Building Blocks for Peace Foundation (BBFORPEACE) has been elected as the new Regional Secretariat of the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC) in West Africa from 2023 through 2025.
As the West Africa Regional Secretariat, the position presents an opportunity for BBFORPEACE to directly take charge of network members’ coordination, programming and work to advance GPPAC’s Strategic goal of shifting the way conflicts are handled in West Africa and across the globe.
In this role, BBFORPEACE seeks to work and mobilize civil society organizations (CSOs) in West Africa around three important themes viz, locally-led peacebuilding, youth and women inclusion in peace and security, and climate-sensitive peacebuilding.
Furthering, BBFORPEACE will be supporting the operationalization of ECOWAS Conflict Prevention Framework in West Africa complementing what other similar networks and organizations are doing to support peacebuilding across the region.
About GPPAC
The Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC) is a global network led by civil society organizations (CSOs) actively working to prevent violent conflict and build more peaceful societies. GPPAC has their headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands. The network consists of fifteen regional networks with priorities and agenda specific to each of the regions.
About BBFORPEACE
Building Blocks for Peace Foundation (BBFORPEACE) is a non-governmental and non-profit organization working on conflict prevention, peacebuilding, accountability governance and sustainable development in Nigeria. The organization has been registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission since 2017 in Nigeria.
For more details: https://www.gppac.net/regions/west-africa
Written by
BBFORPEACE Communication Team