policy recommendations as part of the Good Peacebuilding Financing initiative.

While high-level events can be useful for galvanizing political commitment, the translation of those commitments into better financing for peacebuilding can flounder when they meet organizational and bureaucratic realities. Several prominent member states have recently adapted, or are now starting to adapt, the bureaucratic structures and procedures that manage their overseas assistance programs. This includes the merger in 2020 of the United Kingdom’s (UK) Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) with the Department for International Development (DFID), to form an integrated FCDO. While it will take time for the implications of the merger to fully unfold, the overall trajectory for aid in the United Kingdom (UK) is discouraging. £4.1 billion has been cut from the aid budget compared to the 2020/2021 allocation: a significant amount of which is likely to affect the UK’s efforts to prevent, reduce, and resolve violent conflicts.The unfolding conflict in Ukraine is just the latest example that demonstrates the urgency of developing better approaches to peacebuilding, and greater coherence in crisis context more generally.