(c) Support capacity-building, especially for civil
agreement. The content of a peace agreement likewise offers significant scope for ensuring that the
rights, concerns and priorities of women and girls
are fully addressed. Finally, once a peace agreement
has been concluded, its implementation should be
pursued with explicit attention to women’s full and
equal participation and the goal of gender equality.
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.
10. Women’s full and equal participation and the inte-
gration of gender perspectives are crucial to democratic electoral processes in post-conflict situations.
A gender-sensitive constitutional and legal framework, especially electoral laws and regulations, is
necessary to ensure that women can fully participate
in such processes. Political parties can play a crucial
role in promoting women’s equal participation. Steps
are also necessary to ensure that women participate
fully in, and that a gender perspective is incorporated throughout, the design and implementation
of voter and civic education programmes and in
election administration and observation.
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 partici-
pation as actors in all peace processes, in particular
negotiation, mediation and facilitation;
11. Governments in particular, as well as the United
Nations system, especially those United Nations
entities having a mandate with regard to peace and
security, and other relevant international, regional and
national actors, including civil society, have a responsibility for advancing gender equality and ensuring
women’s full and equal participation in all aspects
of peace processes and in post-conflict peace-building, reconstruction, rehabilitation and reconciliation,
where they are participants in these processes.
(b) Ensure that peace agreements address, from a gen-
der 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;
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:
(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;
(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
(f) With regard to gender mainstreaming, ensure and
between efforts to promote gender equality and
efforts aimed at conflict prevention;
support the full participation of women at all levels
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