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Peace Research Partnership (PRP) Conciliation Resources, International Alert and Saferworld propose a three-year, £3m programme in which the three organisations will leverage their combined 75 years’ experience building peace across the world to provide evidence-based policy and programming recommendations to DFID and other peace, security and development actors. Through practice-based research the programme will analyse and draw lessons from interventions to address conflict drivers implemented by consortium partners and other external actors, in order to generate new understanding, practical lessons and actionable policies. It will build upon the consortium partners’ strong track record of research and programming in conflict-affected states, and their wide policy and practitioner networks. The programme will focus on issues prioritised in the UK’s SDSR and Building Stability frameworks, including economic development, peace processes, effective and inclusive institutions, and gender drivers of conflict. The purpose is to inform and enhance the effectiveness of DFID/HMG’s work to prevent conflict and build lasting peace. Programme outputs will focus on learning and adaptation of programmes, as well as providing practical lessons and actionable recommendations, targeted at relevant policy processes both nationally and internationally. Consortium partners will focus on four main themes: Inclusive Economic Development, Inclusive Peace Processes, Inclusive and Effective Institutions, and Gender Drivers of Conflict & Peace. There will also be additional resources for cross-programme learning, synthesis and outreach, as well as scope to explore new and emerging issues for research. Conciliation Resources and Saferworld (contract lead)
Building Peace from the Bottom up: Reinforcing Local Actions for Peace in the Kivus This project aims to support local peacebuilding actors in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to initiate and lead a bottom-up, effective peace process. The project is implemented in Walikale, Masisi and Rutshuru Territories in North Kivu Province, and Kalehe Territory in South Kivu Province. The Specific Objectives are (1) To strengthen local peace actors and processes in the Kivus, (2) To generate peacebuilding feedback and input from local levels to national, regional, and international policy Local peacebuilding organisations, including women’s groups, are at the centre of the action and once identified and brought into the project, they will work with Alert to plan and implement the activities, including establishment of the Kivu-wide peacebuilding network and carrying out peace dialogues and advocacy. Key international peacebuilding organisations working in DRC will also be invited to the meetings and exchanges of the Kivus-wide peacebuilding network, where this is feasible and pertinent. This will include feeding outcomes from the peace dialogues and debates of the Kivus peace network to the North Kivu advocacy working group of INGOs, which is a sub-group of the Heads of Mission, in which International Alert is a key participant. At least four joint meetings of the Kivu Peace Network and the North Kivu advocacy working group will be organized, to discuss joint advocacy initiatives, and establish stronger connections between international and local NGOs for advocacy purposes. Finally, government, private sector, community and civil society actors at provincial, national and regional (Great Lakes) levels will be the targets of peace dialogues and advocacy.
Gender and peacebuilding regional mini-projects Gender and peacebuilding regional mini-projects (1) Strengthened capacity of the CBDN to advocate for regional economic cooperation as a vehicle for peace and development in the Caucasus.  (2) The significance of existing international political-economic frameworks vis-à-vis the conflicts in the South Caucasus is explored and presented in multi-stakeholder dialogues at various levels.
and additionally:
(1) Strengthened capacity of the Caucasus Business and Development Network (CBDN) to advocate for regional economic cooperation as a vehicle for peace and development in the Caucasus. (2) The significance of existing international political-economic frameworks vis-à-vis the conflicts in the South Caucasus is explored and presented in multi-stakeholder dialogues at various levels.

BAP works towards these outcomes/outputs: 1) Greater evidence base and improved understanding on the inter-linkages between economic cooperation and conflict/peace?outputs: 2 reports (on economic & conflict analysis of selected case studies and on economic peace dividends of regional cooperation), an analysis of inter-linkages between economic frameworks (EU, WTO, etc) and conflict/peace. 2) New models and frameworks for cooperation? outputs: policy recommendations, policy dialogues on the trans-Ingur/I process, research and advocacy meetings. 3) Greater capacity and engagement by economic actors to be agents for change locally and regionally?outputs: an expert-advocacy network consolidated and engaged in policy dialogue Existing CBDN members, 10 CSOs from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia as well as Abkhazia, Nagorny Karabakh and South Ossetia and new members;

CSOs and experts in the field of economic cooperation;

National and local authorities in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia (de jure) as well as Abkhazia, Nagorny Karabakh and South Ossetia (de facto) ; 

Economic and business structures including Chambers of Commerce, sectoral associations, etc;  

Businesses and economic actors; and  

SMEs in selected sectors (Tea producers, Beekeeping, Tourism, dairy sectors)
What Works in Gender The project is implemented in partnership with UN Women and brings together organisations working on gender equality issues across Kyrgyzstan to share best practices. Local-community, bloggers, government stakeholders, international community Kyrgyzstan
Promoting
local decision making among Non-State Actors for sustainable decentralized
pasture management in Murghab. To contribute to strengthening civil society for a precondition for a more equitable, open democratic society. 1. Improve gender attitudes, knowledge & behavior amongst beneficiary families (including male and female family members) 
   to reduce acceptability and perpetration of VAWG;

2. Vulnerable women are empowered to contribute to household’s finance and well being through equal participation in family run small enterprises;

3. Produce rigorous evidence on 'what works' to tackle VAWG in Tajiksitan. 80 families (approximately 560 women and men)
Improving security, social cohesion and human rights in conflict mineral rich regions of Eastern DRC To strengthen regional stability in the Great Lakes O1:Reduced levels of violent conflict and improved security in targeted red 3T and gold mines of South Kivu and Ituri

O2: Improved regional security and stability through cleaner chains, more effective governance of mineral chains at all levels
KEXPRO Inception Phase DFID Kenya is seeking a Service Provider (SP) to provide programme management and administration support to the Kenya Extractives Programme (K-EXPRO). The programme includes a challenge fund which will also be managed by the SP under one of the components. The programme seeks to reduce poverty in Kenya by facilitating inclusive and sustainable economic development in the extractives sector including both mining and petroleum. Expected results include; better governance and business environment, localised development and inclusive approach to human resources and domestic service provision (“local content”) in the extractive sectors in Kenya.

Alert exploring partnerships with OPM and DAI To provide programme management services for all components of the K-EXPRO, namely: the Institutional Strengthening; County Engagement Platforms; Transparency and Social Accountability; Private Sector Development; and Stakeholder Maps.

To support DFID Kenya to monitor and steer all the components of K-EXPRO, as well as coordinate interventions under K-EXPRO with other programmes in the extractives industry in the country and region by DFID and other development partners.

To build the capacity of local Kenyan institutions for sustainable economic development. Government of Kenya institutions and Kenyan private sector and non-state actors, while DFID Kenya is the secondary beneficiary.
Strategic partnership with Anglo-American Strategic partnership with extractives company, Anglo-American
Borders for All 1 - enhancing border security on the Tunisian and Algeria borders through community engagement approaches to security The aim of the project is that Tunisian border management strategies and senior officials make use of community engagement approaches in order to improve border security. The project aimed to achieve this through an integrated approach involving: research, training and capacity building, advocacy and policy influencing, and learning through evidence gathered from practical application of community engagement approaches, and pilot initiatives.
Breaking the cycles of violence, building the cycles of peace (Dutch MoFA Core Grant 2019-23) Core grant to support International Alert's peacebuilding operations and activities. The work we propose is broken into three parts: 
1) contribution to core activities
2) project specific support 
3) technical advisory services on conflict-sensitivity with the MFA
MAG Consultancies International Alert will provide a Conflict Sensitivity Helpdesk for MAG to support the organizational approach to conflict sensitivity. This helpdesk will provide practical advice in a timely manner which is tailored to support the staff, suitable to anyone aiming to improve conflict sensitivity, drawing on real examples to illustrate solutions to common dilemmas through an extended period of accompaniment to the staff and operations teams in country and headquarters through the development, management, and monitoring of upcoming and current programmes/projects in FCAS contexts. International Alert expects to deliver on activities such as:  

 Work with MAG management to integrate conflict sensitivity into existing MAG tools, frameworks, etc and build new tools and frameworks if necessary (i.e. a Conflict Sensitivity Strategy, etc) 

Assist programme implementation teams at every stage of the programme cycle (i.e. project design, implementation and/or monitoring) as well as senior management at the strategic decision-making level  

Review proposals, quarterly reports, annual review reports, and evaluation reports from MAG country teams and implementing partners to support the learning around conflict sensitivity or build awareness around conflict sensitive/insensitivities 

Provide direct support to assessing project proposals, upcoming bid proposals, etc for the conflict sensitivity of the action and make recommendations for supporting more conflict sensitive proposed action (if necessary)  

Prepare to second Conflict Sensitivity Advisors to Country Programmes for short term support to implementation (if necessary) 

Support theory of change and results framework development for MAG colleagues and provide practical advice on improving the conflict sensitivity of indicators and any M&E methodology 

Review MAG country strategies and provide practical advice/recommendations on how to integrate conflict sensitivity throughout all programming strands MAG Management Team, MAG Project Staff #N/A
Religion and stability: Defining and understanding the main trends and factors underpinning religious radicalisation in Tajikistan today Interviews with governmental officials, local civil society, and international actors (including embassy and international organisation officials) reveal that they feel religious trends in the country are moving at too rapid a pace for researchers and politicians to keep track. It is clear that many citizens of Tajikistan have gone to fight for Islamic State and other extremist groups; however, the reasons which underpin immunity to or shifts into radical behaviours are not well understood and disputed at different levels. There is a lack of quality data available on the phenomenon, meaning that both government and international actors have to rely on assumption, speculation or out-of-date data; in turn, responses are less effective. Objectives:
1. An in-depth report on how and why citizens of Tajikistan of diverse backgrounds are either immune to radicalisation or become radicalised, has enriched the literature in Tajikistan
2. Information targeted at improving anti-radicalisation policy in Tajikistan has been prepared
3. Research findings and recommendations have been presented to and discussed with officials from the Government of Tajikistan and relevant international actors This research project is designed to begin to fill a considerable research gap on Tajikistan and reveal the main trends and tendencies underpinning the phenomenon of religious radicalisation through research into radical messages and government responses, a sociological study, complemented by case studies. The research products can inform and recommend to the government and to international actors where immunity and vulnerability to radical messages exist and ways to more effectively counter radicalisation and violent extremism.
European Partnership for Nagorno-Karabakh The European Partnership for the Peaceful Settlement of the Conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh (EPNK) is a consortium of five European NGOs, which seeks to work with local partners in the South Caucasus on a wide range of peace-building projects to improve framework conditions conducive to positively impacting the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement process.
Harnessing Trade for Peace The project builds on the work done through the BAP initiative and aims to further empirical research on trans-Ingur/i economic relations and establish an expert process with the view of laying groundwork for future talks on regulating the relations. National level authorities in the region and international mediators/interveners - primary target group of this project, who benefit from the policy debate that has a potential of leading to an adoption of some form of economic regulation. 

Georgian and Abkhaz economists and lawyers and international experts who have played an integral role in putting together a report on regulating cross-divide economic relations, are essential to this project. 

The long term beneficiaries of this project are conflict-affected communities, especially SME owners living in the regions that border with conflict divides, who are interested in economic opportunities for development and freedom of movement.
Hadin Kan Mu Karfin Mu (Our Unity, Our Strength): Reinforcing the resilience and reintegration of conflict affected women and children and promoting community peacebuilding in North East Nigeria The project's overall goal is to reinforce the resilience and reintegration of conflict affected women and children and promote community peacebuilding. Output 1: Women and adolescent girls benefit and are empowered from income generating activities (IGA) and saving and loans schemes through well assessed and marketable skills
Output 2: Social exclusion of women and girls affected by sexual violence and children associated with armed groups is reduced and successful reintegration increased
Output 3: Women, girls and children GBV survivors are provided with timely, confidential and comprehensive case management
Output 4: Training is provided in relevant technical areas to reinforce team and a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning framework is established, to ensure effective implementation and adaptation Borno state
Promoting rights, Protecting Women: Prevention of & Response to GBV against Women and Girls in Mogadishu Promoting rights, Protecting Women: Prevention of & Response to GBV against Women and Girls in Mogadishu Alert will work as a sub-contractor to CISP to implement this project in Mogadishu, Somalia, which seeks to improve the prevention of and response to gender based violence in three districts of Mogadishu through a multi-faceted response which includes capacity building, support to service provision, awareness activities and advocacy. Alert's role focuses on research on GBV and training of project staff and partners in conflict sensitivity.
Enabling Civil Society to contribute to more effective, inclusive and accountable public security policy and programming in Nepal To improve public security through an inclusive bottom-up, people-centred community safety and security approach, developing a model that could be taken up at the national level and replicated across Nepal; To build the capacity of the private sector to both advocate for and support the accessible and accountable provision of public security; To build the capacity of civil society at district and national levels to promote gender-responsive public security policy and programming
IFRC World Disasters Report consultancy The consultancy was an invitation to contribute to the IFRC World Disasters Report for 2015. The specific input into the report can be found in chapter 6; Guns not Hurricanes: the role of local actors in protracted conflict.
TUSAMEHEANE TUJENGE NCHI - Participatory Governance for Peace in Kenya The proposed project â€“ â€œTUSAMEHEANE TUJENGE NCHIâ€ (â€œWe shall reconcile to build the countryâ€ in Kiswahili) - responds to problems facing governance in Kenya as a key driver of conflict. Violent protests marred 2017â€™s election cycle, as has been the case in previous years. However, the implementation of a new devolved system of governance provides a window of opportunity for conflict resolution in Kenya. As resources (both political and economic) are brought closer to communities, there is an opportunity for increasing participation in governance processes and building horizontal and vertical relationships within the new counties. If this engagement in governance is carried out across conflict lines at the local level, it presents a unique opportunity for inter-community reconciliation and people-to-people peacebuilding. This is further enabled at the national level by the recent â€˜handshakeâ€™ between President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga which has the potential to provide greater space for peacebuilding processes at multiple levels in Kenya. This project will use this window of opportunity to implement a programme of participatory governance at the county levels creating space for communities in conflict to work together to improve service delivery in their counties. This will demonstrate the value of collaborative action over a zero-sum approach and therefore reduce some of the incentives for conflict and contribute to the wider peacebuilding processes brought about by the â€˜handshake agreementâ€™ driving towards peace writ large in Kenya as the country moves towards the next electoral cycle in 2022. Specific Objective: To reduce levels of conflict in specific sub-counties in Kenya through increasing participation in county governance
To achieve the above Specific Objective, the project will have two outcomes:
Outcome 1: Increased knowledge, skills, understanding and leadership of people in conflict leading to more sustainable peace and economic prosperity
Outcome 2: Improved trust among diverse groups through inclusive dialogues and participatory governance initiatives resulting in improved service delivery by the county government Project Goal: To contribute to the consolidation of a peaceful and inclusive Kenyan society enjoying improved service delivery through enhanced citizensâ€™ participation in people-to-people dialogue and county governance.
Now and the Future: Gender Equality, Peace and Security in a COVID-19 World This will be a two-phase programme in 8 countries. GAPS,GAPS members and partners will develop, launch, disseminate and embed the findings of 8 country briefing papers and an overarching summary paper which outline the short and long-term impacts of COVID-19 and make recommendations to the international community that are relevant to COVID-19 response and future pandemics and crisis. The country briefings and overarching summary paper will provide sound gendered-conflict analysis by consulting with womenâ€™s rights organisations and civil society. The 8 countries are at different stages of the conflict cycle and geographic regions to ensure they represent the range of COVID-19 impacts.   GAPS will work with its INGO members and their partners to ensure the programme; its findings and its outputs has a wide-range of expertise that are context-specific. This consortium will be led by GAPS using the same model as GAPS has used to undertake projects and programmes previously where it brings together national and international partners to influence national and global policy and programmatic change on Women Peace and Security. Nasnaga
Strengthening diaspora voices Working with the Sri Lankan diaspora to support reconciliation in Sri Lanka
Breaking Links Between Local Economies And Conflict Research on the links between local economies in Mindanao and conflict, and opportunities to break these links.
Body Shop - Play based Peace Education Peace Education project in Shatila for 600 Syrian refugees
Rapid Assessment on the Situation of Children born out of Sexual Violence in Northeastern Nigeria Rapid Assessment on the Situation of Children born out of Sexual Violence in Northeastern Nigeria This three month rapid assessment aims to provide an understanding of the current situation and provision for children bord out of sexual violence and their mothers, community perceptions of them and the consequences of those perceptions and the risks to the mothers and children.
Maximizing Peace Capital: Demonstrating the potential of business sector to support inclusive peace-building in Baluchistan Using the mining industry in Pakistan as a case study to generate knowledge and learning as to how businesses can play a positive role in minimising conflict risks and promoting peacebuilding.
Living with Dignity
local decision making among Non-State Actors for sustainable decentralized
pasture management in Murghab. Together with Cesvi and three Tajik NGO partners (ATO, Farodis and WoO), Alert is seeking funding to implement an innovative intervention to address VAWG in Tajikistan and contribute to its prevention. VAWG levels in the country are in fact staggering, with one third to one half of women in Tajikistan regularly subjected to physical, psychological or sexual violence and widespread domestic violence and sexual abuse. For this reason, our intervention seeks to focus on VAWG prevention and tackle three main risk factors: 1) women are socio-economically marginalized and disempowered; 2) community institutions are not effectively engaged to address the problem; and 3) Tajik social norms and stereotypes prescribe an aggressive role to men and a submissive one to women, which contribute to a violence-condoning environment. 1. Improve gender attitudes, knowledge & behavior amongst beneficiary families (including male and female family members) 
   to reduce acceptability and perpetration of VAWG;

2. Vulnerable women are empowered to contribute to household’s finance and well being through equal participation in family run small enterprises;

3. Produce rigorous evidence on 'what works' to tackle VAWG in Tajiksitan.
   to reduce acceptability and perpetration of VAWG;

2. Vulnerable women are empowered to contribute to householdâ€™s finance and well being through equal participation in family run small enterprises;

3. Produce rigorous evidence on 'what works' to tackle VAWG in Tajiksitan. 80 families (approximately 560 women and men)