Female Leadership in Peace and Security
Women often are a target in conflict. Yet when it comes to building peace, they are left out. Excluding women from the peace negatively impacts the overall post-conflict society. Conversely, women's specific capacities, experience, knowledge and talents can be utilised to make a vital contribution to a stable society. Post-conflict situations can be windows of opportunity for transformative change: in the power relations between authorities and civilians, and between men and women.
Cordaid sees a role for women leadership in all aspects of peace building and security initiatives. The kind of leadership needed varies according to the specific context. Yet women’s participation in peace processes cannot happen without support.
In order to have an impact, women need to know how peace processes are organised and need to organise themselves so that their voices cannot be ignored. They need to be trained, prepared and supported in “playing the political game.”
Cordaid has the capacity and network, from the local community level to the regional and international, to enhance female leadership and increase political participation in specific conflict settings in order to transform the conflict and the unequal power relations between men and women, often perpetuated by a patriarchal system. Cordaid strives to stimulate a global community of change that can work together in achieving this goal with active participation of different actors at various levels.
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Burundi women preparing for village councils
Workshop Women Leadership
New York, the 24th of October, a workshop took place to strengthen the Global Community of Change for Women Leadership and Political Participation in Processes of Peace and Security. Cordaid partners and members of the Global Network of Women Peace Builders from Afghanistan, Burundi, Colombia, DRC, Nepal and Sudan came together with a number of international ngo's. Here you can find a filmed impression of the workshop. For more information, please contact erica.zwaan@cordaid.nl
Report on Costing and Financing 1325: The missing link in the Women, Peace and Security agenda
More than ten years after the adoption of the groundbreaking UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, the needed funding for its full implementation is still uncertain. The discussion on financing for the implementation of SCR 1325 is the missing link in the discourse on women, peace, and security.
Cordaid and the Global Network of Women Peace builders (GNWP) published a report on the “Costing and Financing 1325: Examining the Resources Needed to Implement Women, Peace and Security Resolutions at the National Level”. The report analyses the resources available and needed to implement the resolution, and also examines the complicated funding landscape for women and peace and security programs, presenting recommendations on how to make resource allocation efficient and effective.
The report underscores the need for establishing Multi-stakeholder Financing Mechanisms (MFM) for the implementation of National Action Plans (NAP) 1325. The Ministry of National Solidarity, Human Rights and Gender of Burundi, Burundi's civil society organizations and UN Women in Burundi are currently leading an initiative to set up a Multi-stakeholder Financing Mechanism for the implementation of SCR 1325 National Action Plan in Burundi. Cordaid and the Dutch Embassy in Burundi are collaborating together to support this MFM.
For more information, please contact policy advocacy officer Dewi Suralaga dsu@cordaid.nl
Full report Costing & Financing 1325
Executive Summary
