The Peace and Security Investment Hub (PSIH) of Mozambique is a component of the Resilient Investment for Socio-Economic Empowerment, Peace and Security (RISE-PS) Project, implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and funded by the African Development Bank (AfDB) through the Transition States Facility (TSF Pillar III).

The Hub is designed as a structured origination platform that strengthens the upstream investment ecosystem through pipelines of bankable, peace-positive investments that create financial and impact additionality across Niassa, Nampula, and Cabo Delgado.

It has three core functions:

1) Turn community insight into investment-grade intelligence, through participatory research, community engagement mechanisms, localized conflict and needs analysis, convening, and technical support;
2) Create investment pipelines of locally sourced, peace-positive investment ideas ranging from small-scale, community-driven livelihood projects to larger, commercially viable private sector investments; and
3) Facilitate strategic convening, resource mobilization, and learning to match endorsed concepts to capital.

The hub enables partners to leverage immediate opportunities in upstream linkages to extractives, agribusiness, tourism niches, and housing construction; articulate de-risked investment pathways for infrastructure, logistics, and transport projects; create horizontal linkages with extractives projects; and invest in the productivity of key sectors such as forestry or aquaculture.

The PSIH’s conceptual approach is anchored in the Peace Finance Impact Framework and Peace Finance approaches developed by Finance for Peace, an initiative incubated by Interpeace to create a market for investments that contribute to peace.