COMPANY PRESENTATION
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**Background**
At the request of the Liberian Government, Liberia was officially placed on the Peacebuilding Commission Agenda on 27 May 2010 making the country eligible as a recipient of UN Peacebuilding Fund's Peace and Recovery Facility (PRF). Since then the PBC has been engaged with Liberia supporting programs to strengthen rule of law, security sector and legal reforms, gender equality and women empowerment as well as national reconciliation through national and local peace infrastructures. These supportive initiatives are aligned to the Government Pro-poor Agenda for Prosperity and Development (PAPD) and SDGs 1, 5, 8, 16 as well as the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperative Framework.
To address this, the S-G approved the Executive Committee Decision 2017/88 (Liberia) (September 2017) to strengthen and expand the Resident Coordinator's Office, establish the OHCHR office and a pooled fund (the Liberia Multi Partner Trust Fund) to support peace
- consolidation, human rights, rule of law, reconciliation and the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Liberia. The Liberia Multi-Partner Trust Fund (LMPTF) was anchored on a vision of realizing less dependency on the international community assistance for peace and security and placing the country on a stable trajectory to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The LMPTF was designed to support Sustaining Peace and peace consolidation in Liberia through the implementation of the Liberia Peacebuilding Plan priorities and the delivery of the United Nation's Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) in support of implementing the Government's Pro-Poor Agenda for Prosperity and Development. The new government has prioritized peace consolidation by establishing a stand-along pillar on 'sustaining peace'.
- Since 2018, the LMPTF has been supported by the Peacebuilding Fund as the only donor, whose financing modality is premised on catalytic support. Further financing of the LMPTF has been reconsidered by the PBF, reverting to its traditional financing of peacebuilding initiatives through its Peacebuilding and Recovery Facility (PRF)and Immediate Response Facility (IRF) windows.
- Under the current PBF portfolio, a secretariat exists, operating under the auspices of the RC whose responsibility is to ensure overall coordination, monitoring and reporting of peacebuilding programming in Liberia, working closely with the UNCT, the Government and CSOs involved in peacebuilding programmes. The PBF Secretariat brings efficiencies and effectiveness in overall coordination of peacebuilding programming in Liberia. The PBF Secretariat helps to coordinate monitoring approaches between projects, and monitor progress against the peacebuilding context, the risks and the high-level peacebuilding priorities supported by PBF.
**PBF Programming Support to Mano River Union Countries (MRU**
- The Mano River Union region comprises Côte d'Ivoire, Guinéa, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The region underwent several decades of conflict and has now returned to stability. Tensions remain however, particularly in border areas, despite strong historical and cultural ties, and reconciliation is a work in progress. People who returned to or remained in border communities often have relatively fewer opportunities for education, skills development, training, employment and indeed mobility. Environmental pressures and land disputes are adding to these challenges. Opportunities to build community resilience and social cohesion, often based on traditional systems, include cross-border and sub-regional cooperation in areas such as dialogue, citizen engagement, economic integration, youth and women productivity and enhanced security.
**Duties and Responsibilities**
The position of Peacebuilding Officer is based in Monrovia, Liberia, and is located in the Office of the Resident Coordinator for Liberia, working closely with the PBF Secretariat in Monrovia.
- The incumbent will report to the Resident Coordinator for Liberia and will, as required, provide guidance to the RCs and UN Country Teams in the four countries of the Mano River Union region in identifying entry points for cross-border and sub-regional peacebuilding initiatives, supporting programme design and elaboration, providing analysis on sub-regional challenge