Pt 2: WOMEN, PEACE AND SECURITY REPORT

(For Part 1, go to http://www.iwtc.org and click on Women's GlobalNet)

Questionnaire on Women, Peace and Security

UN Security Council Resolution 1325: Four Years On

The NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security (NGOWG) in New York invites you to complete this questionnaire and contribute to the development of an alternative report on Women, Peace and Security. 

In this questionnaire you will find questions on: 1) your work to advance implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security (Resolution 1325) and to address women, peace, and security issues generally; 2) your observations of governmental implementation of Resolution 1325, and; 3) your observations of the United Nations' implementation of Resolution 1325.

The NGOWG will compile all responses received into a civil society alternative report to be released concurrently to the UN Secretary-General's report on the implementation of Resolution 1325 in October 2004. 

We expect that the alternative civil society report will: 1) Examine the implementation of Resolution 1325 since its adoption in 2000, and address women, peace and security issues generally: 2) Provide an opportunity for women and men, boys and girls working on women, peace, and security related issues to share their experiences with each other: 3) Highlight gaps and challenges in the UN and government's implementation of Resolution 1324: 4) Serve as a tool for advocacy and moving forward on women, peace and security issues.

Depending on the detail of your input, this questionnaire may take one hour or more to complete. If you are not able to give this amount of time to the questionnaire, just complete the questions marked with a #.

YOUR WORK ON WOMEN, PEACE, AND SECURITY

      This section includes questions about your organization/network/group and the work you do to advance the implementation of Resolution 1325.  If you do not use Resolution 1325 in your work, please answer the following questions about your work as it relates to women, peace, and security issues, generally.

#1. Name of organization/network/group:

#2. Country/region where you are working:

#3. If you use Resolution 1325 in your work, how did you first learn about the resolution?

#4. What are the issues that you are working on that are related to women, peace and security?

#5. What issue(s) addressed in Resolution 1325 is (are) most important for the work that you do in your country/region?

#6. If you are using Resolution 1325, how are you using it in your work on women, peace, and security?

#7. In your work on women, peace and security, have you taken actions to:

[ ] educate women/men/girls/boys or NGO/civil society groups on 1325?

[ ] contact governmental/intergovernmental officials regarding 1325?

[ ] ensure that women are actively involved in formal peace negotiations?

[ ] build networks in your area/country/region with women working on women, peace and security?

[ ] other?  

Please explain.

#8. Which international, regional or national instruments do you use to promote the protection of women, women's participation and gender equality? 

[ ] Security Council Resolution 1325

[ ] Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA)

[ ] Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)

[ ] Other international, regional law or national law

#9. In your work to implement 1325, have you collaborated with:

[ ] other non-governmental or civil society organizations

[ ] governmental or inter-governmental bodies

[ ] United Nations

[ ] international financial institutions

Please give examples.

#10. Do you receive funding for your work on women, peace and security issues?

    Yes [ ]      No [ ]   If yes, from what sources?

#11. If you had more human or financial resources what would you do to advance the implementation of 1325/issues relating to women, peace and security?

#12.  What are your recommendations for how to advance implementation of Resolution 1325 and improve women's involvement in peace, and security issues?

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#CIVIL SOCIETY INPUT ON GOVERNMENTAL EFFORTS TO IMPLEMENT RES 1325

October 2000-October 2004

Where applicable, please note whether governmental actions have been taken at the local, provincial or national levels, as well as at regional and international levels.

#1. Has the government taken steps to increase women's representation at all decision-making levels?

 Yes [ ]  No [ ]  Somewhat [ ]   Please explain.

#2. Does the government support local and particularly women's peacebuilding initiatives?

 Yes [ ]  No [ ] Somewhat [ ]    Please explain.

#3. What, if anything, does the government- as a party to armed conflict, donor, mediator or Security Council member- do to ensure women's involvement and the integration of a gender perspective in peace negotiations and implementation of the agreement?

#4. If your government contributes troops, police or other personnel to peacekeeping operations, does it:

[ ] carry out pre-deployment gender-sensitivity training?

[ ] have a strategy for recruiting women to participate in peacekeeping?

[ ] prosecute those nationals responsible for sexual and gender-based violence while on mission, thus seeking to end impunity?

Please explain.

#5. If your government has ratified international treaties, such as the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), have its commitments been reflected in its work related to women, peace and security?

Yes [ ]  No [ ] Somewhat [ ]    Please explain.

#6. Does the government actively seek to end impunity and to prosecute those responsible for sexual and gender-based violence in the context of armed conflict?

[ ] Yes  [ ] No

#7. Does your government actively work towards disarmament and/or reallocation of resources away from military expenditures?

Yes [ ] No [ ] Somewhat [ ]   Please explain.

#8. Is there anything else your government is doing related to 1325?

#9. Which of these best describe your government's (or the government of the country in which you work) implementation of Resolution 1325?  Please choose only one.

[ ] The government is implementing programs or plans that address all (relevant) aspects of Resolution 1325.

[ ] The government is implementing programs or plans that address some (relevant) aspects of Resolution 1325.

[ ] The government is developing programs or plans that address all (relevant) aspects of Resolution 1325.

[ ] The government is developing programs or plans that address some (relevant) aspects of Resolution 1325.

[ ] The government talks about all parts of Resolution 1325 as part of its rhetoric on women, peace, and security.

[ ] The government talks about some parts of Resolution 1325 as part of its rhetoric on women, peace, and security.

[ ] The government only talks generally about women, peace, and security, without following through with any specific programs or plans.

[ ] The government has no specific initiatives relating to women, peace, and security.

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#CIVIL SOCIETY INPUT ON THE UNITED NATIONS' EFFORTS TO IMPLEMENT RES 1325 October 2000-October 2004

#1. Is the UN, or any of its specialized agencies, addressing women, peace and security issues in your country?  Which UN entities? If no, go to #7.

#2. Have any of the UN entities based in your country promoted local women's equal and active participation in the design and delivery of their programs?

Yes [ ]  No [ ] Somewhat [ ]   Please explain.

#3. Have the UN entities informed you or others about 1325?  If yes, which UN entities?

#4. Have any of the UN entities contacted your organization/network about your work on women, peace and security issues? 

#5.  Have the UN entities hosted trainings on 1325 for NGOs/civil society?

#6. Do you know if the UN has held trainings on 1325 for the UN staff working in your country?

#7. Do you know of ways the UN has worked to implement 1325?

#8.Where there is a UN peacekeeping operation...

#1. Have the UN military and civilian personnel received gender training from the UN while participating in the operation?

#2. Has there been an increase in violence against and/or exploitation of women and girls because of the UN's presence?

#3. Are there sufficient reporting and policing mechanisms to address both the threat and the occurrence of sexual and physical violence associated with peacekeepers and those charged with protecting areas?  Please explain.

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