Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund (WPHF)

1. An enabling environment for implementation of WPA commitments is created. 
2. Women participate in and inform decision-making processes & responses related to conflict prevention. 
3. Humanitarian/crisis response planning, frameworks and programming are gender inclusive & responsive. 
4. Representation and leadership of women is increased in formal and informal peace negotiations. 
5. Women and girls’ safety, physical and mental health and security are assured and their human rights respected. 
6. The socio-economic recovery & political participation of women and girls are promoted in post-conflict situations SDC funding will be earmarked to outcomes 3 & 5.

Risultati principali attesi:  

Selected key outputs include, but are not limited to:  

• Gender equality advocates have the resources and capacity to promote evidence-based advocacy 
• Women participate and lead in effective early-warning and conflict prevention mechanisms 
• Gender analysis assessments conducted to inform multi-sectoral humanitarian/crisis response planning and programming 
• Women and girls at risk of GBV and GBV survivors have access to justice, appropriate health and psycho-social support services 
• Women participate in peace-building & recovery planning 

Risultati fasi precedenti:  

• Since 2016, over 914 civil society organizations in 41 countries have been supported 
• 72% of WPHF partners operate at subnational and local levels  
• Over 47% of CSOs accessed finance by the UN for the first time 
• Average size of grants: USD 130’000 
• 16.4% of grants were institutional, 83.6% programmatic 
• In 2023, 188 new grants to 293 civil society organizations were given  

• The  Secretariat  of  the  WPHF  is  hosted  by  UN Women, which offers technical expertise and political support to the WPHF. 
• WPHF  supports  the  implementation  of  National Action Plans on women, peace and security (WPS) in coordination  with  the  Peacebuilding  Fund  (PBF), which SDC and the Peace and Human Rights Division (PRHD) jointly support. 
• With  a geographic soft earmarking,  the WPHF will aim to support projects in four SDC priority countries: Democratic  Republic  of  the  Congo  (DRC), Afghanistan, Haiti and Sudan.