"The Role of National Action Plans on Women, Peace and Security in Preventing and Reducing Armed Violence" Regional Review Conference on the Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development Manila, Philippines | 8-9 October 2014

1. The Role of National Action Plans on Women, Peace and Security in Preventing and Reducing Armed Violence
The Role of National Action Plans on Women, Peace and Security in Preventing and Reducing Armed Violence
Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development Regional Review Conference, Asia Pacific, 8-9 October

2. .
Gendered experiences of armed
conflict and other forms of armed
violence
• Women and men experience armed conflict in
distinct ways. The significance of weapons and the
impacts of armed violence are also influenced by
gender.
• Men are significantly more likely to take up arms
to fight conflicts and commit various forms of
armed violence. They also suffer higher levels of
violent deaths, particularly young men.
• More women carry the social and economic burden
of caring for survivors of injuries from small arms,
landmines and cluster munitions.
• Women are more exposed to sexual and gender
based violence, often carried out with the use,
display, or threat of a weapon in conflict, post-conflict
and violence affected contexts.
• The risks and incidence of SGBV do not necessarily
reduce when conflicts end. The continuum of
violence again women takes on new patterns in
post-conflict contexts.

3. UN Photo/Stuart Price
Global Policy
Women Peace & Security
•Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995)
•United Nations Security Council Resolutions
(UNSCR) 1325 (2000), 1820 (2008), 1888 (2009),
1889 (2009), 1960 (2010), 2106 (2013), 2122
(2013)
•Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
(ICC)
•Convention on the Elimination of All forms of
Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the
General Recommendation No. 30 on Women in
Conflict Prevention, Conflict and Post-conflict
Situations (2013)
Disarmament and Armed Violence Reduction
(non exhaustive list)
•Anti-personnel Mine Ban Convention (1997)
•UN Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and
Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light
Weapons in All Its Aspects (2001)
•Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and
Development (2006)
•Convention on Cluster Munitions (2008)
•Oslo Commitments on Armed Violence (2010)
•UNSCR 2117 Small Arms and Light Weapons
(2013)
•Arms Trade Treaty (2013)

4. National Implementation
How to translate these two agendas and reinforce
commitments in National Action Plans on WPS:
1. Draw on the framework of United Nations
Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 – and
its pillars of:
• protection,
• participation,
• prevention,
• as well as the integration of gender
perspectives in peace and security
issues.
2. Integrate provisions from all of the WPS
agenda within these pillars.
3. Incorporate commitments (and norms) from
supporting instruments for disarmament and
armed violence reduction.

5. 9 Recommendation to integrate AVRP
provisions into National Action Plans
on Women, Peace & Security
Gender-based evidence
1. Improve evidence and gender analysis of
conflict, crime and violence impacts and risks for
women, men, boys and girls
Expand WPS norms
2. Apply WPS norms widely across various
forms of armed conflict, violence and efforts to
build security.
Participation
3. Increase women’s participation in peace-building
and security matters, including
disarmament and armed violence reduction.

6. Recommendations
Protection
4. Promote gender-sensitive policies and
services to address the needs and protect the
rights of victims and survivors of armed conflict
and violence, their families and caregivers.
5. Monitor the continuum of violence against
women from conflict to post-conflict periods –
also tracking the use, display or threat of
weapons in order to inform interventions.
6. Monitor implementation of Article 7 (4) of
the Arms Trade Treaty to prevent violations of
international human rights law (IHRL) or
international humanitarian law (IHL), and acts of
gender-based violence.
7. Promote positive masculinities and engage
men and boys to promote gender equality.

7. Recommendations
Prevention
8. Promote comprehensive conflict prevention
efforts engaging women in all aspects.
Gender-perspectives and mainstreaming
9. Mainstream gender in security sectors,
disarmament and armed violence reduction
policy and practices.

8. Thank you!
For more information
Nicola Williams | Coordinator
Global Alliance on Armed Violence
email: nicola.williams@allianceonarmedviolence.org
visit: www.allianceonarmedviolence.org