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Sudan National Action Plan for Darfur

Sudan National Action Plan for Darfur. Dr. Attiat Moustafa Director, Unit for Combatting Violence Against Women. Accomplishments to Date.

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Sudan National Action Plan for Darfur

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  1. Sudan National Action Plan for Darfur Dr. Attiat Moustafa Director, Unit for Combatting Violence Against Women

  2. Accomplishments to Date • South Darfur SC has carried out joint GOS and UN joint monitoring of specific incidents of GBV and has supported local authorities to better understand the situation and respond. 2. In South and North Darfur SC advocacy has resulted in an increase of women in the GOS police force with 30 female police being dispatched from the national reserve forces to serve in the major IDP camps around Nyala. Two women serve in each camp and are critical partners to AMIS in supporting firewood patrols that provide protection for women when they leave the camp to collect firewood and fodder for animals. As a result, anecdotal evidence suggests a resulting decrease in GBV related to firewood and fodder collection. In North Darfur, the number of women in police forces reached 14 but has now decreased to 7 female police officers.

  3. Accomplishments (cont.) • The State Committees support training of state actors on GBV. In South Darfur, training sessions on GBV have been carried out with police, judges, lawyers and healthcare workers. In North and South Darfur, the State Committee and UNFPA supported the GOS Advisory Council on Human Rights to organize and carry out awareness raising and training sessions on Criminal Circular 2 (related to form 8). 4. Follow up on timely prosecution of cases: While this area can be substantially strengthened one or two hallmark cases have proven the potential impact of the State Committee. Most recently, a perpetrator who was a member of the GOS military was released from military immunity to be tried in a criminal court due to follow up on the case by the State Committee.

  4. Challenges • Coordination: During the time that it took to launch and put the NAP into implementation, State Committees for Combating Violence Against Women were being formed, replicating a model originally developed by the Wali of South Darfur. The North and South Darfur State Committees developed action plans, without considering the national action plan. In West Darfur, Wali Advisor on Women and Child Affairs and the State Committee were similarly not aware of the NAP. While in South and North Darfur an established committee is functioning, it lacks resources. In West Darfur, there is no committee structure and regular meetings do not take place

  5. Challenges (cont.) • Resource Mobilization: Resources to support activities on gender based violence are either not available, still need to be allocated to specific ministries by GNU and UN and activities funded under UN and NGO programmes need to be brought in sync with NAP and State Committee Action Plans. On the first issue, a GNU budget was allocated in 2005 to ensure implementation of the National Action Plan, and these funds are currently being reallocated to the 2006. At the state level, the Wali has provided some support in South Darfur however funding has not been allocated to State Committee work in North nor West Darfur. Finally, while the UN and NGOs have developed a strategy and are supporting programmes to prevent and respond to GBV, there is a need to align this work with the priorities defined by the State Committee in order to support the action plans.

  6. Challenges • Information sharing and awareness raising needs to be strengthened. For example, while inputs were sought from the UN-NGO gender-based violence working groups, none were incorporated. As a result, the NAP is not as multi-sectoral as it should be, with key weaknesses. Likewise, while there are elements of the NAP that address access to healthcare, there is no mention of psychosocial care and counseling. Efforts are now underway to not only harmonize the NAP with State Committee action plans but also to share the UN-NGO strategy in order to highlight areas of complementarily.

  7. Challenges • Involvement of the civil society can be strengthened: lack of funds and technical knowledge has contributed to the weak effect of civil societies in advocating for the needs of survivors of rape.

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