Thank you DSRSG and UNCT Sudan for taking the time to highlight ways the PBF can support UN system-wide and integrated efforts to prevent conflict and associated human and societal damage.

Gender-based violence is an appalling affront to #humanrights yet too often survivors are blamed. This must stop. This #16DaysofActivism let's uphold our commitments to ending #GBV. Survivors must be heard and perpetrators held accountable.

Violence against women and girls in all forms must come to an end. United Nations Sudan commemorates #16DaysOfActivism against gender-based violence at UN Development compound

The UK's funding to the PBF supports activities to prevent conflicts & build peace across the🌍 In Sudan, PBF helps empower local stakeholders to respond to the rapidly evolving situation on the ground, emphasizing women & youth as agents of peaceful change. #InvestInPeace

📸 Commemoration of #16DaysOfActivism in Khartoum📍 today World Food Programme staff in #Sudan 🇸🇩 raise their hands 🙌 & voices 📢 to say NO to #GBV Equal access & control over food/resources can reduce the risk of gender-based violence #16DaysOfActivismAgainstGBV #SayNotoGBV

Brilliant to be in Sudan on a visit with United Nations Peacebuilding and other donor colleagues - my first visit to see development results in person since the pandemic! Thanks to United Nations Sudan for your hospitality.

📢Just launched📢United Nations Peacebuilding Fund 🇸🇩 United Nations System Staff College & UNDP Sudan launched its #ConflictSensitivity & Peacebuilding course to equip humanitarian, development and peacebuilding practitioners w/ the tools to maximise contributions to #peace in Sudan. Register👉 bit.ly/3Bbfppu

Our United Nations Coordinators bring together 🇺🇳 agencies in their countries but also work together between countries in disputed areas like Abyei. Check out Khardiata Lô Ndiaye & Mme. Sara Beysolow Nyanti's latest blog on their joint efforts to deliver better #CoordinationResults: bit.ly/3BgrNEY

Peacebuilding Fund's partners 🇪🇺 🇩🇪 🇮🇪 🇳🇱 🇳🇴 🇸🇪 🇬🇧 are in Sudan this week to meet w/ the United Nations Sudan country team, partners, interact with local communities and see the impact of PBF's community-based investments ensuring that essential support reaches people who need it most.

80% of 🇸🇩 is⬇️35 yet youth are consistently excluded from political spaces. #PBF & donors heard from a promising group of youth advocating for political reform & youth inclusion through a The Carter Center Sudan project expanding #youth political participation w/ United Nations Peacebuilding support

#PBF🇺🇳 United Nations Peacebuilding donors visit to 🇸🇩#Sudan #WestDarfur projects implemented by #UN🇺🇳 Agencies & partners. Learning about needs that #Youth #Women #IDPs #Nomads & #HostCommunities are facing and discussing the collaborate way forward to achieve #Peace #Stabilization & #SDGs

Our United Nations Sudan team reports high insecurity & violence in Central Darfur. The team led by Khardiata Lô Ndiaye is supporting peace & development initiatives & providing humanitarian aid by training youth to promote peace, providing water to +56k people & more. 👉bit.ly/3Uw0365

@SamuelaIsopiEU Matthias Schmale United Nations Nigeria Spotlight Initiative In Sudan, the EU and United Nations have jointly advocated to continue the delivery of basic services for education, health, food security and child rights, say @FeigeTh and @KhardiataLoNd. They also took a pragmatic approach on better migration management and trafficking of human beings.

Kassala State Profile: There 773K people in crisis and above levels of food security, over 130K malnourished in Kassala. HRP partners provided assistance to more than 124K people in 2022. For more: bit.ly/3Ff2Xq0

Last week's visit to 📍Geneina was a great opportunity to learn about the catalytic effect of the United Nations Peacebuilding fund in Darfur. The inclusion of 🇸🇩 youth in peacebuilding is vital for developing sustainable solutions.

Around the world, our Resident Coordinators bring together 132 United Nations teams to support countries as they tackle complex development challenges - from the cost of living crisis to the impacts of climate emergency. I’m grateful for their service & commitment. un-dco.org

“I was marginalized before I was born.” Our donor partners met an inspiring group of young women engaged in Peacebuilding Fund's supported youth empowerment initiatives to discuss barriers and opportunities to young women's participation in peacebuilding in West Darfur, Sudan🇸🇩

Today is the launch of the 2023 #Sudan Humanitarian Response Plan. We humanitarians are aiming to provide assistance to 12.5 million of the most vulnerable people across Sudan, out of the 15.8 million requiring humanitarian assistance - the highest in a decade. #SudanNeeds2023

Privileged to get to see the important work United Nations Peacebuilding and their partners are doing in West Darfur, including on support to IDPs and mental health - crucial ingredients in a lasting peace.

We sincerely thank the Irish government for its generous contribution of $3.15 million to the #Sudan Humanitarian fund.