Our annual report 2024

In 2024, we worked with more than 80 partners to deliver 58 projects, helping to build peace in communities worldwide. As global conflict continues to rise, and with more and more people at risk, investing in peacebuilding is more critical than ever. Our work continues to seek to address the root causes of conflict to drive lasting and transformative change.

How we worked

Last year, we focused on five key areas of impact:

• Promoting an inclusive, participatory and collaborative approach to create sustainable change  
• Building deep, diverse and equitable partnerships to enable locally led and locally owned peacebuilding
• Developing strategic partnerships with development, humanitarian, climate and private sector actors to learn, influence and amplify impact
• Advocating on key global issues and ensuring the voices of those affected by conflict are heard
• Working in an inclusive and transparent way, strengthening our systems and risk management and supporting our staff

We achieved this through considered partnerships, community engagement and deep research. Our work with local partners included conflict analysis to help foster a rich understanding of conflict contexts. We also established inclusive community dialogue, enabling different groups like women and youth to be part of the solutions. We built sharing and learning platforms to increase the impact of best practice approaches when working in conflict settings. Additionally, we supported improving access to justice, particularly for marginalised groups. Overall, we worked to ensure peacebuilding is shaped by the people and communities directly affected by conflict.

Our impact

• In Lebanon, we supported 130 local women mediators, who worked on addressing conflicts in families and their local communities.
• In DRC, we helped identify and secure the release of 180 people who had been irregularly detained.
• In Nepal, we successfully advocated for the adoption of amended transitional justice legislation – a landmark law.
• Also, in Nepal, we trained 216 journalists across seven provinces on gender, equality, social inclusion, safeguarding and inclusive reporting.
• Through the Alert-led Conflict Sensitivity Hubs, we supported 311 development and humanitarian organisations to deliver their work in conflict-affected places.
• In DRC, Rwanda and Burundi, our work with women cross-border traders, demonstrated how peacebuilding approaches can help bring economic benefits.
• We conducted in-depth research into localisation in peacebuilding in four countries that highlight the crucial need for conflict sensitivity.

Additionally, we explored partnerships and projects beyond the boundaries of peacebuilding to support an integrated approach to increasing global crises. We worked on peacebuilding programmes that simultaneously supported climate action. We also provided conflict sensitive advice and guidance to the private sector and businesses in fragile and conflict-affected areas.

Despite complex and changing global systems, our teams still work tirelessly to show that peace is possible. Explore the full report for deeper insights and for a look at our achievements over the past year.