Aim for the Gender Promotion Initiative
- Support innovative projects, focused on gender equality and women’s empowerment with the potential for catalytic effects and peacebuilding outcomes.
- Strengthen the integration of gender equality and women’s empowerment within existing prevention and peacebuilding initiatives.
- Contribute to collective operational learning on gender-responsive programming.
- Accelerate implementation of the Secretary-General Seven-Point Action Plan and its commitment to increase funding for gender-responsive peacebuilding projects.
- Maintain and improve performance against the Secretary-General’s target of allocating a minimum of fifteen percent of all peacebuilding funding to gender equality and women’s empowerment.
Aim for the Youth Promotion Initiative
- Support innovative projects focused on youth empowerment and participation with the potential for catalytic effects and peacebuilding outcomes.
- Strengthen the participation of young women and men within existing prevention and peacebuilding initiatives.
- Enhance support to youth civil society organizations and facilitate their partnership with international CSOs Governments and UN entities active in their country.
- Contribute to collective operational learning on youth-inclusive programming.
- Support the implementation of Security Council resolution 2250 on Youth, Peace and Security.
Review Criteria for Proposals
Submissions will be reviewed against the following criteria by the Project Appraisal Committee:
1. Innovation
2. Conflict analysis
3. Peacebuilding approach
4. Gender / youth approach
5. Consultation and partnership with local actors
6. Focused interventions
7. Targeting
8. Linkages between project and existing peacebuilding priorities
9. Implementation capacity
10. Value for money
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