Promotion of durable peace through sustainable development in Africa A/RES/80/267 voluntary contributions and innovative funding, and in this regard recalls the adoption of resolution 78/257 on 22 December 2023 and resolution 79/262 on 24 December 2024; 5. Further recalls General Assembly resolution 79/329 of 5 September 2025 on the cooperation between the United Nations and the African Union, which emphasized, among others, the need to pursue ongoing measures to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of cooperation between the United Nations and the African Union in addressing threats to peace and security, and obstacles to development, as well as promoting human rights in Africa; 6. Urges international partners, including in the United Nations system, as well as international and regional financial institutions, to coordinate their peacebuilding-related efforts in Africa, with nationally led peacebuilding, and regionally and continentally supported efforts, including through the role of the African Union Commission and the African Union Centre for Post -Conflict Reconstruction and Development; 7. Welcomes the adoption of the revised African Union Policy on Post Conflict Reconstruction and Development, aligned with the evolving international discourse on peacebuilding and sustaining peace and the actual needs of countries emerging from conflict in Africa, and calls upon the United Nations system and Member States to support, within existing resources, peace consolidation mechanisms and processes, including the African Peace and Security Architecture, the African Governance Architecture and the African Union Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development Framework, in order to fully contribute to conflict prevention, peacemaking initiatives, peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction; 8. Also welcomes in this regard the establishment and operationalization of the African Union Centre for Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development, headquartered in Cairo, and calls upon Member States and the relevant United Nations institutions and agencies, within existing resources, to lend their support to the African Union towards effectively operationalizing the Centre in order for it to successfully execute its mandate as the principal organ within the African Union responsible for post-conflict reconstruction and development activities in Africa; 9. Encourages the Peacebuilding Commission to further strengthen its relationship with the African Union with a view to supporting the pillars of the African Union Post-Conflict, Reconstruction and Development policy for its implementation, and in this regard requests the Peacebuilding and Peace Support Office to further strengthen its cooperation with the African Union Centre for Post -Conflict Reconstruction and Development for implementing the memorandum of understanding on United Nations-African Union partnership in peacebuilding of 2017; 10. Requests the Peacebuilding Commission, in line with its mandate, to serve as a platform to support Member States, upon their request, to strengthen their national peacebuilding and sustaining peace efforts by: (a) Assisting Member States in building their national capacities to promote, develop, where they do not exist, and implement their voluntary and nationally owned prevention and peacebuilding strategies, efforts and other related frameworks in accordance with their national priorities and needs, including by sharing good practices and lessons learned; (b) Inviting international financial institutions and regional development banks to engage in relevant country-specific discussions, upon request by the country concerned, including on nationally led and owned prevention and peacebuilding 26-07988 5/13