Mainstreaming gender perspective into Security Sector Reform helps states to implement the UNSCRs on Women, Peace and Security
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The Gender Equality Council of the Parliament of Georgia together with the UN Women/EU cross-regional programme ‘Women Connect Across Conflicts: Building Accountability for Implementation of UN SCR 1325,
The main goal of the experts’ meeting was to help states implement the UNSCRs on Women, Peace and Security. Experts looked in depth at specific areas of the security sector for enhancing provision and response to security needs of all citizens by integrating a gender perspective into the security sector reform in their countries.
Number of Experts in the field of women, peace and security and security sector reform from Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Georgia, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, UK, and Kenya attended the two-day experts’ meeting and shared best practices and lessons learned.
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“The integration of a gender perspective into security sector work and reforms (SSR) is paramount to deliver efficient security and justice services that meet people’s needs, ensure accountability to the state and its people and operate in full respect of human rights.” - said in his opening speech Mr. Jamie Mcgoldrick, UN Resident Coordinator in Georgia.
“We are very grateful to UN Women and NATO for this unique opportunity provided to our government and civil society to work with a variety of experts in the field of Women, Peace and Security. Georgia will also present its progress in the implementation of the National Action Plan on Women Peace and Security, which was adopted in December 2011 “ said Ms. Kervalishvili. “We are confident that this experts’ meeting will provide an excellent opportunity to also learn how to best address ongoing challenges and improve our work towards the attainment of a comprehensive and gender-sensitive security sector reform” she added.
Security Sector reform policymakers and practitioners talked extensively on the importance of integration of gender issues into security sector reform programmes contributing to the operational effectiveness of security sector institutions.
Ambassador Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, NATO Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy “The role of women in security, especially in conflict zones, is extremely important. The same goes for the participation of women in the armed forces and their contribution to security and defence sector reform. So, this meeting will serve to bring to the surface the need to further implement gender policies in the framework of the SDR and ensure that the 3Ps, Prevention, Protection and Participation make conflicts less harmful for the many women and children who suffer their consequences”.
“Our baseline studies and daily work in all countries of the programme we cover, illustrates that much has been done in the area of police reform in most of the target countries, but substantial work is ahead of us in areas such as policing and improved access to justice for victims of sexual gender-based violence, We have a collective responsibility to combat sexual gender based violence (SGBV) against women and girls and ensure justice for women and girls. It is crucial to strengthen mechanisms to hold perpetrators accountable for their wrong deeds’. Said Graziella Piga, manager of the Cross regional Programme.
“I found this meeting extremely interesting and important for making steps forward in the implementation of NAPs. Thanks to this chance we can use these two working days in sharing experiences and discussing existing challenges in the NAP implementation processes. We are taking the best practices and the lessons learnt to our respective countries to work further towards successful implementation of the NAP”. Said LCT Mr. Ardjan Gjoni, Director- HR Strategic Policies and Planning Directorate, Ministry of Defense, Albania.
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“For me as a representative from NATO the most important thing is to learn more about different partner and member states initiatives in the field of women, peace and security. I can see that we have many things in common and we can work together closely and support each other’s efforts. This is a working process and during this seminar I learnt a lot. NATO is open to working closer with its partner countries” – said Ms. Charlotte Isaksson, ACO Gender Advisor.
The meeting was officially opened by Ms. Rusudan Kervalishvili, Vice-Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia, Chairperson of the Gender Equality Council of Georgia; Mr. Jamie McGoldrick, UN Resident Coordinator in Georgia, Mr. William Lahue, Head of the NATO Liaison Office in Georgia, Ms. Ketevan Khutsishvili, Delegation of the European Union to Georgia and Ms. Graziella Piga, Programme Manager, Cross-regional Programme, UN Women.
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