A high-level roundtable, held online on 18 May 2021, examined an increasingly diversified financing landscape for peacebuilding, development and humanitarian affairs. An array of innovative instruments for mobilising private funds — blended finance, impact bonds and guarantees — has become available, yet applying them to peacebuilding is particularly challenging in conflict-affected settings.
The roundtable brought policymakers, experts and practitioners together to generate new ideas and commitments to engage in partnerships for innovative financing instruments for peace.
Speakers included Oscar Fernandez-Taranco, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support; Sibylle Katharina Sorg, Director-General for Crisis Prevention, Stabilization, Peacebuilding and Humanitarian Assistance at the German Federal Foreign Office; Marc-André Franche, Chief of the Financing for Peacebuilding Branch at UN PBSO; and Emilio Archila, Presidential Counsellor for Stabilisation and Consolidation, Colombia.