International Alert core support 2022-2025

International Alert has submitted a comprehensive report showing a number of relevant results for the year 2023. Below follow two results examples that in particular stands out as highly relevant. Reduction of violence against women and girls in Central Asia Alert's Living with Dignity approach is helping to reduce violence against women and girls across Central Asia. The methodology tackles harmful behaviours at a household level (working with partners and other family members), targets social norm change at a community level and integrates income generating activities to address both social and economic drivers of violence. This has led to a 50% reduction violence against women and girls, improved family and community cohesion and mental and physical health and increased womens and family savings by 400-800%. Launched in Tajikistan in 2015, the programme now extends across Central Asia and in 2023 the organisation supported 30 families in Tajikistan along with its partners NGOs Dunyo Sabz and Pesshaf, 40 in Kyrgyzstan along with its partners Initiative of Roza Otunbayeva Foundation and the women-led organisation DIA, and launched a pilot in Uzbekistan training of at least 10 expert trainers in the methodology. Integration of Peace - Conflict Sensitivity hubs in support of the HDP nexus Alert implements various models of conflict sensitivity hubs in different contexts, offering a range of training, accompaniment, analysis and learning relating to peace and conflict issues. In DRC Alert continues to grow its conflict sensitivity hub, providing tailored training, accompaniment, analysis and support to over 240 humanitarian, peace and development actors working in eastern DRC. After three years of implementation, the organisation is now considering strategic adjustments to its focus and operations that allow longer term support and more systemic change so that aid actors in DRC adopt conflict sensitive approaches. The Hub is working with INGOs, NGOs and donors to more effectively respond to crises and emergencies in a conflict sensitive way, actively engaging communities in determining priorities and adapting organisational operating systems and partnership approaches to very volatile and fragile contexts.

International Alert is a global non-governmental organisation (NGO) of around 250 staff with peacebuilding activities in 15 countries. Sida supports the implementation of its strategy Partners for Peace 2024-2030, with the below objectives. Goal 1: Building peace Alert works with those affected by conflict to end violence and create the conditions for peaceful coexistence and positive social change. We support the inclusion of people of all groups and identities in decision-making, placing a particular emphasis on understanding and addressing gender dynamics and other factors of marginalisation, such as youth. Alert works alongside local, national, regional and global partners to bring about change. Goal 2: Transforming our peacebuilding partnerships Alert will work to ensure that its partnerships will be equitable, effective, deep and diverse. It sets out that peacebuilding will be increasingly led and managed by its partners. Goal 3: Integrating peace Alert aims to: • build strategic partnerships with international development and humanitarian organisations open to joint programme development, consortium funding and joint delivery through our country teams and local and national peacebuilding partnership networks; • expand conflict-sensitivity integration hubs, and seek to integrate peace-positive approaches into the programme portfolios of at least two major development agencies or development finance institutions; • lead cross-sector coalitions to advocate for conflict-sensitive climate action, including climate finance; • deepen its relationships with private sector investors to provide conflict-sensitive accompaniment, advice and training, where our values align, and to deliver our peacebuilding mission. Goal 4: Making connections to advocate for global change Alert will use its partnerships, and its ability to convene stakeholders across countries and sectors, to influence positive global change and so that the voices of people affected by conflict shape the decisions that affect them. Goal 5: An international, equitable, inclusive, sustainable and effective organisation