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EU Legislative Interests

LPI works, mainly through the European Peacebuilding Liaison Office (EPLO), to inform the development and implementation of the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and more specifically its Integrated Approach to External Conflicts and Crises. In particular, it aims to promote peacebuilding principles and approaches for more equitable partnerships in the EU’s external action, such as sustained dialogue, participatory action research, conflict and gender sensitivity, participatory policy engagement, and quality financing. Policies it seeks to influence include the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument – Global Europe (NDICI - GE). In this framework, it seeks to influence the Multiannual Indicative Programmes (MIPs) and the Annual Action Programmes (AAPs) of the 2021 – 2027 thematic programmes on “Peace, Stability and Conflict Prevention” (which a specific focus on Area of Intervention 1: Assistance for Conflict Prevention, Peacebuilding and Crisis Preparedness) and for “Civil Society Organisations”. LPI also works actively on the Youth, Peace and Security (YPS) and Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agendas and seeks to influence the implementation of the EU Youth Strategy (2019-2027), the EU Youth Plan (2022-2027), EU Action Plan on WPS (2019-2024) and the Action Plan on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in External Action 2021–2025 (GAP III). LPI, which works in the Horn of Africa, also seeks to influence geographic policies such as the EU Strategy in the Horn of Africa, the Africa-EU partnership and geographic MIPs, including the 2021 – 2027 MIPs for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Kenya, and Somalia and the 2024 – 2027 MIP for Ethiopia. It also engages with the EU on specific country strategies and Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) missions, such as the Somalia – EU Joint Operational Roadmap: A Renewed Focused Engagement and the European Union Capacity Building Mission in Somalia (EUCAP Somalia). LPI has seeks to influence the EU Country Roadmaps for Engagement with Civil Society in Kenya (2022 – 2025) and in Somalia (2021 – 2025).

Communication Activities

LPI takes part in EPLO Civil Society Dialogue Network events (See: http://eplo.org/activities/ongoing-projects/). It has organised, together with EPLO, several Brown Bag Lunch events (See: http://eplo.org/activities/eplo-brown-bag-lunch-events/). It also engaged bilaterally with officials from the European External Action Service and the European Commission’s Directorate General for International Partnerships.

Interests Represented

Does not represent commercial interests

Member Of

1. European Peace Liaison Office. Website https://eplo.org/ 2. Alliance for Peacebuilding. Website https://www.allianceforpeacebuilding.org/ 3. Swedish Mission Council. Website: https://www.smc.global 4. Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict. Website: https://www.gppac.net 5. Concord. Website: https://concord.se 6. Environmental peacebuilding association. Website: https://www.environmentalpeacebuilding.org/

Organisation Members

LPI does not have any members. However, it has the Christian Council of Sweden as its parent organisation.

Additional Information

- LPI’s Financial Year is 01 January to 31 December and therefore, the figures shown are for the aforementioned reporting period. - The EU Figures for the recently closed financial year indicates the funds from the EU grants that were spent implemented the project activities in the concerned Geographic areas. Please refer to LPI’s Audited Annual Statements page 12 for details (https://preview.life-peace.org/funding-and-finance/). - The EU figures for the current financial year are based on the internal budget and therefore may change after the year is closed and the audits have been finalised next year. - We have deleted the EU figures entered last year under “current financial year” as they were estimates. The correct figures for the closed year are the ones now entered under “EU figures for recently closed financial year” section. We used the European Commission’s InforEuro website set to October 2025 to convert figures from SEK to EUR.