The Joint Peace Fund (JPF) is a multi-donor fund, established by international d...
The Joint Peace Fund (JPF) is a multi-donor fund, established by international donors to support Myanmar on the path to sustainable peace. The purpose of the JPF is to support national efforts to achieve a final and lasting settlement of ethnic armed conflict in Myanmar. Activities are focused on making the peace process itself more effective, supporting a more inclusive process, and paving the way to long-term peace by supporting political solutions to resolve decades of conflict. This holistic focus – supporting a broad range of actors in the peace process from the negotiation of the top level leadership to community leaders working in villages in remote parts of the country - makes it a unique project in terms of global peace support. With ten donors – Australia, Canada, European Union, Finland, Germany, Italy, Norway, Switzerland, UK and the United States, it represents a strong commitment to a peaceful future for all the many peoples of Myanmar.
Under the structure of the Joint Peace Fund, the roles of Trustee, Contract Manager and Technical Secretariat have been separated. UNOPS acts as the Trustee and Contract Manager (TCM) and the Nordic International Support Foundation (NIS) is the grantee acting as Technical Secretariat (TS). Both organizations work closely together as a single team to ensure the efficient operation of the JPF with oversight from the Fund Board.
The Fund Board of the Joint Peace Fund agreed to extend the duration of the JPF and designated 2022 as a transition year, during which a revised strategy and an adapted structure will be produced to frame JPF’s operations in what is a dramatically changed operating environment in the country. The scope of the Fund has been reduced during the transition period and the size of the team must be adapted accordingly.
As the focus of the downsizing will be on the grant management team, some of the responsibilities and tasks performed by the positions to be closed at the end of March 2022 will need to be redistributed within the remaining team. At the same time the existing position of Admin Assistant within the JPF team is underutilised but still needed, so as part of the restructuring of JPF that will take place in 2022, that position of Admin Assistant is being transformed into a new tailored position of Programme Management Senior Associate, which will combine the responsibility for executing the usual administrative tasks for the team with the responsibility of managing a small grant portfolio under the guidance of more senior national staff.