United Network of Young Peacebuilders (UNOY), core support, 2018-2022 - Internal Control Review United Network of Young Peacebuilders (UNOY), kärnstöd, 2018-2022 United Network of Young Peacebuilders (UNOY) is a network for youth-led civil society organisations working on peacebuilding. The Network is global with members from 50 different countries across continents. Sida's support aims at strengthening the Network's organisational structure as well as its activities. United Network of Young Peacebuilders (UNOY) är ett nätverk för civila samhällsorganisationer som består och leds av unga och som arbetar med fredsbyggande. Nätverket är globalt med medlemmar från 50 olika länder. Sida ger kärnstöd för att stärka nätverkets interna organisation och dess aktiviteter. Sida supports the United Network of Young Peacebuilders (UNOY) through core funding that will enable the network to strengthen its mission to unite youth organisations working to build peace across the world. By furthering the regionalization of the network, enhancing collaboration, ownership and gender sensitivity and by strengthening the network's International Secretariat, UNOY will be able to go beyond short-term, project-based activities and scale up all four action areas in support of its Strategic Plan for 2016-2020: Strengthening organisations as mobilisers of young peacebuilders; Developing young people's capacities for conflict transformation; Building a global network with a shared feeling of ownership; Raising youth voices through advocacy.
UNOY Peacebuilders key purpose is to support and empower its members by enabling them to truly boost the power of peace. Members of the network can benefit from trainings and on-line workshops, but also assist other members through cross-learning experiences and peer-to-peer support. 
Members of the network have access to common tools such as a hands-on guide on monitoring, evaluation and learning and a UNSCR 2250 Toolkit for Youth and practical guide. To strengthen individual capacities, UNOY Peacebuilders offer Training of Trainers to develop skills in leading conflict transformation through 8 week-long online training prior to an onsite training and multiplier activities at local level. As advocacy is central to peacebuilding in shaping policy and practice, young people are also trained to become stronger advocates. Out of the young people trained in 2015, 83% later indicated that they applied their acquired skills in their work. Milestones in UNOYs Advocacy work includes the members contributions to the adoption of the August 2015 Amman Declaration on Youth, Peace, and Security; the adoption of UNSCRs 2250 and 2419 and the UNSC Open Debate on YPS in April 2018. At a regional level, UNOY members among others contributed to the November 2017 adoption of the Abidjan Declaration and the Youth Agenda of AU-EU Youth Plug-In Initiative.
In an effort to build a stronger global network, UNOY Peacebuilders has focused more and more on decentralization through a new regional structure within the network. Members also meet on a yearly basis at the annual Young Peacebuilders Forum, created to provide a dynamic environment for young peacebuilders to interact and undertake informal learning that has direct impact on their work on the ground.
Sidas support to UNOY Peacebuilders aims at encouraging a broader sense of ownership among its members, strengthening the network to act as an interlocutor between grassroots organisations and the international peacebuilding community, and channeling local youth-led peacebuilding to the regional and global levels.
Sida also foresees that support to UNOY Peacebuilders will further assist global efforts to carry the recommendations of the Progress Study on Youth, Peace and Security and Security Council Resolutions 2250 and 2419 forward.