Independent Report on the Implementation of NAP for UNSC Resolution 1325 in Serbia

Looking at the progress made in the implementation of the NAP during the relevant period, the authors in the report focus on the main accomplishments and the challenges, with the intention to see whether they were addressed by public authorities in the past year. Taking into consideration that three years have passed since the adoption of the NAP, key findings and messages of this Report will hopefully generate discussion and prompt a review of the NAP to ensure a better understanding of what has been completed done thus far, while equally identifying future priorities for the NAP implementation.

This is the second independent report on the implementation of the National Action Plan (NAP) for Implementing UNSC Resolution 1325 in the Republic of Serbia. The first report was published in 2012 and it covered the period from the NAP adoption in December 2010 to July 2012.

The Report is divided into seven chapters addressing the following matters: the establishment of institutional bodies and gender equality mechanisms for the implementation of the NAP; women in the security sector and their protection against discrimination; the education of security sector personnel; the inclusion of civil society representatives in the implementation of the NAP; monitoring and reporting on the implementation of the NAP; and, finally, media reporting on women in the security sector. Every chapter ends with recommendations for improvement of the implementation of the NAP in the area covered by that particular chapter. A novelty in relation to the previous report is a chapter about monitoring and reporting on the implementation of the NAP. Taking into account that there is a consensus among all relevant statutory and non-statutory actors that this area is of critical importance for continued effective implementation, we believed that it should be addressed in this Report.

The findings and recommendations presented in this report were drawn on the basis of publicly available documents and information about the activities undertaken by the public authorities responsible for the implementation of NAP 1325.