Strengthening Cross Border Cooperation For Peace And Resilience In The Horn of Africa: Supporting IGAD border Clusters too Coordinate Governance, Prevent Conflict, Manage Shared Natural Resources And promote Inclusive Development.
Africa’s borderlands hold immense potential for peace and prosperity, yet recurring challenges threaten stability and development.
The Peaceful and Resilient Borderlands Programme (PRBP) strengthens peace and resilience by empowering communities, fostering cross-border collaboration, and promoting inclusive governance.
Thematic Areas
Cross Border Collaboration
Encourage partnerships between border communities to share resources, address common challenges, and build stronger regional ties.
Economic recovery
Enhanced access to income generating opportunities and shared natural resources for borderlands community members
Social Cohesion
Enhanced capacities of formal and informal cross border stakeholders in conflict prevention and management and social cohesion building with a particular focus on women and youth.
Thematic Areas
Our work is guided by key thematic areas that promote peace, strengthen social cohesion, enhance sustainable management of shared resources, support economic recovery, and build climate resilience. Together, these priorities advance inclusive growth, regional stability, and sustainable development.
This is the core theme/ output of PRBP - Reduce the impacts of local conflicts in the cross-border areas and enhance resilience in 3 IGAD clusters of the HOA.
Social Cohesion
Enhanced capacities of formal and informal cross border stakeholders in conflict prevention and management…and social cohesion building with a particular focus on women and youth.
Transboundary Resource Management
Promoting Cooperative management of shared Resources such as Water, grazing land and trade corridors to reduce Conflict.
Cross border Governance: Supporting Joint Coordination And Planning between Local Authorities Across Borders to address security, development and Migration Challenges.
Economic Recovery
Enhanced access to income generating opportunities… and shared natural resources for borderlands community members.
Climate Resilience
Climate resilience is a cross-cutting outcome, and it is clearly embedded through natural resource and livelihood components.
IGAD AREAS of Operation– Africa Map
Africa
IGAD AREAS of Operation
PRBP ClusterS
PRBP Working Areas
We focus on strengthening peace and resilience in borderland communities by promoting sustainable livelihoods, fostering cross-border cooperation, and building strong partnerships for lasting impact.
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"To live in Africa’s borderlands is to recognize the strength of our people and harness it to build peace and resilience for generations to come."
-MARY GORETTY-
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