Together, the participants addressed the challenge of how to promote meaningful women’s participation in local peace and security committees. The learning event resulted in a leaning paper and a short video on this topic.
Learning paper: Increasing women’s participation in peacebuilding
Women’s participation in peacebuilding is crucial. Everybody agrees that women’s voices must be heard to create lasting solutions to conflict, and for peace to be inclusive and sustainable. But is it easier said than done. In this learning paper we describe the different levels of participation of women in peace committees, barriers for women inclusion and how to address them.
1 December 2019
participation
Learning paper
ZOA, together with Saferworld and SUDIA, organized in 2019 an international learning event in Uganda. This event brought together practitioners from different organisations working in Central and East Africa on community based peacebuilding.
Video: Including women in community based peacebuilding
Women participation
The participation of women in the committees is often a challenge in countries like Sudan, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Congo to mention a few. Women are often not present, or they are officially member but don’t assume leadership roles nor participate in conflict mediation and dialogues because of traditional gender norms. In the learning paper we describe the different levels of participation of women, barriers for women inclusion and how to address them. We also give examples how community structures have contributed to transforming gender norms and values.