United Nations Community Engagement Guidelines on Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace

Abstract

Following the Secretary-General’s call for the UN’s improved engagement with civil society at the local level in his 2018 report on Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace, a joint UN-civil society working group developed the UN system-wide Community engagement Guidelines on Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace to: Support UN field presences in developing country-specific community engagement strategies on peacebuilding and sustaining peace; and Provide operational guidance to UN field presences on how to more effectively engage with civil society actors at the local level in peacebuilding and sustaining peace. These Guidelines should also be understood to develop UN system-wide documents aimed at bringing more coherence to the UN’s approach towards civic space.