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This Annual Report consolidates the outcomes and impact of the final year of our A Resilient Peace 2021-2025 strategy. As colleagues across and beyond the peacebuilding landscape know, the work presented in this report has been implemented and achieved against a backdrop of drastic global turbulence. The year began with the dismantling of the world's largest bilateral aid agency, USAID, sending shockwaves across the sector and pivoting us deeper into an already critical funding crisis. As finite resources dwindled, public attention shifted to political power plays, leaving most of the world’s devastating conflicts out of sight. The climate crises became a sidenote, inclusivity an add-on, and principled rules of engagement a question of preference. Throughout the year, we witnessed the multilateral system created to protect humanity crack louder than ever in its history.
Amid the turmoil, our global engagements with and within communities impacted by conflicts continued. We supported community-level peacebuilding and empowered those in the margins to influence solutions. We facilitated dialogues, supported peace infrastructures, and offered trainings. Working alongside our partners, we focused on strengthening the resilience and capacities of communities to enable peaceful, just societies.
As set out by the A Resilient Peace strategy, our work in 2025 was guided by the following aims:
Working through our global initiatives and across 10 contexts of intervention, in 2025 we delivered the following impact:
| People reached by social cohesion activities (e.g. sensitization sessions, intergenerational dialogues, fairs, MHPSS groups) |
55,292 |
| Number of local peace committees and structures established | 128 |
| Number of locally-led conflict prevention activities supported | 673 |
| Number of State and local authorities engaged in programming towards more inclusive and participatory governance | 58 |
| Number of programmes that include peace responsiveness in their design | 11 |
| Number of peace responsive joint programmes designed with and/or funded by external actors (e.g. UN offices, INGOs, Ministries, other donors) |
4 |
| Instances of policy or programming co-design at State level | 9 |
The following chapters expand on the above and provide insights and examples of the tangible outcomes of our programmatic work and policy efforts. In addition to presenting and assesses our past achievements, the report looks ahead. As we enhanced resilience, we began preparing for our new strategic cycle and drafting an operating framework that aligns with the changing landscapes.
Drawing from lessons learned and the expertise of our staff, the second half of the report builds a bridge to Interpeace’s new Strategic Framework 2026-2030: Navigating Political and Civic Space – Peacebuilding in an Era of Heightened Instability. Going forward, we will continue to deploy our expertise and harness our resources to meaningfully change the drivers of violence. Building on our efforts in 2025, we will work to ensure that peace is a credible, durable political solution.
A cohort of 15 young leaders from 15 different countries embarked on a two-year Youth Peace Mediation Programme implemented together with the Governments of Finland and South Africa. The goal of the program is to support the next generation of peacebuilders and build a network of young mediators.
In Burundi, we supported women leaders to emerge as mediators, advocates, and economic actors. We engaged with leadership platforms with the goal of reducing gender-based violence by increasing women’s visibility and normalising female authority.
