Gender Equity Program
Enhancing women’s involvement in governance, political processes, and peacebuilding work
Women play vital roles in peacebuilding, and long-term peace and stability require their equal participation in post-conflict governance arrangements. However, in many conflict contexts, women face substantial structural obstacles – social, economic, and political – to equitable political participation.
Areas of Activity
Across its peacebuilding programs, Conflict Dynamics works to ensure that women are consulted and involved in all areas of the work. Additionally, many programs have spearheaded specific initiatives to enhance women’s involvement in governance, political processes, and peacebuilding work.
South Sudan
In South Sudan, the initiative “Beyond Quotas and Mainstreaming” aimed to empower women and men to generate options for enhancing gender equity in governance arrangements. Involving both women (and men) policymakers and women’s representatives from civil society, the initiative supported women to explore different components of governance arrangements in South Sudan, understand how their interests are currently addressed and represented and identify ways to enhance the accommodation of women’s interests.
Sudan
In Sudan, Conflict Dynamics has collaborated with the Taskforce for the Engagement of Women in Sudan on a series of workshops for women involved in political dialogue processes to explore how best to shape the roles of women and other groups in potential political dialogues.
Syria
In Syria, research on local peacebuilding actors explicitly focused on identifying women peace actors and the types of peacebuilding work women are engaged in, as well as exploring some of the attitudes of men and women regarding women’s inclusion in peacebuilding.
Achievements
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Curabitur ornare dolor sed justo maximus, id pretium lorem hendrerit. Cras dolor lorem, tempus id velit eget, porta porta augue. Etiam id felis et lacus feugiat dictum. Cras porttitor, odio non pretium aliquam, metus risus posuere ex, ac dignissim nibh lectus eu nulla. Nullam eget quam felis. Curabitur non sollicitudin nibh. Nulla purus sapien, vulputate quis lorem sed, bibendum pharetra velit. Nullam mollis nibh sit amet orci tincidunt, eu malesuada massa semper. Nulla cursus iaculis sem, sed ullamcorper odio imperdiet placerat. Phasellus malesuada libero ac nisl fringilla, eu mollis libero efficitur. In accumsan vitae dui non vulputate.