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  1. “The Peacebuilding Fund is doing its part to catalyse more innovative approaches, and recently launched a SSS-million gender promotion initiative. Let me reiterate that these two agendas for action in peacebuilding initiatives were devised as tools to improve our combined support to nationally led efforts. The agenda for peacebuilding in the immediate aftermath of conflict is having a promising impact on the ground. Of course, we cannot compare the United Nations to the private sector, but surely many of these initiatives are increasing our effectiveness and creating a more businesslike approach. History demonstrates that peacebuilding takes at least a generation to become sustainable. With these new tools and a culture shift in place, we may be able to help post-conflict countries beat the odds.”

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  2. “Unfortunately, initiatives such as these are still rare. The United Nations electoral technical assistance includes a focus on assessing the potential application of temporary special measures or quotas for women in public office, and more will be done to improve women's representation. I will now turn to areas where change needs to be accelerated. First, we need to do better in comprehensively engaging and targeting women in economic recovery efforts. We also need more women mediators in peace processes, including from the United Nations, which did not appoint any women special envoys or chief mediators last year. Last but not least is our common commitment to allocating 15 per cent of United Nations-managed peacebuilding funds to projects that further gender equality and women's empowerment as their principal objective.”

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  3. “Examples include the provision of legal support and referral services to women in Burundi, the Central African Republic, Iraq and Somalia, and mobile court systems to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. With regard to sexual and gender-based violence, special courts have been established in Liberia and specialized expertise provided to commissions of inquiry in C6te d'Ivoire and Libya, while training to prevent and investigate sexual and gender-based crimes is being rolled out in Member States and in United Nations missions. The PBF-funded, United Nations Development Programme-implemented project in Sierra Leone, supporting the All Political Parties Women's Association in order to increase solidarity among women across party lines and to encourage political coalitions around issues of interest to women is impressive and progressive.”

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  4. “This agenda focuses on seven critical areas that, if implemented, would ensure that women have the opportunity to play a crucial role in making peace sustainable. The first area of progress is in mediation and political dialogue; gender expertise is provided more systematically to ongoing conflict resolution processes and through the inclusion of specialized gender expertise in mediation rosters. Secondly, I am pleased to report that there is broad agreement among the United Nations, the European Union and the World Bank on the importance of integrating gender into post-conflict needs assessments. The third area of progress is in the rule of law.”

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  5. “Work is also progressing in developing benchmarks or indicators for countries, when the time is right, to transition out of the PBC agenda. 3 I will now turn to the Secretary-General's September 2010 report on women's participation in peacebuilding (S/2010/466). I wish to highlight that the almost perfect working relationship between the Peacebuilding Support Office and UN-Women has made the preparation of this update almost effortless, as are all our other joint endeavours. As will be recalled, the rationale behind this agenda is to ensure that women are central to peacebuilding - not merely to secure women's rights, but because it is good peacebuilding practice. Quite simply, ignoring the role of women exposes us to a greater chance of failure.”

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  6. “In addition, the upcoming High- Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan, Republic of Korea, will discuss the usefulness of transition compacts as accountability tools among donors, conflict-affected States and the United Nations. The Peacebuilding Fund continues to demonstrate value-added, especially in responding very quickly to peacebuilding opportunities as they arise, with recent allocations to Kyrgyzstan, Cote d'Ivoire, the Sudan and South Sudan. I should like to say a word about the Peacebuilding Commission. The very timely and relevant review of the peacebuilding architecture last year has generated significant momentum that has reinvigorated the PBC's working methods and focused it on improving impact in the field.”

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  7. “The West Africa Coast Initiative - WASI - is one positive example of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the Department of Peacekeeping Operations and the Department of Political Affairs working together to support the Economic Community of West African States and the efforts of national Governments in the region. The report on peacebuilding in the immediate aftermath of conflict also reinforced the importance of innovative approaches to funding for peacebuilding. In that regard, I am pleased that countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development are finalizing new guidelines for transition financing.”

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  8. “Clare Lockhart - who, with Mr. Ashraf Ghani, co-authored Fixing Failed States - has agreed to provide the keynote address. The other new issue on the agenda is drug trafficking and organized crime. This issue has risen to the peacebuilding agenda, as it undermines peacebuilding efforts and poses a direct threat to security and stability. The Council's recent discussions on Afghanistan, Somalia and West Africa reflect that alarming trend. Earlier this year, the Secretary-General established a task force on transnational organized crime to bring the United Nations system's capacities together around that common concern.”

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  9. “The Secretary-General's 2010 progress report (S/2010/386*) stressed the importance of two emerging peacebuilding issues: first, organized crime and drug trafficking, and secondly, natural resource management. Natural resources in fragile States are often powerful drivers of conflict, not, unfortunately, of peace, prosperity, growth and job creation. In that respect, let me mention that, as part of the Stakeholders Event of the Peacebuilding Fund on 22 November, my office will host a round-table discussion with private sector representatives from the mining and minerals sector, post-conflict Government representatives, non- governmental organization activists and other experts on ways to support the use of natural resources for economic recovery in post-conflict countries. I am 11-57138 pleased to announce that Ms.”

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  10. “The reviews have addressed some key challenges, exposed others and set a forward agenda for additional work. They have also revealed that the constructive and consistent engagement of Member States, including on how they mandate and fund us, is a sine qua non for effective delivery in the field. Regarding partnership with the World Bank, its World Development Report 2011 on conflict, security and development has created a new impetus for collaboration. We are truly hopeful that the Bank's new fragile-States hub in Nairobi will link up more effectively with United Nations peacebuilding efforts in the field, including in the countries on the agenda of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC).”

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  11. “One of the most urgent priorities is to explore modalities to broaden the scope for deploying personnel provided by Governments and other entities, particularly those from the global South, so that specialized expertise can more easily be made available to United Nations field presences in key gap areas. We are also continuing our internal efforts to clarify roles and responsibilities within the United Nations system for core peacebuilding functions. Since 2009, the Secretary-General's Policy Committee has completed six reviews on the following areas: first, the reintegration of refugees and internally displaced persons; secondly, security sector reform; thirdly, demobilization, disarmament and reintegration; fourthly, mine action; fifthly, mediation; and sixthly, electoral assistance.”

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  12. “That will be reflected in the upcoming review of the integrated mission planning guidelines in 2012, which will contain guidance on how to ensure that national perspectives and capacities are taken into account from the outset of each planning process. We can also report progress in galvanizing the United Nations system and Member States around the common goal of improved civilian expertise in peacebuilding operations. Under-Secretary-General Susana Malcorra has been leading and chairing a steering committee that oversees the system-wide follow-up to the independent 2011 civilian capacity report (see S/2011/85). The Secretary-General has 11-57138 prioritized its recommendations, focusing on national capacity, partnerships, accountability and agility.”

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  13. “The senior official leading the pre-assessment phase was subsequently appointed Special Representative of the Secretary- General. That approach allowed Special Representative Martin to hit the ground running and to initiate the mission planning process, as he was already deeply familiar with the issues and the national actors on the ground. However, there are also extremely challenging crisis response and peacebuilding needs in countries that do not benefit from a Security Council-mandated mission. Relatively calm countries that suddenly become volatile require the same sense of urgency and attention, and sometimes circumstances will require a quick adjustment to the United Nations leadership. The 2009 report also emphasized the need to strengthen support for capacity development from the outset.”

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  14. “Let me start with the areas where progress has been made, beginning with our efforts to create more cohesive United Nations senior leadership teams and to respond more rapidly to leadership gaps. First, a collaborative approach is now in place that supports the eventual selection of complementary leadership teams. Secondly, since 2009 more than 20 senior United Nations officials have been quickly dispatched to the field as temporary senior leaders in the immediate post-conflict period. Such arrangements have become standard practice for the Department of Political Affairs and the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, and they help to minimize the loss of strategic momentum during critical periods. The seamless leadership model used in Libya is also an example of good practice.”

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  15. “We draw inspiration from them and echo the Nobel Committee's recognition of their "non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peacebuilding work". It is two years since the report on peacebuilding in the immediate aftermath of conflict was issued. The Council will recall that the report's agenda aims to improve the United Nations system's support to national peacebuilding efforts in the critical first two years following the end of the main conflict and that it was developed with the understanding that a coordinated United Nations approach to peacebuilding 2 is required, given the multitude of actors who play a role in those efforts.”

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  16. “Ms. Cheng-Hopkins: Today I have the honour to update the Council on behalf of the Secretary-General on two peacebuilding agendas for action that stem from, first, the 2009 report of the Secretary-General on peacebuilding in the immediate aftermath of conflict (S/2009/304) and last year's progress report (S/2010/386*), and secondly, the 2010 report on women's participation in peacebuilding (8/2010/466). As requested by this Council last year, I am providing an oral briefing today, but next year we will prepare a written report. Before I begin, I would like to pay tribute to this year's Nobel Peace Prize laureates - President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee of Liberia and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen.”

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