WUNRN
QUANTIFYING THE IMPACT OF WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION
IN POST-CONFLICT ECONOMIC RECOVERY
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Report:
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main aim of this report is to analyse how changes in the roles and activities
of women during episodes of violent conflict may shape their contribution to
post-conflict economic recovery and sustainable peace. The report poses two
important questions for which limited evidence is to date available in the
academic literature on violent conflict or in policy programming in
post-conflict contexts:
1. How does violent conflict change the roles that women take on within their
households and communities?
2. How do changes in female roles during conflict affect women‘s own status
after the conflict, and the capacity of households and communities to recover
from the conflict?
In order to address these questions, the report reviews existing knowledge and
provides new empirical evidence on the nature and extent of changes in women‘s
roles and activities as a result of their exposure to violent conflict and the
impact of these changes on post-conflict economic recovery at the household and
community levels. The purpose of this empirical analysis is to provide a better
understanding of (i) how changes in women‘s roles and activities may contribute
towards processes of economic recovery; (ii) whether existing interventions are
able to support these new roles (if positive) or to help women overcome
negative outcomes; and (iii) what interventions the international community and
local governments need to encourage in order to support the role of women in
economic recovery and peacebuilding processes.
