WUNRN
UN-INSTRAW is pleased to invite you to participate in a
Virtual
Discussion on Gender and Disarmament,
Demobilization
& Reintegration
Reintegrating Female Ex-Combatants: Good
practices and lessons learned
in the disarmament, demobilization and
reintegration of women and girls
Monday June 28 – July 19, 2010
The
United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the
Advancement of Women (UN-INSTRAW) is pleased to announce the
launching of a three-week virtual dialogue “Reintegrating Female Ex-Combatants:
Good practices and lessons learned in the disarmament, demobilization and
reintegration of women and girls” to strengthen the analysis and replication of
good practices and to foster the dynamic exchange of experiences and
information between academics, government representatives,
United Nations, INGO and civil society staff with expertise, working experience or a general
interest in the area of gender and disarmament, demobilization and
reintegration (DDR).
UN-INSTRAW will
facilitate discussion to identify the specific needs of women and girls in
reintegration processes and to discuss effective measures that address these
needs. While the discussion will focus on reintegration within DDR
specifically, participants are encouraged to address demobilization and
disarmament as applicable. The dialogue will be divided into three thematic
weeks:
WEEK 1 Specific
needs analysis of women and girls in reintegration
Roles & Needs: What are the specific needs of women
and girls that must to be addressed in reintegration processes? What are the
different roles women and girls assume during armed conflict and its aftermath
and how do these affect their status in reintegration?
WEEK 2 Good
practices and lessons learned in gender and reintegration
Measures: How have adopted measures addressed or failed to
address the specific needs of women and girls in reintegration processes?
Participation: If applicable, how has the increased
participation of women in programme planning supported or failed to support
gender-aware reintegration?
Gender Roles: How do reintegration processes consider or fail to
consider the particular
gender roles (traditional and transformed) of women and girls before, during
and post-conflict?
WEEK 3 Measuring
impacts & recommendations
Policy/Programme/Measures: Drawing on the discussions during the
first two weeks, what are policy and programme planning recommendations to
address the needs of women and girls in reintegration processes? What measures
should be taken to implement these recommendations?
Monitor & Evaluation of measures and
indicators: What measures should be taken to
monitor and evaluate gender-aware reintegration? With
reference to the Global Indicators Report (S/10/173), what types of data and
indicators are available or feasible for monitoring and evaluating gender-aware
reintegration?
Logistics: This discussion will be held in English
(contribution of resources in Spanish and French encouraged) on the UN-INSTRAW
Virtual Dialogue Forum.
To register visit http://www.un-instraw.org/forum/ucp.php?mode=register
For
Additional Information: Please review the Concept
Note, Gender
& DDR Bibliography, and GPS Guide
to Online Virtual Discussions, or contact Ani Colekessian and Corey Barr
at UN-INSTRAW: scr1325cop@un-instraw.org.
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colleagues that may be interested in participating
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