平和構築委員会（PBC）における平和構築基金に関する大使級第一回年次戦略的ダイアローグでの山﨑大使ステートメント

 
Thank you, Madam Chair, and I also appreciate the briefers for their valuable input.
 
Japan welcomes that the PBF is now funded from assessed contributions. We expect that the assessed contributions will be effectively utilized for the purpose of sustaining peace. In this vein, we believe it is important that appropriate oversight should be ensured without compromising the PBF’s agility, flexibility and catalytic character to involve various entities, including through the Secretary-General’s annual reporting on the implementation, performance, progress and expenditure of projects.
 
Voluntary contributions remain a paramount component of the PBF, as the Secretary-General has stated. Therefore, Japan decided to apportion an additional 3.86 million USD to the PBF. 
 
We, the Member States, reaffirmed the importance of ensuring adequate, predictable, and sustained financing for peacebuilding in resolution 78/257. As such, on top of our efforts to increase voluntary contributions, it is indispensable for us to actively consider ways of innovative financing, such as furthering collaboration with International Financial Institutions and mobilizing private funding to maximize the PBF’s catalytic effect.

Improving the visibility of the UN Peacebuilding Architecture has been a longstanding challenge, and more active information sharing of the PBF and its projects will help improve the PBA's presence. Suggestions I made in January on how the PBF and the PBC can work collaboratively to create synergy and enhance the impact of their efforts would function to this effect.
 
One of these suggestions is to create clear incentives for Member States to utilize the PBC and the PBF. For example, a mechanism could be established whereby countries wishing to apply for PBF funding make presentation on their national peacebuilding and prevention efforts at a PBC (meeting) in order to receive favorable consideration. A second suggestion is to build an institutional knowledge hub where recommendations raised at PBC meetings and lessons learned from PBF (projects) can be easily accessed. It can be an online database or portal, possibly contained within the Impact Hub. I would like to hear the thoughts of the PBSO on these concrete ideas.
 
In order to prevent the outbreak, escalation, continuation and recurrence of conflict, it is essential to address context-specific root causes while respecting national ownership. In this context, institution building and investment in people are key to building resilient societies. The PBF is an important instrument to promote such efforts, and the PBC should support the Fund by further utilizing the advisory role as well as bridging and convening power of the Commission and by promoting a comprehensive approach based on the Humanitarian-Development-Peace nexus. This is a way to “Enhance the role of the Commission as a platform for building and sustaining peace” as committed by Member States through the Pact of the Future.
 
Japan will continue to actively contribute to realize further collaboration between the PBF and the PBC, including through this year's Peacebuilding Architecture Review.
 
I thank you.