Strengthening Cross-regional Cooperation for Gender-sensitive Peace-building and Conflict Transformation Initiatives
Project / Program Summary
I. Basic data
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II. Project / program description
- Objectives
- To strengthen the capacity of African and Asian women from conflict/post-conflict countries, to engage more meaningfully in processes for peace-building and national reconciliation, through cross-cultural learnings and experience-sharing;
- To promote gender-sensitive development cooperation amongst African and Asian Governments for post-conflict reconstruction.
- Activities
- Two cross-cultural seminars for women activists and other civil society partners from Africa and Asia to share community-level strategies for conflict transformation initiatives;
- Development of gender-sensitive training manual on cross-cultural techniques for conflict resolution and the promotion of reconciliation at community levels;
- Initiation of pilot projects for empowerment of displaced women, and for support to women's participation in peace-building activities within specific countries of Africa and Asia, employing strategies derived from transfer and adaptations of cross-cultural learnings;
- Seminar for cross-section African and Asian Parliamentarians from countries of conflict, to identify opportunities for enhancing South-South development cooperation in post-conflict situations, with emphasis on civil society empowerment, and women's empowerment.
- Expected outcomes / impacts
- Effective knowledge transfer and improved strategies amongst women peace activists in Africa and Asia, at both community and governmental levels;
- Increased participation of women in peace-building processes in beneficiary countries;
- Closer cooperation developed amongst Parliamentatians from conflict/post-conflict countries in Africa and Asia, with a stronger commitment to jointly initiating gender-sensitive programmes for post-conflict reconstruction.
Asia/Africa Cooperation
UNIFEM's Africa Section, in collaboration with UNDP's Asia Bureau, will facilitate this innovative process for promoting cross-cultural learnings and skills to address the peace-building challenges in select countries of Africa and Asia. Women's organisations, NGOs and Governments in the targeted countries will benefit from an enhanced capacity to support gender-sensitive approaches to peace-building.
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