{"id":20776,"date":"2013-05-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/uniting-government-and-csos-efforts-in-implementation-of-the-un-1325-in-western-balkans\/"},"modified":"2020-07-21T20:50:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T18:50:17","slug":"uniting-government-and-csos-efforts-in-implementation-of-the-un-1325-in-western-balkans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/uniting-government-and-csos-efforts-in-implementation-of-the-un-1325-in-western-balkans\/","title":{"rendered":"Uniting government and CSOs efforts in implementation of the UN 1325 in Western Balkans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t{image1}<strong>The regional dialogue on Gender and Security was a unique event that has brought together participants from different professional and activist\u2019s experience to discuss cooperation between Governments and CSOs in implementing and monitoring UNSCR 1325 in the region.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\tBy facilitating a dialogue, this conference contributed to the greater understanding of the importance of the cooperation between Governments and CSOs. Only by building a trust between each other resulting in cooperation, UNSCR 1325 goals can be achieved in the region of Western Balkans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\tThe nature of the conference was informal and organized through plenary discussions and workshops in order to create a platform for fruitful exchange of the ideas and thoughts between Governments and CSOs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"anterfile\">\tOne of the participants stated:\u00a0<strong>&#8220;I like the format of the conference. It helped tackling the most important issues on cooperation between Governments and CSOs in relation to NAP 1325 agenda&#8221;.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>\tThe main topics discussed at the conference in relation to developing, implementing and monitoring NAP 1325 were following:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\t\tThe greatest achievements in UNSCR 1325 implementation in the Western Balkans countries;<\/li>\n<li>\t\tThe reasons for success;<\/li>\n<li>\t\tThe neglected aspects of Women, Peace and Security agenda;<\/li>\n<li>\t\tHow to ensure continued implementation of UNSCR 1325?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\t{image2}\u00a0{image3}<\/p>\n<p>\t{split}<\/p>\n<p>\t{image4} The greatest achievements in the UNSCR Implementation<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\t\t<strong>Adoption of gender relevant legislation<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\tLegal framework, such as Gender Equality Act, Antidiscrimination Act, strategies for fighting gender based violence and similar documents, was completed. However, countries are currently at different stages of gender mainstreaming in security sector and the implementation of UNSCR 1325.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\t\t<strong>Increased political participation of women and representation of women in the security sector<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\tThe participation of women is still understood in terms of quotas and number of women that are represented in the institutions. For example, there are around 30% of women in the parliament all over the region which has been an improvement in comparison to the earlier period.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\t\t<strong>Establishment of gender equality bodies and mechanism within security sector institutions<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"anterfile\">\t<strong>Panel: Lessons learned from the regional initiatives<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"anterfile\">\t<strong>Ivana Radovic<\/strong>, Coordinator of Prevention and Education Program at Anti trafficking action (ASTRA) from Belgrade, shared her experience on the regional initiatives pointing out that the most important factor for maintaining a good cooperation trough the initiative is a strong will of the parties involved in the process.<em>\u2019\u2019When the network is designed as a project activity it fails when the project ends\u2019\u2019<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"anterfile\">\t<strong>Verica Golijanin<\/strong>, Women Police Officers Network B&#038;H,\u00a0asserted that\u2018<em>\u2019First of all we have to work in the country for creating a national network, afterwards we can continue on international level. Only by doing this the network can serve its purpose<\/em>.\u2019\u2019<\/div>\n<div class=\"anterfile\">\t<strong>Flora Macula<\/strong>, UN Women from Kosovo, gave a good insight of the good practice of Regional Women\u2019s Lobby, a regional network with a goal to strengthen the position of women in democratization and the post-conflict recovery process by advancing justice and reconciliation.<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\t\t<strong>CSOs and Government Cooperation<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\tThe role of CSOs in developing and implementation of UNSCR 1325 NAP is crucial since CSOs are important source of information and increase the transparency and accountability of the whole process.\u00a0<em>\u2019\u2019It was CSOs who have played an important role in advancing gender equality all over the region<\/em>,\u2019\u2019 claimed one of the participants from the Bosnia and Herzegovina during the workshops discussions.<\/p>\n<p>\t<strong>\u2019\u2019CSOs are not perceived as government partners\u2019\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\tCSOs are of opinion that gender equality agenda is last to be recognized as a priority among Governments.<\/p>\n<p>\t<strong>\u2019\u2019CSOs need to learn how to use the power of the Government and vice verse\u2019\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\tThe government representatives reported their misunderstanding of CSOs language claiming that CSOs representative lack skills in communication with government.\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\t\t<strong>Translating <\/strong><strong>UNSCR 1325 into reality<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\tMain priorities for furthering cooperation on NAP1325 agenda listed by government and CSO\u2019s participants are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\t\tFormalization of the cooperation between them and adopting protocols of communication;<\/li>\n<li>\t\tIncorporating a gender perspective into the security documents that would go beyond the formal level;<\/li>\n<li>\t\tThe most challenging priority during the workshop discussions was political participation of women beyond quotas.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div class=\"anterfile\">\tThe event is supported by UN WOMEN andco-organised by five CSOs: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bezbednost.org\/Bezbednost\/2001\/English.shtml\">Belgrade Centre for Security Policy<\/a>\u00a0(BCSP, Belgrade), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crpm.org.mk\/\">Center for Research and Policy Making<\/a>\u00a0(CRPM, Skopje), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idmalbania.org\/\">Institute for Democracy and Mediation<\/a>\u00a0(IDM, Tirana), <a href=\"http:\/\/qkss.org\/new\/index.php?setLang=2\">Kosovar Center for Security Studies<\/a>\u00a0(KCSS, Prishtina) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zenezenama.org\/\">Women to Women<\/a>\u00a0(Sarajevo).\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Regional Dialogue on Gender and Security: Uniting Governments&#8217; and CSOs\u2019 Efforts in Implementation of the UNSCR 1325 Agenda gathered 47 representatives from state agencies, government equality bodies, ministries of defence, ministries of interior, local civil society organizations and international organizations from the Western Balkans: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Serbia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":13947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8601,8591],"tags":[264,10021,7489,5248,7113,10600,9051,7763,7519,6444,7565,724,7760,7518,10598,8071,6241,10599,8068,7075],"vest_saopstenje":[9454],"coauthors":[164],"class_list":["post-20776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gender-and-security","category-serbian-security-policy","tag-264","tag-agenda","tag-albania","tag-bosnia","tag-civil","tag-csos","tag-efforts","tag-governments","tag-herzegovina","tag-implementation","tag-international","tag-kosovo","tag-local","tag-macedonia","tag-ministries","tag-organizations","tag-society","tag-uniting","tag-unscr","tag-western","vest_saopstenje-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20776"},{"taxonomy":"vest_saopstenje","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vest_saopstenje?post=20776"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=20776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}