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About GPI and YPI

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

Through the Gender Promotion Initiative the PBF seeks to increase support focused on gender equality and women’s empowerment and advance the implementation of the Secretary General’s Seven-Point Action Plan on Gender-Responsive Peacebuilding, Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) and subsequent resolutions on Women, Peace and Security. The Youth Promotion Initiative (YPI) seeks to increase support to young people’s contribution to peacebuilding and to advance the implementation ofSecurity Council resolution 2250 (2015) and subsequent resolutions on Youth, Peace and Security. #Youth4Peace 

Who is Eligible to Apply?

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

Eligible Countries in 2023

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

GPI and YPI

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Results of the 2022 GPI and YPI

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

Gender Promotion Initiative 2023

This year the Gender Promotion Initiative is seeking proposals on:

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

Youth Promotion Initiative 2023

This year the Youth Promotion Initiative is seeking proposals on: 

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

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

Types of Proposals

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

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

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

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

Timeline

   STAGE 1 

Call for applications and launch  

2023 

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

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

 April/Early May 2023

Opening of the online application platform

 Please find the application portal here 

Deadline for online submission concept notes

 9 June 2023

Communication of first stage results

July 2023

STAGE 2 

Deadline for submission of drafts for feedback 

August 2023 

Deadline for submission of full project proposals 

October 2023 

Communication of second stage results  

November 2023 

Disbursement of funds 

December 2023/ January 2024