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Short Summary
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The United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1509, passed in 2003, reaffirms the importance of a gender perspective in peacekeeping operations and post-conflict peace building, in accordance with UNSCR 1325 on women and peace and security. The latter states that women's human rights and a gender perspective are integral to negotiating peace agreements, planning humanitarian assistance and peacekeeping operations, and reconstructing war-torn societies. Gender needs to be mainstreamed from the inception of a mission in order to ensure that structures and programmes are designed to address the different requirements of women and men for protection, assistance, justice and reconstruction. Determining the differences in how women, men, boys and girls experience conflict will help the assessment team identify respective needs and priorities.Understanding the role women play in all sectors (economic, social, cultural, political etc.) will help ensure that reconstruction activities are planned in a way that does not reinforce past discrimination, and to help women gain equal access to and control over resources and decision-making processes. This document lists a number of questions that anybody designing reconstruction programmes should consider. These are organised into: cross-cutting issues; security; disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration; refugee and internally displaced people; good governance and democratic development; elections; basic services; restoration of productive capacity; infrastructure; economic policy and development strategy. Examples include: how have men and women, girls and boys been affected differently by the conflict (and by specific events such as the destruction of schools, roads, sanitation facilities, markets, homes, etc.)? What specific power structures can be identified within communities? When rebuilding infrastructure, have women's needs as well as men's been taken into account? In terms of housing and shelter, are there traditional practices, gender bias or legislation that prohibits land and property ownership by women?
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