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STORY: UN / PEACEBUILDING ARCHITECTURE REVIEW
TRT: 04:19
SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 26 NOVEMBER 2025, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations
26 NOVEMBER 2025, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Julius Maada Bio, President, the Republic of Sierra Leone:
“Will those in favour of the draft resolution contained in document S/2025/758, please raise their hand.”
4. Wide shot, delegates voting
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Julius Maada Bio, President, the Republic of Sierra Leone:
“The result of the voting is as follows: the draft resolution received 15 votes in favour. The draft resolution has been adopted unanimously as resolution 2805.”
6. Wide shot, Security Council
7. Wide shot, General Assembly Hall
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ali Naseer Mohamed, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Maldives:
“May I take that the Assembly decided to adopt draft resolution A/80/L.15? It is so decided.”
9. Med shot, General Assembly
10. Wide shot, speakers, journalists, press room
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Elizabeth Spehar, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support, United Nations:
“Simply the consensual agreement around resolutions, I think, in today's environment, already is very important, and it really gives us, I think, a good blueprint for how to make UN peace building even more effective and impactful over the next five years.”
12. Wide shot, speakers, journalists, press room
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Elizabeth Spehar, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support, United Nations:
“We reached 1 billion US dollars in support to peacebuilding efforts around the world over the past six years, this is something that goes two thirds of the way of what the Secretary General has been calling for in terms of the volume of support that we can provide for peace building, but it is, as you can imagine, quite a significant amount of resources.”
14. Wide shot, speakers, journalists, press room
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Macharia Kamau, Chair, Peacebuilding Fund’s Advisory Group:
“The entire membership of the United Nations agreed on assessed funding for the peace building fund. Now, this is in a time when it's very difficult to get the membership to speak in unison around one issue, but this goes to show that despite everything that we're seeing, despite the political challenges that we are seeing in the world around peace, that member states still recognize that value of investing in an open fund that is really targeting responses that can help communities deal with situations of deteriorating peace and/or building greater peace in the in those communities.”
16. Wide shot, speakers, journalists, press room
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Macharia Kamau, Chair, Peacebuilding Fund’s Advisory Group:
“Enablers, the people who provide the backbone of the response, in logistics, in in coordination, are the UN peacekeeping missions. When they disappear in countries where there's been a breakdown of law and order, where there is no government to be effective again at the last mile, then what you get is this vacuum. And as you know, once you have a vacuum in in order and in logistical engagement and so on and so forth, you end up with nothing but a crisis.”
18. Wide shot, speakers, journalists, press room
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Macharia Kamau, Chair, Peacebuilding Fund’s Advisory Group:
“I think it behooves the international community to think long and hard as to how they disengage peacekeeping.”
20. Close up, journalist
The UN Security Council and the General Assembly adopted today (26 Nov) the twin resolutions on Peacebuilding Architecture Review (PBAR).
The 2025 twin draft resolutions affirm that the latest PBAR aims to enhance the implementation and impact of UN peacebuilding activities at the field level.
They also restate the UN’s long-standing commitment to conflict prevention, peacebuilding, and sustaining peace, emphasising that these efforts rely on the mutually reinforcing contributions of development, human rights, and peace and security initiatives.
They also emphasise the enduring importance of national ownership and inclusive governance, as well as the primary responsibility of member states in preventing conflict and addressing its root causes.
Later in the day, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support, Elizabeth Spehar, and the Chair of the Peacebuilding Fund’s Advisory Group, Ambassador Macharia Kamau, briefed reporters on the Peacebuilding Fund’s recent activities.
Spehar said, “Simply the consensual agreement around resolutions, I think, in today's environment, already is very important, and it really gives us, I think, a good blueprint for how to make UN peace building even more effective and impactful over the next five years.”
She also announced, “We reached 1 billion US dollars in support to peacebuilding efforts around the world over the past six years, this is something that goes two thirds of the way of what the Secretary General has been calling for in terms of the volume of support that we can provide for peace building, but it is, as you can imagine, quite a significant amount of resources.”
Chair of the Peacebuilding Fund's Advisory Group, Macharia Kamau said they're pleased that the entire membership has agreed on funding.
According to Kamau, this shows that despite everything, Member States still recognize the value of investing for peace.
Answering a question, Kamau said, “Enablers, the people who provide the backbone of the response, in logistics, in in coordination, are the UN peacekeeping missions. When they disappear in countries where there's been a breakdown of law and order, where there is no government to be effective again at the last mile, then what you get is this vacuum. And as you know, once you have a vacuum in in order and in logistical engagement and so on and so forth, you end up with nothing but a crisis.”
He added, “I think it behooves the international community to think long and hard as to how they disengage peacekeeping.”
The Secretary-General’s Peacebuilding Fund (PBF) surpassed $1 billion in approvals since 2020 in support of the Fund’s current global Strategy for United Nations programmes financing national peacebuilding and prevention efforts around the world.
This is significant progress towards the Secretary-General’s call for a quantum leap in peacebuilding financing, with more peacebuilding programmes supported in the last six years than in the first 15 years of the Fund’s existence.
Nevertheless, the PBF aims to invest $1.5 billion over a seven-year strategy period (2020-2026) and therefore still faces a $500 million funding gap and cannot meet support demand from Member States.
Created through joint Security Council and General Assembly resolutions in 2005 as part of the United Nations Peacebuilding Architecture, together with the Peacebuilding Commission and the Peacebuilding Support Office in the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, the PBF is the United Nations’ leading instrument to invest in prevention and peacebuilding programming, in partnership with the wider UN system, national and subnational authorities, civil society organizations, regional organizations and multilateral banks.
The Fund supports joint UN responses to address critical peacebuilding opportunities, connecting peace, development, human rights, and humanitarian action.
The core principles of the Fund are being timely, catalytic, and risk-tolerant, and facilitating inclusiveness and national ownership, integrated approaches, and cohesive UN strategies.
The PBF is primarily funded through voluntary contributions from Member States. In addition, General Assembly 78/257 approved $50 million in assessed funds per year starting in 2025.
