The Instrument for Stability Crisis Preparedness Component: Lessons learned 2007-2010 Review of Peace-building Partnership activities to date

PbP Objective and Target Groups The overall objective of the Peace-building Partnership (PbP) is to mobilise and consolidate civilian capacity for peace-building activities Main PbP target groups: Non-State Actors International and Regional Organisations Member States Bodies

Non-State Actors (NSA) Two pillars of cooperation with NSA: Dialogue element: Civil Society Dialogue Network, building on previous informal consultation mechanisms Capacity-building element: Calls for proposals since 2007-2008 Calls for proposals under the 2010 AAP to be launched in first quarter 2011 via EU Delegations Overall funding for NSA during 2007-2010 was approximately € 20M under IfS Art. 4.3 (50% of the € 40M total)

International and Regional Organisations Establishment of enhanced co-operation with International Organisations (notably, UN family) on a range of thematic areas including : PCNA/PDNA Natural resources and conflict Mediation Disaster Risk Reduction Security Sector Reform Post conflict assistance data coordination Regional Organisations – enhancing early-warning capacity of the African Union and League of Arab States Overall funding for International and Regional Organisations during 2007-2010 was just under € 12M under the PbP

Member States Bodies Cooperation with Member States focused on training of police and civilian experts to participate in stabilisation missions: Police trainings: carried out by the relevant national police training authorities multi-annual action envisaged under the 2010 AAP Civilian trainings: initially (2007) took over the final year of activities of the European Group on Training multi-annual action implemented by ENTRi, following a call for proposals Overall funding for Member States during 2007-2010 was over € 9M under the PbP

Lessons Learned I The 2009 scoping and stocktaking study contributed to the refocusing of the actions under the PbP Several of its recommendations have already been implemented in recent Annual Action Programmes including: the importance of the creation and development of a solid dialogue mechanism to channel input from the relevant implementing partners to the EU policy-making processes on peace-building issues the need to employ practical funding mechanisms within the constraints of the Commission Financial Regulation

Lessons Learned II A number of other overall lessons may be drawn from the implementation of activities to date Funding has revealed considerable potential for acting as a catalyst to harness and develop the expertise of civilian peace-building actors Benefits of improved coordination with relevant UN bodies in order to enhance mutual peace-building capacity, particularly on thematic aspects. Positive effects of these efforts also with regard to internal EU and UN coordination

Lessons Learned III Useful actions with EU Member States on training police and civilian experts, but prospects of enhanced co-operation could be further explored Advantages of creating support mechanisms for a dialogue network, e.g. the PbP Web Portal Essential to ensure adequate human resources to manage the PbP Lessons Learned II

 Andrew.Byrne@eeas.europa.eu Peace-building Partnership Andrew Byrne European External Action Service Conflict Prevention and Secutiry Policy  +32 (0)2 29 54868  Andrew.Byrne@eeas.europa.eu