Annex A. Additional WPS Lessons in SOLLIMS
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Stability Operations – Afghanistan
Inclusion of Gender Perspectives Increases Security… (Lesson #2461)
Including gender perspectives in operations increases security by enhancing situational awareness.
This is illustrated by a Swedish Provincial Reconstruction Team in Afghanistan in 2009 whose
engagements with women provided information that prevented misinterpretation of a local event,
averting a potential security incident.
“Success Reporting” by Female Engagement Teams in Afghanistan (Lesson #2430)
Female Engagement Teams (FETs) in southern Afghanistan from 2010 to early 2012 reported
many of their engagements with Afghan women as successes without culturally-appropriate
indicators to evaluate whether or not there were substantive outcomes.
Recruitment & Retention of Policewomen in the Afghan National Police (Lesson #2550)
Afghan women have faced barriers to both recruitment and retention in the Afghan National Police
due to cultural attitudes, security threats, and lack of institutional support.
Afghanistan National Solidarity Program Increases Participation in Governance (Lesson #2543)
Women were often less involved in public governance in rural Afghanistan at the beginning of U.S.
military operations there. The National Solidarity Program mandated a quota of women’s
participation in local governance decisions for funded projects so that women would also have a
say in the development projects that would affect their lives.
Conflict Resolution – Africa
Women’s Participation in Peace Processes Contributes to Sustainability of Peace Agreements
(Lesson #2547)
Recidivism rates for countries returning to civil war are extremely high, and many peace treaties
have had low success rates. Evidence suggests that women’s participation in formal peace
processes contributes to the sustainability of peace agreements.
Liberian Women’s Mass Campaign for Peace Secures Peace Process (Lesson #2546)
Peace talks often exclude women from substantial roles. Liberian women, however, exerted
pressure on all sides at the negotiation table and secured a place for the women at the 2003 peace
talks to end Liberia’s civil war. This ensured that interests of ordinary Liberians were not forgotten
in shaping a new Liberia.
Gender-Sensitive DDR Processes: Integrating Female Ex-Combatants in Sierra Leone
(Lesson #2486)
Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR) processes have narrowly defined
women’s roles in armed conflict by focusing on women primarily as victims, showing reluctance
to identify them as soldiers. Because of this lack of gender sensitization in programming, female
ex-combatants, such as those from Sierra Leone’s 11-year civil war (1991-2002), have largely
avoided participating in DDR processes.
Additional Lessons Written by: Ms. Katrina Gehman, Lessons Learned Analyst (Ctr), PKSOI
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