In January 2020 the Organization for Security and Co-operation of Europe Secretariat Programme for Gender Issues and the London School of Economics (LSE) Centre for Women, Peace and Security jointly published the study Implementing the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in the OSCE Region (available in English and Russian). This study provides information on progress, trends as well as challenges in WPS implementation. It examines the national action plans (NAPs) of OSCE participating States, and offers more in-depth information on NAP implementation from five case study countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Serbia and Ukraine).
This webinar aims to present the results of the study and will focus on and discuss one of the main findings of the WPS study, how to further develop localisation of the implementation of the women, peace and security agenda and NAPs. All five case countries in the study have explored ways to localise women, peace and security NAPs, and the study identifies six avenues of localisation from development of local action plans to including locally implementable activities in NAPs or including WPS activities in local gender equality implementation plans. It still remains unclear, however, what impact these efforts to localise WPS NAPs have had, how a systematic approach can be followed in localisation, and how sufficient funds can be secured and targeted for best results.
You can read the full study here.
About the speakers:
Samra Filipović Hadžiabdić, Director of the Agency for Gender Equality in Bosnia and Herzegovina. As Director of the AGE BIH she is in charge of the development of governmental strategies to mainstream gender issues and lead the processes of development and adoption of the Law on Gender Equality in B&H. She also worked on the establishment of institutional mechanisms for gender equality in Bosnia and Herzegovina including the Gender Center of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Gender Center of the Republika Srpska and committees in the legislative bodies.
Jyldyz Kuvatova, Associate Professor, American University of Central Asia. Jyldyz Kuvatova has more than twenty-five years of experience in the area of gender equality and women's empowerment, human rights, media development, programme management, strategic communication, research and management consulting. She led the UN Women country office’s programmes in Kyrgyzstan, the EU-funded Media & Civic Participation in Transparency & Accountability Project of Internews in Kyrgyzstan and strategic communications management of UNDP country office in Kyrgyzstan.
Henri Myrttinen has worked for numerous NGOs and research institutions on gender, peace and security, focusing mostly on Southeast Asia and Central Asia, but also on Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and Central and Eastern Europe. He holds a PhD in Conflict Resolution and Peace Studies. He has worked on gender-based violence prevention, on critically engaging masculinities, integrating diverse sexual orientation and gender identity and expression (SOGIE) perspectives into peace and security work, as well as on the gender dimension of small arms and light weapons, armed conflict and formal and informal security sector actors
Dominika Stojanoska is the Head of Office ad interim of the UN Women Country Office in Ukraine. She joined UN Women Ukraine Country Office in 2018, as Programme Specialist managing the programme portfolio of Eastern Ukraine. Before that, she performed the functions of Head of Programme Office of UN Women in North Macedonia.
Tuula Yrjölä is Director of OSCE Conflict Prevention Centre. Ambassador Yrjölä has served as Director of the OSCE Conflict Prevention Centre and Deputy Head of the OSCE Secretariat since February 2020. Before joining the OSCE Secretariat she was Ambassador for Democratic and Effective Societies at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland in Helsinki.
Chair: Sanam Naraghi Anderlini MBE @sanambna is Director of the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security and founder and CEO of the International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN).
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