Increasing Women's Participation in United Nations Peace Operations

When:
November 04, 2019 @ 16:00 – November 04, 2019 @ 17:30
Where:
GCSP Conference Room 1
Pétal 4, Chemin Eugène-Rigot 2D
in Geneva 1211

Increasing Women’s Participation in
United Nations Peace Operations


Introducing Measuring Opportunities for Women in Peace
Operations – a barrier assessment methodology


This session will discuss how the Measuring Opportunities
for Women in Peace Operations (MOWIP) barrier assessment
methodology, developed by DCAF together with Cornell
University and local partners, enables States to assess 10
identified barriers to the deployment of women to UN peace
operations and to highlight good practices within their own
security institutions.


The United Nations has set a target for women to make up
20% of police contributions and 15% of military contributions
to peace operations by 2020. However, in 2019 the
proportion of female police and military peacekeepers
remains well below target, with 4.7% for military personnel
and 14.5% for police personnel.


At present, there is a lack of solid and widely shared
evidence of what constitute the barriers to women’s
participation in UN peace operations, leaving the UN and
its Member States to largely rely on anecdotal evidence
or individual testimonies in decision-making and policy
development to increase women’s participation. Following
the publication of the Baseline Study (https://www.dcaf.ch/
elsie-initiative-women-peace-operations-baseline-study) in
2018 that identifies a set of barriers to women’s participation
in peace operations, DCAF, together with Cornell University
and local partners in eight different countries, has
developed and implemented the MOWIP barrier assessment
methodology.

Moderator:

  • Ms Solene Brabant, Project Officer Gender an Security Division, DCAF

Event Speakers:

  • Mr Boniface Cheembe, Executive Director SACCORD (Zambia)
  • Ms Trine Heimerback, Deputy Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Norway in Geneva
  • Ms Tamara Mawhinney, Deputy Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Canda in Geneva
  • Ms Ann Blomberg, Acting Head of Gender and Security Division, DCAF

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