WUNRN
Recommendations from the “International
Workshop on Integrating and Implementing the UN Security Council Resolutions
(UNSCR) 1325 and 1820 and the Supporting Women, Peace and Security Resolutions
in the Operations of the Security Sector”
With
the end goal of achieving a more comprehensive framework of security that
reflects local community perspectives; and prevent violent conflicts, the
Global Network of Women Peacebuilders in partnership with the Permanent Mission
of Chile to the UN and the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of the
Netherlands to the UN, organized the “International Workshop on Integrating and
Implementing the UN Security Council Resolutions (UNSCR) 1325 and 1820 and the
Supporting Women, Peace and Security Resolutions in the Operations of the
Security Sector” in New York on April 22-23, 2015. 35
representatives from police, military, defense ministries, gender
ministries and civil society from Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Burundi,
Canada, Chile, Colombia, Ghana, Ireland, Nepal, Netherlands, the Philippines,
Spain, Sweden and the United States participated in the workshop.
Representatives of UN Women, the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations, the
Peacebuilding Architecture Review Secretariat and the UN Peace Operations
Review Secretariat also spoke at the workshop.
The workshop participants examined how to
best integrate UNSCR 1325, 1820 and the supporting resolutions on Women, and
Peace and Security in security sector institutions, in the following areas: a)
the conduct and behavior of the security sector as they perform their duties in
conflict-affected situations in relation to human rights and violence
against women; b) the sexual and gender-based violence and discrimination
within the security institutions in line with global and national policy
framework including the UN’s zero tolerance on sexual exploitation and abuse;
and c) the positive impact of security sector’s work on national and community
peace and security.
GNWP views the security sector workshop as
a logical step towards substantive progress in the implementation of UNSCR
1325, 1820 and the subsequent WPS resolutions. It is imperative to analyze the
role of the security sector, specifically the military and police forces, as
Security Sector Reform processes are a central entry point in peacebuilding,
disarmament, demobilization and reconstruction efforts.
The
highlights of the workshop were presented at a panel discussion held
on April 23, 2015 at the UN headquarters in New York. In addition to the
workshop participants, Ambassador Anwarul Choudhury, a member of the High Level
Civil Society Advisory Group to the Global Study on UNSCR 1325 and Professor
Miriam Coronel Ferrer, Chair of the Philippine Government Peace Panel with the
Moro Islamic Liberation Front spoke at the panel discussion. The workshop was
financially supported by Cordaid.
Below
are the workshop recommendations that will serve as contributions to the Global
Study on UNSCR 1325; the UN Peace Operations Review; and the UN Peacebuilding
Architecture Review:
COORDINATION OF
UNSCR 1325/WPS RESOLUTIONS’ IMPLEMENTATION
•
Develop
a joint internal action plan and communications strategy on UNSCR 1325 for all
related security institutions; and develop relevant indicators for each of
those security institutions.
•
Develop
a more coherent coordination mechanism between UN and Member States on the
implementation of UNSCR 1325 at the national level with full participation of
civil society.
•
Ensure
greater collaboration and support from the UN, particularly technical and
funding support including but not limited to training materials in different
languages.
•
Use
broader implementation and scope of conflict as used in the CEDAW General
Recommendation 30 on Women in Conflict Prevention, Conflict and Post-conflict
Situations.
CIVIL SOCIETY
CONSULTATION
•
Adopt
a gendered human security approach in national security plans through constant
dialogues with civil society, UN entities and all relevant actors--that address
the root causes of the conflict.
•
Organize
regular intra and inter-dialogues between and among women and men in the police
and military on issues such as gender-based discrimination and violence against
women and use the data for policy advocacy within the security institutions.
•
Facilitate
and support dialogues between female members of the armed forces and police
forces and women’s civil society groups.
LOCALIZATION
• Replicate the Localization
of UNSCR 1325 and 1820 program in more local communities and support local
policies that will promote dialogues between the security sector and local
populations in order for local communities to define security from their own
perspectives.
TRAINING AND
CAPACITY BUILDING
•
Ensure
effective and mandatory training on gender mainstreaming, including UNSCR 1325,
1820 and the supporting WPS resolutions, prior to, during, and after deployment
of UN peacekeepers. Member States should guarantee training before and
after deployment.
•
Ensure
effective and mandatory training on gender mainstreaming, including UNSCR 1325,
1820 and the supporting WPS resolutions for the police and military at academy
level.
•
Evaluate
the impact of training of security sector personnel on UNSCR 1325, 1820,
including the development and use of indicators, and facilitate global exchange
of best practices in training.
•
Facilitate
regional and national sharing and coordination on WPS training activities among
all security sector actors to enhance the implementation of UNSCR 1325 and
1820.
•
Enhance
the capacities of female security forces; and increase the gender advisors’
capability, particularly on prevention of violence against women and
gender-based violence.
PERFORMANCE
EVALUATION & ACCOUNTABILITY
•
Integrate
the implementation of UNSCR 1325 and 1820 into the individual performance
evaluations of security sector officers, as well as the evaluation of security
sector units, including post operation evaluations.
•
Integrate
the implementation of National Action Plans (NAPs) on UNSCR 1325 and 1820 or
the resolutions themselves—including in countries with no NAPs—in the Terms of
Reference for security sector officers.
•
Integrate
WPS in high-level leadership development programs for senior security
officials.
•
Adopt
an international accountability framework to end impunity on crimes committed
by security sector personnel during international deployments. This includes
thorough investigations of crime committed by security personnel, prosecution
according to the law of the land, and proper reporting at the national level
and to the families of victims.
FINANCING
• Member States should
allocate a dedicated budget for WPS within the security sector and devise a
budgetary planning system and guidelines that incentivize the effective
implementation of the NAP or the resolutions themselves by the security sector
in strategic, operational and tactical levels.
GENDER
MAINSTREAMING
• Appoint Gender Advisers at
all levels within the security forces and strengthen their roles through the
establishment of formal gender advisor and community policing positions.
•
Strengthen the development of a Gender Adviser and
female engagement capability within security sector forces, through the
establishment of formal Gender Adviser and community policing positions to
support implementation of UNSCR resolutions 1325 and 1820 and the supporting
resolutions, particularly at the community level.
•
Create
women’s desks in police stations in communities.
•
Collect
and refer to sex-disaggregated data in all planning, implementation, monitoring
and evaluation and reporting processes within the security sector.
•
Integrate
local women’s realities and perspectives on security as a barometer in design,
implementation and monitoring of security plans.
PROTECTION
•
Establish
protocol that reinforces protection of women victims of violence.
• Develop
an accountability framework to ensure perpetrators of SGBV within deployed
security sector forces, are held accountable in a timely fashion.
•
Enhance collaboration among the security sector
institutions and strengthen the capacities of women security officers in
intervention and prevention in order to reinforce protection of women victims
of SGBV.
RECRUITMENT &
HIRING
•
Increase
appropriate facilities for women in conjunction with increased women’s
recruitment in both police and military.
•
Develop
gender-sensitive recruitment, hiring and career advancement strategies and
policies that ensure equal opportunities for women and men.
MONITORING AND
EVALUATION
•
Ensure
the development and use of indicators and monitoring and evaluation systems
that will track the implementation of UNSCR 1325, 1820 and the supporting WPS
resolutions within security institutions.
•
Support
the role of women in formal monitoring mechanisms of peace agreements.