Peacebuilding
Fund Board
Wednesday 14 December
SRI LANKA
Objectives
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Opening remarks
Update on the PPP
Process for Programming the PBF Contribution
Review Project Concepts
Next Steps for PBF Project Development
Overview of EU support to the PPP
AOB
Update on PPP
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
PPP finalized
President and SG endorsed
Individual meetings with most Board members
PBF contribution of $7m confirmed
UN working with counterparts to develop
concept notes
6. PPP partner mapping database in operation
7. Discussion on initial concepts (today)
Programming PBF Contribution
5 integrated projects based on PPP priorities.
Project
Focus
Transitional
Justice ($1.87m)
• Support to design and implementation of mechanisms
• Civil society component ($400,000)
Reconciliation
($1.8m)
• Psycho-social support
• Peace Education
• Dialogue and Infrastructures for Peace
Women and
Youth ($1m)
• Youth’s participation in peacebuilding processes
• Women’s political empowerment
Independent
Commissions
($0.7m)
• National Police Commission
• Human Rights Commission
• Right to Information Commission
• Technical support to SCRM
• Support to PBF Secretariat to oversee effective
implementation of PPP
• Flexible Fund to support requests for technical assistance
Note: Resettlement and Durable Solutions outcome addressed through EU assistance
SCRM and PBF
Secretariat
($1.67m)
I: Transitional Justice Concept
($1.87m)
 Key Counterparts: SCRM, ONUR, Ministry of Foreign Affairs,


Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Women and Child Affairs,
Human Rights Commission and other relevant government
institutions and CSOs
$1.87m from PBF, including $400,000 in support of civil
society
OHCHR, IOM, UNDP, UNV, UN Women, UNICEF
Support to design & operationalise TJ
mechanisms
Area of work
Activities
Support design of
• Legal and technical advice to design of
truth-seeking, justice
mechanisms
and reparations
• Support victim’s participation in design process
mechanisms
• Contribute to the preparation of archiving
procedures
• Technical support on witness and victim
protection
Support the
• Support operationalization of the OMP, in
operationalisation of
coordination with other stakeholders
the TJ mechanisms
• Provision of technical assistance to operationalize
the reparations and truth seeking mechanisms
• Outreach and awareness-raising for victims’
groups and their representatives
Supporting Civil Society’s work on Transitional
Justice
Area of work
Activities
Capacity of civil • Small grants for civil society organizations to
society,
work on the dissemination, education and
including
outreach with respect to transitional justice
victims’ groups
issues
& their
representatives, • Training for CSOs and the HRC on transitional
strengthened on
justice issues.
TJ issue
• Outreach activities for all transitional justice
mechanisms (conducted in close collaboration
with the wider communication strategy on TJ
supported through the EU project)
II: Reconciliation Concept ($1.8m)
Project aims to work with national partners in:
1. Infrastructures for Peace & Dialogue: With Ministry of National
Integration & Reconciliation, Ministry of National Dialogue Coexistence & Official Languages, ONUR, District and Divisional
Administration, & CSOs
2. Peace Education: With National Institute of Education, Ministry of
Higher Education, Ministry of Skills Development and Vocational
Training, Provincial Department of Education, Zonal Department of
Education & CSOs
3. Psychosocial support: With the Ministry of Health Nutrition and
Indigenous Medicine, Ministry of Women and Child Affairs,
Ministry of Social Empowerment and Welfare, Provincial Director
of Health Services, & CSOs.
The UN will work in close collaboration with GiZ/EU to ensure complementarities
Infrastructures for peace to promote dialogue, build
consensus and provide early warning
Area of work Activities
Local level
institutional
arrangement
in place to
promote
peace and
reconciliation
in target pilot
locations
• Working with existing structures such as Coexistence Societies, Mediation Boards, and CSO
platforms
• Create/strengthen a dialogue facilitator pool at the
local level
• Strengthen role of the structures in facilitating
communication at the community level, drawing on
best practices
• Develop a practical early warning & response
mechanism for emerging conflicts
• Monitor results and identify key lessons for scaling
up of pilots
Peace Education
Area of work
Activities
School curricula revised to
strengthen competencies
related to conflict
resolution, prevention and
promotion of peace
• Support curriculum review panel.
• Awareness raising & sensitization on curriculum revisions
in History
• Transform Civic Education towards practical based
subject.
Principals, teachers and
school communities have
enhanced capacities to
prevent and resolve conflict
and promote peace
• Support research on violence in different settings
• Promote awareness to protect children from abuse,
violence and exploitation.
• Develop teacher development materials to support
conflict resolution.
• Piloting of models and scale up good practices.
Research, monitoring and
evaluation strengthened to
inform policies and
programs towards
promoting peace through
Education
• Establish a research & information management hub.
• Develop an Education for Social Cohesion research
strategy
• Develop dissemination strategy and establish network
among similar research initiatives in other countries.
Psycho-social support
Area of work
Activities
Capacities at community
level strengthened to
provide mental health
and psychosocial
support
• Community level programmes to address drivers of violence
and common psycho-social issues (i.e. alcohol abuse,
positive parenting and suicide prevention)
• Proposed focus Districts: Mannar, Polonaruwa, Trincomalee
and Moneragala
• Develop Provincial Mental Health Action Plans, informed by
National Action Plan
Protocol system for
Victim Case
Management developed
• Support establishment of a survivor-centric, confidential
service provision referral system
• Focus on the needs of conflict affected, victims of SGBV and
women from FHHs
Mental Health and
Psychosocial Health
Information upgraded
• Facilitate data collection, monitoring of trends and evidence
based policy development.
National and subnational mechanisms
strengthened for
psychosocial support to
victims of SGBV
• Support the national and subnational forums against GBV to
increase their capacity in providing psychosocial support and
coordination
III: Women and Youth Concept
($1m)





The project will empower youth and women to participate and
engage in governance and decision-making processes and responses
related to sustaining peace and security in Sri Lanka at all levels.
National counterparts: Ministry of Women & Child Affairs, Ministry
of National Co-existence Dialogue and Official Languages; Ministry
of Vocational Training and Skills Development, Parliament; National
Youth Services Council and National Youth Corps, Sri Lanka Institute
of Local Governance.
Non-state partners: Network of national and local youth and
women and civil society groups, Political parties, women’s caucuses,
International and national NGOs, youth-led or youth focused civil
society organizations
Youth: , $1m from PBF (+ $410,000+ from participating UN agencies)
UNFPA, UNV, UN Women, UNDP, OHCHR, UNICEF
Increased youth participation in peacebuilding
activities
Area of work
Activities
Increase youth’s
understanding and
empower them to
engage in the
peacebuilding
process
• Raise awareness & promote discussion amongst
youth on peacebuilding, including on social
media
• Promote youth volunteerism in peacebuilding
• Set up a technology-based one stop shop for
community-based, youth-led peacebuilding
efforts
• Organize V-awards 2017 with thematic focus on
peace
Work with
government to
create space to
engage youth in
policy-making &
programming
• Establish national Youth Peace platform to work
on collecting data and good practices linked also
to peacebuilding
• Support institutions to develop action plans on
youth and peacebuilding
• Provincial level policy dialogues on youth
Support to women's empowerment and participation in
peacebuilding, including politics
Area of work
Activities
Women candidates
• Interventions to prepare women for the 2017 Local and Provincial
empowered to
Council Elections
compete for local
• Capacity building on women’s leadership,
government elections • Conduct pre and post M&E of impact of training
• Innovative use of social media for greater political parity
Operationalise 25%
• Work with political parties to develop effective strategies to
Local Govt. quota and
increase women’s participation
advocate for a 30%
• Promote cross party networks of women’s parliamentary
quota within
caucuses.
Provincial Councils
• Support the Election Commission on the conduct of civic
education on women’s participation as voters and candidates
• Advocate for a minimum quota for female candidates at the
Provincial Council.
Catalyse work on
Security Council
Resolution 1325
• Working through the National Human Rights Action Plan and the
SGBV National Action PLan, provide support to catalyse initiatives
in support of 1325
IV: Independent Commissions
($0.7m)
 This project will provide strategic support to strengthen
the core functions of the National Police Commission,
Human Rights Commission and Right to Information
Commission, to enable them to play a catalytic role in
the peacebuilding process in Sri Lanka.
 Support to the NPC and the HRCSL will build
upon/complement EUR 600,000 support through the
EU/UNDP project
 UNDP and IOM, in collaboration with UNWomen and
UNV
Independent commissions are able to contribute towards a culture
of more accountable and transparent democratic governance
Area of work
Activities
National Police
Commission
• Public Complaint Management System
• Public awareness of the NPC’s functions and complaint
lodging mechanism
• Identified skills and knowledge gaps addressed through
training and awareness
Human Rights
Commission
• Technical support to strengthen monitoring capacity and
related data management systems
Right to Information
Commission
• Technical & capacity-development assistance to support
full operationalisation of Commission i.e. Standard
Operating Procedures
• Support the Commission to undertake training activities
for public officials on the effective implementation of
the Act;
• Support to publicize the requirements of the Act and the
rights of individuals under it
SCRM and PBF Secretariat ($1.67)
Area of work
Activities
Support to SCRM to ensure
a coordinated and coherent
Government strategy to
progress reconciliation and
TJ
• High level national technical expertise
• Experience sharing and capacity development
• Thematic research to inform policy design,
planning, communications and outreach
Effective functioning of the
PBF Secretariat
• Support to project design, monitoring and
reporting, and communications
• Resource mobilization
• Coordination, maintaining a database of projects
aligned to the PPP
Flexible fund for technical
assistance
Examples:
• TA for dialogues with key stakeholders such as
political parties, military, amongst others; and
• TA to support the development and
implementation of new legislation such as
counter-terrorism.
Next Steps
PBF Project Operationalisation:
 Share Concept Notes with Board members by 11




January 2017 for feedback by 20 January 2017
Develop full project proposals by 15 February
Technical review of project proposals by 24 February
Board reconvenes to review projects and approve
funding allocations (End February)
Implementation begins March 2017