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Women, Peace and Security (WPS) promotes women’s full and equal participation in peace and security as a prerequisite to achieving sustainable peace. The United States is the only country to have both national WPS legislation, from the WPS Act of 2017, and a whole-of-government *strategy on WPS.* The Department of Defense released its *WPS Strategic Framework and Implementation Plan*****in June 2020 that identifies the Department’s WPS objectives.

U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) began institutionalizing WPS through a command instruction in 2017, followed by the establishment of an office of Women, Peace & Security in 2019. This office oversees command-wide implementation of WPS that includes gender mainstreaming throughout the command’s policies, plans, programs, exercises, and assessments; tailored education and training; partner nation engagement; research innovation and application; and guiding a growing network of trained Gender Advisors and Gender Focal Points. The Office of WPS employs a full-time command gender advisor, a WPS curriculum developer, a gender analyst, and a WPS planner.

Meaningful implementation of WPS provides unique insight into the operational environment, opens new opportunities for cooperation with regional allies and partners, and improves the command’s understanding of complex security challenges within the Indo-Pacific.  

**Mission Statement:**

The Office of Women, Peace & Security (WPS) implements the DoD WPS Strategic Framework and Implementation Plan by ***mainstreaming a gender perspective*** into theater plans, programs, and policies in order to enable the USINDOPACOM enterprise to ***develop inclusive security strategies*** that ***advance a Free and Open Indo-Pacific. ***

**Resources**:

           Advancing WPS in the Indo-Pacific Conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sxn6eSelo0·        

          DoD WPS Video: https://www.dvidshub.net/video/775738/women-peace-and-security

·         DoD WPS Roundtable: https://www.usip.org/publications/2021/03/toward-gender-inclusive-national-security-strategy

·         Email us at USINDOPACOM.WPS.fct@pacom.mil

WPS News

HONOLULU (Aug. 14, 2023) Air Commodore Chris Robson, US Indo-Pacific Command, Deputy Director for Strategy and Senior Women, Peace, and Security (WPS), takes a photo with participants from 11 partner nations (Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Fiji, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, and Thailand) at the inaugural, Indo-Pacific Regional Military Gender Advisor Course. The course is part of a 5-year initiative to develop a network of certified military Gender Advisors within the Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Commander Matthew P. Galan)

Aug. 16, 2023

### U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Hosts Inaugural  Regional Military Gender Advisor Course

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Participants pose for a group photo during the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Office of Women, Peace & Security (WPS) workshop on “Building Inclusive Resilience” July 11-12 in Suva, Fiji. The event was the second part of a multi-year initiative by the INDOPACOM WPS office to advance women, peace and security and elevate women’s voices and leadership in the Pacific Islands.

Aug. 5, 2023

### U.S. and Pacific Islands Elevate Women’s Leadership in Climate Security in Two-day Workshop

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Women Peace and Security Workshop in Malaysia

June 14, 2023

### U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Delivers Workshop with Malaysia to Combat Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrants

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Courtesy photo

April 13, 2023

### PNGDF receives first gender training

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Women, Peace and Security Symposium

April 4, 2023

### U.S. Army Japan Host Inaugural Women, Peace and Security Symposium

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Fiji partners with U.S. Indo-Pacific Command for Fiji’s first-ever Women, Peace and Security National Action Planby Sgt. Hailey Miller

Sept. 30, 2022

### Fiji partners with U.S. Indo-Pacific Command for Fiji’s first-ever Women, Peace and Security National Action Plan

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