‘Testing Ideas: More Symmetrical Financing for Peacebuilding’by GPPAC and Radical Flexibility Fund

The session convened local peacebuilders and donors to pitch and test with the audience ideas on adjusting the role of intermediary organizations in the aid chain, so as to shift the power balance in designing and managing peacebuilding interventions and to put local peacebuilders at the helm. In particular, this session explores one aspect of the ongoing joint project facilitated by GPPAC and RFF to amplify effective operational ways of funding local peacebuilders: the role of intermediary funders.

This session featured panelists Lucy Nusseibeh (Founder and Chairperson of Middle East Nonviolence and Democracy (MEND)), Avila Kilmurray (former Executive Director of the Community Foundation for Northern Ireland), Patrick Bwire (Program Coordinator in Charge of Peacebuilding at the Center for Conflict Resolution (CECORE) in Uganda) and Simon Bojsen-Møller (Deputy Head of Unit, Conflict Prevention and Peace Building (FPI.2) at the Service for Foreign Policy Instruments at the European Commission).