The Peacebuilding Commission (PBC), building on its country-specific, regional and thematic engagements, and at the request of the Danish Presidency of the Security Council, discussed the adaptation and transition of peace operations. Recognizing that peace operations bring unique legitimacy, broad expertise, and a strong comparative advantage in multilateral conflict resolution, alongside key partnerships with regional and international actors, the PBC encourages the Security Council to consider:

1. Underlining the importance of United Nations peace operations, both special political missions and peacekeeping operations, as invaluable tools in the maintenance of international peace and security;

2. Reaffirming the primacy of politics in the resolution of conflict and providing full political support to peace operations, to ensure those peace operations have the capabilities needed to fully implement their respective mandates, including, where mandated, peacebuilding objectives;

3. Considering clear, achievable, sequenced, and prioritized mandates, including exit strategies, that enable, from the outset of a peace operation, where applicable, support for national peacebuilding priorities;

4. Supporting well-planned, coherent, integrated, and sequenced Mission transitions to avert any security vacuums or regression on a Host State's peacebuilding priorities that could be occasioned by the drawdown of a peace operation, and calling for United Nations System-wide coherence in facilitating orderly Mission transitions while avoiding duplication of works;

5. Recalling the important role that the Peacebuilding Commission has played in previous transition contexts, and encouraging, therefore, Host States to make greater use of the PBC as a platform to share experiences, best practices, and lessons learned in this regard;

6. Acknowledging the importance of fostering continued and timely consultations and dialogue between peace operations, UN Country Teams and Host States during the entire life cycle of a mission with a view to respecting national priorities in peacebuilding and ensuring a smooth transition;
7. Ensuring that the peacebuilding activities of peace operations are determined in close and timely consultation with the host State and aligned with the host State priorities, and are implemented in close cooperation and partnership with relevant national stakeholders, as and when appropriate;

8. Underlining the importance of clear communication and expectation management with regard to the nature and objectives of mandated peacebuilding activities that UN peace operations can undertake throughout the life cycle of a mission;

9. Reaffirming that development, peace and security, and human rights are interlinked and mutually reinforcing;

10. Recognizing the important role of women and youth in peacebuilding and sustaining peace efforts and for sustainable development. Accordingly, encouraging Host States to increase their efforts to promote inclusive peacebuilding initiatives, ensuring the full, equal, meaningful, and safe participation of women and encouraging the effective participation of youth;

11. Reaffirming the importance of close cooperation between the United Nations and regional and subregional organizations in the maintenance of international peace and security; in view of Resolution 2719 in particular recognizing the importance of strengthening close partnerships and coordination with the African Union, recognizing the roles of the African Union Peace and Security Council (AU-PSC) and Regional Economic Commissions, to ensure coherent political and operational strategies for AU-led Peace Support Operations authorized by the Security Council, and acknowledging the revised AU Post Conflict Reconstruction and Development (PCRD) Policy as a framework to support African countries emerging from conflict;

12. Noting General Assembly resolutions 76/305, 78/257, and 79/262, and recognizing the importance of considering all options for adequate, predictable, and sustained funding for peacebuilding, including through voluntary, innovative and assessed funding and other means of resource mobilization, noting also the significance of non-monetary contributions can play in peacebuilding efforts, while reaffirming that voluntary contributions should remain the primary source of funding for the Peacebuilding Fund and stresses that assessed funding is not meant to be a substitute for voluntary contributions and innovative funding;

13. Encouraging innovative and flexible financing modalities, including the mobilization of public and private financing and encouraging also strengthened partnerships with international financial institutions, entities of the United Nations development system, and the private sector to ensure sufficient funding to support national peacebuilding activities in the transition of peace operations and the post-mission phase.