More women and girls in West and Central Africa exercise their voice, agency and leadership, including through an enabling environment that supports women’s and youth organizations working in Peace, Security, Humanitarian and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) settings.
Governance and Participation in Public Life (G &PPL)
More women and girls in West and Central Africa exercise their voice, agency and leadership, including through an enabling environment that supports women’s and youth organizations working in Peace, Security, Humanitarian and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) settings.
Women's peace organizations have good institutional, organizational and technical capacities in decision making bodies.
In addition to results reported by UN Women field offices (shown here), results achieved in countries and territories through the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence against Women (UNTF) are included in a non-duplicative manner in the global reporting on this indicator (see the Our Global Results page).
UN Women reports on this indicator in a global scope, signified by "(Desk Review)" at the end of the indicator statement (see the Our Global Results page for the global result). In addition to results reported by UN Women field offices (shown here), results achieved in countries and territories through the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence against Women (UNTF) are included in a non-duplicative manner in the global reporting on this indicator (see the Our Global Results page).
National and regional women's organizations are organized into networks and coalitions with sufficient strength to influence peace in the Sahel
Women, in particular local community women, strengthened their capacities to actively contribute to mediation, prevention and conflict resolution in the Liptako Gurma region
Women's organizations from the Sahel region increased capacities on DRR and influence DRR plans and processes.
In addition to results reported by UN Women field offices (shown here), results achieved in countries and territories through the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence against Women (UNTF) are included in a non-duplicative manner in the global reporting on this indicator (see the Our Global Results page).
More women and girls in West and Central Africa exercise their voice, agency and leadership, including through an enabling environment that supports women’s and youth organizations working in Peace, Security, Humanitarian and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) settings.
The Regional office continued to provide technical support and expertise to 3 regional organizations working on WPS namely: REPSFECO, Platform of women from the G5Sahel region and ROAJELF. An expert was temporary deployed for 6 months to the Platform of women of the G5Sahel region. This organization also received equipment for the operationalization of its regional office based in Mauritania. WCARO continued to support them to organize some advocacy initiatives and for the mobilization of resources. An annual meeting of the Group of women and Youth for peace and security in West Africa and the Sahel was organized in Liberia and the focus was on resource mobilization. Participants were trained on proposal development and resource mobilization. A global program on capacity building of women's organizations for peace was approved and financed by Nethelands for a total budget of USD 10 million . UNWOMEN built the capacities of a group of 45 young women and Girls in Chad . They were trained during a whole week on leadership, WPS agenda and diffrent themes related to GEWE. They have set up a very dynamic national network REJEFT and it has started to advocate for a better protection of young women's rights and their participation in different peace processes. A regional training on " Gender and Disaster Risk reduction, climate change and risk informed development was held in Dakar from 7 to 11 November. There was a total of 35 participants including 31 women and 4 men from 6 francophone countries of the Sahel region. They have built their capacities on integrating gender into national DRR strategies. A group of focal points for different countries have been set up and they will develop plans and projects to improve women's participation in DRR and climate change processes. In the case of humanitarian action indeed women and girls voice and influenced has improved and adquired more visibility due the support and active participation of UN Women in the Humanitarian cycle, Humanitarian Country Team and humanitarian reponses including decision making process, this is related to the new UN WOmen IASC membership and reactivation of regional GiHA network at regional level.Disclaimer and notes
References to Kosovo shall be understood to be in the context of United Nations Security Council resolution 1244 (1999).