The Peacebuilding Fund (PBF) - Outcomes dataset contains outcome-level information for all PBF projects approved from 2015. It includes outcome language and budgets, weighted contributions to Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and peacebuilding priorities, and recipient entity information. The dataset is provided by the United Nations Peace and Security Data Hub and was last updated in March 2026.
Use Cases
- Analyze budget allocation trends across peacebuilding priorities based on the weighted contribution data.
- Track funding alignment with specific Sustainable Development Goal targets based on the SDG tagging methodology.
- Identify recipient entities and their funded outcomes for stakeholder mapping.
- Compare project coding methodologies before and after the 2024 revision.
Strengths
- Contains project data from 2015 onward, providing a multi-year view.
- Includes weighted attribution of budgets to specific SDG targets and peacebuilding priorities.
- Licensed under CC-BY-3.0-IGO for open use.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- United Nations Peace and Security Data Hub
- Collection Method
- Likely contains administrative records from the Peacebuilding Fund project approval and monitoring process.
- Time Range
- Projects approved from 2015 onward.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-03 26 09:58:44.431294; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
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