BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:migration4development.org X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6606092ec53c5 DTSTART:20220518T180000Z SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND:20220518T193000Z SUMMARY:IMRF Side Event: Lessons from Cameroon on Forging the Path for GCM Objective 2 in the Face of Mixed Migration Contexts: United Nations Peace Building Fund for the Humanitarian Development Peace Nexus CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:
Since 2019\, the Secretary-General\, responding to a request by the Government of Cameroon\, declared Cameroon eligible for funding un der the Peace Building Fund (PBF) Peacebuilding and Recovery Facility for five years. Since then\, the PBF has progressively become one of the criti cal sources of financing for peace initiatives in Cameroon\, supporting th e government and UN agencies with catalytic\, risk-tolerant and timely fun ding for 12 projects with a cumulative budget of approximately 21 million USD\, with a focus on three pillars:
\n\nOver the same period\, the world ’s attention has increasingly turned to Cameroon as one country operatio nalizing the Humanitarian Development Peace Nexus (HDPN) in the face of mu ltiple contexts for mixed migration and forced displacement\, following Me mbers States' commitments in 2016 at the first World Humanitarian Summit. A key factor of the HDPN approach is to address the root causes of conflic ts. As many conflicts are linked to poverty and underdevelopment\, it seek s complementarities by providing humanitarian aid\, supporting socio-econo mic development and enhancing efforts for peacebuilding.
\n\nAt this side event\, a panel of representatives including:
\n\nwill share experienc es drawn from their respective work and expertise to show how PBF financin g can be further synergized with the humanitarian-development-peace nexus (HDPN)\, within Cameroon and beyond. This will be to ultimately advance on the United Nations agenda to strengthen migration governance on the imple mentation of GCM\, specifically by:
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