Gender and Youth Promotion Initiatives

**About GPI and YPI** The[United Nations Secretary-General’s Peacebuilding Fund’s (PBF)](https://www.un.org/peacebuilding/fund) Gender and Youth Promotion Initiatives are expressions of the Fund’s commitment to inclusive peacebuilding. The initiatives support the empowerment of women and the advancement of gender equality and recognizes the important and positive role young people play in peacebuilding. Through the Gender Promotion Initiative the PBF seeks to increase support focused on gender equality and women’s empowerment and advance the implementation of the Secretary General’s Seven-Point Action Plan on Gender-Responsive Peacebuilding,?[Security Council resolution 1325 (2000)](https://undocs.org/S/RES/1325(2000)) and subsequent resolutions on Women, Peace and Security. The Youth Promotion Initiative (YPI) seeks to increase support to young people’s contribution to peacebuilding and to advance the implementation of[Security Council resolution 2250 (2015)](https://undocs.org/S/RES/2250(2015)) and subsequent resolutions on Youth, Peace and Security. **#Youth4Peace**