UNA-UK and partners host UK launch of NGO report assessing the Peacebuilding Commission's first year

On Tuesday, 10 July, UNA-UK co-hosted a seminar at the Foreign Press Association in London, to present findings from three major NGOs on the UN Peacebuilding Commission's (PBC) first year and its pilot interventions in Sierra Leone and Burundi.

The event served as the UK launch of a major research report by ActionAid, CAFOD and CARE International UK, entitled ‘Consolidating the peace? Views from Sierra Leone and Burundi on the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission’.

Click here to view the report.

The seminar was chaired by UNA-UK's Peace & Security Programme Officer, Tim Kellow, and featured presentations from Lord Hannay of Chiswick, UNA-UK’s Chair; Tennyson Williams, ActionAid Sierra Leone Country Director; and the report’s authors - Anne Street, ActionAid Policy Analyst, and Howard Mollett, CARE International Humanitarian Policy Advisor.

Click here to read comments on the Peacebuilding Commission delivered at the event by Lord Hannay.

A selection of photographs from the event are provided below.