

The Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund provides flexible and fast financing for integrated interventions that increase women’s participation in response to crises and emergencies, as well as preventing conflict, encouraging national ownership of development investments, and upholding peacebuilding commitments.
For more information on how to contribute, contact the Head of the Secretariat. Your contribution will support quality interventions that enhance the capacities of women civil society leaders and local organizations to prevent conflict, respond to emergencies, and seize key peacebuilding opportunities in conflict and crises contexts around the world.
Status: Active
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The work of the Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund are possible thanks to the generous contributions by public and private sector partners
The work of the Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund is possible thanks to the efforts of . These resources are pooled and channelled to participating organizations to promote joint action and multi-stakeholder partnerships, making a difference on the ground.
The first ever World Humanitarian Summit in 2016 drew attention to the need to protect and empower women so they could take on larger roles in humanitarian action. Placing women at the center of transition efforts, shifting from crisis to sustainable development, creates an enormous opportunity for transformative change in any society. Partners receive financial support from the Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund because they recognize the existing gaps and are committed to closing them. Fund programmes achieve three primary objectives to increase women’s agency:
The Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Trust Fund is used to tackle specific issues in a context relevant manner. Stakeholders can address the critical needs of women in one country by applying comprehensive, coordinated, and coherent approaches that lead to achievement across regional and international targets (e.g. Grand Bargain).
Fund interventions are anchored in the desire to build and maintaining peaceful, inclusive, and equal societies. To achieve this goal, partners work towards peace through the following outcome areas:
Efforts across these six areas help increase women’s participation and inclusion in peace and security processes. They also render humanitarian assistance more effective, strengthen the protection efforts of peacekeepers, improve prevention efforts against radicalization and the spread of extremism, and accelerate economic recovery through the design of diverse peace dividends.
The main roles of the Funding Board are to provide a partnership platform, set strategic direction of the Fund, make resource allocation decisions, and monitor progress towards achieving results. Decisions are made on a consensual basis and according to an investment plan along with the Fund theory of change. The process allows the Funding Board to manage the Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund in a dynamic manner, build networks with partners, and periodically review expected results.
At the country level, these committees approve project proposals, following the same principles of equal partnership as the Funding Board. Comprised of representatives from the United Nations, Member States, and civil society, Country-level Steering Committees are guided by principles of inclusion, transparency, and accountability, with clear criteria for leadership and the uptake of projects that promote the central charter of the Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund.
The Technical Secretariat provides implementation support and advises the Funding Board and Country-level Steering Committees. It is overseen by UN Women, which provides coordination to other United Nations organizations through the Inter-Agency Standing Committee on women, peace, and security.
Funds are routed by way of a pass-through mechanism. Participating Organizations receive funds through the Administrative Agent, Multi-Partner Trust Fund (MPTF) Office. The Administrative Agent is responsible for the receipt, administration and management of contributions from donors, disbursement of funds to Participating Organizations, and consolidation and dissemination of progress reports to donors.
Programme implementation is the responsibility of Participating Organizations. Each organization is programmatically and financially responsible for resources received.
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Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund is currently supporting count_projects ongoing projectscount_globalInterregional and count_countries country-specific. This table shows the most recently approved ongoing projects.
All project financial information can be found in the Financials section, including delivery analysis by organization, theme and project; project financial status by country and by theme.
Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund
Contributions to trust funds administered by the MPTF Office are pooled with other partner resources to achieve greater impact and leverage the SDGs. This map provides a geographical breakdown of all investments.
* The designations employed and the presentation of material on this map do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations or UNDP concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.
> $55M
$55M - $25M
$25M - $5M
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Flexible and fast for integrated interventions, the Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund champions women’s participation in crisis and emergency response, as well as action to prevent conflict and encourage national governments to uphold peace and community-building commitments.
Tonni Brodber, Head of WPHF Secretariat, Email: tonni.ann.brodber@unwomen.org
Eva Saenz, Portfolio Manager, Email: eva.saenz@undp.org
Sean Chen, Portfolio Associate, Email: sean.chen@undp.org
Patricia Ababio, Finance Associate, Email: patricia.ababio@undp.org