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1 JOINT UNDP-DPPA PROGRAMME ON BUILDING NATIONAL CAPACITIES FOR CONFLICT PREVENTION2020 ANNUAL REPORTU nited Nations Development PROGRAMME | Department of Political and Peacebuilding AffairsPhotos on the cover UNDP/Grey D az UNDP Cambodia UNDP UNDP Djibouti/Aur lia Rusek UNDP Sudan/Ala Eldin Abdalla Mohamed UNDP Colombia/Oscar Bermeo UNDP/Danil Usmanov UNDP Mauritania UNDP MalawiJOINT UNDP-DPPA PROGRAMME ON BUILDING NATIONAL CAPACITIES FOR CONFLICT PREVENTION2020 ANNUAL REPORTU nited Nations Development PROGRAMME | Department of Political and Peacebuilding AffairsTABLE OF CONTENT Enhancing government strategies and policies for prevention ..24 LESOTHO, BURKINA FASO, KENYAS trengthening NATIONAL peace architectures ..26 CHAD, The GAMBIA, NIGERIA, MALAWIS trengthening capacities and skills for sustaining peace ..28 CAMBODIA, THAILAND, The GAMBIAR einforcing collaboration with civil society.

2 30 CAMEROON, GEORGIA, GUYANA, MALDIVESS upporting dialogue and preventive dialogue ..33 BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, UKRAINE, SIERRA LEONES upporting conflict prevention through preventive diplomacy ..35 LIBERIAS upporting peaceful elections ..36 COTE D'IVOIRE, CONGO, MALAWI, BURKINA FASO, BENINI ncreasing inclusion of NATIONAL stakeholders in peace efforts ..40 Promoting women s participation ..41 COTE D'IVOIRE, MAURITANIAP romoting youth participation ..42 TOGO, VENEZUELAP romoting community participation and engagement ..43 CARIBBEANP romoting inclusion of indigenous people ..43 GUATEMALAC ountering hate speech ..44 CAMEROON, ETHIOPIA, SRI LANKAP reventing violent extremism ..46 TAJIKISTAN, TOGOC adre of Advisors 2020 ..12 Financial overview 2020 ..14 Expansion of the PDA cadre globally ..152020 Highlights ..16 Contributing to COVID-19 responses.

3 18 MOLDOVA, CAMBODIA, TUNISIA, UGANDA, BANGLADESHOVERVIEW OF THE JOINT UNDP-DPPA PROGRAMMEEMPOWERING NATIONAL STAKEHOLDERS TO LEAD CONFLICT PREVENTION EFFORTSF oreword ..6 SUPPORTING THE UN SYSTEM TO LEVERAGE ENTRY POINTS FOR CONFLICT PREVENTIONSTRENGTHENING PARTNERSHIPS, FOSTERING COLLABORATION AND LEARNINGI nforming UN engagements through high-quality analysis ..50 ETHIOPIA, KYRGYZSTAN, ERITREAM onitoring and analysing conflict risks for early warning and action ..52 TUNISIA, SOUTH CAUCASUS, THAILANDS upporting the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework and the Common Country Analysis processes ..54 JORDAN, MADAGASCAR, ALGERIA Mainstreaming conflict sensitivity ..56 MOLDOVA, MAURITANIAS upporting UN programming ..58 SUDAN, PAPUA NEW GUINEA, HONDURAS, SRI LANKASeed funding for innovative prevention initiatives ..61 Operationalizing the humanitarian-development-peace , GUATEMALAH uman rights.

4 64 SIERRA LEONEE ncouraging collaboration among UN agencies ..66 Integrated analysis and assessments of climate-related security risks ..67 Regional PROGRAMME Specialists ..68 Engagement with partners for conflict prevention ..70 Regional and Subregional Organizations ..72 COMOROSI nternational Financial Institutions ..73 KENYA, CHAD, TAJIKISTAND iplomatic Community ..74 LIBERIAS trengthening partnerships, fostering collaboration and learning ..76 List of Acronyms ..782020 ANNUAL REPORT62020 was a year of global crisis. For the first time in 30 years, human development was on course to decline. Economies deteriorated and extreme poverty rose to its highest levels in a generation, with women and minorities affected disproportionately. The COVID-19 pandemic is predicted to push 150 million people into extreme poverty by the end of 2021.

5 The global pandemic posed unprecedented challenges to peace and security as well as human development, affecting individuals, communities, institutions and countries at large. It exposed critical fissures in soci-eties, led to shrinking civic space, compromised social contracts and weakened social cohesion. Deepening inequality worsened situations that had been fragile before the pandemic. In the face of these challenges, the JOINT PROGRAMME on BUILDING NATIONAL Capacities for Conflict Prevention, managed by the United Nations Development PROGRAMME (UNDP) and the United Nations Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA), working closely with the United Nations Development Coordination Office (DCO), accelerated its support to prevent conflict and sustain peace. As this report will detail, an expanding cadre of 106 peace and development experts based in 64 countries, comprised of international and NATIONAL Peace and Development Advisors (PDAs), UN Volunteers (UNVs) and secondees, as well as six Regional PROGRAMME Specialists, provide expertise to United Nations Country Teams (UNCTs) and NATIONAL partners in reinforcing local capacities for conflict prevention, dialogue and sustaining in every year, activities were broad and varied.

6 They ranged from supporting preventive diplomacy engagements in Liberia, to facilitating dialogue in Bosnia and Herzegovina, advocating for the mean-ingful participation of women in political and peace processes in Cote d Ivoire, and opening doors for the engagement of youth in Venezuela. In many contexts, PDAs supported the design and accompanied imple-mentation of programmes funded by the Secretary-General s Peacebuilding Fund (PBF). Asako OKAIA ssistant Secretary-General, Assistant Administrator and Director of the Crisis Bureau, UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMEM iroslav JENCAA ssistant Secretary-General for Europe, Central Asia and the Americas, Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations UNITED NATIONS FOREWORD2020 ANNUAL REPORT7 Specific to 2020 was the focus on helping to mitigate the impacts of the pandemic on peace.

7 Over 40 of our PDAs supported NATIONAL stakeholders and the United Nations (UN) System in local COVID-19 responses. This included bolstering advocacy efforts, particu-larly in addressing pandemic-related misinformation, disinformation and hate speech, and providing support in accordance with the Secretary-General's call for a global ceasefire. Departing from the standard modus operandi, and with an orientation toward deeper impact, PDAs adopted new and innovative approaches to address emerg-ing, multidimensional risks, including establishing virtual spaces for multi-stakeholder consultations in Madagascar; establishing an early warning mechanism to monitor popular protests in Tunisia; and leveraging women-led media start-ups and digital social enter-prises in Cambodia to prevent the spread of misinfor-mation during the the face of continued complexity and uncertainty, we must redouble our efforts to more systematically and effectively support NATIONAL partners to sustain peace and mitigate the stresses and shocks that can lead to conflict.

8 In 2021, we are focusing on assessing our progress towards reinforcing NATIONAL capacities to this end. We are conducting a midterm review of the JOINT PROGRAMME , which will provide us valuable feedback, both on our achievements and on areas in which we need to do more or further adapt our way of unwavering support from the donor partners of the JOINT PROGRAMME has been, and will remain, critical to the success of our JOINT efforts. We thank the European Union (EU), Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom for their generous contributions and substantive engagement. We are also very grateful for the collab-oration and human resource capacity contributions from the Governments of Australia, Finland and the Republic of Korea, as well as the Folke Bernadotte Academy, OkaiThe UNDP-DPPA JOINT PROGRAMME on BUILDING NATIONAL Capacities for Conflict Prevention is a centrepiece of the system s support, with an expanded cadre of 561 peace and development advisers and regional specialists in six locations.

9 Peace and development advisers have assisted NATIONAL stakeholders by supporting inclusive dialogue processes, preven-tive diplomacy and social cohesion efforts in Cambodia, Guatemala, the Republic of Moldova and Sierra Leone. In Chad, Tunisia and countries in the Caribbean and the Pacific, the advisers ensured increased understanding of climate-related security risks. They also worked on strengthening peace efforts across borders in Bangladesh, Ecuador, Myanmar and Uganda. More than 80 percent2 have supported the participation of women or youth in conflict prevention." Ant nio Guterres report of the Secretary-General on Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace 20201 The number of international PDAs as of July 20202 2019 data 2020 ANNUAL REPORT81. OVERVIEW OF THE JOINT UNDP-DPPA PROGRAMME UNDP Sudan/Ala Eldin Abdalla MohamedThe multidimensional challenges facing the world have no borders.

10 Many societies confront rising inequalities, political and social unrest, persistent gender discrim-ination and lack of social cohesion. Climate change is increasingly impacting peace. In the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic further laid bare existing vulner-abilities. Conflict-affected countries are often more vulnerable to shocks from crises and less able to address their impact. The pandemic led to some of the toughest setbacks to peace and development in decades, affect-ing economies and the social, human , political, secu-rity and environmental dimensions of fragility. A focus on conflict prevention is critical to create the condi-tions necessary and conducive to sustainable peace and it was established in 2004, the JOINT UNDP-DPPA PROGRAMME on BUILDING NATIONAL Capacities for Conflict Prevention has been engaged in supporting NATIONAL stakeholders to strengthen their systems and capaci-ties to mitigate risk, lead conflict prevention efforts and pursue their development priorities.