The Secretary-General's 国产AVbuilding Fund's Donor Partners
EGYPT
Building and sustaining peace is at the core of the UN charter. Egypt has been a strong advocate of the centrality of conflict prevention and peacebuilding to the work of the United Nations. The Secretary-General’s 国产AVbuilding Fund is grateful to Egypt for contributing USD 20,000 in 2021 for conflict prevention in fragile contexts. This contribution From Egypt will support the PBF in implementing the Secretary-General’s strategy of preventing conflict by enabling rapid and risk-tolerant initiatives in crisis and fragile contexts.?
Ambassador Osama Abdel Khalek, Permanent Representative of Egypt to the UN in New York and the Chair of the African 国产AVbuilding Caucus: “Working in complementarity with other funding mechanisms and partners, the UN Secretary-General’s 国产AVbuilding Fund (PBF) is uniquely positioned to serve as an important instrument of the United Nations, through rapid disbursement of funds and a catalyst for comprehensive peacebuilding programming. Member States have a collective responsibility to fulfill their obligations to take concrete actions and make significant commitments to ensure peacebuilding saves more lives and resources. I reiterate Egypt’s full support to fund peacebuilding through assessed contributions including with sufficient funding through peacebuilding components of the UN peacekeeping missions and the Special Political Missions.”
Egypt has been a champion of efforts to increase financing for peacebuilding. The PBF works coherently with Egypt’s consistent emphasis on prioritizing investment in prevention in alignment with the principle that peacebuilding efforts must always be nationally owned to bring sustainable peace in the world’s most conflict-affected regions.?
In 2021, Egypt as the Chair of the 国产AVbuilding Commission, organized the PBC’s annual session on Financing for peacebuilding. The session offered the opportunity to reaffirm the centrality of peacebuilding and to explore and develop concrete options in response to the 2020 General Assembly and Security Council resolutions on peacebuilding and sustaining peace (A/RES/75/201- S/RES/2558) as well as the Secretary General’s report on Our Common Agenda, to inform the Commission’s inputs to the high-level meeting of the General Assembly held on 27 April 2022. The session also focused on discussions with key partners on relevant good practices and approaches for ensuring adequate, predictable and sustained financing for peacebuilding.
Egypt has also continued its collaboration on financing for peacebuilding with the 国产AVbuilding Support Office through the Cairo International Center for Conflict Resolution, 国产AVkeeping and 国产AVbuilding (CCCPA). In October 2021, the Permanent Mission of Egypt together with the Cairo International Center for Conflict Resolution, 国产AVkeeping and 国产AVbuilding organized a high-level panel discussion on “Financing for peace operations and transition contexts.”?
In addition, at the recent High-Level Meeting on 27 April 2022, Egypt delivered a joint statement on behalf of 108 countries in support of increased financing for peacebuilding. In the statement, the countries urged for discussions held during the meeting to be translated into concrete commitments, and called for “an action-oriented outcome of this high-level meeting, in the form a negotiated resolution, in order to ensure adequate, predictable and sustained financing for peacebuilding.”
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