Armed group plan transition to peace in Ethiopia

Last week, representatives from Conciliation Resources joined leaders and members of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), as they announced their intention to form a political party and end over 20 years of armed opposition against the Ethiopian government.

Jo Kemp

Jo Kemp

Jo Kemp is an independent consultant, specialising in public financial management and fiduciary risk management. She has worked for a range of donors including DFID, the Australian Department for Foreign Affairs and Trade, UNICEF, large INGOs, and the Government of Uganda.

George Graham

George Graham

George Graham is Director of Conflict and Humanitarian Policy, Advocacy and Campaigns at Save the Children. He leads the organisation’s policy work and campaigns on conflict and emergency situations around the world, as well as longer-term work on measures to protect children in war and to uphold the rights of children on the move.

Michael Baah

Michael Baah

Michael joined in April 2019 as Director of Finance. He has over twenty years’ experience in senior roles within international development organisations. His passion for international development steered him into Finance Director as well as Programme leadership assignments in Senegal, Malawi and Kenya. More recently he spent a year with CARE Australia in PNG working as Assistant Country Director.

Steps towards gender sensitive conflict analysis

Commitments to undertake gender-sensitive conflict analysis have been included in a number of national action plans on Women, Peace and Security in recent years. Since the start of 2019, we’ve been running interviews and workshops with peacebuilding and policy professionals from around the world to better understand how this analysis is being undertaken.

Inclusion in practice: Examining gender-sensitive conflict analysis

This practice paper examines the experiences of peacebuilding practitioners and policy actors in undertaking gender-sensitive conflict analysis and integrating that analysis into programming and policymaking in conflict-affected contexts. It aims to identify and promote good practice by exploring the challenges faced by different actors in doing this work and identifying lessons learned from their experiences.

What is ‘good practice’ in gender-sensitive conflict analysis?

There is an increasing recognition that the causes of conflict are gendered, meaning that conflicts involve and affect people differently depending on their gender. It therefore follows that it is important to apply a gender perspective in any analysis in order to tackle conflict at its roots. There can be no one-size-fits-all approach to doing this, but here are some ‘good practice’ principles that can be applied when conducting a gender-sensitive conflict analysis:
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