The Swedish International Development Agency’s (Sida) is supporting the Interntional Training Programme on UN Resolution 1325: Women, Peace and Security to be held in May and November 2012 in Sweden and another country (yet to be decided).
The International Training Programmes are specially designed for persons qualified to participate in reform processes of strategic importance on different levels and holds a position in their home organisation with a mandate to run processes of change.
The training programme invites participants who have the capacity to constructively influence a sustainable and peaceful development in their countries through their positions within governmental organizations, human rights commissions, civil society organizations, academic institutions, media and private sector.
Objectives
The principle aim of the training is to contribute to
- Increasing women’s influence and participation in the implementation of peace accords and postconflict reconstruction;
- Increasing the recognition of the special needs of girls and women in peace processes.
Further, the aim is to enable organisational change where participants will be given an opportunity to use the knowledge and tools provided by the programme to contribute to the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325.
The programme admits 25 participants. It is primarily designed for participants with senior and middle level positions in government, civil society and private sector working with human rights, women’s rights and in the security sector. Participants should represent one of the following:
- Government, e.g. relevant ministries, judiciary, military, police authority, human rights commissions or similar.
- Civil society and NGOs, e.g. human rights or women’s rights organisations
- Academic institutions
- Media and the private sector
The closing date to apply this programme is 12 January 2012. For more information, visit this link.
