The Instrument for Stability Crisis Preparedness Component: Lessons learned 2007-2010

Review of Peace-building Partnership activities to date

PbP Objective and Target Groups

• The overall objective of the Peace-building Partnership (PbP) is to mobilise and consolidate civilian capacity for peace-building activities

• Main PbP target groups:i. Non-State Actors

ii. International and Regional Organisations

iii. Member States Bodies

Non-State Actors (NSA)

Two pillars of cooperation with NSA:

• Dialogue element:i. Civil Society Dialogue Network, building on previous informal

consultation mechanisms

• Capacity-building element:i. Calls for proposals since 2007-2008ii. Calls for proposals under the 2010 AAP to be launched in first

quarter 2011 via EU Delegations

• Overall funding for NSA during 2007-2010 was approximately € 20M under IfS Art. 4.3 (50% of the € 40M total)

International and Regional Organisations

• Establishment of enhanced co-operation with International Organisations (notably, UN family) on a range of thematic areas including :

i. PCNA/PDNAii. Natural resources and conflictiii. Mediationiv. Disaster Risk Reductionv. Security Sector Reformvi. Post conflict assistance data coordination

• Regional Organisations – enhancing early-warning capacity of the African Union and League of Arab States

• Overall funding for International and Regional Organisations during 2007-2010 was just under € 12M under the PbP

Member States Bodies

• Police trainings:i. carried out by the relevant national police training authoritiesii. multi-annual action envisaged under the 2010 AAP

• Civilian trainings:i. initially (2007) took over the final year of activities of the European

Group on Trainingii. multi-annual action implemented by ENTRi, following a call for

proposals

• Overall funding for Member States during 2007-2010 was over € 9M under the PbP

Cooperation with Member States focused on training of police and civilian experts to participate in stabilisation missions:

Lessons LearnedI

• The 2009 scoping and stocktaking study contributed to the refocusing of the actions under the PbP

• Several of its recommendations have already been implemented in recent Annual Action Programmes including:

i. the importance of the creation and development of a solid dialogue mechanism to channel input from the relevant implementing partners to the EU policy-making processes on peace-building issues

ii. the need to employ practical funding mechanisms within the constraints of the Commission Financial Regulation

Lessons LearnedII

• Funding has revealed considerable potential for acting as a catalyst to harness and develop the expertise of civilian peace-building actors

• Benefits of improved coordination with relevant UN bodies in order to enhance mutual peace-building capacity, particularly on thematic aspects. Positive effects of these efforts also with regard to internal EU and UN coordination

A number of other overall lessons may be drawn from the implementation of activities to date

Lessons LearnedIII

• Useful actions with EU Member States on training police and civilian experts, but prospects of enhanced co-operation could be further explored

• Advantages of creating support mechanisms for a dialogue network, e.g. the PbP Web Portal

• Essential to ensure adequate human resources to manage the PbP

Lessons LearnedII

Peace-building Partnership

Andrew ByrneEuropean External Action ServiceConflict Prevention and Secutiry

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Andrew.Byrne@eeas.europa.eu