Peacebuilding Impact Hub
A Practice-Oriented Collaborative Effort To Support Innovative And Evidence-Based Peacebuilding?
What is the Peacebuilding Impact Hub?
The Peacebuilding Impact Hub aims to foster a deeper understanding of the effects and impact of peacebuilding interventions and practice by generating and enhancing evidence-based operational, political and strategic insights for peacebuilding practitioners and for decision-makers. The Hub strives to be a one-stop resource for the 51³Ô¹Ï, its Member States and the broader peacebuilding community, thus contributing to a more peaceful, stable and sustainable world.
Why create a Hub?
Despite renewed calls by the Secretary-general for more investments, financing for peacebuilding has declined in the past few years.
Shifting geopolitical dynamics and the heightened risk for escalation of conflict have eroded trust in the multilateral system and put into question peacebuilding efforts.
At the same time, while good progress has been made in peacebuilding policy and practice, peacebuilding actors continue to face challenges in demonstrating the results and impact of peacebuilding initiatives.
In this increasingly uncertain environment, it is imperative to make a stronger case for political and financial support to peacebuilding, by providing empirical evidence of results and impact and ensuring it informs and strengthens ongoing and future interventions.
Who is the Hub for?
The Hub, spearheaded by the 51³Ô¹Ï Peacebuilding Support Office, serves to enhance the UN¡¯s peacebuilding efforts and practice, fostering a deeper understanding of the impact of peacebuilding interventions in prevention and crisis contexts. The Hub is a UN-based, practice oriented initiative that extends its reach beyond the UN by providing an evidence-based platform for a broad array of stakeholders. The Hub¡¯s intended audience and participants encompass decision-makers, policymakers, researchers, practitioners, and local communities who are invested in peacebuilding. The Hub thus convenes the global peacebuidling community while also leveraging and strenghtening UN-system engagement with Member States, civil society, academia and other partners.
What are the objectives of the Hub?
The Hub aims to empower peacebuilders and to inform and influence decision-makers by facilitating evidence-based operational, political, and strategic insights on peacebuilding through data, evidence and improved, innovative approaches to measuring peacebuilding effectiveness. To achieve this, the Hub will contribute to three main outcomes:
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Improved availability and utilization of disaggregated data and evidence on peacebuilding for better informed and effective peacebuilding interventions. |
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Enhanced global dialogue and partnerships on peacebuilding measurement, policy and strategies across national, regional and sectoral perspectives. |
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Greater investment in, and support for, prevention and peacebuilding, as called for in the Secretary-General¡¯s Our Common Agenda. |
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What will the Hub do?
The approach is centered around five key areas of action:
The Hub¡¯s work will focus on convening peacebuilders and decision-makers; connecting UN entities, Member States, civil society and academia on peacebuilding impact; generating empirical evidence of peacebuilding; disseminating learnings and insights, and building capacities. The Hub will leverage its role to produce the following key deliverables:
- Produce an annual Peacebuilding Global Overview Report.
- Convene events and host trainings on peacebuilding measurement and effectiveness that connect and facilitate collaboration between a wide range of peacebuilding actors.?
- Establish a data platform that maps peacebuilding initiatives at local level and presents data on results these initiatives have achieved.
- Help generate empirical evidence of peacebuilding transformation at national level - National Spotlights.
- Strengthen global communication about hte role and effectiveness of peacebuilding.
Where to find the Hub and How to support it?
The Peacebuilding Impact Hub was officially launched on 8 December 2023 at an event co-hosted by Canada, Costa Rica, Germany and South Sudan. The Hub is hosted in PBSO and welcomes partnerships and support, most immediately on its efforts to generate empirical evidence of peacebuilding transformation at national level. For more information on the Hub, please visit . To propose partnership or provide direct support, please contact the Impact Hub team through Emmanuelle Bernard? (bernard6@un.org).
