinar for 50 teachers from different districts to develop the intercultural competence and the broadening of the horizon of intercultural education. On November 16, activities took place to promote the importance of celebrating the Day of Tolerance in schools. The development and dissemination of didactic materials for primary schools took place. And the closing conference on promoting the results of the project. 1.2.2. Civil society reach out to key conflict/prevention stakeholders to engage them in developing inclusive prevention and protection strategies Teachers, inspired by the GPPAC peace education program, for the first time organized activities dedicated to the International Day of Tolerance in their classes in the Anenii Noi district of Moldova. More than 4000 students from 27 schools, 5-12 grades, and approx. 400 teachers were formed in the field of intercultural education and peace education. The aim was to inform students about the need for tolerance in society and to help children understand the negative effects of intolerance. 1.2.2. Civil society reach out to key conflict/prevention stakeholders to engage them in developing inclusive prevention and protection strategies During November-December 2020, we evaluated the implementation of the optional discipline "Culture of good neighbourhood" in schools of The Republic of Moldova and the Transnistria region which involved 313 students and 6 teachers. Results of evaluation demonstrate that the course "Culture of good neighbourhood" formed certain competences in students of primary classes. Based on the answers obtained in course of the study, children have responsible attitude towards those next to them; willingness to engage in dialogue, negotiate and resolve conflict situations; capitalizing on the principles of a culture of peace and of intercultural and multilingual education; active involvement and manifestation of a personal position towards the history and culture of the country and the ability to generate new, constructive ideas. 1.2.2. Civil society reach out to key conflict/prevention stakeholders to engage them in developing inclusive prevention and protection strategies On 18 December 2020, during an online meeting "Dialogue and peacebuilding" which was attended by 24 representatives of universities from 8 regions of Ukraine and peacebuilding practitioners, the GPPAC network has expanded the list of universities with which there is an opportunity to cooperate in the future. The meeting received positive feedback from participants. The regional network received two reply letters with agreements to cooperate with the Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University and South Unkrainian National Pedagogical University. 1.2.2. Civil society reach out to key conflict/prevention stakeholders to engage them in developing inclusive prevention and protection strategies On 19 October 2020, the WIPD and the gender direction of the Eastern European GPPAC network agreed to collaborate to unite efforts for more active implementation of UNSC Resolution 1325 (on Women, Peace, and Security) in the region. From 20 October 2020 to 28 December 2020, the mini-project “Belarusian Case 1325” studied the meanings attributed to women politicians by public figures in Belarus, Ukraine, and the Russian Federation, the difference in positions depending on the political and other orientations of speakers, to characterize the perception of women politicians in public space, expectations from them and in connection with their appearance, as well as the prospects for the development of this topic. The results of the project will be used for the further development of the direction and broad discussion with organizations that work with the gender issues. 1.1.1. Network members engage in regional and cross-regional exchanges, working groups and action research on priority themes GPPAC members in Eastern Europe continued the analysis of experiences of organizing civil dialogue across “lines of contact”, assessment of their potential “transferability” and preparation of a publication on these issues, complying materials about the experience of civil society organizations that address conflicts related to conflicting historical narratives and attitudes toward various historical figures or events. An online seminar “Historical memories and the search for civil consent” was held on November 24, 2020. It allowed us to discuss the practices of working with this topic in different countries of the region (Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Romania and Russia). Members of the network, together with representatives of other NGOs from Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova and Romania, became involved in a discussion regarding civil society approaches in addressing conflicts that are related to different attitudes toward various historical events and figures. We also launched the publication “CIVIL SOCIETY EXPERIENCES IN WORKING WITH CONFLICTS RELATED TO DIFFERENT ATTITUDES TOWARD HISTORICAL ISSUES AND FIGURES” 1.1.1. Network members engage in regional and cross-regional exchanges, working groups and action research on priority themes In November 2020, the students of Georgian Ilia State University started to actively study the role of history and historical memory in conflicts. After publishing the policy paper and its presentation, the Students’ History Club of Ilia State University of Georgia plans to continue engaging with youth about the role of history and historical memory in the developing and resolution of conflicts, especially those in Georgia, including the role of the youth in rethinking the roots of conflicts. Several professors of Ilia University expressed readiness to consult the Club members to make the discussions more academic and meaningful. Prior to the engagement with GPPAC program the Club was less proactive in this field. 1.2.2. Civil society reach out to key conflict/prevention stakeholders to engage them in developing inclusive prevention and protection strategies By December 2020, 270 young adults in 3 districts (Kaabong, Kotido and Lira) in Uganda who were ring-leaders of violence like armed cattle rustling in their communities had declared themselves peace champions and reached out to 4600 peers to convince them to abandon violent acts and embrace peace - in a period of 8 months. For example, in Kaabong and Kotido, districts, 65 warriors were convinced to abandon the bush, join the peace champions groups and are now also leading in community sensitizations towards peacebuilding and youth livelihood activities - with testimonies like "I used to lead my fellows into raiding. I am now leading in teaching my fellows into making hand-craft shoes in which they can get income" - a former warrior in Kotido district. The outcome is significant because it is a key proactive response to prevent the high threats of the target groups re-arming themselves and causing the re-emergence of violence. For example, there are high chances for the now disarmed (by government) youth in Kaabong and Kotido districts who used to view a gun as a source of livelihood, to re-arm themselves if nothing is done to support them. Furthermore, youth such as those formerly abducted by the rebels, born in captivity and former child soldiers are vulnerable to sliding into violence if not engaged positively. 1.2.2. Civil society reach out to key conflict/prevention stakeholders to engage them in developing inclusive prevention and protection strategies Burundian population is characterized by a lack of livelihoods, exposure of communities to manipulation (by political actors) and social injustices in an environment of indifference and devoid of mechanisms of community solidarity. GPPAC member Biraturaba has set up community mechanisms for economic and social resilience. These are community groups of solidarity, savings and credit, and at the same time serve as a framework for exchange, conflict management, mutual aid and economic recovery. These groups bring together people of different ethnicities and political tendencies by giving them the opportunity to see the strength they constitute when they go beyond what opposes them.However, networks do not have enough knowledge to become more involved and to control potential conflicts long before they emerge – thus the training aims to answer these shortcomings. 1.2.3. Civil society promotes, convenes or participates in inclusive multi-stakeholder dialogue processes and preventive and protective actions From 1-30 December 2020, GPPAC partner organised several activities aimed at countering/preventing election violence in Somalia in which elections are projected to take place early 2021. The project targeted Youth, Media, Women and Political elites to ensure maintaining social harmony before, during and after election. This was achieved through rebuffing false information, incitement and instilling a sense of unity, patriotism and citizenship. The activities of the project included a 2-3 minute awareness message video and a 30 minute TV program where experts discuss preventing election violence in detail. 1.2.2. Civil society reach out to key conflict/prevention stakeholders to engage them in developing inclusive prevention and protection strategies GPPAC provided media practitioners with a better understanding of peace and conflict theory, causes of conflict, conflict analysis, conflict intervention, communication, stress management, way to write peaceful media, war and peace journalism, journalist Code of Ethics, through presentation, participatory approaches, group discussions and exercises. It was aimed to encourage and capacitate media practitioners to assist in curbing hate speech and discrimination in the time of COVID19 and political repression in Cambodia. 1.2.2. Civil society reach out to key conflict/prevention stakeholders to engage them in developing inclusive prevention and protection strategies Our local partner Myanmar Cultural Research Society produced a short video documentary on Understanding Diversity, Uplifting Equality and Promoting Harmony entitled "Shia: Followers of Ali," to share about the historical existence of Shia Islamic communities and the diversity of faith and historical backgrounds in Myanmar/Burma. The documentary is based on ethnic research collection of MCRS and it is linked with culture and heritage places that are of great value to local Shia communities. MCRS organized interviews with key people from this community which is one of the many discriminated communities in the country. 1.1.2. Network members collaborate to gather and develop civil society resources and expertise on norms and approaches with particular attention on inclusivity GPPAC-SEA conducted a experts consultation meeting and a regional workshop/meeting on 20 and 23 of December 2020, respectively. The activity was aimed at updating local stakeholders and regional/GPPAC-SEA partners on peacebuilding in Southeast Asia, including the updates on the peace talks and peace building in Patani, in relation to transitional justice and the UN global ceasefire call and building on an ongoing research on the topic. The outputs of the activity are a)1 research paper developed, and b) 26 local and regional/SEA partners updated on the peace talks in the region and on the ASEAN. This will serve as guidance for consolidating analysis and for strategizing on policy advocacies in the ASEAN. 1.1.1. Network members engage in regional and cross-regional exchanges, working groups and action research on priority themes Indonesia focal point Ichsan Malik Centre and local partner Institute of Resource Governance and Social Change (IRGSC) conducted a capacity building activity last 12-13 November 2020. Since the emergence of covid 19 cases in NTT, suspected of covid victims have been experiencing stigma from the community members. This training was implemented to equip health workers from the Health Community Centre in Kupang to deal with the conflict when they perform their job to do tracing of covid 19 victims. The activity was attended by more than 20 health workers, family members of the COVID-19 victims, laboran of the Laboratorium Biomolekuler NTT, public officials from the Department of Health, Department of Transportation and Port Health Office. Based on the pre and post test that we conducted, knowledge and skills of the participants increased after they attended this two days training. 1.2.2. Civil society reach out to key conflict/prevention stakeholders to engage them in developing inclusive prevention and protection strategies The general objective of the program is to raise critical consciousness of rural youth and their communities by supporting them to identify their common problems and undertake any actions to overcome those identified problems, particularly in relation to nexus of conflict drivers and ecological crisis especially in the time of COVID19. The ecological crisis has exacerbated conflict drivers, local people are suffering due to water scarcity and in some places causes horizontal conflict amongst communities. In light of this,GPPAC member the Peace Center-UNTL initiated the DELTA (Development, Education, and Leadership, Training in Action) as a method to engage all stakeholders in rural communities such as youth, students, women and local leaders to act towards sustainability. The program involves peace education and leadership trainings, seminars on ecological protection, and actual field work such as water conservation methods and tree planting. 1.2.2. Civil society reach out to key conflict/prevention stakeholders to engage them in developing inclusive prevention and protection strategies GPPAC continues to align objectives and strengthen joint action of peacebuilding actors within civil society; thereby, strengthening the peacebuilding movement around common objectives. In addition to maintaining its convening platforms (sustaining peace roundtable series and the CS-UN Prevention Platform), GPPAC has worked to mobilize joint action with DHF and LPI around the SIPRI Forum and the PBC COVID convening. The NYPG that has been previously inactive has moved to host four policy dialogues: with PBSO and the Eminent Panel for the 2020 Review under the leadership of GPPAC (increased the recognition of the NYPG as a group for PBSO) and the co-facilitators of the 2020 Review (leed by GNWP). GPPAC has also brought additional capacities on board with the NYPG that helped mobilise the activities within the group. Together with LPI, GPPAC has also convened the 2020 Review civil society working group to mobilize the joint action for stronger implementation in the post-2020 phase, which concluded with the civil society reflection session, where the LPI-GPPAC coordination has been recognized as a good practice. 1.2.1. Civil Society initiates or participates in joint capacity development with state actors on how to work together and operationalise inclusive prevention and protection mechanisms and norms. On 22 December after the High-Level Expert Meeting on Libya held on 5 November, Ms. Sara Alhouni from UN Women reached out to GPPAC's UN Liaison to confirm her interest in connecting with GPPAC's work in the MENA region and more specifically Libya. 1.1.1. Network members engage in regional and cross-regional exchanges, working groups and action research on priority themes As part of the SDG16+ in light of COVID activity, the Coordinator of the WG and GPPAC's UN Liaison supported GPPAC member in Egypt and GPPAC member-to-be in Libya to host an online High-Level Expert Meeting on 5 November on ''The importance of including young men and women in building sustainable peace in Libya.'' Mr. Rawhi Afaghani from UNDP Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding was a speaker as well as Mr. Abdulrhman Almahdi from the Libyan Authority for Youth and Sport. The availability of Arabic-English interpretation enabled many local peacebuilders to actively take part in the conversation and shape recommendations for the UN. There were more than 50 participants, including from civil society and UN offices. As a result of the meeting, GPPAC collected recommendations brought forward by various actors in a policy brief titled ''Agents and Drivers of Peace in Libya'' (published 11 December on GPPAC website) 1.2.2. Civil society reach out to key conflict/prevention stakeholders to engage them in developing inclusive prevention and protection strategies E-book aiming to raise awareness on psychosocial-mental health issues affecting public school teachers during the pandemic. It is an 8-week online module with 3 lessons each and a video; each week focuses on one pillar of wellness (physical, emotional, intellectual, social, occupational, environmental, spiritual, special issues) 1.2.2. Civil society reach out to key conflict/prevention stakeholders to engage them in developing inclusive prevention and protection strategies This project focused on producing a video cartoon as an advocacy tool used by civil society organisations, institutions and individuals to promote peace education at local and national levels. The cartoon play is available in English, French and Pidgin English. The initiative was complemented with a two day workshop with heads of secondary schools, primary schools and officials from the ministries of basic, secondary and higher education on peace education. The project delivered knowledge and skills to heads of schools to enhance peace education; and children were introduced to the culture of peace concept, non-violent communication and learned alternatives to violence 1.2.2. Civil society reach out to key conflict/prevention stakeholders to engage them in developing inclusive prevention and protection strategies The initiative was developed in Israel and occupied Palestine to provide a resource for teachers to train schoolchildren and their colleagues in Media Literacy - understanding the risks from media and how to counter them -, and in storytelling using mobile phones – part of the empowerment and understanding involved in media literacy. To develop awareness among children and teachers around the media – both its positive and its negative possibilities. 1.2.2. Civil society reach out to key conflict/prevention stakeholders to engage them in developing inclusive prevention and protection strategies GPPAC PEWG experts, representing 12 world regions, offered three online courses of 6 weeks on "Conflict Resolution Education and Peace Education and Technology”, “Core Skills of Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding”, and “Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding as a Classroom Management Tool”. 1.1.2. Network members collaborate to gather and develop civil society resources and expertise on norms and approaches with particular attention on inclusivity The Youth policy workshops brought together members from different GPPAC regions as well as external YPS experts. The participants not only learned about the youth policy but also about how the YPS agenda came about and why youth inclusion is important in peacebuilding. The workshops succeeded in engaging in intergenerational and inter-regional dialogues on the YPS agenda with GPPAC members and thus contribute to the implementation of the GPPAC youth policy. 1.2.2. Civil society reach out to key conflict/prevention stakeholders to engage them in developing inclusive prevention and protection strategies GPPAC in collaboration with the International Peace Institute, the Dag Hammarskjold Foundation and the Global Network of Women Peacebuilders, hosted 2 discussions on 30 January and 1 March 2019 as part of a series of roundtables on sustaining peace. These sessions brought together UN staff, Member States and CSOs to advance the implementation of the sustaining peace agenda by discussing challenges and brainstorming collectively on how to move forward. Each session featured a speaker GPPAC provided from the field who gave practical examples of challenges and successes. The networks and network members build support for conflict prevention by engaging with and building capacities of key stakeholders On 14 April 2019, GPPAC member Tunisian Youth Council organised a meeting for civil society organisations to introduce GPPAC and GPPAC in the Middle East and North Africa (MENAPPAC), and explore the possibility of setting up a Tunisian GPPAC network with 18 CSOs, similar to already existing national networks in Syria and Iraq. The participants agreed to develop a conflict analysis for Tunisia, after which MENAPPAC well provide training in applying human security principles to address conflicts. The networks and its members enhance, document and disseminate civil society expertise and skills for inclusive prevention and protection The GPPAC Network’s activities in Ukraine created the Chernivtsi expert group for preventing conflicts and dangerous escalations during the electoral period early 2019, by 16 regional experts and including representatives of different ethno-cultural groups. The platform works to address the challenges of a country affected by ‘hybrid war’ in which misinformation and positioning different groups against each other is a common practice. The networks and its members enhance, document and disseminate civil society expertise and skills for inclusive prevention and protection The Women, Peace and Humanitarian Fund (WPHF) selected GPPAC to become one of its four Civil Society Board members. WPHF is a global partnership empowering local women to be a force for crisis response and lasting peace and was established in line with the Global Study on the Implementation of Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women and Peace and Security of the UN. Through a more active and leading role in WPHF, GPPAC can contribute directly to the shared goal of WPHF to bring about peaceful and gender equal societies. The GPPAC network - with around 200 civil society organisations world-wide as its members - can contribute to this goal with a conflict prevention and women’s human security perspective. Intergovernmental and state actors incorporate people-centred inclusive prevention and protection norms and principles in their policies and decision making processes On 13 March 2019 the UN Women Director highlighted and recognised the role and contribution of young women: “When we celebrate 25 years [of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action], my commitment to you is that you will be there. You will speak for yourselves. You will tell us what you want and the future you want.” At the INTERGENERATIONAL DIALOGUE "TAKE THE HOT SEAT" organized by UN Women, UN Secretary General's Envoy on Youth, Girls Scouts and the Working Group on Girls at the 63rd session of the Commission on the Status of Women. GPPAC played an active role during CSW63. The GPPAC chair of the Youth Peace and Security Working Group was one of the few young participants and provided expert input in the advocacy process, including for the preparatory UN Women panel “Sustainable Infrastructure for Gender Equality: Putting Prevention Up Front”. Intergovernmental and state actors incorporate people-centred inclusive prevention and protection norms and principles in their policies and decision making processes In Q1 2019, GPPAC’s Peace Education Working Group launched its Peace Education Webinar series, which has GPPAC’s peace education experts sharing their experience on integrating peace education into formal (schools, colleges and universities) and informal (community) education structures. Audience Three episodes have been released, “Building Capacity from a Local to Global Level”; “School Mediation in Multi-Ethnic Communities in Serbia”; and “Inclusive Education in Multicultural Societies”. There were totally 60 participant: predominantly peace education practitioners and decision makers from various organisations and institutions. 1.2.1. Civil Society initiates or participates in joint capacity development with state actors on how to work together and operationalise inclusive prevention and protection mechanisms and norms. Together with IPSTC, a mapping of potential training providers in the East and Central African region has been made in order to introduce the GPPAC Handbook on Human Security and regional civil society experts as resources for integrated (multi-stakeholder) training at regional level. GPPAC and County Governance Watch from Kenya organised a training for East-Central African members and other civ-mil actors in September in Kampala, Uganda. The training coincided with the RSG for GPPAC East-Central Africa where the strategic directions were set for 2017-2019. 1.2.1. Civil society initiates or participates in joint capacity development with state actors on how to work together and operationalise inclusive prevention and protection mechanisms and norms (including security sector training, briefings on the role of civil society, trainings on norms) On 11-15 March 2019, GPPAC co-hosted one civil society panel, contributed a speaker to an event hosted by CSPPS and to a high level event hosted by UN Women. The delegation consisted of GPPAC members including Gender Focal Points and representatives from the Youth, Peace and Security Working Group. Six key events were co-organised and/or included active advocacy interventions by GPPAC members. GPPAC organised a side event with ICRtoP and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung New York Office jointly: “Sustainable Infrastructure for Gender Equality: Putting Prevention Up Front”. Chair of GPPACs Board and Gender Liaison spoke at High Level Panel: The Road to 2020: Accelerating Action on Women, Peace and Security, alongside with the executive director of UN Women, several Permanent Members to UN (including Canada) and CSO representatives. The event has been live streamed on UN Web TV, and covered in reflective articles written by UN Women, and one by GPPACs Board and Gender Liaison. Intergovernmental and state actors incorporate people-centred inclusive prevention and protection norms and principles in their policies and decision making processes On 29 March 2019, GPPAC’s Enabling Collaboration Working Group - through consultation and meetings with partners and together with Lumad Husay Mindanaw - created a statement in response to the Executive Order 70 for the creation of the national task force to end local communist armed conflict. This is part of GPPAC’s global Working Group’s efforts to regularly monitor the developments of the Philippines peace process, craft position or analysis papers, and issue statements when necessary. The networks and its members enhance, document and disseminate civil society expertise and skills for inclusive prevention and protection This international workshop hosted by Sapienza University in Rome, in collaboration with Italian MFA took place in October 2019. GPPACs work on gender equality and conflict prevention and revised Gender Policy have been presented for the first time in an Academic environment providing the opportunity for further connection with the University of Sapienza, other international civil society organisations as well as Italian CSOs working on Women, Peace and Security The networks and its members enhance, document and disseminate civil society expertise and skills for inclusive prevention and protection As part of its work advocating for increased space for civil society within the UN process, GPPAC Gender Focal Points and representatives from the YPS WG attended several events with the objective of putting conflict prevention with women’s participation and gender analysis at the core of the action. It included conversations with the Permanent Mission of Germany and Canada, the EU delegation and UN Women. Conversations with UN Women around GPPAC providing input to the UN reviews and upcoming publications on WPS and YPS. Intergovernmental and state actors incorporate people-centred inclusive prevention and protection norms and principles in their policies and decision making processes GPPAC co-initiated an SDG localisation consortium with CSPPS, Saferworld and TAP Network to drive local implementation of the SDGs by undertaking joint activities, developing strategic and operational plans and undertake related fundraising and stakeholder engagements (o.a. Dutch MFA, DFID, Canada and South Korea). The networks and network members build support for conflict prevention by engaging with and building capacities of key stakeholders GPPAC has developed the UN Advocacy Toolkit that includes an overview of the UN and its Agendas, GPPAC's advocacy at the UN, and how GPPAC Members can bring their messages to New York The Advocacy Toolkit includes a section on the Women, Peace and Security, as well as discusses the key actors that are relevant in advocacy on women, peace and security. In October 2019 an advocacy training for gender focal points was conducted using the toolkit. The networks and its members enhance, document and disseminate civil society expertise and skills for inclusive prevention and protection Representative of Armenian MoE, WfT representatives and teachers, parents and representatives of Serbian MoE had a joint training in Serbia in December 2019. A study visit delegation from Armenia to Serbia took place around a program to further involve parents in violence prevention efforts in schools. Armenian members visited several schools in Serbia and exchanged with the Serbian colleagues different practices for implementing peace education. Intergovernmental and state actors incorporate people-centred inclusive prevention and protection norms and principles in their policies and decision making processes The Nigerian Youth For Peace Forum was convened to raise awareness and develop strategies and action plan for the implementation of UNSCR 2250 and 2419 in Nigeria. It aimed at exploring the components of the UNSCR 2250, 2419 and the connections with the Independent Progress Study on Youth and Peace and Security. It equipped and built the capacity of 70 youth and leaders of youth-led organizations with the necessary skills to effectively advocate and monitor the implementation of these resolutions. The networks and network members build support for conflict prevention by engaging with and building capacities of key stakeholders The 50-page research paper was written with 10 recommendations after identifying gaps and challenges in reviewing existing programs and policy that directly relates to youth in conflict affected and conflict vulnerable areas.The research developed recommendations towards mainstreaming UNSCR 2250 in the Philippines. It looked into national policies and programming of 4 agencies in 5 target areas and reviewed policies and programs that engages and supports youth in peacebuilding work and service delivery to youth affected by conflict from January 2016 to October 2019. The networks and its members enhance, document and disseminate civil society expertise and skills for inclusive prevention and protection Experts in conflict prevention and peacebuilding who are part of the GPPAC network joined an ‘Improving Practice Working Group’ delegation for learning, exchange and training in Northeast Asia. The members offered a multistakeholder processes workshop to the Charhar Institute in Beijing and a conflict analysis workshop to North Korean members and partners, in addition to sharing peacebuilding experiences from different parts of the world. During the stay in Pyongyang, working group experts led a workshop on Conflict Analysis for members of KNPC and five other local organisations. The first of its kind to be held in Pyongyang, the workshop was based on GPPAC’s conflict analysis field guide. The networks and its members enhance, document and disseminate civil society expertise and skills for inclusive prevention and protection In 2019 Q4, UNOY and CSPPS have participated in The Peace Corner Podcast, an initiative to showcase the personal stories of peacebuilders from around the world. In November and December 2019, we released podcasts about the situation in Bolivia, Chile, Uganda, Afghanistan and one on youth inclusion. https://soundcloud.com/user-679057290 The networks and its members enhance, document and disseminate civil society expertise and skills for inclusive prevention and protection By December 2019, the collaboration between communities, CSOs and administrative authorities in responding to conflicts and building peace has improved significantly in Bisoro community, Mwaro province, in central Burundi. This has restored trust and confidence and paved the way for joint peace actions and improvement in the livelihoods of 800 community members in Bisoro community. The indirect beneficiaries are between 3200 and 3,500 people, who are the households of the 800 community members. The intervention focused on improving household economic empowerment and peace (with a focus on women). Governments and intergovernmental institutions take steps to act on policies and operationalise norms and frameworks for conflict prevention and the protection of people and collaborate with civil society In September/October 2019, internally displaced persons and host communities in the Bandir region, Somalia, improved their co-existence and now can live together in peace and harmony. This was realized through Save Somali Women and Children, GPPAC member, initiating social cohesion and integration interventions as a means of preventing violent conflict that emanate from tensions arising from social differences Governments and intergovernmental institutions take steps to act on policies and operationalise norms and frameworks for conflict prevention and the protection of people and collaborate with civil society A freelance journalist worked together with MENA members to produce articles focusing on NAPS 1325 and the role of women in peacebuilding in MENA. This was done by interviewing our members from Palestine, Lebanon, Libya, Syria, Iraq and Sudan. The networks and its members enhance, document and disseminate civil society expertise and skills for inclusive prevention and protection In post ISIS Iraq, ​​this project supports those who have been greatly affected and have to build their lives again. Income development for the benefit of (480) beneficiaries of unemployed young men and women with dependents for their families, from the displaced indigenous returnees in Anbar Governorate, through a comprehensive field survey aimed at (850) cases / families, and according to the criteria of vulnerability and need, (480) were selected. Beneficiary and provision of conditional financial grants to establish a small income-generating project, preceded by providing training for them on market assessment, project idea identification, feasibility study work, project management / finance, marketing and competition. The project also provides dialogue sessions to introduce concepts and spread a culture of tolerance and social solidarity. The networks and its members enhance, document and disseminate civil society expertise and skills for inclusive prevention and protection The training aimed to empower voices of educators and raise gender awareness. 12 stories and short films related to topics of gender, human rights, non-violence and school environment were produced. A presentation of the produced materials was organized in the presence of representatives of the Ministry of Education and was discussed. The Ministry requested that teachers transfer their experiences to some students and teach them to produce stories using the mobile phone. The project is implemented by GPPAC member Middle East Foundation for Democracy and Non-Violence. The networks and network members build support for conflict prevention by engaging with and building capacities of key stakeholders At least 3 higher educational institutions in Ukraine have started introducing a “gender component” into their educational programs on mediation and conflict studies programs, what has been a result of research and advocacy efforts of the network gender coordinator and other CSO’s. Furthermore, the National Association of Mediators of Ukraine (NAMU) has included gender sensitivity as one of the topics of training programs for practicing mediators. The networks and its members enhance, document and disseminate civil society expertise and skills for inclusive prevention and protection GPPAC-Southeast Asia organised "The Pilot Program of the Regional Training Workshop on Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation" last 25-30 November 2019 in Penang, Malaysia. Twenty-five participants and facilitators participated in the 4- day training that included field visits and reflective exercises on peace and security issues in the region. The participants are composed of officials from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) officials and representatives from the ministries of foreign affairs, academics and researchers, civil society members and other peace practitioners from Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and India. This training program aims to encourage sharing and cooperation between official and unofficial tracks in peacebuilding efforts in the region. The networks and network members build support for conflict prevention by engaging with and building capacities of key stakeholders NL-KVK-41217404-PU011 GPPAC Since the General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda in September 2015, focus has been on how to implement the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their 169 global targets. While the UN will host a High Level Political Forum each year from 2016-19 to follow the process and keep track of progress, the task to realise the goals now sits with the national governments, not just in the global south but across the world. A broad variety of partnerships, platforms, associations and forums have formed during the past year to support the implementation processes, monitor governments and statistical bureaus, provide shadow reporting and additional data and develop national targets and indicators. A recent report counted that 198 legal partnerships have emerged 16 related to the SDG implementation in addition to more than 1,500 voluntary commitments. Among the relevant existing initiatives that work on SDG implementation on a global level, the following have a relevant connection to the PUF agenda on inclusivity and just and peaceful societies:  The Open Government Partnership, a multilateral initiative that secures commitments from governments to promote transparency, empower citizens, fight corruption, and strengthen governance.  The Transparency, Accountability and Participation (TAP) Network, a network of CSOs that works to ensure that open, inclusive, accountable and effective governance is at the heart of the 2030 Agenda, and that civil society is included as partners in the design, implementation and accountability of sustainable development policies, at all levels.  The sub-branch of The World Federation of UN Associations (WFUNA), The 16+ Forum that engages Member States, CSOs, UN agencies and other stake  Moreover, the Civil Society Platform for Peacebuilding and Statebuilding (CSPPS) is now looking at ways to reformulate the mission of their platform to move away from a narrow focus on peacebuilding and statebuilding in and among states sharing experiences of fragility, to engage with the Sustainable Development Agenda more broadly. GPPAC Foundation GPPAC Foundation 10337 26295 55111 52436 34421 37553 56695 74791 133253 28381 59939 1072 115117 7614 62790 Center for Conflict Resolution (CECORE) in partnership with GPPAC conducted a study in June 2020 on the review of Uganda’s progress in SDG16+ implementation. The study presented a number of key issues and recommendations that need to be addressed, the report indicates that “…the progress on peace and justice, Uganda’s performance are stagnating – meaning their scores on relevant indicators remains stagnant or increasing at a rate below 50 per cent of the growth rate needed to achieve the SDG by 2030”. The main objective of the dialogue was therefore to discuss and identify means of how to ensure implementation and acceleration of the realization of SDG16+ in Uganda. The outputs of the dialogue were: 1) A task Force was set up to follow-up on the process of developing the National Peace Policy. The priorities are; Advocacy for national peace policy and Revitalization of National peace platform; Strengthening planning units to provide the required information, data collection tools; Creating awareness on SDG16, build on the secretariat strategy; Strengthening partnership; Localization of SDG 16. 2)The dialogue came up with 5 key priorities/messages to be incorporated in the planned national dialogue on SDGs by the government of Uganda. 3) The Office of the Prime Minister and Uganda Bureau of Statistics promised to share data collection templates and enhance joint collaboration with CSOs as a way of bridging the data gap in the peacebuilding field. 3.1.1. The networks and member organisations develop resources and expertise on relevant institutional stakeholders through the network As a co-facilitator of the CS-UN Prevention Platform, GPPAC works to enhance civil society and UN collective capacity to prevent conflicts. In Q3, work has continued and GPPAC increased local civil society voices in the NY policy dialogues and increased engagement with Member States by encouraging the adoption of a new working method for the Platform. After the first meeting of the discussion series on the evolution of prevention, the statement of GPPAC members from South Caucasus was widely followed-up on, including by DPPA and OHCHR, and referenced in many forthcoming dialogues by various participants of this meeting. GPPAC-QUNO as co-facilitators of the Platform continue to attend and provide technical capacity building sessions and share learning from the PDA project during the PDA inductions. We were able to further connect with the number of PDAs to continue the dialogue and facilitate future joint learning and action via two meetings, where GPPAC members from Lebanon, West Africa, Pacific, and Zimbabwe were able to speak and share their perspectives with the follow-up engagement with DPPA. 3.1.3. The networks convene and participate in inclusive civil society strategy meetings, platforms and coalitions targeting key institutions GPPAC has supported several GPPAC policy, advocacy and programming by conducting advocacy training, supporting members on their planned engagement and strategies for engaging the UN and regional organizations and broadening opportunities for policy input. IN Q3, regular preparatory sessions ahead of all global and regional engagements for GPPAC members. Resulted engagement of GPPAC around HLPF has led to the invitation by ForPeace to co-organize the discussion on an online consultation on the Establishment of Ministries or Departments and other National Infrastructures for Peace in October 2020. We supported our Cameroon partners in engaging with PDAs, which led GPPAC’s Cameroon partner to become a lead facilitator of CS engagement with the UNCT. Last, we supported our MENA partners to advocate on Libya and Gender-SALW. 3.1.4. The network members collaborate in engaging relevant governments, RIGO, IGOs in policy events, delegations and initiatives GPPAC continued operationalization of the RIGO Working Group and regional peacebuilding advocacy and deeper engagement in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). GPPAC was a speaker at the webinar "Enhance Cooperation between the United Nations and Regional Organizations in the Promotion of International Peace and Security" on 12 August 2020. GPPAC together with the Plataforma CIPÓ and the Stimson Center co-organized a virtual expert discussion on "Joining capacities to respond to regional crises: Calling on Latin America and the Caribbean's regional organisations?" on Friday, 18 September 2020. The discussion took the format of a closed, off-the-record session that brings together regional stakeholders in the Americas and Caribbean, including regional organisations and multilateral arrangements, Member States, the UN, and civil society organisations to further understand some of the opportunities and challenges faced in making regional cooperation in LAC credible and effective. The summary of the discussion was further translated into a blog "Regionalism in LAC in the era of COVID-19: Understanding the role and capacities of regional organizations" published on GPPAC web-site. 3.3.4. The networks initiate and participate in civil society-governmental/intergovernmental working groups and exchange platforms As a result of GPPAC's consolidated engagement around the 2020 Review through drafting written submission and mobilizing policy dialogues with various stakeholders, the recognition of GPPAC expertise has increased which was exemplified in 1) the invitations to participate in the Dutch, EU and AfP consultations for the 2020 Review, 2) increased engagement with PBSO around opening further policy opportunities, 3) partnership with the Canadian Mission to the UN, 4) the mobilization of support for the 2020 Review Consultation in Colombia resulted from GPPAC's consolidated effort to broaden engagement with Member States beyond the list of "usual suspects" (i.e., Colombia, Guatemala, Brazil, Mexico).; 5) increased reliance of PBSO on GPPAC's support in the implementation of CEG; 6) invitation to brief the Group of Friends on Sustaining Peace; 7) moderation of the climate e-consultation by UNDP and the invitation from UNDP to conduct a joint project on local infrastructures for peace; 8) invitation from the Human Security Trust Fund to apply for its outreach and advocacy grant; 9) expressed recognition of GPPAC as one of the key contributors to the 2020 Review (as reported by Member States to Louise Allen - a consultation for the PBC's Gender Strategy Review); 10) further partnership with Annika Soder and DHF around financing for peacebuilding project; 11) invitation from ForPeace to engage in e-consultation on infrastructures for peace. 3.4.2. Intergovernmental and state actors demonstrate a progression towards regular, systematic and inclusive involvement of civil society in their institutional frameworks. GPPAC supported operationalization and in implementation of global agendas at the local level. This includes strengthening linkages between local peacebuilders and regional and international multilateral partners, as well as bringing UN field actors into the discussions supported by GPPAC at the UN. This contributed to the transformation of dialogue and a better reflection of field perspectives in the UNHQ discourse. 3.4.2. Intergovernmental and state actors demonstrate a progression towards regular, systematic and inclusive involvement of civil society in their institutional frameworks. GPPAC engaged with relevant actors by publishing policy resources and creating various policy spaces to share GPPAC messaging with the key actors of the 2020 Peacebuilding Architecture Review. As a result of this advocacy, we were able to inform the principal inputs into the formal phase of the 2020 Peacebuilding Architecture Review on the following topics: unlock the full potential of the Peacebuilding Commission, promote local ownership, prioritize “peace” in efforts to achieve system-wide coherence, enhance partnerships with regional and subregional organizations, internalize WPS and YPS agendas, and focus on the impact of peacebuilding and sustaining peace in the field. The 2020 SG Report specifically highlights the GPPAC participatory video methodology project as an approach to youth empowerment towards playing key roles in identifying peacebuilding needs and to take them up with local authorities. GPPAC members were asked to brief the Peacebuilding Commission on the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 ensuring the presence of local civil society voices in the PBC deliberations. And last, the Community Engagement Guidelines includes a number of language and inputs from the GPPAC Network, including references to the VTC conducted in Mali and the case-study of peacebuilding work in Kyrgyzstan. Moreover, the document includes a section on recommendations for civil society that GPPAC co-drafted with the Quaker UN Office and workshopped with the New York Peacebuilding Group as an attempt to generate broader civil society ownership. 3.4.1. Governmental and intergovernmental actors highlight and take up civil society positions about shrinking political space and repression in policy and decision making areas in a timely and relevant manner GPPAC - Southeast Asia issued a joint statement calling on the situation of Chin State in Burma/Myanmar following GPPAC partner local organization in Chin State expressing deep concerns about the current situation of armed conflict and its devastating impact on civilians. Between 9 March to 8 April, at least 28 civilians have been killed in Paletwa. 139 organisations endorsed the statement, and it was sent to regional and national (Myanmar) media and various policy actors (UN, ASEAN, government, CSOs). 3.3.2. The networks develop civil society statements, strategies and internal procedures for the protection of human rights defenders In May 2020, CECORE and GPPAC produced a report on the Review of Uganda's progress on SDG16+ - to complement Government efforts - ahead of its Voluntary National Review (VNR) report, presented to the UN High Level Political Forum 2020. The study focused on peaceful, just and inclusive societies and highlighted two key findings. First, Uganda has an enabling legal, policy and a comprehensive coordination framework for the SDGs overall. Second, although the government has made notable progress on a number of SDGs, progress on SDG16+ has stagnated. This is worrying because SDG16+ and achieving a peaceful Uganda is a key pre-requisite and central pillar for the realization of all the SDGs. The prevalence of violent conflicts, inequalities and injustices curtails the country’s development aspirations and the achievement of the SDGs. To accelerate SDG 16+ progress, the study observes that peacebuilding and conflict prevention must be prioritized. This includes finalizing and passing a national Peace Policy, awareness raising on SDG 16+, greater participation of stakeholders to enhance accountability of duty bearers at local and national levels, capacitating relevant prevention and peacebuilding structures, and promoting the contextual localization of SDG 16+. Particular attention should be paid to human security as well as achieving gender equity, women’s rights and engaging youth and other vulnerable groups as partners. The report was launched on July 6, 2020 during the online side event during the High Level Political Forum 2020 conference on Infrastructure for Peace in Africa - organized by GPPAC. 3.1.2. The networks with their members engage in action research, document case studies and produce joint position papers and policy briefs with particular attention to inclusivity on relevant actors & institutions. As a result of GPPAC's consolidated engagement around the 2020 Review through drafting written submission and mobilizing policy dialogues with various stakeholders, the recognition of GPPAC expertise has increased which was exemplified in 1) the personal invitations extended to the UN Liaison to participate in the Dutch, EU and AfP consultations for the 2020 Review, 2) increased engagement with PBSO around opening further policy opportunities, 3) partnership with the Canadian Mission to the UN, 4) mobilize support for the 2020 Review Consultation in Colombia resulted from GPPAC's consolidated effort to broaden engagement with Member States beyond the list of "usual suspects" (i.e., Colombia, Guatemala, Brazil, Mexico).; 5) increased reliance of PBSO on GPPAC's support in the implementation of CEG (UN System-wide Community Engagement Guidelines on Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace). 3.4.2. Intergovernmental and state actors demonstrate a progression towards regular, systematic and inclusive involvement of civil society in their institutional frameworks. The Enabling Collaboration Working Group, which is accompanying the peace process in the Philippines, developed a statement from the WG calling for a renewal of ceasefire between the Philippine Government and the CPP-NPA-NDF as well as the veto/withdrawal of the Anti-Terrorism Act. https://gppac.net/news/gppac-statement-peace-process-philippines 3.3.2. The networks develop civil society statements, strategies and internal procedures for the protection of human rights defenders GPPAC, in partnership with QUNO and the Core Group, enhanced civil society and UN collective capacity to prevent conflicts by conducting the PDA induction, where it has shared critical good practices on engaging with local peacebuilders at the local level (capacity building) and facilitated 5 policy dialogues, where it has outlined the key opportunities on prevention, facilitated broader input from civil society into the work of the UN Office of the Secretary-General and the UN Department of Peacebuilding and Political Affairs. This included the Meeting with Ana Maria Menendez (January, 2020), the discussion on the evolution of Prevention (February, 2020), the discussion on gender transformative analysis in COVID-19 (April, 2020), the discussion on the role of youth in Prevention (April, 2020), the discussion on the capacity of mediation to respond to the evolving nature of conflict (June, 2020), the discussion on upstream prevention (July, 2020). GPPAC increased local civil society voices in the NY policy dialogues and increased engagement with Member States by encouraging the adoption of a new working method for the Platform - engaging more with Member States and local civil society (including where relevant via VTC). After the first meeting of the discussion series on the evolution of prevention, the statement of GPPAC members from South Caucasus was widely followed-up on, including by DPPA and OHCHR, and referenced in many forthcoming dialogues by various participants of this meeting. GPPAC brought partners from UNOY, WANEP, and ACCORD to participate in the discussions. GPPAC-QUNO as co-facilitators of the Platform continue to attend and provide technical capacity building sessions and share learning from the PDA project during the PDA inductions (the last one took place in March, 2020). In the follow-up from this session, we were able to further connect with the number of PDAs to continue the dialogue and facilitate future joint learning and action. 3.4.2. Intergovernmental and state actors demonstrate a progression towards regular, systematic and inclusive involvement of civil society in their institutional frameworks. During its chairmanship (December, 2019-March, 2020), GPPAC was able to revitalize the work of NYPG and increase the reputation of the NYPG by strengthening partnerships between the group and the key Member States and UN actors. This included the establishment of bi-monthly check-ins with a peacebuilding expert of Canada (the Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission) and regular briefings by the Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO), including the March 2020 briefing update on the CEG from Henk-Jan Brinkman (Chief of Policy) and the May 2020 NYPG-PBSO Dialogue on the 2020 Report of the Secretary-General on peacebuilding and sustaining peace, where members shared the key messages from NYPG members to inform the Report. 3.4.2. Intergovernmental and state actors demonstrate a progression towards regular, systematic and inclusive involvement of civil society in their institutional frameworks. 1) GPPAC continues to engage with relevant actors by creating various policy spaces to share GPPAC messaging from the 2020 Review written submissions that are reflective of the experiences of GPPAC Network in the Pacific and the Americas. 2) The GPPAC's COVID-19 statement was picked up by Canada and the EU in their statements to the PBC, and further led to the organizing an informal brown bag for local civil society and PBC Member States on shaping the PBC's COVID Response Strategy in Q2. 3) The informal PBC brownbag organised by GPPAC and LPI led to the invitation extended to Adan Kabelo from LPI-Somalia team to brief the Peacebuilding Commission on the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 and the proposed participation of Sharon Bhagwan Rolls in the PBC meeting on the Pacific; therefore, ensuring the presence of local civil society voices in the PBC deliberations. 4) The most recent version of the Community Engagement Guidelines includes a number of language and inputs from the GPPAC Network, including references to the VTC conducted in Mali and the case-study of peacebuilding work in Kyrgyzstan. Moreover, the draft document includes a section on recommendations for civil society that GPPAC co-drafted with the Quaker UN Office and workshopped with the New York Peacebuilding Group as an attempt to generate broader civil society ownership. 5) The invitation has been extended to GPPAC to coordinate the civil society launch of the CEG and the development of a pilot project for the CEG implementation as a result of the recognition of GPPAC's capacity to mobilise local civil society to engage in and support relevant processes. 6) The presentation of GPPAC-South Caucasus of the South Caucasus case-study conducted for the 2020 Peacebuilding Architecture Review has opened the space for GPPAC-South Caucasus to better engage with PDA of South Caucasus and engage with the OHCHR around protections for local peacebuilders. 7) The thematic consultation on the Triple Nexus in the Pacific has gained a lot of interest with the Permanent Mission of Australia to the UN, DPPA Regional Office for the Pacific and PDA-Fiji have both expressed interest in moving the conversation forward. 8) In the Americas, we have received great interest from UNDP Regional Desk in Panama, as well as from the Missions of Colombia and Peru (co-sponsors of the event) to continue formal engagement. 3.4.2. Intergovernmental and state actors demonstrate a progression towards regular, systematic and inclusive involvement of civil society in their institutional frameworks. GPPAC was able to create resources (publications that can be used for advocacy) and provide capacity building training specifically focused on the peacebuilding engagement, including policy support for the member in Kyrgyzstan (around the PBC on YPS), South Caucasus (around the CS-UN Prevention Platform meeting) and Lebanon (around DHF's 2020 Review Consultation for Lebanon). This allowed the GPPAC Network to 1) coherent messaging; 2) better quality of delivery; 3) stronger policy impact regarding YPS: spearheaded further discussion on the YPS Strategy for the PBC; re: South Caucasus: UNDPPA further increased its demand on PDAs to better engage with civil society & OHCHR engaged with GPPAC members to further explore the point to the protections of local peacebuilders; regarding MENAPPAC, it ensures stronger advocacy engagement capacities. 3.1.1. The networks and member organisations develop resources and expertise on relevant institutional stakeholders through the network (incl. guidelines/manuals, information sheets, briefings, liaisons/resource persons..) GPPAC’s decade-long collaboration and engagement with the Organization of American States (OAS) is now formalised through the development of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between OAS and GPPAC in 2019. GPPAC members will now be able to represent GPPAC in the OAS General Assembly. GPPAC will also obtain a CSO Observer Status in the OAS, and be able to shape discussions relating to peace education, peace building and conflict prevention. Intergovernmental and state actors systematically include civil society and adopt inclusive, transparent and accountable working methods In March 2019, GPPAC in collaboration with Strategic Partnership (SP) Alliance partner ‘International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect’ (ICRtoP) and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung New York office published the policy brief on “Fostering Inclusion Builds Resilient Societies” and distributed it via social media and at a UN panel in New York. The policy brief summarised the conclusions of the Women, Peace and Security week’s Panel discussion (hosted by the three organisations). It featured examples and recommendations from the 4 panelists from Uganda, Myanmar, West Africa and Palestine, and provides policy recommendations per target actor on participation of women in conflict and atrocity prevention. GPPAC and ICRtoP are part of the SP Alliance “Prevention up Front”. The Alliance increases and diversifies access to political spaces and proactively supports CSOs affected by repression During the forum, Khaled Emam (co-Chair of GPPAC Youth, Peace, and Security Working Group) received a request from the United Nations Media Section for an interview about his participation in the forum. Three interviews were conducted during which he spoke about the challenges youth faces in the Arab region, and the importance of networking and partnerships at the regional and international level to give young people a voice in decision-making. He also spoke about GPPAC, YPS WG, and the preparations for the High-Level Political Forum. GPPAC helped him attend the forum. Links for the interviews: - https://bit.ly/2IBFaVH - https://bit.ly/2VKwCQ1 - https://bit.ly/2KO8bA7 The Alliance enhances and mobilises civil society capacities to access and strategically engage relevant institutional stakeholders The Youth Policy developed by the GPPAC Youth, Peace, and Security Working Group defines objectives and strategies for increasing the effectiveness of the GPPAC network in promoting and achieving meaningful youth participation in conflict prevention and peacebuilding. It will provide a foundation and implementation strategy for mainstreaming youth throughout GPPAC’s network structures and work. The Alliance contributes to enhanced civil society credibility by strengthening its networks' and members' accountability, complementarities and internal procedures and practices There was previously no specification as to how regional representatives and regional secretariats are selected. The lack of a selection process lead to issues including: some Regional Representatives have remained the same ever since 2003; some regions appear not to have any kind of election process; and only a few regions holding open elections for the position of regional representative and/or regional secretariat. This agreement by the members of the International Steering Group allows the GPPAC Global Secretariat to ask the Regional Steering Groups to define their process (rather than the Regional Secretariat deciding how to do it on its own), and it will allow the Global Secretariat to check whether the process is followed. The Alliance contributes to enhanced civil society credibility by strengthening its networks' and members' accountability, complementarities and internal procedures and practices Greater awareness by the GPPAC network is demonstrated by: (1) new members who have recently joined the YPS Working Group (a member from Northeast Asia, 2 members from South Asia, a member from South Africa, 2 members from Central Asia) since the end of 2018; (2) “youth” is being reported as one out of three priorities by GPPAC members for the new strategic period; and (3) at least six regions (Northeast Asia, Southern Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Central Asia, Western Balkans, the Middle East and North Africa) reported on YPS in the last GPPAC International Steering Group meeting. The Alliance contributes to enhanced civil society credibility by strengthening its networks' and members' accountability, complementarities and internal procedures and practices The response of the GPPAC Eastern European network will further strengthen the regional network and the implementation of the GPPAC Youth Policy. The Alliance contributes to enhanced civil society credibility by strengthening its networks' and members' accountability, complementarities and internal procedures and practices During the advocacy visit to the Netherlands and Belgium, the young Kyrgyzstani boys and girls, participating in the project “Cameras in Hands: transformation and empowerment of Kyrgyzstani boys and girls” had an opportunity to meet with various (governmental) stakeholders and became more positive about the youth engagement with policymakers. They also discussed the continuation of the project and its activities. The Alliance enhances and mobilises civil society capacities to access and strategically engage relevant institutional stakeholders A new relationship was established between GPPAC and this newly created team, that wants GPPAC to see it as its “go-to” contacts for further engagement. They reached out proactively to GPPAC, to help them define conflict prevention within the Ministry of Defence. The team and its mandate are still under development, and they are looking to mainstream the concepts of conflict prevention, Do no Harm and working on early warning within the MOD. GPPAC and PAX are so far the only CSOs the team involved in their formal discussions. Intergovernmental and state actors systematically include civil society and adopt inclusive, transparent and accountable working methods On June 12, Héritiers de la Justice issued a statement calling for a change in approach as elective democracy remains under pressure in the DRC and noted that the nation is still not governed by those elected by the Congolese population. Héritiers de la Justice, in their latest Nota Bene newsletter, called upon international and national institutions to assist in the transition of power and hold those responsible for this “miscarriage” of justice accountable. Héritiers de la Justice also calls upon victims of electoral malpractices to pursue peaceful and legal means of redress; and on national and regional bodies, the African Union, and diplomatic missions to support a preventive and peaceful means of addressing electoral disputes in the DRC. The Alliance enhances and mobilises civil society capacities to access and strategically engage relevant institutional stakeholders The civil society organisations (CSO) coalition in Ghana is a key stakeholder in the implementation of SDG 16. The coalition produced a shadow report on SDG 16+ and managed to provide their input to the official Voluntary National Review report. Due to WANEP being part of GPPAC’s delegation at the High-Level Political Forum in New York on July 2019, contacts were established between WANEP and the coordinator of the CSO coalition on SDG16, and WANEP is planning to join the coalition. This would lead to advancing the implementation of the SDGs, and related recommendations and joint advocacy efforts. It will also allow WANEP to closely collaborate with a main CSO platform working on SDG16 in Ghana. The Alliance enhances and mobilises civil society capacities to access and strategically engage relevant institutional stakeholders The positive response came about after engagements by GPPAC South East Asia (SEA) Regional Secretariat and the Working Group on Regional Capacity Development, and a formal presentation on a proposal for a joint-Regional Training. This is important as it is the first formal presentation of a concrete joint-project with an ASEAN body from GPPAC Southeast Asia, and is the biggest joint-collaboration of members on a long-term and multi-faceted advocacy on a regional level. If and when the A-IPR formally agrees to do the joint training with GPPAC-SEA, this will open multiple doors and opportunities for GPPAC-SEA and its members. Intergovernmental and state actors systematically include civil society and adopt inclusive, transparent and accountable working methods The Staff College is a training institution of the Tanzanian military. The change in the approach of the Staff College and that of the Command is key in influencing the adoption of similar approaches in the rest of Tanzania and other countries in the GPPAC Eastern and Central African (ECA) region. This is because for the first time, an institution like the military has institutionalised a peaceful and pro-active approach – as opposed to a traditional military approach. Since the college has students from other GPPAC-ECA countries like Uganda, Kenya, Burundi, and the DRC, there is great potential of trickling the institutionalisation of peace education within military institutions in other ECA countries. Intergovernmental and state actors systematically include civil society and adopt inclusive, transparent and accountable working methods GPPAC had tried for over a year to engage the SSR experts in the EEAS without success (non-responsive), and now a senior person at the Security and Defence Policy Division (Civilian CSDP) of the European External Action Service (EEAS) in Brussels offers GPPAC the opportunity to be part of discussions on Security Sector Reform. This official reached out as a result of speaking at a GPPAC policy dialogue as part of the WOSCAP project (2017) two years ago, which impressed on her GPPAC’s track record in this area. The role of the EU’s inter-service SSR task force is to ensure more effective thematic support from HQ to delegations and Common Security and Defence Policy missions. The Taskforce meeting / workshop is likely to take place in October 2019. The Alliance increases and diversifies access to political spaces and proactively supports CSOs affected by repression The objective of this meeting was to provide a space and secure platform for representatives of communities faced by religious and racial intolerance, in order to document the stories of minority communities; and to develop core solidarity messages for and between these minority ethnic, racial and/or religious groups, including actions for people-to-people solidarity. 3.1.2 The networks with their members engage in action research, document case studies and produce joint position papers and policy briefs with particular attention to inclusivity on relevant actors & institutions The invitation came about as a follow-up from a Civil Society Platform for Peacebuilding and Statebuilding (CSPPS) meeting in April 2018 in which GPPAC actively participated, and in general from GPPAC’s work on the Sustaining Peace agenda. Nina Tsikhistavi (Executive Director of the GPPAC member organisation, International Center on Conflict and Negotiation (ICCN) in the Caucasus) presented during the opening panel and was interviewed afterwards. 3.3.4. The networks initiate and participate in civil society-governmental/intergovernmental working groups and exchange platforms The Forum will bring together UN, Intergovernmental, Regional Organisations and civil society and having GPPAC members attend and present during the Forum. 3.3.4. The networks initiate and participate in civil society-governmental/intergovernmental working groups and exchange platforms This outcome was a result of continuous bilateral meetings between the Prevention Platform (led by GPPAC and the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO)) and UN offices. The feedback from civil society made it into the final report on PDAs as part of the five-year strategic plan. 3.4.2. Intergovernmental and state actors demonstrate a progression towards regular, systematic and inclusive involvement of civil society in their institutional frameworks. This outcome was a result of the successful input given by the Prevention Platform (led by GPPAC and the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO)) to the strategic planning of the PDAs. The project will begin in the third quarter of 2018. 3.3.4. The networks initiate and participate in civil society-governmental/intergovernmental working groups and exchange platforms (including RIGOs, Steering Groups, CS-UN Working Group) Events were held on: the UN development reform; inclusivity in peace processes; and collaboration between UN and civil society on the prevention of violent extremism. GPPAC UN Liaison in coordination with the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) planned and moderated the event. 3.3.4. The networks initiate and participate in civil society-governmental/intergovernmental working groups and exchange platforms (including RIGOs, Steering Groups, CS-UN Working Group) An increasing number of CSO are approaching the Prevention Platform after the meetings to learn more and ask about how they can participate and/or support the Platform. UN officials are increasingly aware of the Prevention Platform and more quickly agree to serve as panellists during the events. Attendance of both CSOs and UN officials to Prevention Platform meetings has increased. 3.3.4. The networks initiate and participate in civil society-governmental/intergovernmental working groups and exchange platforms (including RIGOs, Steering Groups, CS-UN Working Group) 3.3.4. The networks initiate and participate in civil society-governmental/intergovernmental working groups and exchange platforms (including RIGOs, Steering Groups, CS-UN Working Group) The outcome was a result of the GPPAC UN Liaison Officer’s participation in the UN High-Level Event on Sustaining Peace in April 2018. 3.3.4. The networks initiate and participate in civil society-governmental/intergovernmental working groups and exchange platforms (including RIGOs, Steering Groups, CS-UN Working Group). This output resulted from GPPAC Global Secretariat and GPPAC West Africa representatives presenting GPPAC’s work to a women’s mediator network linked to the African Union during a Clingendael training on negotiation and mediation on 19 April 2018. This established links with AU representatives and a network of women mediators in the Caucasus. 3.1.3. The networks convene and participate in inclusive civil society strategy meetings, platforms and coalitions targeting key institutions (including working groups, coalitions, strategy documents) GPPAC produced five country one-pagers that summarise the planned Prevention Up Front (PUF) activities in Syria, The Philippines, Georgia, Ukraine and Mali, for 2018. These materials have been disseminated to inform the Dutch embassies in these countries and the relevant regional desks of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. GPPAC also engaged with the MFA on the highlights of PUF in 2017 and produced an overview per region. 3.2.2. The networks and members develop internal procedures to strengthen internal (network) and external accountability and take steps to implement them GPPAC arranged for and prepared Visaka Dharmadasa (chair of the Association of War Affected Women in Sri Lanka) to participate effectively in the event. The participation of GPPAC’s Gender Focal Point from Sri Lanka contributed to creating space for civil society and greater visibility of GPPAC and GPPAC’s scope of work in The Netherlands. 3.1.4. The network members collaborate in engaging relevant governments, RIGO, IGOs in policy events, delegations and initiatives. GPPAC strengthened the Civil Society-UN Prevention Platform it co-facilitates with the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO), holding advocacy meetings with a number of UN agencies, including Department of Political Affairs, UN Development Programme, UN Women and Department of Peacekeeping Operations, among others. Through these meetings, the Prevention Platform was able to establish itself as a go-to forum for holding honest conversations between UN and civil society on prevention, and was able to hold the only side-event to the “High-Level Dialogue on the linkages between the 2030 Agenda and Sustaining Peace,” which focused on how these synergies can be leveraged for prevention and hosted the first meeting between newly appointed Under Secretary-General and Senior Advisor on Policy, Ms. Ana Maria Menéndez, and civil society organizations. 3.1.3 The networks convene and participate in inclusive civil society strategy meetings, platforms and coalitions targeting key institutions (including working groups, coalitions, strategy documents) In 2017, GPPAC started implementing the priority area identified during the baseline analysis in 2016 in the 5 priority regions: space for civil society. As a consequence of the baseline analysis “space for civil society” had become the third priority goal to work on within the Prevention up Front Alliance. GPPAC developed a draft strategy on civic space that will be discussed in the Global Strategy Group and International Steering Group in 2018. GPPAC supported an individual member facing repression from their government. GPPAC is an active member of international working groups on civic space and brought Defend Defenders to the Regional Steering Group meeting in Kampala in September 2017 for a workshop of Central and East African members. 3.2.2. The networks and members develop internal procedures to strengthen internal (network) and external accountability and take steps to implement them. In 2017, GPPAC became an active member of the global network on Prevention of Violent Extremism (PVE). The GPPAC network asked the Global Secretariat to become more active on PVE. GPPAC and 3 members and 2 partners (RCSS, WANEP, UNOY and HSC, CSPS) participated in the Geneva conference on PVE (Global Project) and Vienna OSCE conference. In autumn, GPPAC and 8 Southeast Asian members took a leading role in discussions at the Manila conference on PVE. GPPAC had the first online meeting in September of the global Working Group on PVE with participation of 10 members. 3.1.3 The networks convene and participate in inclusive civil society strategy meetings, platforms and coalitions targeting key institutions GPPAC project staff was able to build upon initial conversations with UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) to begin exploring concrete ways to partner on enhancing peacekeeping operations’ engagement with civil society. As a result of these efforts, the UN Liaison was invited to be part of entire DPKO Heads of Civil Affairs workshop and conduct one session on civil society engagement (based on Human Security Handbook). This allowed staff to initiate relationships with heads of civil affairs from following missions: MONUSCO (DRC), UNMIL (Liberia), UNMISS (South Sudan), CAR, UNAMID (Darfur), UNOCI (Cote d’Ivoire), MINUSMA (Mali), MINUSCA (CAR), UNFICYP (Cyprus). GPPAC was also asked to co-host an event with UN DPKO that explored ways in which peacekeeping missions can develop and implement civil society engagement strategies, some of the challenges they may face and best practices from the field in overcoming these hurdles to inclusion. A draft engagement strategy was subsequently developed in MINUSCA featuring recommendations from the discussion. 3.3.1. Network members engage in each other’s policy arenas and coordinate their work through exchanges, joint statements and policy engagements In 2017, the Better Peace website was officially launched and became one of the only go-to resources on the UN Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) and its work. Along with providing meeting summaries, which increased the transparency of the PBC's work to those outside New York, GPPAC was able to create space for briefings by relevant civil society representatives during PBC meetings through its advocacy and relationships. In 2017, these included meetings on: The Solomon Islands, Guinea-Bissau, Colombia, and Sri Lanka (featuring Jehan Perera from the GPPAC member organisation the National Peace Council of Sri Lanka). GPPAC along with other CSOs in New York advocated successfully for civil society representatives to be able to participate in the PBC’s Annual Session in 2017. 3.3.4. The networks initiate and participate in civil society- governmental/ intergovernmental working groups and exchange platforms (including RIGOs Steering Groups, CS-UN Working Group) GPPAC Regional Secretariat for Southeast Asia (IID) engaged on various occasions with the Philippines Department of Foreign Affairs on ASEAN and the ASEAN Institute for Peace and Reconciliation (AIPR), and provided civil society a political platform on Peace and Security issues. This led to an invitation of IID to a regional High Level forum with ASEAN governmental representatives and leading academics in October 2017. The advocacy agenda is now to institutionalise (Memorandum of Understanding) the involvement of civil society on Peace and Security structurally. 3.3.4. The networks initiate and participate in civil society- governmental/ intergovernmental working groups and exchange platforms During the South-Caucasus Regional Steering Group meeting in Istanbul (November 2017) GPPAC members have elaborated 45 recommendations on regional conflict prevention and promoting human security, intended for advocacy towards state agencies, international and domestic donors as well as CSOs and media communities. 3.1.1 The networks and member organisations develop resources and expertise on relevant institutional stakeholders through the network At the beginning of 2020 and as a follow up from its attendance at the High-Level Political Forum in New York in July 2019, GPPAC member WANEP joined the national coalitions of CSOs on SDG16+ working with the Ghana government on SDG planning and implementation. This offers GPPAC members to be involved in local implementation of SDG16+ and advocate at the national level for the key recommendations that came out of its country report on progress in Ghana towards SDG16+. The Alliance increases and diversifies access to political spaces and proactively supports CSOs affected by repression GPPAC members in South East Asia led the crafting of a joint statement titled “Southeast Asian states should heed the call for a global ceasefire, ensure conflict sensitivity and human rights in responding to COVID19 crisis”. This was signed by 433 organisations all over Southeast Asia, including a few individuals including 1996 Nobel Peace Prize co-awardee Jose Manuel Ramos-Horta, and was submitted to ASEAN offices, member-states, embassies, media, UN agencies and other relevant policy actors last March 30-April 1. The Alliance increases and diversifies access to political spaces and proactively supports CSOs affected by repression GPPAC, Progressive Voice and Forum Asia have together written a joint statement on the Rohingya crisis entitled “Myanmar Must Prioritize Protection of Civilians in Rakhine State, Address the Roots of the Conflict”. The petition was signed by 122 organisations and 33 individuals, while endorsement continue to come. It has been circulated among different groups, embassies and government/regional/intergovernmental organisations. 3.1.2. The networks with their members engage in action research, document case studies and produce joint position papers and policy briefs with particular attention to inclusivity on relevant actors and institutions. In the meeting, it was discussed how UN peace and security reforms could advance conflict prevention. The event was planned and moderated by GPPAC and Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO). 3.1.3. The networks convene and participate in inclusive civil society strategy meetings, platforms and coalitions targeting key institutions GPPAC and QUNO co-wrote the report on Building Sustainable Peace in relation to the current UN Sustaining Peace resolutions and agenda. As a result of sharing the report, QUNO and GPPAC were asked to meet with the Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding (ASG), Oscar Fernandez-Tarranco. At this meeting, the ASG suggested we work with the Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO) on providing analysis of the High-Level Event on Sustaining Peace, to be held in New York from 24-25 April 2018. The report is available here: shorturl.at/bjr46. 3.1.2. The networks with their members engage in action research, document case studies and produce joint position papers and policy briefs with particular attention to inclusivity on relevant actors & institutions. UN Offices (UN Department of Political Affairs (DPA) and the DPA-UN Development Programme (UNDP)) asked the Prevention Platform to provide training on civil society engagement. This led to GPPAC co-facilitating two trainings in February and March 2018 in New York. GPPAC and Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) are co-facilitators of the Prevention Platform between UN and civil society organisations (CSOs) in New York. 3.3.4. The networks initiate and participate in civil society-governmental/intergovernmental working groups and exchange platforms (including CS-UN Working Group) In March 2020, CEPO (GPPAC Focal Point in South in South Sudan) started developing the first COVID.19 national observatory report to guide the government of South Sudan and actors in responding to the pandemic. The first report calls for among others; transparency, protection of front line officers, being sensitive to the needs of internally displaced persons, use of non-stigmatizing language, capacity building, general awareness and respect of human rights. The Alliance enhances and mobilises civil society capacities to access and strategically engage relevant institutional stakeholders On March 30, 2020, WAA Cameroon organized a National consultative dialogue with traditional and religious leaders, civil society and institutions on Child Marriage and Female Genital Mutilation. The dialogue brought together 33 participants. The traditional leaders came from all the 10 regions of the country. The dialogue emphasized the role of communities and religious leaders in ending harmful socio-cultural practices against women and girls; and increase of women’s access to decision making and participation in peace processes. One of the key outputs was a task-force put together for religious and traditions leaders to work together to come up with community by-laws to empower women in the communities. The participants of the dialogue also signed an engagement to make efforts to push for gender equality in their communities. The Alliance increases and diversifies access to political spaces and proactively supports CSOs affected by repression By March 2020, GPPAC member WAA Cameroon had enhanced its capacity as an organisation and emerged as a leading civil society organization in advocating for the localization of SDG16+ in Cameroon. This was done by WAA broadening its strategic engagement from narrowly focusing on resolving violence against women issues to the broader inter-linking issues that promote peace and conflict prevention and address the root causes of gender-based violence. The Alliance enhances and mobilises civil society capacities to access and strategically engage relevant institutional stakeholders It came as a result of GPPAC’s previous engagement with the OAS. According to the OAS Secretary General, OAS “recognizes GPPAC as a strategic advocate for civil society and regional organisations for the promotion of peace and democracy”. GPPAC has an on-going collaboration with OAS for almost a decade. However, the nature of this collaboration was ad hoc, and centered around particular activities. In 2019, this collaboration was formal with the signing of a MoU between OAS and GPPAC. Intergovernmental and state actors systematically include civil society and adopt inclusive, transparent and accountable working methods GPPAC’s new Gender Policy has been finalised based on the input of GPPAC’s main decision making body (the GPPAC International Steering Group) and is now published online. The Alliance contributes to enhanced civil society credibility by strengthening its networks' and members' accountability, complementarities and internal procedures and practices The Ohio Peace and Conflict Studies Network initially comprising 18 colleges and universities has the potential to reach more than 50 institutions in Ohio that offer peace related programs and degrees. The Alliance enhances and mobilises civil society capacities to access and strategically engage relevant institutional stakeholders By viewing GPPAC PEWG’s webinar series on GPPAC’s website, GPENreformation learned about GPPAC. GPPAC has been approached to contribute to the project ‘Peace Academy’ in Spring/Summer 2020 as leader in its conception or as a participating expert. The recognition of GPENreformation indicates an increase in visibility of GPPAC’s PEWG work and experiences that are being shared through series of webinars in 2019. The Alliance enhances and mobilises civil society capacities to access and strategically engage relevant institutional stakeholders Based on experiences of national reviews undertaken by GPPAC members in Ghana and Cameroon with the support of the GPPAC global secretariat, GPPAC global secretariat developed a guidance note on how to undertake national level progress reviews on SDG 16+. The Alliance enhances and mobilises civil society capacities to access and strategically engage relevant institutional stakeholders In March 2020, CEPO (GPPAC Focal Point in South Sudan) issued the 1st status report on the observation of the R-ARCSS (Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of Conflict in South Sudan) transitional period implementation. The report in part calls for: compliance with the provisions of the peace agreement implementation, disseminating the provisions of the peace agreement, Developing a political vision, putting in place financial systems for administering the transitional period, Providing adequate Funds for speeding up the unification of the forces in a professional manner, a checklist for fighting corruption, promoting transparency and human rights, among others. CEPO will be releasing monthly oversight observation reports. The Alliance enhances and mobilises civil society capacities to access and strategically engage relevant institutional stakeholders Draft protection protocol developed, to be finalised in 2020. It outlines the measures available to us to support GPPAC member organisations facing persecution or prosecution; steps to take to analyse each case and determine which measures should be taken; and preventative measures to avoid GPPAC members coming under scrutiny or threat because of their involvement with GPPAC. It will be finalised following consultations with organisations specialised in in protecting and enhancing civic space, and civil society activists facing threats. GS staff supported GPPAC members facing government / security threats in three cases. No details included for safety reasons. The Alliance increases and diversifies access to political spaces and proactively supports CSOs affected by repression In order to rebuild ISG sense of connection and ownership between meetings, held first ISG update call on 3 December The Alliance contributes to enhanced civil society credibility by strengthening its networks' and members' accountability, complementarities and internal procedures and practices The NGO Working Group on Women Peace and Security invited GPPAC to become part of the organisational committee of the second Multistakeholder Forum on Women, Peace and Security that took place on 28 October 2019 in collaboration of the NGO Working Group, Sweden and UN Women. This is significant because it reflects that GPPAC is seen as a relevant actor to shape the Multistakeholder Forum by proposing: agenda, format, participants and facilitators. Multistakeholder Forum GPPAC participated in the high-level seminar Strengthening Women’s Participation in Peace Processes, What Roles and Responsibilities for States? held in Rome, Italy, 3-4 December 2019. This was the first time that a gender expert from GPPACs network in the Caucasus that is not coming from a women’s rights or women led CSO has been supported by UN Women. This indicates a more inclusive approach in who is supported as well as change of GPPACs credibility as an organisation working on gender equality and conflict prevention. This invitation resulted from the bilateral meeting held between GPPACs delegation at WPS week and UN Women at their headquarters in New York on 31 October 2019. Intergovernmental and state actors systematically include civil society and adopt inclusive, transparent and accountable working methods Following from the Rigo conference in DC - a joint higher level delegation from UNDP (Sam Rizk) and UNPPA (Roselyn Akombe) together with 3 PDA’s requested a meeting with GPPAC to discuss possible areas of cooperation. UNDP and UNDPPA indicated interest in partnering with GPPAC in country, regionally and globally. The Dutch MFA was present during these conversations. Intergovernmental and state actors systematically include civil society and adopt inclusive, transparent and accountable working methods Introduction of the newly adopted Youth policy as well as the relevant parts of the YPS WG work plan for 2020 during a 3-day event in Lebanon. We provided 10 MENAPAC members with tools to implement the Youth policy in the region and we explored the roles, requests and challenges of the main YPS stakeholders (international and regional organisations, national Organization, youth lead organization). The sessions were conducted through practical exercises and a gender sensitive approach. The Alliance contributes to enhanced civil society credibility by strengthening its networks' and members' accountability, complementarities and internal procedures and practices The Assembly facilitates communication with local civil society organisations especially those engaging the peace process. It offers a space for a wider discussion and engagement on the GRP-NDF peace process with Mindanao CSOs. The assembly agreed on a statement that called for the civil society to continually push conflict actors “to affirm the primacy of peace process and for the cessation of hostilities in the communities; resume the formal talks and discuss substantive agenda; recognize meaningful participation of civil society and the conflict affected communities and work towards a just and peaceful political settlement”. The Alliance increases and diversifies access to political spaces and proactively supports CSOs affected by repression In December 2019, the two principles in the South Sudan peace agreement, President Salva Kiir and Dr. Riek Machar, have demonstrated a political will towards fulfilling their commitment forming an Inclusive Transitional Government of National Unity by like accepting the face-to-face meetings and discussions of the way forward for peace in South Sudan. This positive change in behavior creates hope to end one of the most disastrous armed conflicts in the world today - and preventing the escalation of violence in South Sudan. The relevance of this outcome is related to the failure by the 2 principles to agree on a power-sharing government, which remains the main bottleneck to the realisation of the revitalised peace agreement in South Sudan. The positive move by the 2 principles therefore is a move towards restoring the hopes that have for long been shattered. GPPAC’s contribution comes from hosting a meeting on the Development of recommendations for the implementation of the peace deal in South Sudan between Salva Kiir and Riek Machar. The activity attracted several high level and key influential actors and was follow-up by advocacy and lobby meetings with the African Union, IGAD, groups of diplomats like the TROIKA, members of the East African Community, leaders of neighbouring countries, National Pre-Transitional Committee, rally of civil society and government actors, among others. Intergovernmental and state actors systematically include civil society and adopt inclusive, transparent and accountable working methods GPPAC network members provided input about coordinating national and regional efforts for peacebuilding architecture and conflict prevention for the thematic paper from S. Caucasus intended for the UN Secretary General’s 2020 report. The paper gathered opinions of members of GPPAC S. Caucasus network as well as representatives of the civil sector from the secessionist regions of Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorno-Karabakh. The paper contains views, concerns and suggestions about the UN role in settling the conflicts in S. Caucasus. The first and foremost significance is that members of GPPAC regional network from the secessionist regions took part in the preparation of the paper. It sends to the UN messages, concerns and recommendations from the prominent peace activists from the region about the role that UN could play in addressing the long- standing unresolved conflicts in the regions. The Alliance enhances and mobilises civil society capacities to access and strategically engage relevant institutional stakeholders The following working groups have been created: 1) An EWER working group 2) a working group on gender and arms in MENA to work on small arms and light weapons in the region, 3)the creation of a core group within MENAPPAC network to strengthen the network itself: consisting of youth with a gender balance. The Alliance contributes to enhanced civil society credibility by strengthening its networks' and members' accountability, complementarities and internal procedures and practices In the 2019 school year (September 2019 – May 2020) increasing number of schools and teachers in Moldova (including the Transnistria region) are teaching the developed peace education courses “Culture of Good Neighborhood” / “Living in peace and harmony“. At least 12 new schools and 15 new teachers began to apply the developed Peace Education courses in their work (from the Dubasari, Stefan Voda, and other districts), and at least 1 additional school began teaching the “Living in Peace and Harmony” version of the peace education course in the Transnistria region. The number of children, studying this course, has reached approx. 4500 (including over 1500 children in schools of the Transnistrian region). It is a significant development because in Moldova there is an unresolved territorial dispute over the separatist region of Transnistria. For the long-term resolution of this and other societal issues it is important that children are educated in peace and tolerance. Intergovernmental and state actors systematically include civil society and adopt inclusive, transparent and accountable working methods In November 2019, the ASEAN Institute for Peace and Reconciliation (ASEAN-IPR) permanent representative Amb. Artauli Tobing, seconded by the representatives from the ASEAN-IPR Secrretariat/Ministry of the Foreign Affairs of Indonesia and the Ministry of the Foreign Affairs of Malaysia, have verbally expressed their support in championing the proposal to make the Regional Training on Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding as an organic program of the ASEAN-IPR, subject to some adjustments in the training design, particularly possible sensitivities in some ongoing peace processes, in order not to jeopardize inter-state relations of ASEAN member-states. Intergovernmental and state actors systematically include civil society and adopt inclusive, transparent and accountable working methods The signed Memorandum of Understanding was followed by a concept note for joint fundraising and establishment of the first of its kind SDG 16+ localisation consortium. The Memorandum of Understanding is a significant step towards a broader movement to achieve more sustained local progress towards peaceful, just and inclusive societies. The Alliance enhances and mobilises civil society capacities to access and strategically engage relevant institutional stakeholders GPPAC previously worked and engaged with local GPPAC members in Liberia and Papua New Guinea. The publication is a result of an increased of practical understanding of UN peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace at the practical level. A roundtable discussed the results of the publication The Alliance enhances and mobilises civil society capacities to access and strategically engage relevant institutional stakeholders The input provided by the GSG will be used to formulate the second draft of the new Strategic Plan. Once completed, it will be shared with the GSG to check whether their input is accurately and fully reflected. The new Strategic Plan will then be shared with GPPAC’s main decision making body, the International Steering Group (ISG), for their feedback. The Alliance contributes to enhanced civil society credibility by strengthening its networks' and members' accountability, complementarities and internal procedures and practices The invitation to brief the UN PBC is significant to ensure its continued ownership of the YPS agenda. It is also rare for member states of the Commission to directly hear from young peacebuilders. Unfortunately, the briefing was cancelled due to political issues. Intergovernmental and state actors systematically include civil society and adopt inclusive, transparent and accountable working methods UN MGCY is a formal engagement platform for young people in UN processes. They are often approached to gather young people’s input, nominations for direct youth representation in policy processes, and to coordinate a youth civil society voice in UN agendas. Through his membership of MGCY as a focal point for SDG16, Khaled can make more sustainable and impactful contributions to global conversations on YPS and SDG16. The Alliance enhances and mobilises civil society capacities to access and strategically engage relevant institutional stakeholders As a formal youth engagement platform of the UN, UN MGCY has leverage and credibility. In light of a widely circulated petition that highlights the normalization of human rights violations, restrictions on freedom of speech and press, and other concerns, the UN MGCY membership has requested the UN and other partners to distance themselves from the Forum. Intergovernmental and state actors systematically include civil society and adopt inclusive, transparent and accountable working methods As a formal youth engagement platform of the UN, UN MGCY has leverage and credibility. In light of a widely circulated petition that highlights the normalization of human rights violations, restrictions on freedom of speech and press, and other concerns, the UN MGCY membership has requested the UN and other partners to distance themselves from the Forum. 3.4.1. Governmental and intergovernmental actors highlight and take up civil society positions about shrinking political space and repression in policy and decision making arenas in a timely and relevant manner Sources of information: Khaled Emam, GPPAC Youth, Peace and Security working group core member Sources of information: Khaled Emam, GPPAC Youth, Peace and Security working group core member On behalf of UN MGCY, Khaled made a briefing on Algeria's VNR (Voluntary National Review) report on the implementation of the SDGs agenda. He focused on the need for Algeria to commit itself in allowing civil society institutions and relevant groups (including young people) to participate and contribute in the preparation of the VNR. The briefing also talked about the importance of respecting democracy and reforms towards justice as these were among the demands by the young protesters in Algeria. Intergovernmental and state actors systematically include civil society and adopt inclusive, transparent and accountable working methods GPPAC Southeast Asia’s Regional Secretariat held the “1st Asian Peoples’ Regional Dialogue on Inter-Racial and Religious Solidarity: Addressing Racial and Religious Discrimination/Intolerance and the Rohingya Crisis” dialogue on April 6-9 on board the Peace Boat. The recommendations brought forward during the meeting were presented in a follow-up meeting with the AICHR on April 10. Through the facilitation of Forum Asia, the inputs of GPPAC Southeast Asia members and partners were further solicited in the crafting of the AICHR permanent representatives’ joint-statement. 3.4.1. Governmental and intergovernmental actors highlight and take up civil society positions about shrinking political space and repression in policy and decision making areas in a timely and relevant manner The study of local identities and their dependence on the nature and availability of information flows in eastern Belarus. On December 27, 2018 the report of the study was presented and discussed with civil society activists and journalists in the town of Orsha. This demonstrated a new model for conducting research in highly restrictive circumstances, developed by a diverse team of individuals from different backgrounds who have never cooperated before. This model is needed to address state control on any potentially sensitive research taking place in Belarus. 3.1.2. The networks with their members engage in action research, document case studies and produce joint position papers and policy briefs with particular attention to inclusivity on relevant actors & institutions. The GPPAC Regional Liaison Officers meeting was hold in The Hague, 20-22 November 2018. The meeting was aimed to develop capacity of 13 (10 women, 3 men) civil society representatives representatives on: monitoring & evaluation, fundraising, networking of civil society organisations, CSO networking of international civil society organisations on lobby & advocacy. 3.2.2. The networks and members develop internal procedures to strengthen internal (network) and external accountability and take steps to implement them. 8 GPPAC members from Africa, Eastern Europe, Pacific, North America and EU actively participated in the SDG 16+ Forum in Sierra Leone, from 6 to 11 October. 2 GPPAC members gave a presentation on mediation’s contribution to SDGs and community shadow reporting on national progress on SDGs. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Department of Political Affairs (DPA) and United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office (UN PBSO) and World Bank confirmed their interest in cooperating in future potential work on the implementation and operationalisation of the Pathways for Peace report. GPPAC hosted a workshop on SDGs and sustaining peace on 7th of October with 70 civil society representatives. GPPAC managed to achieve greater awareness among civil society organisations about SDGs and Sustaining peace and the start-up of an informal group of civil society organisations on SDG 16+ to jointly prepare for the United Nations High Level Political Forum (UN HLPF) meeting on SDGs in July 2019. GPPAC organised a follow-up informal roundtable of civil society organisations working on SDG 16+ alongside the Geneva Peace Week from 5 to 9 November 2018. 3.3.3. Networks and their members incorporate SDGs and WPS-related advocacy agendas in their respective and collective lobby and advocacy strategies. GPPAC organised regular meetings with key individuals and organisations in peacebuilding and conflict prevention during meetings and/or individual engagements: meeting with the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund (UNPBF) during their visit to the Netherlands (4th December), meeting with Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) individuals working on SDGs, Sustaining Peace, United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office (UN PBSO) and joint program at the ministry on 10th of December, organization of a roundtable with CSOs working on SDG 16+ implementation (5th December). 3.3.4. The networks initiate and participate in civil society-governmental/intergovernmental working groups and exchange platforms (including CS-UN Working Group). Translations of specific chapters of the Human Security Handbook into Russian, Georgian, Serbian and Arabic are complete. Translations enables wider use and dissemination of trainings by civil society worldwide through GPPAC’s regional networks. This was supported and organised through the GPPAC Improving Practice Working Group in December 2018. 3.1.1. The networks and member organisations develop resources and expertise on relevant institutional stakeholders through the network (incl. guidelines/manuals, information sheets, briefings, liaisons/resource persons..) Representatives from the European Union’s External Action Service “PRISM” department that deals with peacebuilding and conflict prevention reached out to GPPAC and its members to get their input for a strategy meeting Mindanao in the Philippines peace process. GPPAC also organised meetings in Fourth quarter of 2018 between EU representatives on Philippines, Myanmar and Mali that lead to further engagements in the field & consultation of GPPAC’s member in the Philippines for a strategy meeting. 3.3.4. The networks initiate and participate in civil society-governmental/intergovernmental working groups and exchange platforms (including CS-UN Working Group) GPPAC published an academic paper for the first time as GPPAC. The paper titled “Local Ownership, Inclusivity and Civil-Military Synergy in EU External Action: The Case of EU Support to Security Sector Reforms in Mali” was published on November 2018 in the Journal for Regional Security, focusing on the EU, SSR, the case of Mali, and civil-military synergies. http://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/jouregsec/article/view/19428/pdf https://www.gppac.net/news/local-ownership-inclusivity-and-civil-military-synergy-eu-external-action 3.1.2. The networks with their members engage in action research, document case studies and produce joint position papers and policy briefs with particular attention to inclusivity on relevant actors & institutions. For the first time CSOs and the media of Georgia and Armenia touched upon and publicly discussed the previously unexplored issues such as prevention of conflict in terms of new re-division and diversification of economic ties in the Region of South Caucasus, having thereby strengthened the capacity of civic actors to make their voice heard by decision makers. Attitudinal changes to the conflict prevention have been reflected in the policy papers, which was a product of compromises and consensus between the parties. 3.1.1 The networks and member organisations develop resources and expertise on relevant institutional stakeholders through the network GPPAC GS and NY Liaison arranged for a civil society representative from WANEP Mali to speak in a High-Level Event on Human Security and its contribution to Agenda 2030 at the UN in New York. 3.4.2. Intergovernmental and state actors demonstrate a progression towards regular, systematic and inclusive involvement of civil society in their institutional frameworks responsible for prevention, protection and justice (terms of engagement, ToR, consultation frameworks, CS focal points, MoUs] GPPAC became active member of the “NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security” in 2017. This paved the way to participate in the inner circle of the NGOs discussion on WPS issues and with UN actors. UN policy development on WPS can now be brought to GPPAC members with more frequency and intensity. Currently the future of the 16-days campaign is discussed and planned for the end-of-year campaign. 3.1.3 The networks convene and participate in inclusive civil society strategy meetings, platforms and coalitions targeting key institutions As part of its work advocating for increased space for civil society within UN processes, GPPAC hosted a delegation of women peacebuilders during the UNSCR 1325 Week in October 2017. These GPPAC members were able to participate in a number of meetings at the UN, including as speakers in “The implementation of UNSCR 1325 in the OSCE Region” held by the Mission of Austria to the United Nations, United Methodist Women (UMW), and World Federation of Ukrainian Women’s Organizations (WFUWO)) and a Prevention Platform forum called “Reflections on the Role of Women in the Prevention of Violent Conflict.” 3.1.3 The networks convene and participate in inclusive civil society strategy meetings, platforms and coalitions targeting key institutions Discussions with the AU (Peace and Security Department), World Bank (Fragility Unit) and UNDP and PBSO on the “Pathways for Peace” report. Agreement with WB and UNDP to organize joint events in Asia and the Americas and GPPAC bringing together CSOs from across the respective regions. 3.4.2. Intergovernmental and state actors demonstrate a progression towards regular, systematic and inclusive involvement of civil society in their institutional frameworks. Seven GPPAC CSO members from Southeast and Northeast Asia discussed the political and security situation in the Korean peninsula and the region, the recent positive developments, the way forward, and the role of civil society. 3.1.2 The networks with their members engage in action research, document case studies and produce joint position papers and policy briefs with particular attention to inclusivity on relevant actors & institutions Staff and CSOs from the GPPAC networks, Convened alongside the opening session of the United Nations General Assembly. The Leaders Summit brought together an international community of leaders from business, investor groups, government, the UN, and civil society for a multi-stakeholder stocktaking on progress towards the achievement of SDGs. 3.3.4. The networks initiate and participate in civil society-governmental/intergovernmental working groups and exchange platforms CSO representatives of the Global Strategy Group provided input to operational plans of PuF Alliance for 2019, including on Preventing Violent Extremism and strategic priorities for the global thematic working groups of CSOs as part of the PuF Alliance. 3.2.2. The networks and members develop internal procedures to strengthen internal (network) and external accountability and take steps to implement them. A photo exhibition of Ukrainian prisoners, organised by the NGO "Bereginya", and accompanied by the performances of their mothers and wives, demonstrated the importance of an international solidarity platform to support their release. As a result of a roundtable organised by the GPPAC Eastern European regional network, and active work of Ukrainian diplomats, the “Berehinya” NGO was invited to organise a similar exhibition at the Romanian Parliament. This is important as Romania currently presides over the Council of the European Union. Intergovernmental and state actors systematically include civil society and adopt inclusive, transparent and accountable working methods GPPAC and WANEP have been working closely on the Voluntary National Review on UN SDG 16+ in Ghana and in preparation for the HLPF; as a result, WANEP gained a wider understanding of SDG 16+ and its implementation. The Alliance enhances and mobilises civil society capacities to access and strategically engage relevant institutional stakeholders From March until June 2019, GPPAC, Women in Alternative Action Cameroon (WAA Cameroon) and Regional Secretariat West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP) conducted a research on progress in Cameroon and Ghana towards SDG16+ on peaceful and inclusive societies. As a result of the research GPPAC has published two reports on progress in Cameroon and Ghana towards SDG16+ on peaceful and inclusive societies. The reports offer a localized qualitative analysis of SDG 16+ progress and government – CSO partnerships, and include specific findings and recommendations for each country. Further, GPPAC published a policy brief “Peaceful societies – the orphaned SDG target?” and 2-page summary of key recommendations that capture key findings and recommendations to drive forward the peace agenda within the SDG goals. All printed four publications (400 copies of each) have been disseminated during different events and bilateral engagements at the High Level Political Forum in New York in July 2019. In July 2019 the four publications were shared with GPPAC members (sent to 400+ members) through the GPPAC update “GPPAC calls for increased action on SDG16+”, and was opened 171 times, which is double the open rate of an ordinary GPPAC Update. The potential outcomes that have been identified is that GPPAC South Asia region expressed their interest to conduct the same research next year. Another potential outcome is that that Regional Coordinator for GPPAC Eastern and Central Africa met with UNDP in Uganda in June 2019 during the Regional Steering Group Meeting. When seeing the country reports on Cameroon and Ghana, UNDP in Uganda said that they are interested to collaborate on undertaking the same research with GPPAC members in Uganda. Women in Alternative Action (WAA) Cameroon did not have any engagements with its Government before the country research on SDG 16+ progress. In January 2019 GPPAC facilitated interactions between WAA Cameroon and relevant UNDP individuals in country. This led to further engagements with the UNDP lead for the VNR, as well as the SDG coordinator inside government, and a range of other stakeholders. WAA Cameroon for provided CSO inputs and key recommendations, based on its own national review, to the key VNR messages that government submitted to the UN. GPPAC supported writing and finalizing these key recommendations. After the civil society validation workshop in Cameroon held on 15 of May, which was attended by the government coordinator for SDGs, WAA Cameroon was invited for the first time to participate in the VNR technical committee set up by the government, and equally participated in the validation of the government VNR report. Until now, SDG 16+ has either been supported at overall policy/political levels with a top-down approach, mostly on issues of access to justice or incidentally at member state levels for countries such as Sierra Leone. The indication that a number of donors, such as Canada, DFID or South Korea are considering supporting the localised implementation of SDG 16+ peacebuilding focused implementation is significant as it indicates a first step towards a) acknowledging both the importance of an focus on peaceful societies and b) the need to do this through the localisation of this agenda. GPPAC was an active member of the Voices Campaign, participated in the Rome conference on SDG 16+ preparing the main official messages on SDG 16 for the High Level Political Forum and co-drafted civil society demands formulated in Rome, which included a call for increased political and financial support for the peace agenda. GPPAC also brought 4 members and 3 GPPAC staff to New York for the HLPF and advocated for increased support with the campaign partners and on its own towards Canada and other member states. The SDG16+ event held on 11 July in New York at the International Peace Institute (IPI) offices where GPPAC member Women in Alternative Action (WAA) Cameroon participated was recognised as particularly successful in carrying over the message in a politically relevant and timely manner. The Revised Gender policy strives to build a more inclusive approach of GPPAC to conflict prevention, and offers tools to measure it. It is written to inform next Strategic plan of GPPAC, it builds on the current achievements of the GPPAC network, needs of members and is informed by current developments in the international policies on Women, Peace and Security, Sustainable development and Sustaining Peace. Several ISG members felt that the Gender policy was too progressive but after a heated discussion the Gender policy was adopted in principle. This is an important change because it demonstrates the commitment of the GPPAC network to progressing gender equality in its work on conflict prevention. With SDG16 being reviewed for the first time at the High-level Political Forum (HLPF) and the SDGs being reviewed for the first time at the SDGs Summit during the opening of the 74th United Nations General Assembly, 2019 marks an unprecedented opportunity to scale up our collective efforts towards SDG16+ implementation. To contribute to this, civil society organizations (CSOs) from around the world met in Rome, Italy on 26 May 2019 in the context of the SDG16 Conference (Rome Conference) after a series of in-depth consultations, convened by UNDESA, IDLO, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Italy in preparation for the 2019 HLPF. 3 GPPAC members and 1 GPPAC staff actively participated in Rome from 26 until 29 of May. The resulting Civil Society outcome document – Amplified Commitment and Partnerships for Accelerated Action: The Rome Civil Society Declaration on SDG16+ (Rome Declaration), endorsed by more than 130 civil society organizations, highlights key civil society priority areas, recommendations, and an urgent call-to-action to achieve the real transformative potential of SDG16+. GPPAC was co-leading writer of the Rome Civil Society Declaration on SDG16+. This advocacy initiative enabled us to further push for civil society role through a collective action in partnership with TAP Network, CSPPS, Namati and with other seven organisations involved in the Voice campaign “Voices for SDG 16+: Stories of Global Action”. This resulted in delivering the Civil Society Statement on Amplified Commitments and Partnerships for Accelerated Action: Rome Civil Society Declaration on SDG16+ at the UN High Level Political Forum 2019. GPPAC co-lead the writing of the statement. Civil Society called member states to commit to accelerate progress on SDG16+. On October 2-6 Azerbaijani youth peace activists organized thematic meetings on human security aspects of the Karabakh war and revitalized for this purpose a public council of experts for the settlement of the Karabakh conflict (Karabakh Council), composed of peace activists, pundits and CSOs. Within the council, the Youth CSOs came out with several initiatives about building confidence between the conflicting parties and economic connectivity measures to relieve the aftermath of the war. The initiatives have been channeled to the official bodies through the officials who participated in the thematic meetings of the youth. 3.3.4. The networks initiate and participate in civil society-governmental/intergovernmental working groups and exchange platforms On October 5, in its statement GPPAC called on the governments of Armenia and Azerbaijan for immediate ceasefire (http://iccn.ge/index.php?article_id=371&clang=1). ICCN and several CSOs with mandate of working on peace and confidence building urgently signed and issued a document “APPEAL TO THE OSCE 12 OCTOBER 2020” calling OSCE to pay greater attention to the sensitive issue and engage more proactively in the settlement of the armed conflict 3.3.2. The networks develop civil society statements, strategies and internal procedures for the protection of human rights defenders 12 videoblogs of peace activists and civic leaders from Georgia, Armenia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia about impact of COVID-19 on the peace process have been published. Three articles on peace and confidence building related to the war in Karabakh are publicized by GPPAC freelance press officers in Armenia and Azerbaijan https://www.civilnet.am/news/2020/12/29/Life-After-War/414722 https://d9mc3ts4czbpr.cloudfront.net/ru/article/vybor-po-zhelaniyu-klienta/?ref=list-opinion https://d9mc3ts4czbpr.cloudfront.net/ru/article/yuk-novaya-arhitektura-regionalnoj-bezopasnosti/?ref=list-opinion 3.3.2. The networks develop civil society statements, strategies and internal procedures for the protection of human rights defenders In October 2020, South Sudan established a national Coordination Committee on the nexus between peacebuilding, COVID-19 and Human Rights which in turn has appointed two Ambassadors; for UNSCR1325 and UNSCR 2250 to champion the localization of peace building, women and youth efforts in the country. During the GPPAC-CEPO workshop held in October 2020, one of the key recommendations to the government by the participant was to establish a mechanism called the national Coordination Committee on the nexus between peacebuilding, COVID-19 and Human Rights. The outcome is important because it is the first time the Government of South Sudan appreciated the need and put in place a national Coordination Committee on the nexus between peacebuilding, COVID-19 and Human Rights. It is also the first time the Government of South Sudan put in place an initiative of appointing the Ambassador for UNSRC 1325 in South Sudan and 2250. 3.1.4. The network members collaborate in engaging relevant governments, RIGO, IGOs in policy events, delegations and initiatives The activity focused on reconstituting GPPAC network in Aceh through its focal point Achehnese Civil Society Task Force, by reviewing the implementation of the Law on Governing of Aceh based on the qualitative survey and focus group discussions with local stakeholders. 40 participants representing formal and non-formal institutions and individuals who had earlier engaged in the peace process and in the legislation of the LoGA bill have once again had a good opportunity to sit together and look back for a reflection on what was lacking in the LoGA implementation after 15 years of the Aceh peace agreement and what need to be done in the future. Around 30 resources persons from various distinguished sectors participated in the range of activities and provided their overviews on the LoGA implementation; 1 policy paper of analysis as review results on implementation of LoGA, as material for a hearing to influence policy makers to be produced by the Aceh Government, the Aceh People's Representative Council (DPRA) and the Central Government; 1 video documenting the activities, four sectoral FGDs and one dissemination event.; 1 Radio recordings of talk-shows on policy paper analysis; 1 Socialization content on YouTube Channel; 1 Advertorial contents published on local newspaper both online and printed 3.3.4. The networks initiate and participate in civil society-governmental/intergovernmental working groups and exchange platforms We have been able to strengthen civil society engagement with UN actors and member states at all levels by providing space for local partners not only to directly engage with UN actors but also capitalize on opportunities to strengthen these connections moving forward. We have been able to ensure that civil society perspectives are reflected in the global policy on peacebuilding and sustaining peace by providing numerous inputs into the 2020 Peacebuilding Architecture Review and creating a policy space to further advance the recommendations. We were able to strengthen the recognition of GPPAC expertise by the UN actors at all levels. Increased engagement of GPPAC in the 2020 Review process has led to invitation to participate as a speaker in the 2020 Review consultation organized by the Alliance for Peacebuilding, as a facilitator in the online consultation organized by Peace Direct, as a PBC eexpert for the PBC's internal assessment of thee implmentaiton of the Gender Strategy; as a speaker at High Level Event on COVID-19 and the role of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in building resilience and sustaining social cohesion and peace organized by the Dutch MFA, as the only civil society speaker for the Group of Friends meeting on peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace; as a moderator in the UNDP e-consultation on Crisis, Conflict and Climate: From Immediate Humanitarian Response to Longer-Term Peace and Development Solutions. We were able to strengthen peacebuilding movement at the civil society level by re-vitalizing the work of the New York Peacebuilding Group and convening the 2020 Review civil society working group that mobilizes a learning space for civil society organizations inside and outside of New York to bring forces together to ensure appropriate joint input from civil society into the 2020 Review. We were able to build the capacity of GPPAC members to engage in international advocacy by facilitating preparatory conversations with relevant colleagues ahead of the each global and regional meeting and conducted additional trainings in strategy setting in the MENA region. 3.4.2. Intergovernmental and state actors demonstrate a progression towards regular, systematic and inclusive involvement of civil society in their institutional frameworks. As a co-facilitator of the CS-UN Prevention Platform, GPPAC works to enhance civil society and UN collective capacity to prevent conflicts. This includes: 1. The discussion series on prevention that brings together various stakeholders to identify good practices and lessons learned and coordinate joint action around prevention. 2. Engagement with Peace and Development Advisors aimed at enhancing their engagement with civil society on the ground. 3. Strategy discussions for the next strategic cycle of the Review. 3.3.4. The networks initiate and participate in civil society-governmental/intergovernmental working groups and exchange platforms Three GPPAC regions (Latin America & the Caribbean, Pacific and South Africa) have conducted a research on “How could CSO-RIGO-UN partnerships support conflict prevention and sustaining peace work at the regional level?” 3.1.4. The network members collaborate in engaging relevant governments, RIGO, IGOs in policy events, delegations and initiatives Canadian permanent mission to the UN co-sponsored GPPACs online event Committing to Women’s Leadership in Peacebuilding - Bringing Women, Peace and Security and the UN Peacebuilding Architecture Closer Together held on 28 October 2020 and permanent missions Senior Policy Adviser (Peacebuilding) accepted to be a panelist during the event.Significance of the event was increased as perspectives of civil society organisations were shared alongside perspectives of a member state (Canada) which was current chair of the UNs Peacebuilding Commission. Co-sponsorship contributes to the track record of GPPACs collaboration with Canada. 3.1.3. The networks convene and participate in inclusive civil society strategy meetings, platforms and coalitions targeting key institutions NGO working group on Women peace and Security (WPS) proposed GPPACs Gender and Inclusivity specialist to speak on conflict prevention and WPS as a part of bigger delegation that presented the NGOWG on WPS Roadmap at the meeting of the NGOWG on WPS with high level meeting with DSG Amina Mohamed in October 2020. 3.1.3. The networks convene and participate in inclusive civil society strategy meetings, platforms and coalitions targeting key institutions Language on conflict prevention strengthened and improved in the text of the Forth Dutch National Action plan on Women, Peace and security final version dated 15 October 2020. The text includes multiple references to harmful gender roles and practices, human security, conflict sensitivity and relevance of engagement with local women's organisations. 3.3.2. The networks develop civil society statements, strategies and internal procedures for the protection of human rights defenders From April 2020 till December 2020, through the four online trainings "Analysis, Intervention and Dialogue: Making Sense of Conflict in the Age of Pandemic", "Human Security Basics: What Really Makes Us Secure When Confronting a Pandemic", "Multi-Stakeholder Processes for Human Security" and "The Facilitation Toolkit: Exchanging Best Practices", the GPPAC Improving Practice members have acquired and significantly improved their internal and external capacities in conducting online trainings / workshops and applying online methodology. As a result of all the online knowledge exchange that the GPPAC Improving Practice Working Group conducted in 2020, the Group became a more professional group of experts. It developed internal capacities and built the internal dynamics within the group which led to founding active partnerships in the peacebuilding field. The Group signed the Memorandum of Understanding with the Nansen Academy from Norway to deliver jointly online trainings in the sphere of peacebuilding as well as partnership with Patrir. 3.2.2. The networks and members develop internal procedures to strengthen internal (network) and external accountability and take steps to implement them In the first dialogue (Armenia, 2-3 June 2018) participants discussed the regime change in Armenia and its impact on the existing conflict and on the economic dimensions of conflict prevention. In the second meeting (Azerbaijan, 18 June 2018) participants addressed how to respond to human rights violations leading to conflict, and decided to expand educational work and networking between CSOs working on human rights. The third discussion (Azerbaijan, 23-24 June 2018) was devoted to the role of peace journalists and social media. Here, the participants agreed to create a platform for exchange of experience and knowledge about proper coverage of conflict situations. This platform is significant because it is the first time there is established a floor of discussion where the civic sector (CSOs, media, pundits) of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia have open discussion about competing economic alliances in the region. 3.3.2. Network members engage in each others’ policy arenas and coordinate their work through exchanges, joint statements and policy engagements In March 2019, the Prevention Platform was asked to join a UNDP-DPPA brownbag event on community engagement, in which GPPAC featured as a panelist. The event on peace and security reform also led to a request by UNDP-DPPA and other panelists to plan follow-up events. These outcomes further strengthened the Prevention Platform, enabling it to make stronger connections to more agencies with the UN. The platform in New York was initiated and being facilitated by GPPAC and QUNO. The Alliance increases and diversifies access to political spaces and proactively supports CSOs affected by repression The UN Working Group team for the creation of the UN Community Engagement Guideline uses the results of GPPAC’s civil society survey. From February to March 2019, GPPAC had disseminated a survey through the GPPAC network and beyond to reach peacebuilding actors around the world. The questions focused on how civil society has interacted with the UN in the past, what could be done to improve it, and on what principles should guide the relationship moving forward. Over 260 civil society organizations participated to provide input into the UN Community Engagement Guidelines that are currently being drafted. Furthermore, the findings from the surveys have been reported back to various UN departments, so the recommendations will go beyond inclusion in the guidelines itself. As a result of the high level of response, this is likely one of the most consultative guidelines processes the UN has ever had. The Alliance increases and diversifies access to political spaces and proactively supports CSOs affected by repression From January to March 2019, GPPAC’s Youth Peace and Security (YPS) Working Group has developed GPPAC’s draft Youth Policy. The Youth Policy will define objectives and strategies for increasing the effectiveness of the GPPAC network in promoting and achieving meaningful youth participation in conflict prevention and peacebuilding. The policy provides a foundation and implementation strategy for mainstreaming youth throughout GPPAC’s work and network structures. WG members were able to provide feedback throughout a two week window and online meetings. GPPAC YPS WG Co-Chair Eliska Jelinkova participated in the preparation of the GPPAC-ICRtoP-FES panel on 12 March 2019, and presented the speech during the panel itself. These advocacy interventions by the YPS Working Group are important steps for youth mainstreaming and implementation at GPPAC. The Alliance contributes to enhanced civil society credibility by strengthening its networks' and members' accountability, complementarities and internal procedures and practices During the first quarter of 2019, GPPAC’s Influencing Policy Working Group started developing 2 national baselines for national Sustainable Development Goals, measuring which actions have been taken and which frameworks are in place for the domestication of SDG16+. The work also resulted in 2 national policy briefs, and a global policy brief reflecting on what came out of this process and providing recommendations for areas of focus, data and ensuring an inclusive process. This process aims to influence national governments in Cameroon and Ghana in their priority setting of peacebuilding actions. The Working Group produced a joint global advocacy calendar and identified regional and global interventions, and ensured financial resources to pre-selected members to represent GPPAC and present their own work. The Alliance enhances and mobilises civil society capacities to access and strategically engage relevant institutional stakeholders In February 2019, during the GPPAC-East Central Africa Regional Steering Group 2019 meeting, members of 19 member organisations developed a joint strategy on prioritised conflict prevention issues. The key advocacy areas for 2019 are trust and collaboration building between CSOs and government, capacity building of members and safety and protection, and fast-tracking specific peacebuilding initiatives/policies at national and regional level. The Alliance enhances and mobilises civil society capacities to access and strategically engage relevant institutional stakeholders GPPAC and the other 4 Strategic Partners of the Directorate Security and Rule of Law (DSH) of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) provided input into the draft international Security policy of the Netherlands. The NGOs provided a Human Security lens to the international Security policy and MFA expressed their interest to take the NGOs’ points of view into account towards the final policy document. 3.4.3. National, regional, and international bodies adopt civil society recommendations on inclusive, accountable transparent working methods and formal collaboration with relevant civil society representatives A draft handbook on national networks was developed, to be finalised in 2020. The Global Secretariat has drafted a handbook for members seeking to build national networks. It includes lessons learned and suggestions from existing national GPPAC networks. The handbook also draws on academic research on civil society networks. The Handbook will be finalised following input from members, including GPPAC’s newest national network in Tunisia. The Alliance contributes to enhanced civil society credibility by strengthening its networks' and members' accountability, complementarities and internal procedures and practices GPPAC hosted a roundtable with the Dutch MFA, CSPPS and HiiL on the progress towards SDG 16+ implementation and next steps during the Knowledge Platform (KPSRL annual meeting on 10th of October). The roundtable was evaluated as ‘excellent’ by participants and they indicated that they learned something new. GPPAC and CSPPS followed this conversation up with the Dutch MFA to seek support for the SDG localisation work and cooperation on specific countries Intergovernmental and state actors systematically include civil society and adopt inclusive, transparent and accountable working methods GPPAC participated in this forum to advocate for multistakeholder SDG implementation, involvement of civil society in the upcoming VNR processes and establish networks for cooperation in country as well as with UNDP, other NGOs and potential donors. It took place on 27-29 October 2019 in Banjul, Gambia. The Forum was organized in partnership with the Government of Gambia, the Senegalo-Gambia Permanent Secretariat, the UN Country Team in The Gambia, the UN Trust Fund for Human Security (UNTFHS), Humanity United and the International Peace Institute (IPI). It brought together 70 leaders from national and local governments, the UN system, local champions, entrepreneurs, youth and women organizations from Côte d’Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Liberia, Senegal, and Sierra Leone, as well as regional entities and the international community. The Alliance increases and diversifies access to political spaces and proactively supports CSOs affected by repression GPPAC prepared thematic submissions to the UN Secretary-General Report on Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace on 1) regional peacebuilding; 2) lessons learned from Liberia and Papua New Guinea, 3) local perspectives on peacebuilding in South Caucasus. GPPAC and Life and Peace Institute hosted a civil society call for the 2020 Review on December 5, 2019 to share updates on the process from PBSO and facilitate information exchange between various actors. As a chair of the New York Peacebuilding Group, GPPAC worked to brainstorm ideas for a policy forum and connected with the Peacebuilding Commission incoming Chair, Canada, to strengthen the role of NYPG in the process. The Alliance increases and diversifies access to political spaces and proactively supports CSOs affected by repression In October - December 2019 tThe UN Peacebuilding Support Office (UNPBSO) indicated they wanted to partner with GPPAC at the regional level. This was a result of GPPAC’s participation in the development of the Community Engagement Guidelines (CEG). While the CEG do not mention regional engagement, the process of the development of Guidelines has become a driver of building closer partnership between the UN and civil society in other contexts. Intergovernmental and state actors systematically include civil society and adopt inclusive, transparent and accountable working methods Members throughout the GPPAC South East Asia and South Asia regions have recognised the potential of using SDG 16+ for their local peacebuilding and prevention work, including the SDGs in their plans and priorities for 2020. Representatives of these regions also participated in the SDG 16+ Forum in Dili in November 2019. This shows a better understanding and grasp of the SDG agenda by GPPAC members and the opportunities it offers to engage with UN and government entities. This is significant because such a global agenda can only become useful if local actors can translate it into a useful instrument on the ground. The recognition of the potential of SDG 16+ is the first step towards this. The Alliance increases and diversifies access to political spaces and proactively supports CSOs affected by repression The World Bank has selected GPPAC, for the first time, to present a panel at the fragility Forum. It is a recognition to GPPAC’s work regional intergovernmental organisations. The invitation was received on 23rd December 2019, the forum will take place on 2-3March 2020. GPPAC has been engaging with World Bank in a consistent manner in 2018 and 2019, especially after changing its policies towards conflict prevention. During the consultation on the FCV concept note, some of the feedback provided by GPPAC found its way into the consultation summary. The Fragility Forum will have a huge number of influential policy makers from very powerful and recognised institutions. The opportunity to present a panel which would showcase GPPAC’s work and the capacity of our network, would be invaluable and help in achieving multiple other outcomes Intergovernmental and state actors systematically include civil society and adopt inclusive, transparent and accountable working methods In December 2019, During the Nigeria Youth for Peace Forum, Honourable Olajuwon Olaosebikan of the Lagos State House of Assembly, the state legislative chamber, proclaimed the full support of the Lagos State legislature to youth, peace and development initiatives in the state. This is significant because the legislative arm of government which is primarily responsible for law- making in the state has a huge role to play in ensuring the domestication and implementation of both local and international policy frameworks including UNSCR2250. Prior to the forum, representatives of the legislative body who were engaged during mobilisation for the meeting confessed to their ignorance of the existence of UNSCR220 on Youth, Peace and Security. However, the event presented a platform for members to fully grasp the essence of the resolution and applicability at all levels in Nigeria. The Alliance increases and diversifies access to political spaces and proactively supports CSOs affected by repression WFUNA approached GPPAC to have a GPPAC member (Visaka Dharmadasa) as key-note speaker during their panel on reconciliation, agreed to support her attendance and for GPPAC to host a break-out session focusing on the inclusive localisation of SDG 16+. This is significant as it shows a change in behaviour of WFUNA. WFUNA now approaches GPPAC pro-actively to ensure participation by members and for GPPAC to co-shape the agenda. Intergovernmental and state actors systematically include civil society and adopt inclusive, transparent and accountable working methods The Ghana CSO Platform on SDGs has invited WANEP to join them and is in the process of adopting WANEP as one of its members in November-December 2019. In October and December WANEP has been regularly invited to participate in the platform’s activities on the SG16+ goals. WANEP joining the CSO platform on SDGs is significant as it shows a formal recognition by the wider civil society community working on SDGs of the relevance of WANEP’s experience in conflict prevention and peacebuilding and the added value of having a peacebuilding / prevention organisation cooperating with the government joining such a coalition/platform. Intergovernmental and state actors systematically include civil society and adopt inclusive, transparent and accountable working methods During the Regional Steering Group meeting held in Dubai in November 2019, South Caucasian Regional Network members agreed by consensus on a set of procedures and internal network documents for strengthening GPPAC network (including a Code of Ethics) in the region and acceptance of new members and that did not exist before. GPPAC network with new members will increase its potential, authority and credibility as a visible proponent of peace and conflict prevention initiatives. The Alliance contributes to enhanced civil society credibility by strengthening its networks' and members' accountability, complementarities and internal procedures and practices NL-KVK-41217404-CFP20242031 GPPAC Foundation The Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC) is the world’s largest member-led global network of local peacebuilders. We bring together over 200 civil society organisations actively working to prevent violent conflict and build more peaceful societies. GPPAC is implementing the Connection for Peace: Powerful Local Peacebuilding and Policies 2024-2031 programme, funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs under the Contributing to Peaceful and Safe Societies (CPSS) framework.In this framework, GPPAC contributes to Grant's policy theme Peacebuilding and Conflict Mediation. The programme operates in four countries—Niger, Occupied Palestinian Territories, Somalia, and Uganda—spanning three GPPAC regional networks (GPPAC West Africa, MENAPPAC, and GPPAC Eastern & Central Africa). Leveraging a Network Approach, the program aspires to extend its reach beyond these priority countries, integrating regional networks and the global network through learning and exchange, collective action and policy influencing. GPPAC Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1258763 2609212 2598748 18471298 2560565 522423 Second instalment 2494748 International/ multilateral actors strengthen the coherence of their policies,programmes and organisational working methods in favour of promoting SRoL at the locallevel. 1. Minimal influence: GPPAC has minimal engagement with international and multilateral actors, with little connection to local peacebuilding realities. The policy–practice and international–national–local gaps remain largely unaddressed.2. Limited influence: GPPAC facilitates occasional dialogue between local, national, and international levels, but influence on policies or programmes is weak. Local perspectives are acknowledged but rarely translated into practice.3. Moderate influence: GPPAC consistently brings local and national peacebuilding insights into international policy spaces. However, uptake by international and multilateral actors is uneven and not yet systematic.4. Significant influence: GPPAC strategically bridges local practice and international policy, leading to observable adjustments in some policies, programmes, or working methods. Coherence across levels is strengthened in specific contexts or themes.5. Strong and transformative contribution: GPPAC’s network approach results in sustained, institutionalized alignment between international policies and local peacebuilding practice. The policy–practice and international–national–local gaps are substantially narrowed. In 2024, GPPAC demonstrated a moderate to significant contribution to strengthening coherence between international and multilateral policies and local peacebuilding practice, with its strongest and most consistent influence at the global level. Overall, GPPAC narrows the policy-practice gap, but consistent bridging across international, regional, national, and local levels remains fragmented, context-specific, and constrained by capacity, connectivity, and network governance challenges. 5. Strong and transformative contribution: GPPAC’s network approach results in sustained, institutionalized alignment between international policies and local peacebuilding practice. The policy–practice and international–national–local gaps are substantially narrowed. In 2025, GPPAC demonstrated a move from moderate to significant contribution to strengthening policy coherence in favor of promoting conflict prevention and peacebuilding at the local level. Local actors are meaningfully engaged in the process of designing,implementing, monitoring and reviewing SRoL policies and programmes. 1. Locally implemented: Policies and programmes are largely shaped externally, reflecting outside priorities that GPPAC members are expected to implement, primarily deliver activities, and community involvement is limited and does not meaningfully influence decisions.2. Locally managed: Policies and programmes are externally defined but transferred to GPPAC members for local management. Communities are consulted by GPPAC members, but decision making power remains limited and largely outside local control.3. Locally informed management: Communities inform operational and some policy adjustments, though strategic priorities remain up to external parties or GPPAC members.4. Locally led: GPPAC members lead policy development and programme design, grounded in local context analysis and inclusive community engagement. Decision-making is primarily local, with the network supporting coordination, learning, and collective influence.5. Locally led and locally owned: GPPAC members and communities jointly lead and own policy and programme priorities, design, and decision-making. GPPAC functions as an enabling network that supports shared leadership, accountability, and the scaling of locally defined peacebuilding outcomes. GPPAC demonstrates important localisation strengths while remaining largely in a locally informed to locally managed position. As a network, GPPAC provides legitimacy, visibility, and solidarity for local peacebuilders, particularly in fragile and high-risk contexts, and facilitates access to regional and global policy spaces, including the UN. This enhances advocacy and influence, though smaller and grassroots organisations often struggle to translate global recognition into sustained local impact. Capacity gaps, however, particularly limited funding, uneven technical skills, and fragmented coordination, constrain collective action and scaling. 5. Locally led and locally owned: GPPAC members and communities jointly lead and own policy and programme priorities, design, and decision-making. GPPAC functions as an enabling network that supports shared leadership, accountability, and the scaling of locally defined peacebuilding outcomes. As 2025 marked the first year of implementation of the Connections for Peace (CfP) programme, GPPAC largely operated at the level of locally informed management, while demonstrating a clear and intentional shift toward locally led approaches. Through member-led baseline studies and collective sensemaking processes, GPPAC applied a local-to-global approach that positioned members as key knowledge holders and ensured that country-level analysis and priorities informed regional and global directions. MFA and partners use insights from their local engagement andadaptive learning better, to strengthen Dutch diplomacy, policies and SRoL programming. 1. Minimal: Learning remains largely undocumented. Insights from members are collected irregularly, but remain siloed and rarely influence decisions. 2. Developing: Few mechanisms exist to gather insights, but use in operational or strategic decision-making is inconsistent or limited to specific members or projects. 3. Functional: Insights are regularly collected and occasionally inform programme adaptations and policy positions, though feedback loops and their integration into strategic decision-making and organisational learning is uneven.4. Integrated: Member insights systematically inform operational strategies and , and are increasingly translated into strategic planning, reflection, and organisational learning across the network.5. Institutionalised: Adaptive learning is embedded in GPPAC's system and culture. Across the network, insights from members systematically shape policies, programming, and strategic direction, with documented decisions and continuous learning loops. At baseline, GPPAC’s ability to use insights from local member engagement and adaptive learning to inform operational strategies and strategic decision-making is limited and uneven, corresponding to a minimal-developing level of adaptation. While GPPAC’s decentralised network structure is designed to enable local peacebuilders to shape peacebuilding outcomes and policy advocacy, persistent gaps in communication, uneven levels of regional engagement, and limited participation in working groups constrain the systematic integration of local insights. As a result, learning generated across the network remains fragmented and context-specific, rather than operating as a coherent, network-wide adaptive system capable of consistently linking local experience to regional and global policy influence (GBS, pp. 18, 22). 4. Integrated: Member insights systematically inform operational strategies and , and are increasingly translated into strategic planning, reflection, and organisational learning across the network. In 2025, GPPAC operated at a developing stage in applying insights from local member engagement and adaptive learning to inform operational strategies and strategic decision-making. Both operational and strategic learning was generated through a structured network-wide baseline and sensemaking process, which validated the overall Theory of Change and reinforced adaptive programming as a core strength of the programme. Initial mechanisms to gather, interpret, and reflect on learning were in place; however, their application across the network was uneven and had not yet translated into significant adaptations at the strategic or outcome level.