The Impact of Armed Conflict on Women and Girls - UNFPA

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• Establishing and promoting landmark dates to mobilize public health initiatives; • Providing continual education on conflict reconciliation; and • Ensuring direct medical and psychological services in reproductive health programmes, especially for survivors <strong>of</strong> violence. 16
WORKING GROUP REPORTS Working Groups were charged with providing specific recommendations for strategies to be pursued, especially by UNFPA, to support the empowerment <strong>of</strong> women in conflict situations. Based on its discussions, each Working Group produced a report to address the effects <strong>of</strong> conflict on women and girls. <strong>The</strong> four topics that were examined in conflict and post-conflict situations are: reproductive health, gender-based violence, peacekeeping operations and women’s NGOs. Report <strong>of</strong> Working Group One: Reproductive Health Introduction <strong>Conflict</strong> affects the reproductive health <strong>of</strong> women, men, and adolescents in myriad ways. UNFPA has a moral imperative to ensure practical public health service provision by providing sustainable reproductive health services and being held accountable for those services. Reproductive health needs must be addressed comprehensively in pre-conflict, conflict and post-conflict settings. In addition, the human rights <strong>of</strong> girls and women must be addressed throughout the life span for adolescents, the elderly and other vulnerable demographic groups. Specifically, the development <strong>of</strong> life skills training to help adolescents build responsible adolescent behaviour must be provided. Male involvement must be addressed and integrated to support and foster improved public health outcomes for all. This includes establishing links to education, empowerment, income generation, and improved access to resources by building on community resilience and residual capacities <strong>of</strong> women. Culture and ethnicity must be acknowledged, respected and integrated into development activities. Services and care must be provided through equal and equitable methods. Finally, community participation and partnerships between NGOs must be fostered and sustained through proactive advocacy for common goals. Recommendations for United Nations Organizations and Agencies <strong>The</strong> implementation <strong>of</strong> the Minimum Initial Services Package (MISP) (Annex 5) should be ensured, in accordance with Reproductive Health in Refugee Settings: An Inter-Agency Field Manual (New York: UNHCR, UNFPA, 1999). 17
Page 1 and 2: A UNFPA Strategy for Gender Mainstr
Page 3 and 4: FOREWORD The natur
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Page 15 and 16: BACKGROUND PAPER SUMMARIES Backgrou
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participate refused. 15 In the surv
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community. It could destroy a victi
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WOMEN AND GIRLS IN KOSOVO: THE EFFE
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More than two years have passed. On
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young girls to attend school, among
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to different cultural attitudes tow
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average rate of 2.
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One of the issues
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difficult issues such as the budget
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Legislative reforms are needed in m
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Transitional Council and convinced
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• All agencies should have instit
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insecurity about the future, unempl
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Walking the painful path of
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decide to return to their husband
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Crises usually affect more women th
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• Establishing communication chan
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• Supporting grass-roots women’
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Women and men have different approa
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organized meetings to promote recon
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Recommendations Post-conflict socie
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7. Presentation and discussion <str
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The Role o
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Working Group Three: The</s
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Country/City Participant Agency Spe
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Kyrgyzstan Bernara Alimbaeva Nepal
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New York Mohammad Nizamuddin UNFPA-
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United Kingdom Sippi Azerbaijani- M
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John Snow International Research an
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UNFPA: Pamela DeLargy, Emergency an
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ANNEX 5: MINIMUM INITIAL SERVICE PA
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• Staff trained and sensitized on
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