FEMINIST FINANCING

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“UN Peacebuilding Fund Roundtable: Results and Resourcing”, ICAN’s IPF Program Director, France Bognon, was invited to provide recommendations in connection with the General Assembly High-Level Meeting on Financing for Peacebuilding.

We were pleased to see our recommendation to reevaluate funding eligibility to include women’s networks was taken up in the UN Peacebuilding Fund’s Outcome Summary Document.”

- France Bognon, Program Director, Innovative Peace Fund, ICAN

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Throughout the year we co-convened peacebuilding and feminist organizations, informally known as the “Feminist Financing Group”, to coordinate efforts and amplify key messages to increase resourcing and improve funding mechanisms. Some achievements were:

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“Outcome Document from the Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue Series on Innovative Solutions for Feminist Financing for Peacebuilding”, publication summarized the findings from the series of roundtables and dialogues hosted by the group.

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Input into the UN General Assembly Resolution on Financing Peacebuilding, adopted on 12 September 2022, in collaboration with colleagues at the Canadian Mission in New York, on the importance of supporting women’s meaningful participation in peacebuilding and sustaining peace from the design of funding mechanisms to the implementation of programming.

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