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The Local Peacebuilding and Resilience Programme (LPRP) represents our client Libya's flagship area-based peacebuilding, resilience, and recovery portfolio implemented across the West, East, and South regions of Libya through three interconnected regional projects: Local Peace and Resilience Programme West Libya PHONE_NUMBER), Local Peace and Resilience Programme South Libya PHONE_NUMBER), and Local Peace and Resilience Programme East Libya PHONE_NUMBER). The programme is financed through a combination of donor contributions. (See Project Information table below). The programme adopts a geographically targeted and conflict-sensitive approach tailored to the specific needs and conflict dynamics of different regions of Libya. Interventions are implemented across multiple municipalities in Western, Eastern, and Southern Libya, including, but not limited to, Tripoli, Tarhouna, Benghazi, Derna, Al Bayda, Sousa, Shahat, Sebha, Ubari, Murzuq, Ghat, Brak Al Shati, Tawergha, Bint Baya, Gurda, and Sharguiya, as well as region-wide and nationwide interventions under the programme. The programme was designed in response to persistent governance, social cohesion, service delivery, and economic development challenges affecting communities across Libya. While conflict dynamics vary across regions, common challenges include weak institutional capacities, limited economic opportunities for youth and women, social fragmentation, insufficient access to quality basic services, exclusion of vulnerable groups from decision-making processes, and limited capacities for conflict prevention and peacebuilding. These challenges are often compounded by displacement, climate-related pressures, economic shocks, and the continued effects of political fragmentation. Particular attention is given to youth, women, internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees, persons with disabilities, migrants, refugees, and other vulnerable and marginalized populations. The programme recognizes that these groups often face disproportionate barriers to participation in governance processes, access to livelihoods, service delivery, and peacebuilding initiatives. Through targeted interventions, the programme seeks to strengthen their inclusion, participation, leadership, and access to opportunities while promoting the principles of Leave No One Behind (LNOB), gender equality, and human rights. Across the three regions, the programme pursues a common peacebuilding and resilience framework centered around four mutually reinforcing pillars: (i) strengthening local governance and institutional capacities; (ii) enhancing social cohesion, dialogue, and conflict management mechanisms; (iii) promoting inclusive economic recovery, livelihoods, entrepreneurship, and private sector development, particularly for youth and women; and (iv) improving access to basic services and supporting local recovery and reconstruction fund efforts. The programme's theory of change is based on the premise that if local institutions are strengthened to analyse conflict, manage tensions, and deliver inclusive and conflict-sensitive services; if sustainable mechanisms for dialogue, participation, and conflict management are established and institutionalized; and if economic opportunities are expanded through livelihoods, entrepreneurship, private sector development, and local economic recovery initiatives, particularly for women, youth, and vulnerable groups, then public trust in institutions will increase, social cohesion will be strengthened, local conflict drivers will be reduced, and communities will become more resilient to conflict, shocks, and future crises. The programme further seeks to strengthen linkages and cooperation between local authorities, civil society organizations, community leaders, women and youth groups, private sector actors, and national institutions. Through this integrated approach, the programme contributes to building more responsive institutions, strengthening local peace infrastructures, promoting inclusive development, and advancing sustainable peace and resilience outcomes across Libya. The Programme contributes to the following results and outputs of our client Strategic Plan and CPD: our client Strategic Plan 2PHONE_NUMBER Outcome 3: By 2029, institutions and people are better prepared to prevent, respond to, and recover from crises while sustaining long-term development. Output 3.2: Stabilization, recovery, and reconstruction efforts resulted in improved access to essential services and infrastructure, revitalized local economies, successful reintegration of ex-combatants, and reduced social tensions among crisis-affected populations. Output A 1.1: Economic opportunities expanded for people and enterprises to access decent jobs, trade and productive assets, including human capital, human mobility, and sustainable energy. Output B 1.1: Institutions and individuals capacities strengthened to access and use digital technologies for efficient and accessible public services and the advancement of social, environmental, and economic objectives. Output C.1: Local governance systems and communities strengthened to manage natural resources, deliver basic services, enhance socio-economic opportunities, and foster peaceful conditions. UNDP Libya CPD 2PHONE_NUMBER Outcome 2: By 2025, all people in Libya participate in and benefit from a more peaceful, safe, and secure society, free from armed conflict and underpinned by unified and strengthened security, justice, rule of law, and human rights institutions that promote and protect human rights based on the principles of inclusivity, non-discrimination, and equality in accordance with international norms and standards. Output 2.2: Local administrations capacities to deliver better basic social services in a participatory, equitable, gender-responsive, and conflict-sensitive manner are strengthened. Output 2.3: Private sector capacity to contribute to growth, livelihoods generation, and participation of women, youth, and marginalized groups in economic life are boosted. Output 2.4: Capacities of local stakeholders to enhance social cohesion and sustain peace are strengthened. The programme also aligns with the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) and contributes to Outcome 1.2: By 2025, people in Libya participate in and benefit from a more peaceful, safe, and secure society, free from armed conflict and underpinned by unified and strengthened security, justice, rule of law, and human rights institutions that promote and protect human rights based on the principles of inclusivity, non-discrimination, and equality in accordance with international norms and standards. In addition, the programme contributes to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 1, 2, 5, 8, 9, 10, and 16. 2.