National
Action Plans
and
Indicators
for UN SCR
1325
Why Create National Action Plans on
Women, Peace, and Security?
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Comprehensiveness
Coordination
Awareness Raising
Ownership
Accountability
Monitoring and evaluation
Source: UN INSTRAW, Securing Equality, Engendering Peace:
A guide to policy and planning on women, peace and security
(UN SCR 1325), 2006, ii.
Countries with a National Action Plan
on UNSCR 1325
1. Denmark (2005)
10. Finland (2008)
2. Norway (2006)
11. Uganda (2008)
3. Sweden (2006)
12. Côte d’Ivoire (2008)
4. United Kingdom (2006)
13. Belgium (2009)
5. Austria (2007)
14. Liberia (2009)
6. Switzerland (2007)
15. Chile (2009)
7. The Netherlands (2007)
16. Portugal (2009)
8. Spain (2007)
17. Sierra Leone (2009)
9. Iceland (2008)
18. Philipines (2010)
How to Develop a Women, Peace, and
Security Action Plan?
UN INSTRAW Guide (2006)
1. Building Political will;
2. Getting organized;
3. Plan for Planning: Terms of
Reference;
4. Women, Peace, and
Security Assessments;
5. Planning Meetings or
Workshops;
6. Drafting of the Action Plan.
Ireland 1325 – 13 NGOs (2009)
1. Involve civil society from the
start;
2. Comprehensive research and
internal audit;
3. Plan the NAP;
4. Inclusive and responsive
consultations;
5. NAP structure and content;
6. Ensure implementation of the
UNSCR 1325 on [national
level];
7. SMART indicators;
8. Monitoring and Evaluation.
The NAP Contents
UN INSTRAW Guide (2006)
1. Introduction;
2. Rationale;
3. Long-term and Short-term
Objectives;
4. Specific Initiatives;
5. Timeframe;
6. Monitoring and Evaluation;
7. Budget.
Ireland 1325 – 13 NGOs (2009)
1. Organize it around
Participation, Prevention,
Protection, Recovery and
rehabilitation;
2. Strategic Objectives;
3. Actions;
4. SMART Indicators;
5. Targets;
6. Budgetary Allocations.
Common Objectives of the NAPs of
Countries Not Affected by Conflict
• Greater gender equality in the armed forces (i.e. peace
missions);
• Greater gender balance in Security Sector Reform
Programmes (SSR);
• Equal inclusion of men and women in Disarmament,
Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) Programmes;
• Protection of women‘s and girls‘ rights before, during and
after conflicts;
• Intensified cooperation with NGOs throughout the
implementation process;
• Programmatic support to conflict-affected countries.
Common Objectives of the NAPs of
Conflict-Affected Countries
• Protection of women‘s and girls‘ rights
before, during, and after conflicts, especially
from GBV;
• Women‘s participation in conflict resolution
and peace-building processes;
• Awareness-raising on 1325, capacity
development and gender mainstreaming
initiatives in the SSR among others .
Lessons Learned
• Need for inter-ministerial group to carry out monitoring
of the NAP‘s implementation (Denmark);
• Balanced approach to both women‘s involvement in
peace-building processes and the protection of
women‘s and girls‘ rights (Denmark);
• Greater involvement of the civil society during the
elaboration process of the National Action Plan (the
Netherlands);
• Focus on gender trainings for staff members of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (the Netherlands);
Global UNSCR 1325 Indicators –
UNSCR 1889 (5 October 2009)
• Indicators are signposts of change – a means for
determining the status quo and the progress towards
the intended goal;
• Indicators were elaborated by the technical Working
Group under the Inter-Agency Task Force on Women,
Peace and Security (OSAGI & UNIFEM);
• Key principles for indicators: Specific, Measurable,
Achievable, Relevant and Time-bound (SMART);
Gender-sensitive; Organized around 5 Pillars of the UN
System-wide Action Plan on implementing resolution
1325; Developed through a consultative process.
Pillar 1: Prevention
1. Incident of sexual violence in conflict-affected countries;
2. Extent to which UN peacekeeping and special political
missions include information on violations of women’s and
girls’ human rights in their periodic reporting;
3. a) Number of violations of women’s and girls’ human rights
that are reported, referred and investigated by human rights
bodies; b) Inclusion of representatives of women’s and civil
society organizations in the governance and leadership of
human rights bodies;
4. Percentage of reported cases of sexual exploitation and
abuse allegedly perpetrated by uniformed and civilian
peacekeepers and humanitarian workers that are referred,
investigated and acted upon;
etc...
Pillar 2: Participation
1. Number and percentage of peace agreements with
specific provisions to improve the security and status
of women and girls;
2. Number and percentage of women in senior UN
decision-making positions in conflict-affected
countries;
3. Level of gender expertise in UN decision-making in
conflict affected countries;
4. a) Level of participation of women in formal peace
negotiations; b) Presence of women in formal
observer or consultative status at the beginning and
the end of peace negotiations;
etc...
Pillar 3: Protection
1. Index of women’s and girls’ physical security;
2. Extent to which national laws protect women’s
and girl’s human rights in line with international
standards;
3. Level of women’s participation in the justice and
security sector in conflict-affected countries;
4. Existence of national mechanisms for control of
small arms and light weapons;
5. Women as a percentage of adults employed in
early economic recovery programmes;
etc...
Pillar 4: Relief and Recovery
1. Maternal mortality;
2. Primary and secondary education enrolment
rates disaggregated by sex;
3. Extent to which strategic planning frameworks in
conflict-affected countries incorporate gender
analysis, targets, indicators and budgets;
4. Proportion of the allocated and disbursed
funding to civil society organizations, including
women’s groups, that is spent on gender issues
in conflict affected countries ;
etc... (26 indicators altogether).
Thank You
Tamar Sabedashvili
June, 2010
Dushanbe, Tajikistan