Canada’s National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security and the Response from Civil Society - Women, Peace and Security Network - Canada
The submission briefly outlines Canada's National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security and the response of Canadian civil society organizations. It includes 3 recommendations on building better NAPs arising from this experience.
Country / Region:
Canada
Thematic Focus:
General Women, Peace and Security
Date of Paper:
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Organization / institution website:
Contact person email:
b.woroniuk@bell.net
Secondary contact person email:
Kristine St-Pierre kristinestp@gmail.com
Responsible for submission:
Beth Woroniuk - Women, Peace and Security Network-Canada
Strategic recommendation(s):
- While having a National Action Plan is an important step, it is not a sufficient indicator of meaningful progress. It is important to ask: Does the NAP make robust and meaningful commitments to advancing the goals of the WPS agenda? Are there financial and human resource allocations that support the achievement of these goals?
- National Action Plans should include specific and sufficient resource allocations. Canada’s National Action Plan does not have a budget. Government departments are expected to implement the Plan with regular budgetary resources. There are no specific allocations for funding, no funds to support women human rights defenders and women’s organizations working for peace in conflict-affected areas, no resources for Canadians working on these issues and no way of tracking whether resources dedicated to women, peace and security objectives by the government have increased or decreased since the start of the NAP.
- Reporting on NAP implementation should be timely, public and results-based. While the Government of Canada has provided public reporting on the NAP, this reporting has been extremely slow. When the reports have been released, information in the reports has often been out of date. The Canadian reports also tend to list activities and it is difficult to understand what has actually been achieved or accomplished.
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