JP Gender Nat Resources Peace 

ObjectivesFund scope

Often, in the aftermath of conflict, women are required to cope by assuming new or expanded natural resource management roles in their communities. But the puzzle piece missing in these cases is the ability to capitalize on changed roles and up the ante on their productive capacities to break down existing barriers to women’s political and economic empowerment and enhance their productivity in sectors critical to community revitalization and recovery. The Gender-Responsive Approaches to Natural Resource Management for Peacebuilding Joint Programme was designed to promote natural resource-based interventions as a tool for strengthening women’s participation in the areas of:

• Participation in dialogue, mediation and conflict resolution efforts
• Participation in governance and decision-making at all levels
• Contributions to economic recovery and sustainable development

By building the capacity of UN and international, national, local and community peacebuilding and development actors on the potential of gender responsive natural resource interventions it resulted in the design, implementation, and upcycling of programmes and ensured they were aligned with national and local plans in conflict-affected countries.

To close gaps and make gains Joint Programme stakeholders worked along three sets of sequential outputs: pilot-testing gender responsive natural resource-based interventions in conflict-affected countries, developing tools to design, replicate, and scale up successful approaches, and boosting advocacy and outreach that promotes the uptake of these types of tools at country-level.

GovernanceGovernance arrangements

Joint Programme Steering Committee

The Committee is responsible for strategic direction, oversight and decision-making on core programmatic and budgetary matters, including resource allocation. Day-to-day management and coordination of programmatic activities is the responsibility of convening agencies.

Administrative Agent 

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.  

Participating Organizations 

Programme implementation is the responsibility of Participating Organizations. Each organization is programmatically and financially responsible for resources received. 

Projects

JP Gender Nat Resources Peace

JP Gender Nat Resources Peace 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.

JP Gender Nat Resources Peace

Results

Results were predicated on strong partnerships and closing the divide between the different dimensions peace, development, and humanitarian nexus. Inclusive approaches included the integration of localized components (e.g. peacebuilding, gender equality and women’s empowerment, environmental sustainability, natural resource management, livelihoods, economic recovery) and promotion of SDG acceleration vis-à-vis overcoming disaster risk, peace and security, and gender equality challenges.

At the country level, the second joint pilot project in Colombia saw positive outcomes for women’s participation in local level peacebuilding and environmental protection initiatives, as well as national level outreach and advocacy. In Sudan, the final report from the pilot project was officially launched in Spring 2019, garnering significant attention from peace and development change leaders as a concrete example of integrated programming that addresses the links between climate change and security from a gender perspective. And, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a third intervention was initiated to integrate a gender perspective into a larger mediation project where natural resources play a central role in fueling ongoing conflict between armed groups and shaping opportunities for the return and reintegration of ex-combatants.

In North Kordofan, Sudan, stakeholder action helped successfully link gender, climate change and security outcomes in a single theory of change. This generated considerable interest amongst those in the peace and development community and made it possible for stakeholders to leverage programme results and experiences to secure an additional $4 million US dollars in funding to replicate and adapt approaches for a cross-border pilot in Mali and Niger. Programme action inspired United Nations staff based in Sudan to enter into discussions with the Peacebuilding Fund on ways of using the approach for a new project to scale up interventions in East Darfur.

At the global level, the Joint Programme developed a flagship report that elevates evidence gathered for policymakers and donors, putting gender considerations at the forefront to ensure they are central to discussions and agenda-setting on climate-security policy debates. Findings from the report serve to incentivize investments in programmes that address the gender dimensions of climate-related security. Stakeholders also finalized and validated a comprehensive training package delivered to 50 people across three courses.

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