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Gender and Youth Promotion Initiative 2020

Gender and Youth Promotion Initiative 2020

Worldwide 01 Jun 2020
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The United Nations Secretary-General’s Peacebuilding Fund’s (PBF) Gender and Youth Promotion Initiative (GYPI) is an expression of the Fund’s commitment to inclusive peace building. It supports the empowerment of women and the advancement of gender equality and recognizes the important and positive role young people play in peace building.

Through the initiative the PBF seeks to increase its peace building impact and advance the implementation of the Secretary General’s Seven-Point Action Plan on Gender-Responsive Peace building, Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) and others on Women, Peace and Security, and Security Council resolution 2250 (2015) on Youth, Peace and Security.

The aims for the Gender and Youth Promotion Initiatives are to:

The call for proposals is open in countries that are currently formally declared eligible by the Secretary-General to receive PBF funding in 2020:

The GYPI welcomes proposals from both civil society organizations (CSOs) and UN agencies, funds and programms (UN AFPs). All applicants interested in applying to the GYPI are advised to reach out to the PBF Secretariat in the project country for guidance. In 2020, the GYPI accepts three types of project proposals:

UN COUNTRY TEAMS: Grants from USD 800,000 to USD 1,5 million per project

CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS: Grants from USD 300,000 to USD 1,5 million per project

Applicants must register at www.pbfgypi.org before starting the online application process. For joint UN projects, the convening UN entity should register and submit on behalf of project partners after having received the endorsement of the RC/SRSG/DSRSG. For joint UN-CSO projects, the convening UN entity should also register and submit on behalf of project partners after having received the endorsement of the RC/SRSG/DSRSG. For CSO projects, the direct CSO recipient must register and submit the application independently.

UN applicants: must upload a cover letter with the endorsement of the submission by the RC/SRSG/DSRSG addressed to the Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support, Mr. Oscar Fernandez-Taranco.

CSO applicants: must upload:

For more information, please visit the official web page.

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