📋 Tender Overview
On 25.02.2022 Belgium adopted a fourth Women Peace and Security National Action Plan 2022-2026 for the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325. The Women Peace and Security agenda aims to improve the situation of women and girls in conflict and post-conflict situations including through the promotion of gender equality and the human rights of women and girls the prevention of and protection against violence against women and girls and the participation of women in decision-making in the field of peace and security for example in peace negotiations and post-conflict reconstruction talks.Elements of contextWar armed conflict and crisis often affect women and men differently. Conversely women and men do not always participate in the same way in conflicts their prevention and resolution. While men are more often directly involved in armed conflict women often feel the impact of armed conflicts both indirectly due to difficult and unsafe conditions caused by war and directly as civilian victims.In addition women often are affected by the effects of conflict much longer than men. After all they are hardly if at all involved in peace talks and the preparations for reconstruction. As a result their specific needs are not heard or taken into account. Moreover the consequences of sexual violence during conflict situations loss of honour and exclusion from the community pregnancy health problems etc. do not end when the conflict itself ends. Sexual violence often continues or even intensifies after the conflict.Main actors and partnersThe Women Peace and Security Agenda is implemented by the member states of the UN as well as by the UN itself and various other regional organisations including NATO the EU and the OSCE. In 2004 in order to ensure the concrete implementation of Resolution 1325 the UN Security Council called on all Member States to develop their own National Action Plan NAP on this theme. Like many other countries Belgium responded to this call by drafting various successive National Action Plans.This new fourth National Action Plan for Women Peace and Security for the period 2022-2026 was presented to the Council of Ministers on 25 February by Sophie Wilms Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs European Affairs and Foreign Trade and the Federal Cultural Institutions together with Vincent Van Quickenborne Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Justice and the North Sea Ludivine Dedonder Minister of Defence Annelies Verlinden Minister of the Interior Institutional Reform and Democratic Renewal Meryame Kitir Minister of Development Cooperation and Major Cities Policy Sarah Schlitz State Secretary for Gender Equality Equal Opportunities and Diversity and Sammy Mahdi State Secretary for Asylum and Migration in charge of the National Lottery. Their administrations are involved in the follow-up and implementation of the objectives and lines of action in the plan.
