The European Centre for Confl ict Prevention / Stichting Europees Centrum voor Confl ictpreventie Annual Report 2007

IncludingIn an overview of the activities of the GlobalGl Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Confl ict 2 Foreword

It is my pleasure to have taken over the Regardless of the differences in language position of Chair of the ECCP Board used, two issues are outstanding in these from Jan Hoekema. Currently, ECCP has debates: there is a dire need for solid completed a fairly extensive makeover of its information and good analysis of confl ict- Board membership. To Jan Hoekema and prone situations and everyone is looking all other outgoing Board members, many for institutional innovations that would thanks for your contributions to ECCP. At support a more effective response. On both the management level too, we have seen accounts, civil society organisations have a a change in leadership with the retirement vital role to play. They are often closer to of Paul van Tongeren and the appointment potential confl icts and possess a wealth of of Peter van Tuijl as new ECCP Executive information that has, as yet, to reach the Director. I also would like to thank Paul, broader community of decision makers. whose contribution to ECCP as a founder of In a watchdog role, they can help to keep the organisation is immeasurable. governments, international organisations and other actors sharply focused on what Peace and violent confl ict are high on the needs to be done to prevent or mitigate agenda of governments and international confl ict or armed violence. Moreover, as a organisations. It is an indication of the participant in designing and implementing seriousness of the problem, but also of peacebuilding efforts, they can be part of the political will to do something about it. the necessary institutional innovation. The language used is not always consistent and sometimes contested. Some would ECCP is well positioned to promote the role say that the term ‘fragile states’ is colonial of civil society in peacebuilding, notably by condescending language, others would say fulfi lling the function of global secretariat that ‘confl ict management’ is better than for the Global Partnership for the Prevention ‘confl ict prevention’, because how can we of Armed Confl ict (GPPAC). ever establish that an instance of violent confl ict has been prevented? I am pleased to report to you that the basic conditions of ECCP have improved during 2007. We were able to reduce the defi cit from previous years by a third and now Table of Contents have a better basis of secured funding for 2008. ECCP also successfully concluded the Foreword 2 development and introduction of a new system of monitoring and evaluation based Consolidating and moving forward 3 on the outcome mapping methodology. Activities of the European Centre for Confl ict Prevention 4 I am happy to invite you to read through The Global Partnership for the Prevention 4 our annual report for 2007. Based on these of Armed Confl ict (GPPAC) strong foundations, we are looking forward to the future development of ECCP. Introduction 4 Awareness Raising 5 Joris Voorhoeve Chairman of the Board Interaction and Advocacy 6 Network and Capacity Building 7 A new role for Paul van Tongeren Knowledge Generation and Sharing 8 In August 2007, Paul van Tongeren retired as Early Warning and Early Response 8 ECCP Executive Director. However, Paul will Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning 9 continue his engagement with ECCP part- time in the position of Secretary General for Activities in The Netherlands 10 GPPAC, a new role in which he will focus on People Building Peace Netherlands 10 lobby and advocacy and the strengthening of GPPAC’s network. Peace Boat in Amsterdam 10 Financial Report 11 Auditor’s Report 13 Donor List 14 ECCP Board 14 ECCP Team 2007 15 GPPAC International Steering Group 15

Annual Report 2007 3 Consolidating and moving forward

and people across the globe, as well as coming years to networking and know- in its interactions with governments and ledge generation and other specific international organisations. The early years programme issues. We will continue to are over, and I see it as a main task of ECCP engage with many other organisations to continue our endeavours in bringing the in a collaborative spirit, always with an promise of GPPAC to fruition. This leads to eye on our ultimate objective, to make a a number of things to be done. meaningful contribution towards peace.

The ECCP organisation must continue its Peter van Tuijl, process of consolidation. The creation Executive Director of a global network is a high-energy, all consuming, task and not surprisingly some aspects of the internal organisation suffered. About the ECCP Starting with the fi nances and creating a balanced budget for 2008, a number of Mission steps have been taken that are intended The European Centre for to strengthen ECCP as a professional, Confl ict Prevention (ECCP) is a flexible organisation: a pleasant place to non-governmental organisation that work and interact with. This will include an promotes effective confl ict prevention ISO standard certification of our internal and peacebuilding strategies, and business process before end 2008. actively supports and connects people working for peace worldwide. Given the focus on the global level in recent years, there is also a need to assert a clear Vision and Guiding Principles position of ECCP within its home base in the We envisage a world in which people Netherlands and Europe. Global networking are able and willing to prevent and is in principle a complex act of articulating transform violent confl icts peacefully. On August 1, 2007, I took over the position a common agenda at different levels at the of ECCP Executive Director from Paul van same time, locally, regionally and globally. We believe in: Tongeren. First of all, I would like to thank In the long run, ECCP would not be able to • a multi-track approach; Paul for his cooperation and efforts to fulfi l the function of secretariat of GPPAC in • the importance of local support me getting into the job. I am equally a credible way, if it is not also fi rmly rooted capacities for peace; grateful for the warm welcome by both the in its own local and regional arena. • partnerships with local ECCP Board and staff. Stepping into the organisations; shoes of a founder and pioneer provides In cooperation with the City of The Hague • long-term engagement; a real challenge to further strengthen and and several other internationally orientated • impartiality. develop ECCP and its key role in the Global organisations in the Netherlands, ECCP has Partnership for the Prevention of Armed started the groundwork for the establish- The ECCP as a Secretariat Confl ict (GPPAC). ment of a Peace Portal. This interactive The European Centre for Confl ict website will have the purpose to serve Prevention holds the secretariat The manifestation of civil society organi- primarily as a conduit for civil society for the Global Partnership for sations around issues of peace and violent organisations in conflict regions and to the Prevention of Armed Confl ict confl ict has changed signifi cantly in recent connect practitioner knowledge with policy (GPPAC): these days, the majority of years. There is a decreasing emphasis on making and academia. It is a next step in the ECCP’s work is focused on this overarching concepts, such as opposing a line of work that has earned ECCP its task, coordinating the network and the use of violence as a legitimate way of reputation; the promotion of the role of civil the various programmes it runs at resolving confl icts. Instead, there has been society in peacebuilding by collecting and the global level in cooperation with a growing focus on concrete actions and publishing relevant stories, most notably 15 regional secretariats worldwide. weaving webs of civil society organisations in the series of “People Building Peace” with a crucial role as sources of knowledge books. Contact and expertise and conduits of political European Centre for Confl ict Prevention participation in processes of peacebuilding. Bridging the gap between early warning Secretariat of the Global Partnership In that regard, the establishment of and early response is still elusive. Finding for the Prevention of Armed Confl ict GPPAC has unlocked a huge potential of new ways of connecting the high-level lobby Laan van Meerdervoort 70 opportunities that we have only begun to and advocacy opportunities opened-up by 2517 AN The Hague explore. GPPAC with field experiences remains a The Netherlands colossal challenge in itself. GPPAC continues tel: +31 (0)70 311 0970 The conference “From Reaction to Preven- to explore ways to strengthen effective fax: +31 (0)70 360 0194 tion” in New York, which launched GPPAC communication about peacebuilding efforts email: info@confl ict-prevention.net onto the map of global networks, took to support an effective response to threats homepage: place in July 2005 and is now almost of violent confl ict. www.confl ict-prevention.net three years behind us. Meanwhile, a lot of www.gppac.net work has been done to further build the I am confident that ECCP will be able to www.peoplebuildingpeace.org network between different organisations make a significant contribution in the 4

Activities of the European Centre GPPAC Vision and Mission

for Confl ict Prevention in 2007 Vision GPPAC calls for a fundamental change in dealing with violent confl ict: The Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Confl ict a shift from reaction to prevention, as an approach that will save lives, and prove more effective and less destructive. INTRODUCTION International Day of Peace around the We seek a world in which people world each year on 21 September and governments elect non-violent The Global Partnership for the Prevention • Interaction and Advocacy: Strengthening means, rather than armed confl ict, of Armed Confl ict (GPPAC) is a world-wide civil society cooperation with the UN, to achieve greater justice, sustainable civil society-led network to build a new regional intergovernmental organisations development, and human security. international consensus on peacebuilding and governments and the prevention of violent conflict. • Network and Capacity Building: Enhancing The participants in the GPPAC process GPPAC works on strengthening civil society the capacity of regional networks are committed to the following networks for peace and security by linking and global mechanisms to undertake principles (presented more fully in local, national, regional, and global levels collective action to prevent violent the Guiding Principles and Values in of action and effective engagement with confl ict People Building Peace: A Global Action governments, the UN system and regional • Knowledge Generation and Sharing: Pilot on Agenda for the Prevention of Violent organisations. In 2003, the ECCP took peace education and conflict resolution Confl ict): the initiative that was to result in the in schools. Connecting the theory and • Prevention of violent confl icts is formation of GPPAC in response to the the practice of civil society activities on possible and should be pursued to call of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan this topic by documenting, analysing, the fullest extent by all peaceful in his 2001 report Prevention of Armed developing and disseminating essential means. Confl ict, by organising a meeting for civil knowledge on approaches, good practices, • We commit to transforming the society organisations from around the lessons learned and evaluations. conditions that give rise to violent world who were interested in establishing a • Early Warning/Early Response: Enhancing confl ict. global network on confl ict prevention and the capacity and professionalism of civil • As civil society actors, we believe peacebuilding. society organisations to engage in early that preventing violent confl icts warning and especially early response requires the forging of effective The Global Partnership is structured through efforts, and to advance interaction with partnerships and networking fifteen regional networks, each of which governments, regional intergovernmental among civil society organisations, has developed an action agenda to refl ect organisations and UN agencies. governments and multilateral regional principles and priorities. The organisations, among others. Regional Action Agendas fed into People Each of these programmes has activities in Building Peace: A Global Action Agenda for the upwards of fi ve regions, and each of the Mission Prevention of Violent Confl ict which outlines regions has its own set of activities outside GPPAC is building a new international key priorities for change and involved more of these fi ve programmes relating to the consensus and joint action to prevent violent confl ict and promote than 1000 organisations worldwide in its regional context, issues and priorities. peacebuilding, based on regional drafting. The fi nal document was presented and global action agendas. GPPAC to the UN in July 2005, during the Global Some activities were carried out in 2006 maintains a global multi-stakeholder Conference From Reaction to Prevention: when the plans were developed, but network of organisations committed Civil Society Forging Partnerships to Prevent implementation began in all seriousness in to act to prevent the escalation of Violent Confl ict and Build Peace, organised 2007, as did the introduction of Outcome confl ict into destructive violence, at by GPPAC in partnership with the UNDPA Mapping, ECCP’s new monitoring and national, regional and global levels. at UN Headquarters. evaluation system. This multi-stakeholder network includes civil society organisations, Following the Global Conference, the governments, Regional Organisations International Steering Group of GPPAC, Participants at the 2007 GPPAC International and the United Nations. which comprises representatives from each Steering Group Meeting of the network’s fifteen regions as well as some non-regional representatives (see page 15 for an overview), met in The Netherlands in October 2005, and in March 2006 in Nairobi to discuss how to translate the Regional and Global Action Agendas into Work Plans. In between these two meetings, the regional steering groups of each of the regions came together and developed regional Work Plans 2006-2010. During the Nairobi meeting, the International Steering Group decided on fi ve programmes to be run at the global level between 2006 and 2010, coordinated by the ECCP. They are:

• Awareness Raising: Gaining public support for confl ict prevention and peacebuilding to achieve a sea change in both policy- making and in fostering a genuine culture of prevention in communities. Activities will focus initially on celebrating the UN Annual Report 2007 5

AWARENESS RAISING

GPPAC began to develop and implement its awareness raising program in 2006. The overall goals for the coming years are: • To coordinate public awareness raising campaigns on issues related to confl ict prevention and peacebuilding and host dynamic centers of creative and inspiring activities on the UN International Day of Peace and ceasefi re on 21 September. • To stimulate an increasing number of its members, as well as interested individuals, organisations and international campaigns to celebrate 21 September with the help of the GPPAC campaigning toolkit and messages, and support them in sharing their experiences with the rest of the GPPAC network. • To work towards a media and a general public that are better informed about confl ict prevention, peacebuilding and GPPAC. • To develop good relations with the local and regional media on a reciprocal basis, and for GPPAC members to be valued as experts and a source of alternative opinions when it comes to armed confl icts.

International Day of Peace in Latin America and the Caribbean For the International Day of Peace, GPPAC Regional Secretariat CRIES held the first annual Latidos de Paz (‘Heartbeats of Peace’) contest for fi ve to eighteen-year-olds from all across Latin America and the Caribbean. Youngsters were encouraged to send in artwork expressing their ideas on peace and nonviolence. The International Day of Peace in Japan winning entry was on the front cover of the following edition of CRIES’ publication Pensamiento Propio. Both With these goals in mind, different projects An Awareness Raising Toolkit was the contest and the International Day have been developed over the past years: developed, which has been translated of Peace got a lot of media coverage into Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, throughout the region. The Media Focal Points are a mechanism Spanish, and Russian. Another activity for GPPAC to assist regions in generating saw the formulation of elements that awareness, while ensuring that local could be incorporated into press releases messages are in tune with global messages and articles, which were circulated to be about GPPAC, our mandate, and our adjusted to regional context and facilitated goals. It essentially appoints a person for the publishing of such articles. A GPPAC a specific period of time to work solely newsletter was produced with a primary on raising awareness. In 2007 six regions focus on 21 September celebrations. As in participated in the project, Latin America 2006, it included updates on activities that and the Caribbean, Middle East and took place around the world. Northern Africa, Northeast Asia, Pacifi c, Southeast Asia, Southern Africa. Acknowledging the importance of coming together and learning from The celebration of the International Day of each other as civil society organisations Peace was stimulated through the circulation working on awareness raising around of e-bulletins reporting on planned activities confl ict prevention and peacebuilding, an and afterwards on actual celebrations, the international taskforce was created, which promotion of these through websites and is tasked with steering the awareness printed newsletters and cooperation with raising programme. It held a two-day several international campaigns doing the meeting in Soesterberg, The Netherlands, One of the winning entries in the same. Emphasis was also placed on the on 7-8 October, at which the taskforce was competition, by Nicolás Sanguinetti development of tools and resources to joined by awareness raising experts from and Javier Chiriello increase the capacity of people to celebrate around the world. Input from the meeting the 21 September. helped finalise the GPPAC awareness 6

raising toolkit, as well as providing valuable contributions to the GPPAC Awareness Raising Programme as a whole.

One of the main fi ndings of the awareness raising meeting, was the realisation that even though GPPAC has much to tell the media, we might not always be able to put our message across in an effective manner. The issue-paper ‘Why and When to Use the Media for Confl ict Prevention and Peacebuilding’, developed at the end of 2007 and written by Lisa Schirch and Vladimir Bratic, was a fi rst step in dealing with this dilemma.

International Day of Peace in Georgia

INTERACTION AND ADVOCACY Civil Society and the Peacebuilding Commission in Burundi The GPPAC Interaction and Advocacy The PBC process in Burundi led to the development of a Strategic Framework for programme is aimed at strengthening Peacebuilding which was adopted at the end of June. Initially, only the United interaction between civil society and UN, Nations Operation in Burundi (BINUB) and the government contributed to it. Before governments and regional organisations. presenting the document in a meeting in New York, a steering committee was The programme undertakes activities at the organized in Bujumbura to discuss the content. A representative of the civil society global and regional levels. process, Emmanuel Nshimiremma from Biraturaba/GPPAC Burundi, participated in this meeting. He raised the issue that peacebuilding is a concern of all stakeholders One of the focus areas is the monitoring of and that civil society should be involved. Thus, the Strategic Framework should also the UN Peacebuilding Commission (PBC), contain engagements and responsibilities of other partners, including civil society, which was established at the end of 2005. donors, and others. This idea was strongly supported by the donors, and a task force GPPAC has successfully lobbied for civil was set up to organize consultations with all partners. The task force was made up of society inclusion in the mandate of the two people from the government, two from BINUB, two from donors and a person Commission, as well as participation of from civil society. This team organized consultations with civil society, international civil society representatives during offi cial NGOs, private sector, religious groups, political parties, representatives of UN agencies meetings. Through GPPAC’s regional and members of the government. On the basis of these meetings a peacebuilding partners, civil society processes in the focal strategy document was prepared and adopted by the Council of Ministers and the countries (Burundi and Sierra Leone) have joint steering committee. This process was a great success in collaboration between been set up. They have organized meetings the representatives of BINUB, the government and civil society. in-country bringing together civil society representatives, and setting up working groups. Representatives of these working Another area the interaction and advocacy The paper concentrates on examining groups have participated in offi cial meetings program is working on is strengthening some of the issues in forging appropriate in New York, as well as in-country. The next relationships with regional organisations. and effective partnerships between step is to create local PBC focal points. At the beginning of 2007 a paper with governments and civil society to work with an overview of 32 regional organisations confl icts at home and internationally. The and their capacities and entry points in paper, which includes success stories of this field was published. Another paper, government - civil society cooperation, has for internal use only, described the trends been widely disseminated, and is currently within these 32 organisations and their being re-printed. possible openness for engaging with civil society. These papers are used to create Lastly, GPPAC has been involved in knowledge and understanding of what lobbying for civil society engagement regional organisations can offer, and with the Geneva Declaration for Armed how best GPPAC members can engage Violence and Development process. The with them. Several GPPAC regions have Declaration was adopted in June 2006 by undertaken efforts to engage with their 40 governments. The Declaration provides a respective regional organisations. Activities good opportunity to continue stressing the in this respect were carried out in South need to acknowledge the interdependence East Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, of development and peace and security Southern Africa and the Pacifi c. issues. The GPPAC regional initiator for East and Central Africa participated in the Thirdly, at the end of the year, the issue regional meeting on the Declaration in paper Joint Action for Prevention: Civil Society October 2007. and Government Cooperation on Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding was published. Annual Report 2007 7

NETWORK AND CAPACITY BUILDING

The network and capacity building pro- gramme aims to set and steer the GPPAC’s strategic direction, build the capacities within the organs of the network and pro- mote self-regulating mechanisms for gov- erning the network on the international and regional level. It works to achieve these goals through: • developing network policies and gene- rating options for further work; • supporting the Executive Committee and International Steering Group to reach informed decisions about the structures and processes within the network, and; • bringing the International Steering Group together to discuss current challenges both in the field and within the international arena. This further provides the opportunities to share concerns and experiences across regions; • Strengthening regional and cross-regional networking GPPAC International Steering Group, Regional Liaison Offi cers and ECCP staff

Cross-regional networking: Asia In Da Nang the GPPAC Asia Pacific map the similarities, differences and Pacifi c Inter-Regional Forum (GPPAC AP) delegates met with over possibilities of cooperation amongst On the 15th June 2007 twenty members 2000 young people in a night of colour, the four regions. of GPPAC Asia Pacific, representing all music and a celebration of mutual four of the GPPAC regions in the area, met commitment to peace. The following day Some specific activities were planned on the Peace Boat in Da Nang, Vietnam the representatives met with civil society including supporting a solidarity and to participate in the fi rst ever GPPAC Asia groups to hear about the continuing monitoring mission to the Timor Leste Pacifi c Inter-Regional Forum to strategise suffering caused by Agent Orange used elections; joining the global initiative on regional priorities and cross-cutting during the Vietnam War and held a to protect Article 9 of the Japanese issues, and develop concrete plans to press conference. Boarding the Peace Constitution; writing a joint article optimise inter-regional cooperation. Boat, GPPAC AP set out on a journey to on the security situation in the South Pacific; developing an inter-regional historical text book to accurately refl ect Youth Festival in Vietnam co-organised by Peace Boat facts pertaining to various issues and challenges facing the region; and exploring possibilities for organizing a fact fi nding mission on the human rights situation in Sri Lanka.

After discussing the situation in Burma, a petition was prepared calling for the immediate and unconditional release of Aung Sun Suu Kyi. The petition was signed by 650 Peace Boat passengers, including Asia Pacifi c Forum members and was presented at the GPPAC Asia Pacific Multi-Stakeholder Roundtable, ASEAN at 40 years: Building Partnerships for Peace in the Asia Pacifi c Region, held in Singapore on the 19th June 2007. On the same day, upon arrival in the Singapore harbour a 30 meter banner was unfurled on the side of the Peace Boat, wishing Aung Sun Suu Kyi a Happy Birthday.

With the establishment of GPPAC Asia Pacifi c, the existing web of connections between national, regional and international parts of GPPAC’s work has now been formally recognized and consolidated in Asia Pacifi c. 8

The appointment of Regional Liaison Regional Secretariat and regional GPPAC continues throughout the year, in Offi cers (RLO’s) in nine of GPPAC’s regional members (primarily Regional Steering October 2007, they had the opportunity secretariats was an important step Group members); Organising meetings of to meet face-to-face in Soesterberg, The forwards in strengthening regional the Regional Steering Group; Assisting in Netherlands, to discuss GPPAC strategy, networking: Organisational capacity at proposal writing and fundraising; Taking structure and governance, and to Regional Secretariats have in the past part in the GPPAC Planning, Monitoring, consolidate the plans at both the regional sometimes prevented regions from being Evaluation and Learning programme; and global levels for 2008. The meeting as fully involved as they could be. The and assisting in reaching out to the also brought together all the Regional RLO’s now support the regional secretariats media, politicians and representatives of Liaison Offi cers who started work in their by, among others: acting as a liaison governments, Regional Organisations and respective regions in the course of the year, with the Global Secretariat; solving the other international organisations. to exchange experiences, and to deliberate communication problems that sometimes on the various challenges and successes occur; Participating in the GPPAC Task Though the work of the International they had experienced. Forces; Acting as the liaison between the Steering Group and Executive Committee

KNOWLEDGE GENERATION AND SHARING

The academic theory and the civil organisations, drawing theory from practice INCREPE organised an Inter-American society practice of conflict prevention to develop more generally applicable Summit on Confl ict resolution Education and peacebuilding are not always well lessons and sharing via the GPPAC website and an International Policy Meeting on synchronised: A more inclusive approach other key documents that organisations Conflict Resolution Education in March to gathering theoretical models, lessons wish to circulate. 2007. ECCP as GPPAC Global Secretariat learned and best practices from the fi eld, was a member of the organising committee and to building on these is needed in order The Knowledge Generation and Sharing and developed several workshops for the to improve the professionalism of the entire programme has focused its fi rst pilot project conference. fi eld and to bridge the gap between theory on Peace Education and Confl ict Resolution and practice. In these efforts, the Global in Schools, and works closely in this respect In April, the first of a series of regional Partnership has an important role to play. with INCREPE (International Network for conferences on Peace Education was held Conflict Resolution in Schools and Peace in Belgrade, Serbia. The conference was a The GPPAC network has engaged in a Education) which was conceived during great success with close to 60 participants collaborative learning process to identify, Peace Education working groups at the from NGO practitioners working on peace collect and disseminate essential knowledge GPPAC Global Conference in 2005. and conflict resolution education in the already existing with our grassroots Balkans and world-wide, including other GPPAC Regional Initiations and members of INCREPE, and the Hague Appeal for Peace Global Campaign on Peace Education, to several government representatives from the Macedonian and Serbian Ministries of and representatives from GTZ, the OAS and UNICEF.

A GPPAC Peace Education Reference Group meeting was also held in Belgrade at the time of the regional conference, where participants worked on further developing the programme. One of the decisions taken there was the undertaking of a research project focusing on documenting the evaluations done on peace education around the world, which started in the latter part of the year and will continue in 2008.

Working Group during the Belgrade Peace Education Conference

EARLY WARNING AND EARLY RESPONSE

Civil society organisations are often ideally warning and early response by gathering programme opened with an expert meeting placed to sense the subtle shifts and tremors and applying lessons learned and best in spring 2006, where it was concluded that in communities that portend the outbreak practices. the added value of GPPAC is in mobilising of violence. However, to date, civil society and building local capacity, engaging early warning and early response systems One of the key benefits of being part of local and international governmental and have not been successfully devised and a network such as GPPAC is obtaining non-governmental actors in dialogue on implemented across regions. Within the access to the knowledge and experience of preventive response, and extracting lessons Early Warning Early Response Programme, colleague-practitioners and other experts learned and best practices, which can help to GPPAC is working on raising the level as well as to the results of action-oriented move the fi eld forward. An issue paper “Early of professionalism in the field of early research. The early warning and response warning and early response: conceptual Annual Report 2007 9 and empirical dilemmas” was published actors, what are the comparative advantages, key question in this research was whether later that year and included many of the challenges and constraints? In Latin America civil society played a major role in preventing issues that came up during conversations the regional secretariat (CRIES) took the lead the conflict from becoming more violent between participants from civil society in the research to the challenges civil society or whether they were overwhelmed by and international governmental and non- organisations working to prevent violent domestic political actors and by multilateral governmental organisations. confl ict are facing in Venezuela. One of the organisations and NGOs.

These activities marked the start of an ongoing process of capacity-building In August 2007 an exchange seminar was organised by WANEP (West Africa Network through experience sharing between for Peacebuilding) in Accra, Ghana that brought together the task force of the Early practitioners. In order to make the issue Warning and Response Programme. The aims for this meeting were to learn fi rst paper available it was printed and distributed hand from the experiences from WANEP with their early warning and response widely among GPPAC contacts worldwide regional programme and to further discuss the experiences from WANEP regarding and translated into French in 2007. their structural cooperation with ECOWAS in this regard. Furthermore the meeting offered an unique opportunity for the GPPAC partners to share the experiences from To further support the discussion on possible their own regional activities with regard to early warning and response and refl ect on roles of civil society in early warning and lessons learned of civil society early warning and response activities and cooperation response the GPPAC Secretariat produced with governments and international organisations. two overview articles in 2007: “Mobilising early response to prevent violent confl ict: an overview of obstacles to early response” and “Options for civil society engagement in regional confl ict early warning and response”.

As part of the Mobilizing Civil Society for Early Response programme of GPPAC, two cases, Togo and Venezuela, where growing tensions did not lead to open violent conflict, were further researched. In both countries elections took place that were marred by tensions. In West Africa the GPPAC regional secretariat (WANEP) took the lead in researching the capacity of civil society organisations working on conflict prevention in Togo. The key questions that are addressed in this research are: does civil society in Togo have the capacity to neutralize growing tensions; how does EWER exchange seminar civil society collaborate with governmental

PLANNING, MONITORING, EVALUATION AND LEARNING

ECCP has been investing a lot in improving luation process are used to improve the is a participatory approach to planning, its planning, monitoring, evaluation and GPPAC programmes and track progress monitoring and evaluation developed by learning system (PME&L). from activities to goals. Furthermore, the International Development Research it offers the possibility to integrate the Centre (IDRC) in Canada. The ECCP adapted Together with the GPPAC network experiences of the network members on the method to meet the needs for GPPAC. members, it was decided that monitoring the functioning of the network and track Outcome Mapping was found useful because and evaluation should be done to: improvement over time. of its focus on learning, the use of outcomes • Enhance lobby and advocacy activities: as behavioural changes and because it is • Improve learning within the network : M&E Through making the achievements more a fl exible, non-linear and systemic approach. procedures encourage network members visible it adds credibility and weight to and the Global Secretariat to learn from GPPAC’s lobbying and advocacy work. The PME&L system is being developed each other. In addition, M&E procedures • Contribute to confl ict prevention theories in a participatory way. A Monitoring and should help GPPAC members to better and mechanisms: Through M&E proce- Evaluation seminar was organised following document their experiences so they can dures cases and experiences are collected the International Steering group Meeting contribute more effectively to knowledge through best practices, which can work in October for the GPPAC Regional sharing. towards the development of conflict Initiators and Regional Liaison Officers. • Increase transparency and accountability: prevention theories and improve the During this meeting, the M&E system Network members get a better idea mechanisms for confl ict prevention. was further discussed and developed. of everybody’s involvement in the Experts were invited on the first day of achievement of GPPAC’s goals and Based on the M&E needs of the network, the seminar to present their theories on the flow of funding. Through M&E the ECCP invested a considerable amount M&E within the fi eld of confl ict prevention procedures, reliable information can of time in searching for an M&E method and peacebuilding and to discuss with the be gathered that can be used for that would respond to these needs, address participants. The main focus of the seminar legitimisation of action towards all actors the diffi culties faced with the log frame and was on monitoring. Through participatory involved (such as target groups and be applicable to a global network. After exercises, the participants discussed how donors). extensive research, it was decided to use the monitoring process could be set up • Improve effectiveness and quality: The outcome mapping as the basic approach within the GPPAC network. outcomes of the monitoring and eva- for the PME&L system. Outcome mapping 10 Activities in The Netherlands

The Dutch Coalition: Celebrating the International Day of Peace

World Leaders cycle the Peace Tank around Utrecht, photo by Caroline Guldenmund

Thirteen organisations from the Netherlands This year’s edition took place in the centre of Utrecht. In the evening there were endorsed the Dublin Action Agenda historical town of Utrecht. The wreckage of debates, documentaries and workshops, produced in 2004 as part of the GPPAC a car bomb from Bagdad attracted a lot of followed by the outdoor Planet Peace Party, regional process. The thirteen endorsing attention, as did the Peace Tank on which which drew an audience of around five Dutch organisations also provided input in various “world leaders” cycled through the hundred mainly young people. to the Global Action Agenda (GAA) process. For this reason, the coalition called itself “GAAndeweg.” Peace Boat Reception in Amsterdam

Since then, the coalition has re-named itself People Building Peace Netherlands On 23 July 2007 the 58th Peace Boat Global Emilie McGlone introduced the activities (PBP-NL), and has grown to include over Voyage for Peace arrived at the Passengers of Peace Boat and the opportunities for forty members. The ECCP is on the Steering Terminal in the harbour of Amsterdam. Peace collaboration. Mr. Michimisa Hirata, a Committee of the coalition, along with Boat is an international non-governmental , survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, told the organisations Kerk en Vrede, Oxfam non-profi t organisation from Japan which about the devastation he had personally Novib, Platform Vredescultuur and UNOY aims to promote peace, human rights, witnessed. Building on the speech, Jannie Peacebuilders. The Secretariat is held by sustainable development and respect for Kuik from the Dutch NGO IKV Pax Christi, NEAG Alternatieven voor geweld. the environment (www.peaceboat.org). urged everyone present to take action One of the main activities in 2007 was the Aside from its headquarters in Tokyo the and make sure the tragedy will never be second edition of the Planet Peace Festival main activities of the organisation take repeated. for the International Day of Peace on 21 place on a chartered passengers ship that September. PBP-NL member IKV Pax Christi makes peace voyages all over the world. Rounding off the talks, Peace Boat dance took the lead in organising the festival, Peace Boat is also the GPPAC Regional team, SPACE – Share Peace, Arts, Culture supported by ECCP and others and funded Secretariat for Northeast Asia. and Energy – performed a traditional by IKV Pax Christi, War Child, and Oxfam Japanese Soran routine. And another of Novib. More than seventy people packed the Peace Boat’s guest educators, Nevenka onboard reception, which was jointly held Fiser, performed a fl amenco dance, after by Peace Boat and the ECCP as Global which there was time for networking and Secretariat of GPPAC. International Director socialising. Annual Report 2007 11 Financial Report

Balance sheet as at December 31, 2007 Statement of income and expenditure (after appropriation of the result) for the year 2007

Dec. 31, 2007 Dec. 31, 2006 2007 2006 € € € € ASSETS Grants and other income Fixed assets Grants received 1.607.893 1.643.650 Tangible fi xed assets Changes in prepayments projects -383.816 -348.203 Automation 3.567 948 Grant income 1.224.077 1.295.447 3.567 948 Other income 23.396 16.526 Current assets Total income 1.247.473 1.311.973 Books in stock 20.091 27.520 Expenditure Receivables Expenses ECCP offi ce costs Grants receivable 81.802 54.392 Personnel expenses 600.750 572.207 Other receivables 15.356 8.338 Depreciation 997 10.531 97.158 62.730 Housing costs 26.474 77.035 Cash at bank and in hand Offi ce expenses 36.578 49.740 Bank 863.526 396.303 Accountancy and Cash 217 681 consultancy costs 25.746 69.399 863.743 396.984 Other general costs 6.454 16.624 984.559 488.182 Total expenses ECCP offi ce costs 696.999 795.536 LIABILITIES Expenses project activities 514.926 583.690 Equity -93.956 -131.224 Total expenditure 1.211.925 1.379.226 Subordinated loans 37.743 37.743 35.548 -/- 67.253 Guaranteed equity -56.213 -93.481 Interest income 4.665 0 Long-term liabilities Interest expense and Loan 0 20.000 bank charges -/- 2.945 -/- 4.123 Current liabilities Result 37.268 -/- 71.376 Received prepayments projects 827.207 364.557 Creditors 87.567 30.742 Wage tax 14.591 15.818 Grants to be returned 8.256 9.134 Accrued liabilities 103.151 141.412 1.040.772 561.663 984.559 488.182 12

Project summary 2007

Grant Expenses Expenses income out of pocket organisation € € € Projects summary 2007 per program GPPAC programs Awareness Raising 214.806 61.476 153.330 Interaction and Advocacy 182.948 54.873 128.075 Network and Capacity building 640.084 338.960 301.449 Knowledge Generation and Sharing 89.388 8.188 81.200 Early Warning Early Response 74.284 30.429 43.855 Totals GPPAC programs 1.201.510 493.926 707.909 Other programs 21 September 10.254 8.687 2.025 Networking for Peace (activities not included in other programs) 12.313 12.313 0 Totals Other programs 22.567 21.000 2.025 Total 1.224.077 514.926 709.934

Projects summary 2007 per donor (see next page for further contract information per donor) Donor contracts ended 31/12/2007 Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs 424.934 206.773 218.161 Austrian Development Agency (1) -415 -415 0 Austrian Development Agency (2) -11.088 -10.764 0 Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) 42.217 18.672 23.545 Linkis/Oxfam Novib 10.254 8.688 2.025 465.902 222.954 243.731 Donor contracts outstanding 31/12/2007 DFID United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 314.815 64.956 249.859 Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) 80.000 0 80.000 Irish Aid 51.565 26.565 25.000 Meyer Swantee 60.000 0 60.000 Austrian Development Agency (4) 75.576 50.451 25.125 Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs 176.219 150.000 26.219 758.175 291.972 466.203 Totals 1.224.077 514.926 709.934

Annual Report 2007 13 Auditor’s Report 14 Donor List

‘03 ‘04 ‘05 ‘06 ‘07 GOVERNMENTS Austrian Development Agency Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs French Ministry of Foreign Affairs German Ministry of Foreign Affairs Irish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ministry of Foreign Affairs Finland Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs New Zealand Aid Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs UK Department for International Development FOUNDATIONS AND OTHERS Compton Foundation Confl ict Prevention Trust Fund Cordaid Dutch UNESCO commission Ford Foundation Fred Foundation Heinrich Böl Foundation Kontakt der Kontinenten Meyer Swanteé Foundation Municipality of The Hague NCDO Oxfam Novib Optimix Foundation Slifka Foundation Taiwan Foundation UNDP US Institute for Peace William & Flora Hewlett Foundation World Vision International

ECCP Board

A number of the ECCP Board members Remaining and new members are: concluded their engagement with ECCP in • Mr. Joris Voorhoeve, (Chairman), 2007. We say farewell with heartfelt thanks Member of the Netherlands Council of State to all outgoing Board members: and Professor of International Organisations • Mr. Jan Hoekema (chairman), and International Security Studies Mayor of the Municipality of Wassenaar • Ms. Carlijne Bueters (Treasurer), • Mr. Menno Witteveen (treasurer), Director of the Turing Foundation Managing Director of the Dutch Infrastructure • Mr. Wouter Meijer, Former director of the Fund BV and Treasurer of the national board of World Population Foundation the Dutch political party D66 • Mrs. Bea Stolte van Empelen, • Mr. Ton Waarts, Former Director of NCDO, formerly with SOH (Dutch Interchurch Aid), linked to several international networks was actively involved in several Africa related • Mr. Kees Homan, General-Major of the peace building activities Marines (retired), advisor for the Netherlands Institute for International Relations Clingendael

Annual Report 2007 15 Management and Staff

• Malin Brenk, Programme Manager • Lisette Hendriks, Offi ce Manager • Jasmin Nordien, Programme Manager Knowledge Generation and Sharing and (as of October 2007) Network and Capacity Building and Regional Coordinator Balkans • Marte Hellema, Programme Manager Regional Coordinator Africa • Charlotte Crockett, Project Offi cer Awareness Raising and Regional Coordinator • Goele Scheers, Programme Manager Communications and Awareness Raising Asia Pacifi c, Latin America & the Caribbean Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation & Quality • Guido de Graaf Bierbrauwer, Head of • Kees Kolsteeg, Manager Finance • Paul van Tongeren, Executive Director Programmes and Regional Coordinator • Walter Krabbenborg, Offi ce Manager (until August 2007) and Secretary-General Balkans, Caucasus and Western CIS (until October 2007) of GPPAC (as of August 2007) (until June 2007) • Kristel Maassen, Interim Programme Manager • Peter van Tuijl, Executive Director • Christine van Empel, Interim Programme Early Warning and Response and Regional (as of August 2007) Manager Interaction and Advocacy Coordinator Middle East & North Africa and • Juliette Verhoeven, Programme Manager • Renske Heemskerk, Programme Manager Central Asia (until August 2007) Early Warning and Response and Regional Interaction and Advocacy Coordinator Middle East & North Africa and Central Asia

GPPAC International Steering Group

Regional Secretariats North America Northeast Asia The Balkans Central and East Africa Canadian Peacebuilding Peace Boat Nansen Network in the Balkans Nairobi Peace Initiative-Africa Coordinating Committee Mr. Yoshioka Tatsuya Ms. Tatjana Popovi´c (NPI-Africa) (CPCC) Email: yoshioka@peaceboat. Email: [email protected] Ms. Florence Mpaayei Mr. David Lord gr.jp Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Northern and Western Europe Central Asia European Centre for Confl ict Southern Africa US Steering Committee for GPPAC: Foundation for Tolerance Prevention (ECCP) The African Centre for the Mr. Charles F. (Chic) Dambach International (FTI) Mr. Peter van Tuijl Constructive Resolution of Email: Chic@ Ms. Raya Kadyrova Email: info@confl ict-prevention.net Disputes (ACCORD) allianceforpeacebuilding.org Email: [email protected] Mr. Kwezi Mngqibisa Global Secretariat: Email: [email protected] South Asia Middle East and North Africa European Centre for Confl ict Regional Centre for Strategic Arab Partnership for Confl ict Prevention (ECCP) West Africa Studies (RCSS) Prevention and Human Security Email: info@confl ict-prevention.net West Africa Network for Mr. Syed Rifaat Hussain Permanent Peace Movement Peacebuilding (WANEP) Email: [email protected] (PPM) Non-regional members: Mr. Emmanuel Bombande Mr. Fadi Abi Allam • Mr. Johann Aufderklamm, Email: [email protected] The Pacifi c Email: [email protected] International Committee of Citizen’s Constitutional Forum the Red Cross Latin America and the Caribbean (CCF) Western Commonwealth of • Mr. Ekkehard Forberg, Regional Coordination for Mr. Jone Dakuvula Independent States World Vision International Economic & Social Research Nonviolence International • Ms. Heather Sonner, (CRIES) Southeast Asia Mr. Andre Kamenshikov World Federalist Movement – Mr. Andrés Serbin Initiatives for International Email: [email protected] Institute for Global Policy Email: [email protected] Dialogue (IID) • Ragnar Ängeby, Mr. Augusto N. Miclat Jr. The Caucasus Folke Bernadotte Academy Email [email protected] International Center on Confl ict & Negotiation (ICCN) Ms. Tina Gogueliani Email: [email protected] www.confl ict-prevention.net

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