Austria
Austria has repeatedly stressed the importance of national ownership of peace...
Austria has repeatedly stressed the importance of national ownership of peacebuilding processes. In order to promote national leadership and ensure the sustainability of progress, all peacebuilding efforts need to draw upon existing national capacities to the greatest extent possible. We therefore welcome efforts to assess existing capacities as a basis for the deployment of international civilian expertise. The ongoing review of civilian capacity will contribute to ensuring that civilian expertise for peacebuilding is deployed in an efficient and timely manner and that specialized skills to address women's needs are included.
A coordinated and coherent approach is needed in order to ensure women's full...
A coordinated and coherent approach is needed in order to ensure women's full participation in all peacebuilding efforts. The relative absence of women from peace negotiations and post-conflict planning processes has recently been demonstrated by concrete figures in a UNIFEM study: Women rarely assume core government functions, they are not able to ensure their issues are addressed in peace accords and peace processes, and they are not in a position to ensure prioritisation of their needs in planning processes or adequate financial allocations to address them. This problems needs to be addressed by the Council and the UN system in a more consistent manner.
Austria therefore fully supports the SG's Action Plan for Gender-Responsive P...
Austria therefore fully supports the SG's Action Plan for Gender-Responsive Peacebuilding with its seven commitments and calls upon the Secretariat and other relevant bodies and agencies to translate these commitments into concrete programs, ensuring that the peacebuilding priorities, as identified by the SG in his 2009 report, are met in a gender-responsive way to ensure women's full participation. Austria highly welcomes the crucial role of the PBC in addressing a country's post-conflict needs and in promoting and ensuring women's participation in all peacebuilding efforts, as outlined in the report by the SG.
Furthermore, we are looking forward to regular updates by the SG on efforts t...
Furthermore, we are looking forward to regular updates by the SG on efforts to ensure women's full participation in peacebuilding. The indicators to measure progress in the implementation of Res. 1325 constitute a useful tool to track progress in this regard.