ANNEX
Reporting template for Secretary-General’s 2013 report to the
Security Council on women and peace and security
Name of Organization
Contact information
European External Action Service
Name: Pauline Torehall
Title: Policy Officer
Phone: +32-2-584 7024
Email: [email protected]
A. Updates on policies, plans, activities and results related to women and
peace and security and gender expertise
1. Please list any specific policies, plans, strategy documents and/or mechanisms developed by
your Organizations to implement global and regional commitments on women and peace and
security, including S/RES/1325 (2000), S/RES/1820 (2008), S/RES/1888 (2009), S/RES/1889
(2009), S/RES/1960 (2010).
Policies/strategy documents/mechanisms:
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Comprehensive Approach to the EU implementation of the United Nations Security Council
Resolutions 1325 and 1820 on women, peace and security, from December, 2008.
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Indicators for the Comprehensive approach to the EU implementation of the United Nations
Security Council Resolutions 1325 and 1820 on women, peace and security, from July 2010.
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Report on the EU-indicators for the Comprehensive Approach to the EU implementation of the
United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1325 and 1820 on women, peace and security,
from May 2011.
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Concept on Strengthening EU Mediation and Dialogue Capacities, from November 2009.
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Implementation of UNSCRs on Women, Peace and Security in the context of CSDP missions
and operations, from January 2012.
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The EU (EEAS and European Commission) and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality
and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) signed a new Memorandum of Understanding
(MoU) in April 2012. The MoU forms the basis of a partnership aiming to achieve key
international commitments in the area of gender equality and women's empowerment. The
partnership also aims to contribute to progress towards upholding all efforts to further
development, human rights, peace and security.
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New Crisis Management Procedures (first quarter 2013) which, inter alia, address Human
Rights and gender issues (still being finalized).
2. Please provide updates on any gender expertise (gender units, gender advisors, use of technical
gender experts, rosters or surge capacity etc) supporting your Organization’s work in the area
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of peace and security. Please indicate the institutional location of the gender facility in your
organization (e.g., under which division or directorate, at what level, etc.).
Gender Advisor, Human Rights and Democracy Department
Gender Focal Points in the Multilateral Relations Division; Mediation Support Team; CSDP Policy,
Partnerships and Agreements Division
At expert level.
3. Where applicable, please provide information on any recent initiative(s) to implement
S/RES/1325 (2000). Highlight, in particular, good practices that have produced concrete results
or led to an impact, any major new initiative underway and/or discuss specific gaps and
challenges encountered under the four broad areas below that could benefit from more focused
attention and action.
Pillars of S/RES/ 1325 (2000)
Prevention:
Actions to prevent violence and human
rights abuses against women and girls in
conflict and post-conflict situations,
including conflict-related sexual violence
Participation:
Actions to increase the participation and
representation of women in conflict
prevention, resolution, peacebuilding and
post-conflict governance.
Good practices, new initiatives and/or gaps and
challenges encountered
• The EU is currently engaged in 15 Common
Security and Defense Policy (CSDP) missions
(4 military and 11 civilian). Almost all of
them have a gender and/or human rights
advisors as part of their team.
• Following a decision by EU Member States
(MS) to develop minimum standard training
elements on human rights, gender and child
protection, three modules have been
finalized in cooperation with the Crisis
Management Centre Finland, Folke
Bernadotte Academy, Sweden and Save the
Children, respectively.
• The EU and UN aim to increase their
cooperation on gender and human rights in
the wake of the EU-UN Steering Committee
that took place on 18 April, 2013 in Brussels
by sharing pre-deployment training
materials, bringing human rights and gender
advisors from both organizations for joint
trainings and workshops, developing specific
modalities of EU-UN cooperation on Gender
in Peace Operations on the basis of the
Memorandum of Understanding with UN
Women from April 2012, with a view of
concrete cooperation in the field.
• The Equal Futures Partnership was launched
on the side lines of the September 2012 UN
General Assembly. As a founding member,
the EU committed to practical initiatives for
women's political participation and economic
empowerment.
• Sample project: A project (€2m) was signed
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Pillars of S/RES/ 1325 (2000)
Good practices, new initiatives and/or gaps and
challenges encountered
with the UN Department of Political Affairs
(DPA) – Mediation Support Unit at the end of
2011 to strengthen DPA capacity to support
mediation efforts led by the UN, as well as by
regional or sub-regional organizations and
Member States. One of the key action
objectives is to enhance participation of
women in peace processes. More in
particular:
to increase the availability and
quality of gender expertise in
mediation processes;
o to support greater and more effective
participation by women at all levels
of peace-making and other conflict
resolution activities, including the
identification and preparation of
women mediators;
o to give support to Women’s Groups
through the development of gender
and mediation training material; the
delivery of trainings and workshops
in at least 4 country-specific
situations and the development and
roll-out of a set of guidance notes on
gender and mediation related topics.
o to develop an internal countryspecific database of women involved
in mediation efforts
o to support a gender expert position
on the Standby Team of Mediation
Experts who will be deployed to the
field on a rapid-response basis (72
hours), will provide specialized
analysis and advice on gender and
process issues to United Nations and
other mediation teams across the
globe as needed.
o to increase the Number of Women
Mediators, by identifying and
preparing six qualified female
candidates who will form part of a
small pool of twelve candidates for
future Secretary-General
appointments to mediator positions.
EU hosted the 2nd UN MSU Pilot Course on
Gender and Inclusive Mediation Processes:
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Pillars of S/RES/ 1325 (2000)
Good practices, new initiatives and/or gaps and
challenges encountered
High Level Seminar for envoys, mediators
and mediation experts, 16 and 17 April 2013
• Sample project: Capacity building of civil
society advocacy for a gender-sensitive
democratic transition in Tunisia. Support for
L'Association Tunisienne des Femmes
Démocrates and L'association des femmes
tunisiennes pour la recherche sur le
développement, to promote the rights of
women and the inclusion of gender in the
process of democratic transition in Tunisia.
• Sample project: Action to strengthen
women's leadership in the consolidation of
peace in Chad and the Central African subregion. The project aims strengthening
women’s leadership in peace-building.
Implementing partner: Cellule de Liaison et
d'Information des Associations Féminines.
• Sample project: Pilot in three post-conflict
locations (Liberia, Timor-Leste and Kosovo)
that are striving to consolidate the recovery
and stabilization gains made over the past
few years and where women and girls still
face significant challenges to benefit equally
from security and justice and to participate
meaningfully in the public sphere and peacebuilding processes. The objective is to ensure
greater participation of women in peacebuilding and post-conflict planning.
Implementing partners: UN Women, UNDP
and the EU.
• Sample Project: In Afghanistan the EUSR,
with the support of the Mediation Support
Team, offered training to 16 members of the
High Peace Council, including 10 women. In
addition to this support there has been ongoing work to identify further needs of the
council, in particular its female members, to
whom the EU could offer assistance
• The EU Member States annual meeting on
UNSCR 1325 held on 14 June 2012 focused
on women’s participation in peace
negotiations and mediation. Examples of
women’s involvement from MS, EU, UN
and civil society perspectives were presented
with a case study focus on the South
Caucasus region/Georgia.
• A thematic factsheet on ‘Women’s
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Pillars of S/RES/ 1325 (2000)
Protection:
Good practices, new initiatives and/or gaps and
challenges encountered
Participation and Gender’ was commissioned
by the Mediation Support Team of the
European External Action Service. The
factsheet took as a starting point that
“women’s under-representation in mediation
processes and peace negotiations as well as
the lack of gender expertise in mediation
teams seriously limits the extent to which
women’s experience of conflict, and
consequent needs for justice and recovery,
are addressed within these processes.” 2. It
addressed both 1) the role and inclusion of
women as mediators and participants in
processes of dialogue; and 2) the appropriate
inclusion of gender perspectives in the
outcomes of agreements from mediation and
dialogue processes (such as peace
agreements).
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Actions to improve the safety and
physical security and promote and
protect the rights of women and girls in
conflict and post-conflict situations.
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A core task of the EU Training Mission in Mali
(EUTM Mali) is to train Malian Armed forces
on International Humanitarian Law, Human
rights and Gender. EUTM Mali and UN
agencies - UNICEF, UNOCHA, UNWOMEN,
UNHCR - developed a constructive
operational working relationship. Experts
from both sides work together closely and
give weekly trainings to the MAF on these
issues through EUTM.
Sample project: Women Active in Mediation
aim at promoting women's participation in
mediation and conflict prevention in order to
address violence based on gender and to
contribute to the peaceful management of
natural resources through nondiscrimination of women. Implementing
partner: Association Union des Femmes pour
la Paix.
Sample project: To support the Government
of India’s efforts to stop trafficking in women
and girls through community action at the
Panchayat Level in partnership with the
National Commission for Women. Enhance
the Government of India’s efforts at creating
institutionalized prevention mechanisms to
stop trafficking at the source districts
through community action. Implementing
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Pillars of S/RES/ 1325 (2000)
Relief and recovery: Actions to
address the specific needs and priorities
of women and girls in relief, early
recovery, transitional justice and
economic recovery efforts.
Good practices, new initiatives and/or gaps and
challenges encountered
partner: UN Women.
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Overview:
EU Member States annual seminar on UNSCR
1325: 'Transitional justice and gender:
reducing impunity', May, 2013. The seminar
focused on the work of the UN (SGSR on
Sexual Violence in Conflict, UN Women), civil
society, the ICC, EU MS initiatives and TJ in
BiH.
The annual seminars are an open exchange
among EU Member States on national
implementation of Resolution 1325 in view
of sharing best practices and identifying joint
interests, taking in particular into account
difficulties encountered and the lessons
identified for the future.
The EU is active on the issue of women, peace
and security in more than 70 countries. Its
support amounts to about EUR 200 million a
year for the development and
implementation of national action plans,
funding for non-governmental organisations,
and training for governmental agencies. The
EEAS held two meetings of the Informal Task
Force on UN Security Council Resolution
1325 on Women, Peace and Security in 2013.
Cooperation with international and regional
organisations (particularly the UN, NATO,
OSCE, LAS and AU) was enhanced in order to
achieve tangible results. Close work
continued in the framework of the G8
Partnership. The EU pledged to promote
women's equal and full participation in peace
negotiations and peace-building.
B. Information on the number and percentage share of women in senior
leadership positions1
4. Please provide the following information for the following positions, as available and
applicable:
This information will contribute to the establishment of a baseline for the indicators to track the implementation of
resolution 1325 (2000) presented to the Security Council in the Secretary-General’s 2010 report on woman and peace
and security, S/2010/498. One of the indicators tracks the number and percentage share of women in executive positions
of regional and sub-regional organizations involved in preventing conflict.
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Senior leadership position
EEAS Headquarters-based high-level
executives2, 5/20133
Special representatives or envoys
EU Special Representatives
Head(s) of country office(s) / Head(s)
of mission(s), outside of
organizational headquarters
Mediators
Total number
(Women and Men)
Number of
women
Number of
men
37
4
33
•Nomination of an
EU EUSR on Human
Rights, June 2012
(male)
12
2
10
49
9
40
The Director and
Head of Division
responsible for the
Mediation Support
Team are both
women whilst there
are four men and one
woman in the
Mediation Support
Team itself.
At the
highest
level, HR/VP
Baroness
Ashton
facilitated
the high
level
dialogue
between
Kosovo and
Serbia.
The 2009 EU
Concept on
Mediation
and Dialogue
recognizes
that
mediation
tasks are
performed at
many
different
levels by
multiple
actors
making it
impossible to
quantify the
number of EU
mediators.
2 Equivalent to International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO)-88 Major Group 1: Legislators, senior officials
and managers. Senior managers plan, direct, coordinate and evaluate the overall activities of enterprises, governments
and other organizations, or of organizational units with them, and formulate and review their policies, laws, rules and
regulations. Competent performance in most occupations in this major group requires skills at the fourth ISCO skill level.
Tasks performed by senior managers usually include: formulating and advising on the policy, budgets, laws and
regulations of enterprises, governments and other organizational units; establishing objectives and standards and
formulating and evaluating programmes and policies and procedures for their implementation; ensuring appropriate
systems and procedures are developed and implemented to provide budgetary control; authorizing material, human and
financial resources to implement policies and programmes; monitoring and evaluating performance of the organization
or enterprise and of its staff; selecting or approving the selection of staff; ensuring compliance with health and safety
requirements; planning and directing daily operations; representing and negotiating on behalf of the government,
enterprise or organization unit managed in meetings or other forums. (See http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/--dgreports/---dcomm/---publ/documents/publication/wcms_172572.pdf, p. 87.)
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General Secretariat of the Council of
the EU, 1/20134
European Commission, 1/2013
European Parliament, 1/2013
12
1
11
81
12
69
12
4
8
3 Director, Managing Director, Deputy Secretary General, Secretary General, Chief Operating Officer, Executive Secretary General level
4 Director-General, Deputy Director-General or equivalent
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