Content_paragraphs:  Building on a network of more than 350 women mediators in Ituri, North Kivu,
  
  South Kivu, Kasai and Kasai Central, MONUSCO continued to encourage the
  
  meaningful participation of women’s organizations and women leaders in peace
  
  processes and conflict resolution initiatives. The Mission worked with women’s
  
  organizations to continue mapping security hotspots in South Kivu and Ituri where
  
  women and girls are at risk. The mapping was shared with the national security and
  
  defence forces, as well as with protection actors to be included in protection
  
  mechanisms. A high-level discussion was organized between women leaders for
  
  peace, the Governor of South Kivu and the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize Laurea te, Denis
  
  Mukwege, to ensure women’s involvement in the consolidation of peace in South
  
  Kivu. MONUSCO also engaged with approximately 200 FARDC and Congolese
  
  National Police officers, young people and representatives of civil society
  
  organizations, including 140 men and 60 women, to promote concepts of positive
  
  masculinity for behavioural change throughout Ituri, North Kivu and South Kivu, and
  
  in Kinshasa.
  
   
  
   
  
   IX. Child protection and sexual violence in conflict