Our program director @SVoutta is now live at #PeaceCon2020 discussing how funding of locally-led peacebuilding can develop from principle to practice.

Join in:

https://events.bizzabo.com/PeaceCon2020/agenda/session/420151

#ShapingWhatComesNext

@Melanie4Peace emphasizes how important it is to "de-colonize" funding and shift the power from donors to those working on peace locally.

Embracing the messiness of politics is part of funding. Avoiding politics is not the solution for peacebuilding, says @perrycammack at #PeaceCon2020. Additionally, peacebuilding cannot work on an island - it has to involve entire networks.

Yuli Novak from Here be Dragons articulates the most pressing overarching need: Breaking away from existing power structures & paradigms. Funding needs to support breaking out of these cycles through flexible mechanisms and trusting partnerships #PeaceCon2020

Powerful call to action from @libbyhoffman: There is huge untapped potential in listening to communities’ yearning and desire for change – we need to create space in each of our organizations to ensure we can hear and work with these invaluable resources to lead our activities.

@CatarinaSida from @Sida emphasizes the importance to move away from locking partners into monitoring and evaluation loops and allowing for more flexible and breathing methods of outcome harvesting in local peace-building. #PeaceCon2020

Dylan Matthews from @peacedirect highlights that peace processes are long & messy. We need the "largest untapped potential for peacebuilding" that is civil society to get engaged. Donors have to remove their ego & build the framework that allows local actors to work on peace.

Supporting locally-led peacebuilding as a grantmaker feels groundbreaking – in both a positive as well as a challenging way, shares @SVoutta on our new peace strategy @BoschStiftung #PeaceCon2020

@SVoutta also highlights how a locally-led approach speaks to the very heart of how organizations, especially donors, define themselves – including how decisions are taken & by whom. Supporting locally-led peacebuilding requires a truly systemic approach, everywhere.

Catriona Gourlay from PeaceNexus mentions the importance of strengthening organizations for their peacebuilding work so that they can assume their leadership role less stressed and enabled through peer-reviews and mentoring.

Donors have to leave their partners the space and time to breath which will in return open up new chances and inspiration for the future; shares Morana Starcevic from the Youth Initative for Human Rights @YIHR_eng. #PeaceCon2020

@john_caulker stresses how building mutual trust, accountability & learning into partnerships is crucial for successful local peacebuilding. Open channels of communication & mutual encouragement go a long way to ensuring peacebuilding really addresses local communities’ needs.

@PSFundersGroup’s Alex Toma sums up this truly inspiring debate with an uplifting outlook: There are clear shifts in funders’ attitudes and mechanisms & together we will continue to encourage, challenge & push each other further on this journey #PeaceCon2020 #ShapingWhatComesNext