Contribution to the Peace Dividend Initiative (PDI)

• Populations in countries affected by fragility and conflict (final beneficiaries) 
• National stakeholders: authorities, civil society, private sector, etc. in these same countries (indirect beneficiaries)
• Private sector actors in industries like agriculture and technology who want to utilise their value chains and expertise to help achieve the sustainable development goals (SDG), especially SDG 16
• Impact Investors seeking to deploy capital to fragile and conflict-affected countries to have a peace-supporting impact 

• Contribute to creating new and local peace dialogue tracks between conflict actors and communities, laying a foundation for reconciliation from the bottom-up.
• Support new market incentives in favour of sustained peace, building viable local and gender-inclusive businesses and connecting them with reputable market actors.
• Prototype and pilot peace positive investment by de-risking and crowding-in private capital to fragile and conflictaffected markets. 

Erwartete Resultate:  

• 40 business ventures in fragile and conflict-affected contexts established, out of which at least 10 are expected to be sustainable at the end of the phase;
• Their positive impact on peace and inclusive development at the local level is demonstrated and fostered;
• Most promising businesses are scaled-up by connecting them to market opportunities, and to a network of private investors.

Resultate von früheren Phasen:   In its first two years, the PDI foundation has produced promising results supporting business ventures in 3 pilot countries (Philippines, Colombia, and Ukraine). This convinced Switzerland to support the initiative and, in doing so, to contribute to the creation of the larger Peace Finance sector. Key results: PDI accompanied the launch of 10 small-scale peace-supporting business ventures (out of which 2 are sustainable, 4 are turning a proft but need support to scale and 4 failed), engaging stakeholders who may have otherwise relapsed to violence and conflict, and creating localised market incentives in favour of peace; PDI demonstrated the potential of economic dialogue in support of peace processes by catalysing engagement when political dialogue was frozen or disrupted; PDI developed a set of principles to be used to measure the impact that businesses have on peace; PDI laid the foundations for the Peace Venture Fund (PVF), a blended finance instrument to invest in peacesupporting commercial ventures in fragile and conflict-affected contexts.