UNFPA-KEGME Workshops: Hammamet, Tunisia 6-10 November 2006

 

5-day Capacity Building Workshop for Women from Conflict and Post-Conflict Situations

 

The Workshops focus on Post Conflict Recovery, Conflict Management, Leadership, and Communication Skills,  from a gender perspective, with related issues  - Media, Advocacy, construction of gender roles etc.

 

PARTICIPANTS

Representatives from Nepal, Palestine, Sierra Leone, Sudan  (South Darfur), Tajikistan (includes UNIFEM Gender/Governance adviser), Uganda (including Senior Coordinator Uganda Red Cross), Azerbaijan, Timor Leste (including Executive Director of REDE FETO, and PRADET), Georgia, Haiti, Indonesia, Kosovo (including Roma community), Liberia (including FAWE).

 

FACILITATORS

Lesley Abdela, UK. Senior Partner Eyecatcher/Shevolution.   lesley.abdela@shevolution.com  Lesley Abdela has worked ‘on the ground’ in Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Aceh, Sierra Leone.

 

Maria Hadjipavlou, Cyprus University Department of Social and Political Sciences.  Professor Hadjipavlou teaches Comparative Politics, Conflict Resolution and International Conflict, Gender and Politics. See www.ucy.ac.cy/kpe/CVs/chadjipavlou/home.htm

 

Agenda includes –

 

• Legal instruments securing women’s rights. How do these instruments relate to women in our communities?

            ‘Which of your cultural traditions may contradict human rights?’    Facilitator Maria Hadjipavlou

 

• The Parallel Universes – men and women in post conflict situations.  Facilitator Lesley Abdela

 

·        Different styles of leadership. Women and leadership. Facilitator Maria  Hadjipavlou

 

• UNSCR 1325 - Why mainstreaming Gender is of maximum importance in post conflict recovery. Why integration of gender throughout UNFPA activities is crucial to increasing the chances of successful outcomes with specific reference to post-conflict recovery and peace-building missions and programmes.  Implementing UNSCR 1325 in UNFPA work.   Case examples including Lessons Identified, Gender and Disarmament, Demobilisation, Reintegration (DDR).  Facilitator Lesley Abdela     

 

• Conflict analysis and monitoring.  What are the challenges facing Civil Society, the Media and NGOs in the prevention of Conflict and Peace-building?   Facilitator Maria  Hadjipavlou

 

• Mainstreaming gender perspectives. Practical actions to incorporate Gender. Approaches and tools UNFPA personnel can use when working with diverse target groups of women and men including the military, police, diplomats,  politicians, Community leaders, NGOs/IGOs working with civil society, health-workers, citizens in the community etc.    Facilitator Lesley Abdela

 

ENQUIRIES:

Further information concerning this workshop can be obtained from Ketty at KEGME on email alazaris@hol.gr and/or the UNFPA’s Sahir Abdul-Hadi, email hadi@unfpa.org

 

ORGANISERS:

KEGME, the Mediterranean Women's Studies Centre, was founded in 1982 in Athens, Greece. KEGME focuses on action-oriented research; development projects for the economic empowerment of women; skills training, networking and advocacy through new technologies (ICTs); capacity building for political leadership; conflict prevention and resolution; and the promotion of human rights, democracy and good neighbourliness. www.kegme.org.gr

 

United Nations Population Fund - UNFPA.  'Gender equality is, first and foremost, a human right. Women are entitled to live in dignity and in freedom from want and from fear. Empowering women is also an indispensable tool for advancing development and reducing poverty.'

www.unfpa.org/