The Secretary-General's Peacebuilding Fund's Donor Partners
Germany
Germany is a strong advocate of the Secretary-General’s Peacebuilding Fund and is the largest contributor. The Peacebuilding Fund’s strategy 2020-24 core priorities align with the German Government’s top peacebuilding objectives: sustainable transitions, cross-border and regional peacebuilding efforts and the inclusion of women in peace processes.
Ambassador Antje Leendertse, Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations: “Investing in peace is a central tenet of the Secretary-General’s common agenda and it is one that Germany has always endeavored to uphold. Germany contributed 45 million Euros to the Peacebuilding Fund in the year 2021 alone, a new record. Going forward in 2022, we will continue to contribute not just financially. We will also maintain active engagement in the Peacebuilding Commission. Our goal is to send a strong signal to member states: In times of increasing presence of violent conflict, it becomes ever more important to finance peace. Together, we need to step up our collective efforts, and invest in peace – not just for today, but in a way that will grow well into the future.”
In an effort to make funding more predictable, Germany made its first multi-year pledge in 2020. Germany’s contribution to the PBF promotes its commitment for peaceful conflict resolution across the globe, and its principled foreign policy across the broad spectrum of the UN’s work from peace, climate and security to human rights.
Germany’s PBF support is crucial for the UN system’s ability to build and sustain peace and to strengthen the involvement and role of women in crisis prevention, conflict management and post-conflict peacebuilding, while also protecting women and girls from violence in armed conflicts. In 2021, the Gender-Responsive Peacebuilding Thematic Review, commissioned in partnership with the German Federal Foreign Office, with support from UN Women, highlighted the need for core operational support to women’s organizations and approaches that go beyond the participation of women in existing forums and processes.
Germany recognizes PBF’s tremendous capacity of supporting Governments, the United Nations entities and partners to deliver results and its ability to respond with flexibility to peacebuilding opportunities.
Germany is also supporting the Fund’s Joint Impact Assessment Project – PeaceField1 – that aims to disseminate targeted content on the importance of local dialogue, peaceful coexistence, intergroup trust, and conflict prevention by using data on the radio broadcasting range and inter group conflicts in the Mali/Niger border areas. The project will also conduct impact evaluation of some USD 20 million PBF’s investment in Sudan.
The PBF’s considerable investments in the Sahel region are in line with Germany’s persistent engagement and commitment to the Sahel’s development and stability, including to the Coalition for the Sahel and the participation in MINUSMA.
The PBF is grateful to Germany for responding to the Secretary-General’s call for quantum leap support to increase the contributions to the Fund. Germany’s leading contribution puts into action the understanding that prevention saves lives and resources.
