PeaceNexus supports global leaders and organisations that have a strong peacebuilding impact in fragile states. We currently provide organisational development support to nine international partners, including two multilateral agencies that have a peace and security mandate (for more information about our programme and testimonials from our partners, click here).
With this 2020 Organisational Development (OD) Call, we wish to partner with international organisations that have peacebuilding as their primary mandate and want to strengthen their ability to support local peacebuilding actors, including women and youth-led groups. We are particularly interested in supporting civil society networks and organisations that serve to strengthen local peacebuilders and increase their influence. We look for innovative leaders that can influence global policy and practice and directly support locally-led peacebuilding, particularly in our focus regions.
Local peace actors are not eligible for support in this Call, they can apply for OD support through our Regional Calls for Central Asia, South East Asia, West Africa or the Western Balkans. The next Regional Calls for Central Asia and West Africa will take place in 2021.
International partners that do not have peacebuilding as a primary mandate but are interested in integrating a peacebuilding or conflict-sensitive lens to their work are eligible for our conflict-sensitivity support. The next Call for conflict-sensitivity support for international partners is scheduled for 2021. Please monitor this website or the PeaceNexus LinkedIn account for Call announcements.
Under this Call, we do not support specific projects nor provide institutional (core) funding. Instead, we provide organisational development support in the form of a well-defined process of internal change, to help peacebuilding organisations become more effective and inclusive in the pursuit of their mission and strategic objectives. By effective, we mean helping organisations achieve a higher peacebuilding impact. By inclusive, we refer to ensuring those affected by the organisation’s programmatic work participate in shaping it. We also refer to modelling internally the values of participation, diversity and inclusion that are at the heart of peacebuilding.
In these uncertain times, we believe that our process support can be catalytic in helping organisations adapt to changing circumstances. Our focus is to help our partners overcome internal challenges that hinder their effectiveness and their ability to respond to external challenges – so they can better reach their own goals. If you are selected for our support, we will start by visiting you (if conditions allow) to make sure we understand the specificities of your situation and can accompany you accordingly.