Multi-Year Appeal

The Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA) leads UN efforts to prevent conflict and promote peace. It monitors global political trends, supports crisis response with partners, advises the Secretary-General and envoys, and guides other UN bodies.

The focus on diplomacy in the Pact for the Future reiterates the importance of central areas of DPPA’s mandate. The Pact reflects the strong commitment of Member States to strengthening the use of the Secretary-General’s good offices and the United Nations’ leadership of mediation and preventive diplomacy. To fulfil the vision outlined in the Pact, the Department requires the continued support of our partners through the Multi-Year Appeal (MYA).

The MYA is DPPA’s primary instrument to raise extrabudgetary funding for conflict prevention and resolution. Voluntary contributions through the MYA are crucial for fully implementing the DPPA’s 2023-2026 Strategic Plan. It complements the main source of financing for the Department, the United Nations regular budget, which has been under increasing strain in recent years.

Global developments have a direct impact on our work. The MYA supports DPPA’s core efforts in conflict prevention, peacemaking, and peacebuilding, as well as strengthens support for Special Envoys and Representatives, and enhances partnerships with regional organizations. It also funds key priorities like women, peace and security; technology and innovation; and climate, peace and security. Additionally, the MYA helps DPPA maintain field operations, liaison offices, and deploy mediation and electoral assistance, as requested.

These and other efforts place a renewed obligation on DPPA to seek further donor support for voluntary contributions, which have become critical in augmenting DPPA’s regular budget resources. Without the MYA, DPPA’s ability to engage with partners on the ground would be significantly hampered. The extra budgetary funding is the lifeline that allows the Department to make a meaningful impact.

DPPA's Multi-Year Appeal is calling for $170 million for 2023-2026, to make the Strategic Plan a reality.

In the peace and security pillar, the Multi-Year Appeal has demonstrated its comparative advantage by nimbly complementing other funding instruments such as the Peacebuilding Fund and the UNDP-DPPA Joint Programme on Conflict Prevention.

For more information, please contact the DPPA Partnerships Unit at Dppa-partnerships@un.org.

Flexibility of the MYA

On average, approximately 70 per cent of MYA funds received are unearmarked. This is invaluable for the Multi-Year Appeal and a prerequisite for its success. Unearmarked funding provides DPPA with the flexibility to respond to emerging needs, including to provide timely responses to requests from Member States, regional and sub-regional organizations, and other UN partners. This agility is crucial to maximizing the impact of every dollar contributed.
 

Every spring, the Department issues a results-focused MYA Annual Report to ensure accountability and enhance transparency. The report includes both financial and substantive reporting on the use of MYA contributions and its main results. 

Previous Multi-Year Appeal reports are available on the Funding Documents page. 
 

MYA Resources

For 2025, DPPA is calling for $43 million to support the implementation of the Strategic Plan.

We are deeply grateful to our donors who have made pledges and contributions. For historical information on past donor contributions, please visit the MYA page on the UN Peace and Security Data Hub.

 

*as of May 2025

Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation

DPPA’s Results Framework, which accompanies the Strategic Plan, measures our contribution to conflict prevention and sustaining peace through key performance indicators. Through mid-year and annual reviews, DPPA tracks progress against qualitative and quantitative indicators, enabling any necessary corrections. In addition, the lower level “theories of action” allows us to articulate more clearly why and how Multi-Year Appeal projects are designed and what they will perform to affect positive change.

DPPA continues to make use of the UN secretariat-wide Enterprise Risk Management approach in project planning, implementation and to monitor risks, finances and results and will continue to demonstrate its strategic and operational value building on the Value-for-Money assessment undertaken in 2020.

Risk Management

Developing a risk register helps minimize the exposure and impact to risks. Using the DPPA-DPO risk register, all MYA projects conduct a mandatory assessment to identify risk areas and mitigation measures.