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12. In regard to conflict prevention, the Commission on the Status of Women
calls on Governments, as well as all other relevant participants in these processes,
to:
(a) Improve the collection, analysis and inclusion of information on women
and gender issues as part of conflict prevention and early warning efforts;
(b) Ensure better collaboration and coordination between efforts to promote
gender equality and efforts aimed at conflict prevention;
(c) Support capacity-building, especially for civil society, in particular for
women’s organizations, in order to increase community commitment to conflict
prevention;
(d) Continue to make resources available nationally and internationally for
prevention of conflict and ensure women’s participation in the elaboration and
implementation of strategies for preventing conflict.
13. In regard to peace processes, the Commission on the Status of Women
calls on Governments, as well as all other relevant participants in these processes,
to:
(a) Promote women’s full, equal and effective participation as actors in all
peace processes, in particular negotiation, mediation and facilitation;
(b) Ensure that peace agreements address, from a gender perspective, the full
range of security aspects, including legal, political, social, economic and physical,
and also address the specific needs and priorities of women and girls;
(c) Ensure, in the implementation phase of a peace agreement, that all
provisions concerning gender equality and the participation of women are fully
complied with and that all provisions of the peace agreement, including
demobilization, disarmament, reintegration and rehabilitation, are implemented in a
manner that promotes gender equality and ensures women’s full and equal
participation;
(d) Promote women’s full and equal access to public information related to
peace processes;
(e) Review, on a regular basis, their contributions to the promotion of gender
equality and the full and equal participation of women, and to fulfil their
monitoring, accountability and reporting obligations in the implementation of peace
agreements;
(f) With regard to gender mainstreaming, ensure and support the full
participation of women at all levels of decision-making and implementation in
development activities and peace processes, including conflict prevention and
resolution, post-conflict reconstruction, peace-making, peacekeeping and peacebuilding and, in this regard, support the involvement of women’s organizations,
community-based organizations and non-governmental organizations;
(g) Develop and strengthen the provision of gender advisory capacity and
gender sensitive training programmes for all staff in missions related to armed
conflicts.
In this regard, the Commission takes note of the report of the Secretary-General.
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