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Conflict sensitive engagement in South Sudan: China's role This project aimed to encourage Chinese policy and engagement in South Sudan to be more conflict-sensitive and open to dialogue with civil society. It delivered a series of meetings and workshops in Beijing and Juba that introduce the concept of conflict sensitivity to a broad range of Chinese actors, including officials, state-owned banks, state-owned and private commercial actors, academics and researchers. The project also promoted people-centred approaches to security through facilitating dialogue between the above-mentioned Chinese actors and South Sudanese civil society. Furthermore, the project created forums to bring together Chinese policy makers and researchers, South Sudanese officials and civil society, officials from regional and Western governments and international NGOs. Lastly, the project supported field research in South Sudan by the Chinese researchers.
Strengthening the participation of Somali NSAs in decision-making on peace, security and development (Phases 2-5) Saferworld has been working since 2004 to strengthen the participation and influence of Somali NSAs in key decision-making processes on peace, security, and development. This phase of the project aims to support the platforms to independently engage in policy dialogue with Somali authorities and the international community on a range of issues, and also to influence key policy and decision-making processes. Specifically, Strengthening the Participation of Somali Non-State Actors in Decision-Making on Peace, Security and Development – Phase 5 is a continuation of previous EU support to Saferworld and the three (NSAPs): South Central Non-State Actors (SOSCENSA), Puntland Non-State Actors Association (PUNSAA), and Somaliland Non-State Actors Forum (SONSAF), and seeks to support the three Non-State Actor Platforms in two key areas: institutional capacity development and policy advocacy on target issues. The project to enable the Platforms to influence governance and statebuilding policy and practice to enable it to better meet community needs. The overall objective of the action is to ensure governance processes in Somalia and Somaliland have greater transparency, accountability and increased civil society and community participation. The specific objective of the action is to support the three Non-State Actor Platforms (NSAPs) are organisationally and financially sustainable, and continue to influence policy change at the local, national and international levels. Which in turn will help contribute to deepening peace, improving security and establishing democratic governance through the effective participation of Non-State Actors in peace-building and state-building.” This action has six expected results, tailored to the specific needs of each NSAP. The results are clustered around two result areas, the first relating to institutional capacity development and the second related to policy advocacy on target issues:  1.1 SONSAF has increased capacity in fundraising, grant management and monitoring, evaluation and learning, and has diversified its funding sources.  2.1 SONSAF has contributed to improved transparency and accountability of key state institutions, targeting the extractives, natural resource management, public financial management (PFM) and justice sectors.  1.2 PUNSAA has increased capacity in procurement, financial management, human resources, fundraising and monitoring, evaluation and learning.  2.2 PUNSAA has successfully influenced Puntland’s PFM legislation, and the implementation of state and national Development Plans.  1.3 SOSCENSA has secured greater participation of its members through decentralisation, increasing engagement with civil society in regional centres, and has strengthened institutional sustainability through funding diversification.  2.3 SOSCENSA has facilitated public engagement on governance and civic education issues through public meetings, debates, citizen-government dialogues and other channels.
Tackling the illicit trade in proliferation-sensitive goods and technologies This project aims to promote cooperation, information sharing and concrete action among industry experts and government officials in China to increase awareness of new and emerging approaches to addressing illicit trade and diversion of proliferation sensitive technologies, and deepen the level of East-West cooperation on strategic trade control and compliance issues among major producers of proliferation-sensitive goods and technologies.
Empowering young people to advocate for inclusive transitional and political processes in Yemen This project aimed to give voice and agency to young women and men involved in conflict transformation and peacebuilding, and to ensure a more inclusive transition process in Yemen that is responsive to the needs and concerns of young people. We provided research and advocacy trainings to youth activists to strengthen their capacities to engage with decision makers and international actors. We also developed stronger, more encompassing and inclusive informal youth networks across Yemen and increased youth’s access to and influence on Yemeni policy makers and international actors.
Refocusing small arms interventions on impact: Connecting global policy to community driven approaches to security Saferworld undertook this two-year programme with local partners in Kenya. The intention is to help communities achieve their rights to security, currently under threat from the proliferation and misuse of small arms and light weapons (SALW), by ensuring that the communities themselves are at the heart of the prioritisation, planning, implementation and monitoring and evaluation of the programme. As well as being of immediate benefit to the ‘target’ communities, by developing credible evidence from these practical efforts the programme also intends to inform national and international processes, particularly within the context of the UN Programme of Action (UNPoA) on SALW.
Preventing diversion of arms and dual-use goods and technologies: cooperation with China Preventing diversion of arms
Trialling tools for participatory gender analysis of conflict in Uganda Through high quality, locally-led research and collaborative analysis, this project is gathering evidence on how the conflict is impacting women, how women are engaged in improving security in their localities, and what opportunities for women's participation in peacebuilding initiatives exist at a local level.
Challenging harmful and patriarchal gender norms for better mental health and peace and security, amongst women and girls and communities in the Wunlit Triangle The project will ensure women and girls enjoy better mental health outcomes through improved access to mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) and gender-based violence (GBV) referral pathways, strengthened government policies and freedom from GBV caused by conflict, enabling them to meaningfully participate in economic and political decision-making and social life at household, community, state and national levels.
Preventing and reducing violent conflict and promoting cooperative approaches to security building The objectives and expected results are: 1) Strengthen people’s security and access to justice; 2) Challenge gender norms that cause and perpetuate insecurity and violent conflict; 3) Defend and advance international norms and practices on conflict prevention, arms control and global peace and security; 4) Ensure international engagement in conflict-affected contexts is sensitive to conflict dynamics and contributes to sustainable peace; and 5) Promote inclusive peace processes and political transitions that address the drivers of violent conflict.
Promoting community-focused responses to insecurity and conflict in border areas of Armenia and Azerbaijan (Years 1-3) The activity aims to raise awareness, both nationally and internationally, of the security concerns of communities living in frontline areas along the Armenia-Azerbaijan border and around Nagorny Karabakh, as well as empowering communities to add their voices to security provision and peace-building processes. It focuses on the one hand on enabling remote conflict-affected communities living on either side of the Armenian-Azerbaijani international border and near the Line-of-Contact to feed their experiences and safety and security concerns into security provision and peacebuilding processes, and on the other hand increasing support among Armenian and Azerbaijani governments for community-based approaches to security provision, including in the longer term, to cross-divide initiatives.
Promoting the Role of Youth in Peaceful Elections in Kenya This project aims to transform those traditionally associated with election violence in Kenya – the youth – into champions for a peaceful electoral process. The project will achieve this through an integrated approach to mitigating violence triggers and reconciling conflicting groups; linking marginalised youth, including those with disabilities, to existing conflict prevention and response structures; and creating channels for youth-led advocacy to county and national-level political actors.
Building Responsive Institutions through Conflict Sensitive Approaches to Development This project aims to support institution building in Kenya through conflict-sensitive approaches.
Enabling Civil Society to Contribute to more Effective, Inclusive and Accountable Public Security Policy and Programming in Nepal We are supporting local people to engage with the police and local authorities so they tackle their security concerns together; and with civil society to advocate for more gender-responsive safety provision. We use the findings from these projects to influence district and national level policy and practice.
Promoting community policing approaches to address the root causes of support for violence and participation in violent groups in C5 countries. The overall goal of this project is to promote community policing approaches in the C5 countries (namely Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakstan and Turkmenistan) in order to address the root causes of support for violence and participation in violent groups. Activities undertaken by this project will include organizing regional conferences and training on community policing and community security for selected representatives of law enforcement agencies (LEAs) and civil society organizations (CSOs) from the C5 countries, and providing technical support and small grants for piloting community policing activities. The products of this project will include a conference report outlining key findings and next steps from the initial conference, and a workshop report summarizing best practices, lessons learned, and recommendations for future programming. Through this project, United States Institute of Peace (USIP) and Saferworld have the unique opportunity to share Saferworld’s community policing program approaches, experience, and lessons learned with different actors (authorities, civil society, communities, and external actors) across the C5 region. The total anticipated budget, including all other sources of funding for the project for this project is $199,405.36.
International perspectives and peace and reconciliation in Somalia The overall objective of the project is “to enable Somali Non State Actors (NSAs) to engage and address the causes of conflict (e.g. contested notions of the state) and improve inclusive, transparent and accountable governance at all levels through national reconciliation.” The specific objectives of the project are: to support NSAs in Somalia to engage in research and advocacy with authorities in the newly ‘recovered’ areas, specifically in Jubaland, and the Federal Government on issues related to reconciliation and stabilisation; and to deepen the understanding of Turkey’s engagement in Somalia, Somaliland & Puntland and its impact on conflict dynamics.
Conflict, Crime and Violence Results Initiative (CCVRI) Helpdesk Saferworld is proposing to provide written advice to DfID as a new member of the Conflict, Crime and Violence Results Initiative (CCVRI). Over the period September 2013 to May 2014, Saferworld will provide DfID with high quality, bespoke written advice from our leading international expert staff and associates in response to requests from DfID country offices on themes related to conflict, crime and violence results. Saferworld will also provide written reports in areas of potential interest to DfID drawn from a menu of supply-side tasks. This proposal would enable Saferworld indicatively to respond to ten on-demand requests and complete four supply side products for DfID in the project period.
Promoting and Facilitating China’s Conflict Sensitive Engagement in South Sudan The overall objective of the project is to contribute to an improved environment for economic and social development in South Sudan by encouraging Chinese policy, economic and development actors’ engagement in South Sudan to be more conflict-sensitive and open to dialogue with civil society.
Supporting and promoting African and global ATT implementation The project: (1) assists less-developed states in the ECWAS and RECSA sub-regions to self-identify and -prioritise the steps they will need to take to become fully ATT compliant; and (2) provides, through the Expert Group on ATT Implementation (EGAI), an informal inter-cessional process at which ATT experts from around the world can discuss and develop possible responses to implementation challenges.
Promoting youth leadership and inter-ethnic collaboration on security provision in Southern Kyrgyzstan The primary goal of the proposed project is to promote youth leadership and inter-ethnic collaboration on security provision in Southern Kyrgyzstan. The project will support a movement away from heated ethnic discourse by developing young, ethnically diverse grass-roots activists into leaders and supporting constructive cooperation between them, their communities and security providers. The practical focus of cooperation is on addressing mutual security challenges and promoting the emergence of inclusive policy and practice in security provision.
Post 2015 - Advocacy with Emerging Powers (Phase I and II) The purpose of this project is to conduct research and support dialogue on the inclusion of conflict and violence issues in the post-2015 development framework, engaging a range of policy communities and actors, including rising powers and traditional donor countries, multilateral actors and other global stakeholders both at the country level and among decision makers in New York.
Enhancing womens role in peace and security in Yemen The overall objective of the action is to promote a more inclusive and sustainable post-conflict stabilisation and peace process in Yemen. The specific objective of the action is to empower women activists and civil society organisations (CSOs) to engage in local peacebuilding processes and initiatives and raise awareness of women's peace and security concerns.
Enhancing women's role in peace and security in Yemen The overarching goal of this project is to inform and support activities that promote womens involvement in local level peace-building in Fragile and Conflict Affected States (FCAS).
Empowering CSOs in Kosovo to become effective contributors to security policy and decision making processes Our 18-month joint project with Saferworld, Forum for Civic Initiatives (FIQ), and AKTIV, financed by the European Union, is focussed on “Empowering CSOs in Kosovo to become effective contributors to security policy and decision making.” We are building the research and advocacy capacities of local CSOs in Kosovo, so that they can work in municipalities to undertake high quality research, with the intention of influencing security policies to respond to the concerns of local people on key peace, security, and conflict related issues.
Enhancing Peacebuilding Mechanisms in Yemen The outcome of this project will be to ensure that communities, civil society and local authorities in target locations, including marginalised groups such as women and youth, work together across conflict divides to improve peace and stability and/or work to mitigate the impact of the conflict in their local areas. This will contribute to the wider impact of ensuring communities across Yemen become more stable and resilient to shocks, and creating the conditions for long-term development and poverty reduction. Four to six communities in Yemen, including women, youth and other marginalised groups, to be selected through feasibility studies and research; Yemeni peacebuilding CSOs and NGOs.
Empowering civil society actors in Kyrgyzstan to contribute to policing and other security issues In Kyrgyzstan, we are working to call for changes in the way that security is provided. We have established the ‘Civic Union for Reform and Results’ (CURR), a coalition of 24 civil society organisations, former police officers, journalists and researchers on police reform from all regions of Kyrgyzstan. Its priority is to focus on progressive changes in the law enforcement system through promoting the ideas of the civil union and the views of the population through reform of the Interior Ministry of Kyrgyzstan. Through CURR’s campaigning, government agencies have started to consider the views of civil society on police reform. CURR has assessed the needs and problems related to policing identified by local people during consultations, and is now working with local people and authorities to promote progressive changes in the law enforcement system.
Empowering communities and civil society in eastern parts of Abkhazia to effectively participate in security policy and decision making including other public policy related processess The outcome sought by the intervention is that vulnerable communities have greater agency in contributing to the stability and security of their region through greater engagement in decision-making and the implementation of policies that are informed by and are accountable to communities needs.
Promoting peace and security through the implementation of the Chinese-led Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) To create effective entry points for greater awareness and debates on the peace and security implications of the BRI and thereby contribute to promote stability, advance human security and prevent conflict in countries along the BRI, specifically Central and South Asia.
Supporting young people’s peacebuilding participation in Kyrgyzstan: 
integrating a youth-led mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) approach The project’s main goal is to improve young people's meaningful participation in community decision-making and peacebuilding by reducing the psycho-social barriers, transforming harmful gender norms that contribute to conflict and violence, and gender-sensitively addressing their mental health concerns and priorities.
People to People Reconciliation - Point of View and Beyond in the Caucasus Saferworld, with George Mason University and UCI, will convene nine workshops of the Mason Point of View Process, extended in collaboration on the ground in Georgia with Saferworld and cross-ABL community security networks, and complemented by UCIs engagement of Georgian, Abkhaz, and, eventually, South Ossetian students in online and in person learning and dialogue programs.
Promoting Participatory Approaches to Enhancing the Role of Youth in Democratic Engagement in Satkhira The project aims to build the capacity of and empower youth who are most at risk of being primary drivers of political violence in Bangladesh. Morebroadly this action seeks to contribute to democratic reform and the promotion of the human right to justice  and security.  We will achieve this by increasing youth-led civil society (YLCS) capacities to enhance access to justice and promote the rights of vulnerable groups, through a hybrid methodology that will combine training, a locally driven iniative supported by a small grant, and policy advocacy.
Supporting momentum for gender-sensitive security sector reform in Yemen The project seeks to address gender-sensitive security sector reforms by a) establishing a forum where civil society activists and lower-level government representatives come together to better understand concepts of gender-sensitive security provision and develop tailored recommendations to feed into security sector policy processes and b) piloting some participatory / interactive research and discussion activities designed to generate more information and discussion around community-level perceptions of the role of the police in addressing women’s security concerns.
Supporting Electoral and Representative Democracy in Somaliland The specific objective of this project is to promote a transparent electoral process in Somaliland which is representative of a broad range of civil society concerns.
Support to South Sudan Programme 2012 - 2014 With this project Saferworld wants to contribute to an improved environment for reconstruction and development by increasing public safety and security through more active, informed and inclusive societies and more effective and accountable state institutions, and by ensuring that national and international development actors working in these contexts incorporate conflict-sensitive approaches into their policy and practice.;
Building Foundations for Political Reconciliation in Jubaland (Som VII) The overall objective is “to enable Somali Non State Actors to engage and address the causes of conflict (e.g. contested notions of the state) and improve inclusive, transparent and accountable governance at all levels through national reconciliation” and the Specific Objective is “to support NSAs in South Central Somalia to engage in research and advocacy with authorities in the newly recovered areas, specifically in Jubaland, and the Federal Government on issues related to reconciliation and stabilisation.”
Enhancing Women and Youth's Role in Peacebuilding in Yemen This project will support communities in Yemen to become more stable and resilient to shocks, creating conditions for long-term development and poverty-reduction. Women’s and/or Youth Action Groups in four locations will work with their communities to identify, prioritise and respond to local conflict and security issues. Joint work with local councils will ensure communities’ needs are heard by local government. They will also form productive links with CSOs and NGOs across conflict divides to enable shared learning for collective problem-solving action and build CSO capacity. Inclusive local action will help communities manage conflict shocks and drivers, address immediate needs, promote mutual respect and contribute to peacebuilding.
Sajhedari Bikass: Partnership for Local Development The goal of this project is to ensure that targeted communities better direct local development. In order to achieve this objective the targeted communities will have the knowledge, skills and abilities to identify and access financial resources to fund local development activities that the communities themselves have identified in an inclusive and participatory manner. Further, the targeted communities will have the knowledge, skills and abilities to manage, implement, and provide for operations and maintenance of small-scale development activities. The targeted communities will also have access to appropriate community stabilization initiatives, which will focus on addressing drivers of conflict and establishing an enabling environment for community development. Finally, new local government units in the targeted communities will possess the KSAs to function effectively.