The Global Secretariat of the Global Partnership is held by the European Centre for Conflict Prevention (ECCP). It coordinates the regional and the international level of the programme and manages the process to ensure coherence with decisions of the International Steering Group, of which it is also a member. The Secretariat also coordinates funding applications and facilitates contact between regions.

The European Centre for Conflict Prevention

The European Centre for Conflict Prevention (ECCP) is an independent, non-governmental organisation based in the Netherlands. It promotes effective conflict prevention and peacebuilding strategies and actively supports and connects people working for peace worldwide.

The ECCP's mission is to facilitate organisation and coordination within the field of conflict prevention and peacebuilding. The ECCP has gained an overview of around 1500 NGOs worldwide who are involved in conflict prevention and peacebuilding - a task that has been achieved primarily through its Searching for Peace programme, which aims to record, to describe and to analyse prevention and peacebuilding efforts in the main violent conflicts in the world (with a special focus on multi-track diplomacy). In addition to this, the Searching for Peace publications include extensive directories of organisations working in this field that are instrumental in organising the proposed programme.