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Governance & Peace Building

Our team brings consolidated UNDP expertise in building inclusive societies and sustaining peace through good governance and conflict prevention to support Country Office across the region to address today’s development challenges. At the centre of our work is preventive governance, referring to those processes and mechanisms of democratic governance that ultimately foster resilience against instability and violent conflict. Our approach has been developed in response to Security Council Resolution 2171, recommendations of recent reviews of UN peace-operations and peacebuilding infrastructures and Sustainable Development Goal 16, all calling for a UN system-wide approach to preventing conflict and building and sustaining peaceful and inclusive societies.

We focus on

• Rule of Law, justice, security and human rights: supporting rule of law; enhancing legal empowerment and access to justice for all; fostering justice and security reforms at national and local levels, including work with formal and informal actors; promoting respect of human rights and gender justice including gender based violence.

• Inclusive political processes: promoting institutionalization of open and representative state-society negotiation and accountability processes; participatory and inclusive constitution-drafting processes; and professionalization of electoral management bodies;

• Responsive and accountable institutions: strengthening government functionality for the delivery of social services and economic development at central and local levels, and enhancing local governance and decentralization for state- and peacebuilding, democratic representation;

• Conflict prevention and peacebuilding: enhancing national infrastructures for peace, trust, inclusion and social cohesion; supporting national dialogue processes; and strengthening conflict analysis and prevention capacities including mitigation and contestation management mechanisms;

• HIV and Health: addressing social and economic determinants of non-communicable diseases, and influencing social protection policies for people living with HIV while supporting a conducive legal and social environment for them.