Enhance the PBC’s capacities to host discussions about cross-cutting issues. The PBC is more suitable for hosting in-depth discussions on the WPS, YPS and other cross-cutting agendas. Grass-roots initiatives, progress, lessons learned, challenges would receive more attention at the PBC than currently at the UNSC.
1) Redirect UNSC’s briefers to the PBC.
2)Strengthen relations with ECOSOC.
3)Encourage countries to request PBC’s advise.

Strengthen the PBC’s advisory role to the Security Council. This is particularly important when peacebuilding elements of missions' mandates are at stake, as well as during reconfigurations, drawdowns, and transitions.
1)Expand PBC's participation in the negotiation of PKO and SPM mandates by excluding “upon request/requests for advice/at its request” in the 2020 PBA Review.
2)Alternatively, UNSC’s members should regularly request PBC advise by strengthening OP 8 UNGA 70/262 and UNSC 2282(2016).
3)Enhance the meetings between PBC and UNSC’s Committees, Working Groups and Ad Hoc Bodies.

Bolster the PBC’s advisory role to ECOSOC. This will promote greater coherence among development and peacebuilding actors in the headquarters and the field.
1)Increase the dialogues between the PBC and the ECOSOC by promoting joint meetings.
2)Increase the cooperation between PBC and ECOSOC by using the Commission as a platform to bring attention to certain economic and social issues, particularly economic drivers and risks to peace.
3) Enhance dialogue between ECOSOC and the Chairpersons of the Commission’s country-specific configurations.

See complete implementation strategy in the attachment.

The process of strengthening the PBC is already happening. There is political will among not only members of the PBC but also the Security Council. Moreover, the timing is now, as the 2020 Review of the PBCA kicked off.

Permanent Council members have traditionally viewed the strengthening of the PBC with suspicion, pointing to the risk of "encroachment" of Council issues by the Commission. Nevertheless, the historical trend of these reform processes that take place every 5 years has been one of increasing strength.

By increasing PBC’s coherence across the three UN pillars and with all relevant partners.

The proposal was designed taking into account the risks for the poor and inequalities within and across countries. According to the UN-WB Report, Pathways for Peace (2018), preventing conflict is critical to ending extreme poverty not only for promoting shared prosperity but also because violent conflict perpetuates poverty.

Moving some discussions from the Security Council to the Peacebuilding Commission will contribute to employing peaceful and development tools to promote peace objectives. Moreover, the peace and security debate will be more inclusive and more national governments will be accountable.

Taking preventive action and addressing possible root causes of conflict before the outbreak of violence is considerably cheaper for the international community than intervening during or after violence occurs (UN and WB, Pathways for Peace: Inclusive Approaches to Preventing Violent Conflict, 2018)

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PBC proposal Feb092020.pdf