At the center of UNDP's stabilisation efforts is the Peace Support Facility (PSF), a catalytic platform that delivers swift, scalable, and localized stabilization. By rebuilding trust between communities and authorities, the facility is one of the ways that we are helping to lay the foundation for long-term recovery and peacebuilding in conflict-affected areas of Afar, Amhara and Tigray regions. 

Operating firmly within the Humanitarian–Development–Peace (HDP) Nexus, the Peace Support Facility accelerates rapid stabilisation by:

• Restoring Functionality and Rebuilding Trust: Supporting local governments and the peace, security, and justice sectors to resume core operations, strengthen service delivery, rebuild trust between institutions and communities, enhance the peace dividend, and foster a sense of safety and stability within communities.
• Restoring Social Services: Restoring essential community services by rehabilitating and ensuring access to education, clean water and other social services to foster a sense of normalcy, resilience, and hope for the future.
• Revitalizing Economic Opportunities: Promoting inclusive economic recovery by supporting income-generating activities (IGAs), vocational training, and small business development, aiming to restore household incomes, strengthen local markets, and create pathways for resilience, self-reliance, and sustainable peace.

Current Status: The facility has entered Phase II (2025–2027), evolving into a proven model for government-led stabilization through a layered, sequenced, and cluster-based approach that strengthens resilience and accelerates recovery.

• Geographic Scope: Phase one implementation covered 20 woredas, with a target to scale to 65 woredas (approx. 60% of conflict-affected areas) by the end of 2027.
• Implementation: Delivered through Integrated Woreda Action Plans (iWAPs), jointly developed, time-bound (12–14 months) recovery plans costed at US$ 1–2.5 million per woreda.