Realizing Inclusivity: The Role of the UN in Promoting Inclusion at the Country Level

How do UN Country Teams understand and act on policy recognition of the importance of social, economic and political inclusion?

While the obstacles to realizing inclusivity in peacebuilding have been identified in a number of reports in recent years, a deeper and contextualized understanding of how meaningful inclusion is pursued in practice at the country level is still needed.

Inclusivity is particularly vital as the United Nations supports countries in mitigating and recovering from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and follows through on interlinked reforms affecting its development and management systems, and its work on peace and security, a new report by the the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation stresses.

This raises an important but complex question: how does the UN, working at the country level, understand and act on international policy recognition of the importance of social, economic and political inclusion for sustainable peace and development?

The report, titled ‘Realizing Inclusivity: The role of the United Nations in promoting inclusion at the country level’, explores how, and to what extent, the UN promotes and supports inclusivity in its policy, programming and stakeholder engagement processes in four country contexts: Colombia, the Gambia, Jordan and Sri Lanka.