Gender Equality, Justice and Peace- & Statebuilding: SDC's contribution to the Sustainable Development Agenda 2030
Where: Lausanne, Switzerland
Date: Arrival May 30 evening – departure June 3 morning, 2016 (three days)
Aim:The ultimate aim of the F2F is to capitalize the learnings from the field and to define new work streams for 2016-2018 in order to support SDG implementation. The field has a prominent platform to show what has worked and what has not with regard to policy and operations.
Welcome to the website of 2016 Face to Face meeting of the SDC Conflict & Human Rights Network, organized in cooperation with the Gender Network. Here you can find information regarding content and logistics of the event. Over the course of the weeks leading to May 30, as the program gets shaped into further detail, more information and background documents will be uploaded on this page.
Flurina Derungs, who works at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Bern, was responsible of the E-discussion on the nexus of gender equality, justice, peace- and statebuilding. Even though there were many valuable contributions – a total of 28 contributions from all parts of the world and also from different SDC partners – only some examples can be discussed in the following video interview in which Flurina presents the main findings of the E-discussion. A big thanks to all of you who contributed to this very lively and inspiring E-discussion!
You will find a summary of all the issues that were mentioned in the E-discussion in the summary report that you will get in your resource pack.
1.03 Summary E-Discussion Gender Equality Justice Peace- and Statebuilding.pdf
Workshops
Block I
1.1 Reduction of fragility causes.pdf
1.2 Strengthening resilience.pdf
1.3 Enjoyment of HR.pdf
1.4 Justice CAPEX - Insights and Implications of SDC's Justice Sector Engagement.pdf
1.5 Gender fragility and violence part I.pdf
1.6 Gender fragility and politics part I.pdf
1.7 Gender fragility and economics.pdf
Block II
2.1 Statebuilding and governance.pdf
2.2 Strengthening civil society.pdf
2.3 Working with implementation partners.pdf
2.4 Justice CAPEX - Customary laws and justice mechanisms.pdf
2.5 Gender fragility and violence part II.pdf
2.6 Gender fragility and politics part II.pdf
2.7 Financing for Gender Equality.pdf
Block III
3.1 International Peace and Statebuilding Policies_v1.pdf
3.2 Urban violence and youth.pdf
3.3 Dealing with the past.pdf
3.4 Justice CAPEX - Legal Aid and Legal Empowerment.pdf
3.5 SGBV in humanitarian contexts.pdf
3.6 Women's involvement in Conflict and Early Warning.pdf
3.7 Gender equality with mulitlateral partners and development banks.pdf
Geneva I
Geneva 1.1 Prevention of violent extremism.pdf
Geneva 1.2 Agenda 2030 Goal 16.pdf
Geneva 1.3 NR conflict and security.pdf
Geneva 1.4 Int'l Women's Human Rights Instruments.pdf
Geneva II
Geneva 2.1 HCR and UPR.pdf
Geneva 2.2 Field presences.pdf
Geneva 2.3 RoL Democracy HR.pdf
Geneva 2.4 Resolution 1325 - DCAF.pdf
Block IV
4.1 Monitoring Early Warning and Conflict Transformation.pdf
4.2 CSPM tools and trainings.pdf
4.3 HRBA.pdf
4.4 Justice CAPEX - Justice Sector Reform in Fragile Contexts.pdf
4.5 Gender and Conflict Analysis.pdf
Brief
More than one third of the Swiss cooperation partner countries have not achieved the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) due to conflict, fragility and disrespect for human rights. These issues weaken the capacity and legitimacy of states to provide effective services, deliver peace and justice, and reduce people’s insecurity. Conflict and fragility have a strong gender dimension as well, since
women and men have different roles, needs and vulnerabilities. While on one hand women and girls are particularly affected by gender-specific violence during conflicts, on the other hand conflict situations also present opportunities for the empowerment of women as important actors in national and local governance, as well as in peace and transition processes.
Finally, women’s rights are human rights!
With the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals in September 2015, the global development community has a new road map to build a more equal, fair and inclusive world society. Two of the most challenging goals were strongly advocated by Switzerland and will be at the core of the new message 2017-20 for what concerns Gendernet and CHRnet: SDG 5 - Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls, and SDG 16 - Peace, justice and effective institutions. These goals are interlinked: sustainable peace requires inclusive peace- and statebuilding and the respect of human rights, and gender equality and women's rights must be at the centre of all efforts. Anchoring them high on the international development agenda was an achievement, supported by Switzerland basing on SDC's operational experience and policy engagement with the DAC Gendernet as well as INCAF and the New Deal.
At the Face-to-Face (F2F), we will reflect on what the Agenda 2030 means for SDC – both for our policy dialogue and our operational work in the field:
- What are the intersections between the SDGs 16 and 5? How can the links be strengthened - both on policy and field level?
- How to use the networks' learning and experiences to support effective SDG implementation in the field of gender equality, justice, peace- and statebuilding? Which projects and programmes have a potential for replication and scaling up? Which partners, instruments and approaches are essential?
- How are our guiding policy frameworks – the new message 2017-2020, the Peace- and Statebuilding strategy, as well as the National Action Plan 1325 on Women, Peace and Security and the SDC gender strategy informing our strategic orientation and operational work? And vice versa - what are the learnings from the field to be fed back into our guiding fr
The ultimate aim of the F2F is to capitalize the learnings from the field and to define new work streams for 2016-2018 in order to support SDG implementation. The field has a prominent platform to show what has worked and what has not with regard to policy and operations.
You can find more information on the objectives and methodology of the F2F in the concept note below:
F2F - Concept_Note_EN.pdf
Group sessions
Here below you find a list of the foreseen workshops for each group session block. The topics of the group sessions are still being developed and we strongly encourage you to come up with your own proposals, as well as to let us know if you have interesting projects related to the suggested topics – this is your F2F and it should revolve around your ideas and contributions! A space to submit your proposals, ideas and interests is provided in the registration form.
CHR_F2F_Workshops_EN.pdf
