The Instrument for Stability Crisis Preparedness Component: Lessons learned 2007-2010 Review of Peace-building Partnership activities to date
Dec 30, 2015
The Instrument for Stability Crisis Preparedness Component: Lessons learned 2007-2010
Review of Peace-building Partnership activities to date
PbP Objective and Target Groups
• The overall objective of the Peace-building Partnership (PbP) is to mobilise and consolidate civilian capacity for peace-building activities
• Main PbP target groups:i. Non-State Actors
ii. International and Regional Organisations
iii. Member States Bodies
Non-State Actors (NSA)
Two pillars of cooperation with NSA:
• Dialogue element:i. Civil Society Dialogue Network, building on previous informal
consultation mechanisms
• Capacity-building element:i. Calls for proposals since 2007-2008ii. Calls for proposals under the 2010 AAP to be launched in first
quarter 2011 via EU Delegations
• Overall funding for NSA during 2007-2010 was approximately € 20M under IfS Art. 4.3 (50% of the € 40M total)
International and Regional Organisations
• Establishment of enhanced co-operation with International Organisations (notably, UN family) on a range of thematic areas including :
i. PCNA/PDNAii. Natural resources and conflictiii. Mediationiv. Disaster Risk Reductionv. Security Sector Reformvi. Post conflict assistance data coordination
• Regional Organisations – enhancing early-warning capacity of the African Union and League of Arab States
• Overall funding for International and Regional Organisations during 2007-2010 was just under € 12M under the PbP
Member States Bodies
• Police trainings:i. carried out by the relevant national police training authoritiesii. multi-annual action envisaged under the 2010 AAP
• Civilian trainings:i. initially (2007) took over the final year of activities of the European
Group on Trainingii. multi-annual action implemented by ENTRi, following a call for
proposals
• Overall funding for Member States during 2007-2010 was over € 9M under the PbP
Cooperation with Member States focused on training of police and civilian experts to participate in stabilisation missions:
Lessons LearnedI
• The 2009 scoping and stocktaking study contributed to the refocusing of the actions under the PbP
• Several of its recommendations have already been implemented in recent Annual Action Programmes including:
i. the importance of the creation and development of a solid dialogue mechanism to channel input from the relevant implementing partners to the EU policy-making processes on peace-building issues
ii. the need to employ practical funding mechanisms within the constraints of the Commission Financial Regulation
Lessons LearnedII
• Funding has revealed considerable potential for acting as a catalyst to harness and develop the expertise of civilian peace-building actors
• Benefits of improved coordination with relevant UN bodies in order to enhance mutual peace-building capacity, particularly on thematic aspects. Positive effects of these efforts also with regard to internal EU and UN coordination
A number of other overall lessons may be drawn from the implementation of activities to date
Lessons LearnedIII
• Useful actions with EU Member States on training police and civilian experts, but prospects of enhanced co-operation could be further explored
• Advantages of creating support mechanisms for a dialogue network, e.g. the PbP Web Portal
• Essential to ensure adequate human resources to manage the PbP
Lessons LearnedII
Peace-building Partnership
Andrew ByrneEuropean External Action ServiceConflict Prevention and Secutiry
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