In partnership with its members Cadre Permanent de Concertation de la Femme Congolese (CAFCO) and Réseau Femme et Développement (REFED) GNWP is facilitating a workshop in Kinshasa to launch the project in-country monitoring of UNSCR 1325 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
The workshop in Kinshasa is part of the in-country and global monitoring project that GNWP is undertaking. The goal of the monitoring project, which was launched in February 2010 with the GNWP indicators development/selection workshop in New York, is to identify and develop instruments for NGO monitoring and accurately assessing 1325 implementation. Although GNWP members from DRC were unable to attend the workshop in New York in February they demonstrated great interest and commitment to the project and worked together with the GNWP coordinating team to prepare a similar workshop in DRC, which is now taking place August 23-24. The goal of the workshop is to develop a better understanding of UNSCR 1325 among the participants, which include grassroots women from the eleven provinces of DRC, and come up with country specific indicators to be populated by the monitoring team in DRC.
During the February workshop GNWP members from Afghanistan, Burundi, Colombia, Fiji, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Uganda developed a set of sixteen indicators to assess 1325 implementation on the national level. In March Canada, Sri Lanka and Lebanon joined the project. The participating members have since conducted research in their respective countries and are in the process of finalizing their country reports, which will be compiled into a global report to be launched during the 10th anniversary of UNSCR 1325 in New York in October.
The outcomes of this monitoring initiative together with the study on costing and financing 1325, commissioned by Cordaid and GNWP, will serve as important advocacy tools to ensure 1325 implementation, particularly at the country and community levels.
GNWP, CAFCO and REFED thank Oxfam Novib for supporting the indicators workshop in DRC
